I'm getting very tired now can't follow Unutmaz' presentation well but he is also finding microbiome abnormalities (more marked early in illness),...
Lipkin's gut microbiome findings: total bacterial mass in feces increased, but butyrate producing bacteria and butyrate are decreased. Butyrate is...
Dr Nath's talk. My interpretation of what he said initially is that a significant portion of patients enrolled in the intramural study were...
But the reason my activity level is so low is because I had to reduce it more and more just to be able to do anything at all in a sustainable...
This looks interesting. I remember reading years ago about a patient with ME/CFS who figured out he really had some sort of clotting problem. It...
Disorders where the patient imagines to have an illness are real too. :rolleyes: Being cured of such a disorder doesn't mean the patient didn't...
Does Sharpe not have something better than century-old anecdotes and opinions? :rolleyes:
One can "look inside" this book on Amazon. The pathology of neurasthenia is described as one of defective aerobic energy production of the brain...
There is no convincing evidence of any successful rehabilitation. The reported effects are much smaller and don't exceed what would be expected...
It's more a vague belief than a theory that is specified somewhere. All the details are vague. If you ask someone to explain how somatization...
Emphasis on PEM is also important. That means designing studies that measure after exertion, or symptoms over time, or before and after exertion,...
The NIH took ME/CFS much more seriously than other similar agencies in every other country in the world, and was the first to do so. It didn't do...
Most of these items seem to be in response to poor clinical trials of CBT/GET studies. We need more than just stopping poor CBT/GET studies to...
The book highlighted by Garner: The Psychology of Physical Symptoms https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781461381983 This sounds like the...
This charter would be a great idea, if it was 5 items instead of 25 and had demonstratably broad support from the patient community.
I've seen narrowed pulse pressure repeatedly. My understanding is that a reason for narrow pulse pressure is blood loss, therefore what it likely...
I think this impression of unfelt pain might arise from feeling a subtle sensation that accompanies felt pain. So in a way, it reminds me of...
Yes, I know this and would have used similar words to describe it.
Physical exercise is one thing that induces autophagy.
@Jonathan Edwards does this look interesting?
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