I don't consider the ICC all that great. It might be better than earlier criteria, but it is still flawed. Translating "unrefreshing sleep" in...
I'm imagining those medieval healers, looking at--and sniffing--the urine. Who knows, maybe they could be better at diagnosing PEM than the...
Such a test might be difficult to find, since PEM symptoms may be fairly far downstream of the core dysfunction of PEM, and vary greatly with the...
But did whatever was measured in the CPET result in controls being rejected? What I was suggesting is a standard criteria for controls for ME...
It's a lot like astrology: someone decided that the stars must have some influence on our lives, and created a nonsensical belief that is still...
At one point, fatty acids (palmitic?) in meat made my ME symptoms worse, unless I took some supplemental carnitine with it. After a few months, I...
Sedentary is better than normally active, but not by much. A useful project for the OMF might be to establish criteria for suitable controls for...
Again, they're comparing inactive people to active healthy controls, so it doesn't necessarily mean much about ME.
Isn't this the sort of theory that can be tested quickly and simply? Give people (especially PWME) some lactate. Does it make the majority have...
I bring you ... GFT! Graduated font therapy! The patient starts with depressing fonts, and gradually works up to more cheerful fonts, resulting...
Oooh, maybe writing "depression" in different fonts would help patients! :rolleyes:
Flames and explosions are engaging. Smoke and smells somewhat engaging. Orbitals and covalent bonds: snooze time. I agree that more discussion...
The deluge of information (and mis- and dis-) certainly does require changes in the school system. There's less need to memorize trivia (can look...
If so, then some effort will need to be made to emphasize that the patient is the only one who can judge their state, and thus the effectiveness...
I don't know why the link failed (I've edited it now). Computer glitch?
If a car has a clogged air filter or burnt spark plug wire, is the engine "hunkering down" or just incapable of full performance?
I think there would be potential for AI to use TCM or other tools for "poking" areas of the brain to see whether stimulation could affect...
Merged thread Paper supporting hypothesis of ME being neuroglial https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9124899/ I like the paper because...
I don't know what the direct effect is, but astrocytes get triggered by cytokines, so reducing the level of those in the bloodstream should have...
I still believe that ME is a response to immune activation, and while viral infections are the most common trigger, they're not the only ones.
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