Truly effective treatments do not need this kind of marketing because it's easy to demonstrate in credible experiments that they work. (this kind...
Me too. Aren't these often the best and most authentic? It's tricky to talk about these things because there no clear definitions for the various...
I also do not experience my own cognition like that at all. I think there are indistinct cognitive processes that have little to not verbal or...
I also wonder how brain fog affects the impression that others have of us. If you have not enough energy to think and communicate properly, you're...
The ideology of CBT seems to be partially responsible for the testimonial injustice suffered by people with ME. The descriptions of our illness...
A good mindset for good energy management is to do things for fun and personal satisfaction. That avoids falling into the trap of becoming...
Working together seems like a good way to achieve more political power, which we desperately need. But having one name for all of these...
This paper is interesting because no one has tested pacing so soon after infection. We know it doesn't do much later on but it might work much...
The study does seem to show that pacing improves outcomes, but can't tell us by how much due to various methodological weaknesses. There also...
@Andy I don't think so. Pacing allows doing more if capacity improves.
"catalytic antibiotics" is a typo. It was antibodies. Very good. If I remember right he also said during the conference that they found variants...
Yes this is exactly what I was thinking. The two Lifelines questions that are meant to capture PEM seem inadequate for the purpose of determining...
The reason ICC, CCC and IOM criteria were specified is almost certainly to ensure that Fukuda criteria would not be used.
Wasn't there talk about aquaporins during the latest Invest in ME conference? They function to allow water to move in and out of cells.
Does it also work for people who are not overweight or obese?
The apparent dysregulation of blood volume and water in ME/CFS is interesting. However NFAT5 is probably just one of hundreds of genes that could...
I believe that for them in the end it's about money and jobs. CBT for "medically unexplained symptoms" seems like a big market and admitting that...
PEM is so complex that it requires more than one question and some explanation. One aspect of PEM that might be least susceptible to...
Also how PEM will be assessed. The idea is to find out if PEM will be assessed with some vague question like "Do you get more fatigued after...
The vascular network is established and maintained through the processes of vasculogenesis and angiogenesis, which are tightly regulated during...
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