I cannot access the Times piece without paying it seems.
And I think this is exactly the wrong thing to be feeding to the public perception. Of course it is right but it is a red flag to the bull. It is...
Maybe step away for a bit. But those documents are very revealing. They show the depth of the problem in gastroenterology and its nature very clearly.
I agree that I am putting forward my own theory but I would argue that it is a reasonable working theory in line with what we know about ME - that...
I suspect they mediate much of the symptomatology but then the question is what is upsetting the hypothalamus and vagus, which may be immunological.
Yes, all through the vagus nerve, which operates according the instructions of the hypothalamus. We have no evidence for anything being primarily...
It is worth reading the stuff cited above in the thread "One author of the BSG’s guideline on functional dyspepsia, Dr Peter Paine (from the...
They emphasise that the cause of inability to eat is physical, contrasting it with psychological.
Psychosis implies a belief that is outside what can reasonably be considered an imbalanced version of normal beliefs and reasons. So believing...
Yes, that's OI, not POT.
It doesn't need a thread. The vagus provides the neural control for the gut - input and output. The hypothalamus controls nausea. Unless the gut...
I disagree, Trish, purely on the grounds that somehow we have to get health care professionals to come to a consensus understanding of the reality...
I have no idea what dysautonomia means and previous discussions here indicate that there are several conflicting views. Dysautonomia is another of...
It is all physical problems. That is the position of the 'biomedical approach'. Everything works through physical mechanisms whether or not there...
I am not suggesting we call it a psychosis. The eating disorders due to hypothalamic tumour damage are not psychoses. They are all eating...
Not quite, because nobody has any more idea what the causal mechanism is for psychosis. The treatment is entirely pragmatic.
I am. suggesting that this was probably mediated by the hypothalamus through vagal input and output - so it can come under eating disorder.
Well, we have to educate people. Eating disorder just means eating disorder. People whose hypothalamus has been damaged so that it no longer...
Yes, this seems to be what the Guardian article is flagging up. It is useful to be aware of that but it still looks as if amongst...
At the moment we have the gastroenterologist Peter Paine on one side and Drs Speight and Weir on the other saying completely different things,...
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