My tentative and very speculative hypothesis (sorry if some don't like these!) is that Jen and Jeff's recovery may actually have been due to viral...
I find speculative hypotheses very useful and thought provoking. If there are those who do not like speculative hypotheses, I suggest that's just...
I am reminded of Prof Paul Ewald's point of view, that the whole genetic causes of disease bandwagon has been vastly overplayed for decades. From...
I've a bottle of pure anethole, which I took internally at 12 drops daily for 5 months. I did not notice much, though it may have improved my...
Yes I agree, ME/CFS is one of the worst diseases you can be hit by, in terms of the devastating effect is has on your life. If diseases were...
I cannot see anything wrong with using the term "mild". If you are a patient with severe ME/CFS, and confined to bed most of the time, then when...
I wonder if using Ron Davis's technique of adding a salt solution to force cells to perform a workout would it be possible to model PEM in vitro?...
This paper says that type I interferons both down-regulate mitochondrial gene expression, as well as inhibiting mitochondrial functioning. Thus...
Indeed! And to give the full Monty Python quote:
Yes, that's true, Wessely did not invent the idea of psychogenic illness, but I read an article years ago which explained the history, and that...
But that is the history of ME/CFS, which is also an important story to tell. Wessely is the father of the "all in the mind" view of ME/CFS, and he...
Are you perhaps suggesting that patients with pure endometriosis (whose symptom include chronic fatigue) might have been misdiagnosed as having...
Perhaps best characterized by his statement in 1994: "I will argue that ME is simply a belief, the belief that one has an illness called ME".
Thanks mango, I did not notice that there were Top tweets and Latest tweets tabs. I think that explains why I did not see my tweets, as I was...
Did your tweets actually appear under the #mecfs hashtag listing though when you used this hashtag in your tweets? I see other familiar ME/CFS...
Whenever I've tried to use #mecfs on my Twitter account, it has not worked. I believe you have to be "someone" one Twitter first (I presume you...
I am a bit confused then why F&M would include the response rate in the results section of the abstract of their 2011, 2015 and 2019 rituximab...
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Online ME/CFS forums should offer sufficient anonymity for such medics to post about having to keep ME a secret in their professional lives. It...
Dr Chia's own lab is the only one which provides this enterovirus testing of stomach biopsy samples.
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