Thanks, folks. What I'm picking up is that we don't know of any good regulatory control here!
Apparently some adulterated supplements contain drugs that will make people feel tons better (euphoric, even) while being terribly dangerous. As...
No, it's not ME.
This is what I find I often rely on but lately I've been looking for things that the big brands aren't producing, and so I don't have that shortcut.
This is a bit shocking! If the company is providing the samples, what's to stop them sending samples containing genuine stuff while selling...
I've often used Solgar on the basis that they're in health food shops in the UK but of course that just means I've trusted that the shops have...
There are some scary studies on how supplements often don't contain any of the main ingredient listed on the label - or worse, are adulterated...
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Intriguing! Do you have some some particular research in mind that might thrown up some near-future leads?
I've read that fat causes the lower oesophageal sphincter to relax and that that's what causes the heartburn.
Think I'm going to put that on a t-shirt...
This is a really solid, much-needed article by George Monbiot that focuses on the bad science. I love his concluding line: 'There is a...
We crossed, Kitty, but I agree with you.
I think you've put your finger on it, Sean. I'm not in favour of ruling out what can be studied, what theories can be tested, or who should be...
No worries, @JemPD, better out than in! Sorry you're also having such a struggle.
During the early stages of the pandemic, the messaging was that you could be within 2m of someone with Covid but needed 15 minutes of exposure to...
I have, including the first viral infection that gave me ME, and further infections have smacked me down further. I don't always come back up,...
A health professional recently told me that she and her colleagues rarely get viral illnesses and she thought that that was because they were...
I'm wondering what the science about viral load thresholds, general epidemiology, etc. says at this stage about how PwME (or anybody) who needs to...
Any big brains on the forum care to speculate on the implications for ME/CFS, given that Lipkin and others did what seemed at the time to be a...
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