Exactly, the entire model around depression was built around the monoamine hypothesis and later serotonin more specifically. To this day, there...
It could still hold potential if PEM is a downstream problem. For example I'm not sure how Robert Phair's metabolic trap hypothesis explains PEM...
Yep and he probably didn't even need to hire an actor. People are willing to claim much more outrageous things, like being abducted by aliens or...
Who would you recruit to see ME/CFS patients then? Neurologists seem unwilling to even go near an ME/CFS patient, let alone hand out a diagnosis,...
Yep, it's pretty well-known that Hyde believes that ME can only be caused by enterovirus. But then again, many doctors also believe ME is...
-KDM (court case, soon retired) -Cheney (retired) -Lapp (retired) -Montoya -Hyde Chia next? And then there were none. These old school ME/CFS...
Tests can be run even though they are not necessarily diagnostic for any particular disease, even most routine blood tests like the CBC don't...
On the surface it would seem obvious that it would not help ME/CFS, but it could be a little short-sighted. Ultimately, it could be that one day...
I couldn't find the tweet where she advocates having one framework for all poorly understood diseases. IMO we are now just discussing another...
It's nice to see trials carried out for something else than CBT/GET/LP/"insert your favourite brainwashing scheme", especially in Europe, where...
Setting aside the issue of MUS, I reckon the problematic with chronic Lyme is largely the same as in ME/CFS. ME/CFS often gets triggered by an...
I don't think Jen ever claimed fusion surgery was necessarily curative for ME. I reckon she has only stated she is currently in remission from the...
I have never heard of anyone getting ECT in Nordic countries specifically as treatment for G93.3 ME/CFS diagnosis. From my experience and reading...
Yep, it's pretty amazing it took this long for what has been commonly reported by patients for decades, draws some parallels to the exercise...
Yeah, as far as I know all the results we have seen from the research of Davis' group has been pilot studies based on no pre-existing work or...
This is quite significant news if indeed their search for parasites and RNA viruses is now complete and produced no results. In late 2018 Ron...
This article seems to be the one used as reference for radiopaedia and it indeed mentions a BDI of <8.5 or <12 mm in 95% of the population. It...
Just to clarify, my only point was that when discussing the remissions from CCI surgery, the improvement following traction described in both...
This is a good point and for sure we cannot fully rule out all the various possibilities of how these recoveries were achieved. But if we take a...
Ivabradine reduces heart rate without having any significant effect on blood pressure, unfortunately the doctors I've discussed with are unaware...
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