Breakspear is a bit more focused on appealing to patients than most quack therapy establishments, but they still don't seem to know what the hell...
A preliminary study would usually be fairly inconclusive, due to smaller number of patients and looking at a larger range of metabolites....
I've emailed her my story from the Netherlands - a neurologist insisting drugs could not help me, only exercise, then printing out the PACE...
The Dutch BPS group engage in some interesting shenanigans at times, like declaring completely untreated patients cured by CBT. They might be...
Title: "Childhood sleep and adolescent chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME): evidence of associations in a UK birth cohort" How the fuck do they get...
Do they cite to any sources? This sounds like the usual Simon Wessely or Peter White opinions that they shove into their papers without any...
It looks like the full text isn't published anywhere, and the university won't publish it. Hopefully the author will put it online somewhere.
"Abstract: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is a prevalent but poorly understood illness characterised by severe...
Bleach also kills things - so the speculation is that maybe there's a dose where it kills theoretical pathogens but doesn't harm the child who is...
Basically there is a lot of evidence that exercise harms ME patients - large surveys, anecdotal evidence, and some circumstantial evidence...
It's pretty speculative though, as to whether or not deconditioning is avoidable when generally operating at an energy deficit. I think we have a...
I think this is the most relevant point when it comes to exercise: it's never worthwhile if it comes at the cost of other activities. Maybe some...
I think a 2-day CPET is only necessary to show pathology in mild cases. Moderate-severe will have abysmmal scores even on a single test, which...
The Dutch fatigue clinic I went to rated me as "passive" based on my actometer data, but I was also crashing a lot like a boom-and-bust...
Victoza works pretty well for me. I had about a week of constipation when starting it, but magnesium got things started up again :-P I don't...
They literally are proposing that psychological stress may mutate the mitochondrial DNA: No humans involved in these studies, which also makes...
It applies to every trial which used objective measurements, aside from a couple early Oxford ones where they were a lot more blatant about using...
Thought of another one - disenfranchise.
That's a very good question :p I think the answer is "probably not". The Cochrane document about changes to the review groups says: [ATTACH] That...
Cochrane allows random people to set up groups which review categories of conditions. Cochrane's Mental Health group which reviews ME/CFS was set...
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