I have no idea what these Turkish researchers mean in this paper published in the Irish Journal of Medical Science by "30 primer fibromyalgia...
This is the only mention of ME/CFS, well, the name approaches ME/CFS. It's for low cortisol of course: But, not a whiff of psychosomaticism,...
Shift in sleep wake cycles can do much to explain low morning cortisol. My daughter had marginally low cortisol ( tested at 9.30 am) - she has a...
That sounds about right to me. It took about 4 years before I was tested to rule out an endocrine disorder, and that was as a result of a lot of...
Agree, this reads as sleep disturbance underlies the problem and people just need to fix that — they might even try to argue that it causes the...
I've got to say, it's disappointing to have this analysis in Virology blog. There's no context, no discussion of the issues with cortisol testing...
When I first heard of this type of thing (2011) it was very much emphasised that the term stress was being used for physical - in a 'load' sense,...
Personally I do not think that you can measure cortisol in something like ME the way they assume they can for others - due to the exertion...
OK inconsistent evidence I can believe ... but low cortisol has been discussed before and I think if true the depletion paradigm is overly...
I've got extremely confused about what is being said in this thread so this reply is probably irrelevant and pointless, but I would assume that...
These authors have jumped on the low cortisol finding in Long Covid of the Iwasaki paper and put it together with the IOM report supposedly saying...
[Preprint] Distinguishing features of Long COVID identified through immune profiling, 2022, Iwasaki et al
The phrasing of this suggests to me that they didn't expect depression and anxiety to be increased with low cortisol. I wonder why?
Abstract About one out of eight people to convalesce from COVID-19 suffer from the so called Long COVID, a syndrome of non-specific symptoms with...
Both low cortisol and high cortisol have effects that patients perceive as stress.
Hey, we just recently had biosocial as another term in the menagerie. That leaves us with the remaining combinations: biopsycho, sociobio,...
Article today about the study where Research Director Signe Flottorp from the Norwegian Institute for Public Health (FIH) comments. Google...
Am I right to assume the refs that don't have Fukada in brackets don't use Fukada? If so was it tighter or looser criteria for these studies?
There was a post by the ME Association about low cortisol and it was discussed at a conference last week....
It should be noted that recent studies of hair cortisol levels (i.e. long term levels, as opposed to transient upon-awakening or daily levels) in...
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