No, that's not necessary. Some of us, such as myself, had reliable PEM that gave reliable symptoms but didn't cause lengthy crashes. A 40 km...
Any system that offers benefits is going to have people trying to manipulate it for their advantage. The decision makers need to be aware of the...
The shape is all vague and wobbly, because it's likely a set of downstream symptoms that varies with genetics, epigenetics, and various other...
Their graphic is just vague speculation. How does that "start to paint a clearer picture"? Until they can find a clear difference in...
Nope, you'd be lacking the "unique mixture of negative oxygen ions in this environment". That's an excellent excuse for why this technique--which...
Which also means that changes occur in response to disease. Now they need to figure out which changes are causes, and which are effects.
Oh, which mechanisms are those? They list some symptoms, but not any cellular mechanisms. My guess is that they don't have a good grasp of ME,...
If Tide said that their new detergent was quantum-resonant-enhanced for greater whiteness, I'm sure they could make up some numbers to prove that...
Is the Mediterranean diet high-fibre? I never thought it qualified for that. AFAIK, it's the fibre that feeds/supports the bacteria that produce...
Alas, I became sensitive to fibre metabolites (I believe it's the propionic acid, but it could be the butyric) a couple of months ago. After...
I expect on some of those questionnaires, if you answered 99 questions 'no' and one that was vague enough to be considered 'yes', the psychiatrist...
What would a questionnaire about the usefulness of questionnaires show?
Catastrophizing? Kinesiophobia? Leading the subject much?
Darn, I thought the wound healing application had been verified, and I thought I'd read about it in a credible source. Maybe someone will start...
Well, they're nearly identical in that they involve scientific-sounding concepts that are mysterious to most people, and thus easy to make magical...
I have an alternative hypothesis: that it's not the overall effort of the activity, but the microtears that occur when using your muscles in ways...
It depends on the type of cognitive effort. Back when I still got PEM, socializing and driving were the most noticeable triggers, and the PEM...
Posts moved from this thread One thing about my ME is that I never noticed any reduction in my physical ability. I didn't do any fancy tests...
This triggers a question: do any other languages have better words to differentiate between these similar but unrelated symptoms? Does, for...
While checking for something else, I noticed that Google's 'list of common questions' showed this: Does Graded exercise therapy work for CFS? A...
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