That would be a not-long-after waking test for some people. (Relatively) Low cortisol levels in the morning are associated with sleepiness due...
Bloomberg Striking Drop in Stress Hormone Predicts Long Covid in Study quote: Low cortisol has been reported in people with myalgic...
Looking at the plots, statistically significant differences do not seem to be very important, apart from antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 S and RBD (5 to...
From Cort Johnson: The Hugely Predictive Factor for Long COVID...is also found in ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia: the IACFS/ME Conference II Yale...
I'm skeptical about this. Cortisol changes could be a result of a change in lifestyle that happens when you are sick. The people in this sample...
I haven't read the original paper, but this review (The Neuroendocrinology of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Cleare, 2003) points out that: "However,...
Obviously that's nonsense, and so is the idea that cortisol level = stress, but here she is saying that low level cortisol means stress. So low...
Unfortunately Prof Crawley, judging on the basis of her press interviews on ME, is strongly committed to the belief that behavioural changes will...
I hate the term brain fog. Tome it feels so naughty because there are specific types of cognitive impact that are all very different and easy to...
I think this old paper is interesting for a number of reasons. I posted it because of the current interest in hydrocortisone as a treatment for...
These links suggest that some people who suffer trauma of various kinds may suffer measurable effects on their cortisol levels : Long term...
Can you think of anything published that would show this clearly though? i.e. a paper on rape survivors that shows their cortisol levels clearly...
I assume that any kind of trauma - dramatic and severe, or milder but frequently repeated - e.g. being raped or tortured or suffering domestic...
I recall some comments by @Snow Leopard basically cortisol studies always find something. If I recall correctly the levels fluctuate naturally...
I think they'd have found that correlation by now if it existed. Pariante's talk at the 2018 CMRC conference included reference to the finding of...
Prof Crawley explicitly argues this in press interviews, which possibly why she is also an advocate for the Lightning Process, as well as for...
Just as a suggestion... I've read that many people with ME have proven low cortisol. I don't know the biochemical connection between cortisol and...
That's not what I've seen at all. Seems to be a regular pattern. Cortisol is also a key part of the immune response. Dysregulated mast cell...
Thanks for your comments @Snow Leopard they remind me of @Jonathan Edwards comment "When I acted as MRC advisor this recent time around the GWAS...
If your clients have such markers, they probably have something else going in addition to, or instead of ME/CFS. In over 30 years of research,...
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