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Bloody hell, CBT for everything. Why not CBT for broken leg?

Indeed. I will just add that since we have no studies, anecdotally I was doing keto on and off for 10 years (2003-2013) before healthy kids on reddit and such used it to shave off those troublesome 10 lbs and in that time ‘met’ hundreds, maybe thousands of people with various disorders trying...

I agree there are severe limitations to his study but if I recall correctly the Norwegians also found that the only useable substrate in women was protein. My impression is that those who do badly with fasting will be less likely to do well with keto since keto is a modified fast. Some feel...

Yup. The trouble is that in ME/CFS many more enzymes and metabolic pathways are busted; it’s not an isolated problem with PDH. Especially in women with ME fat oxidation isn’t working well either (Naviaux comments on this in the supplement to his metabolomics paper) so eating a fat-based diet...

Atkins induction phase is ketogenic at <20 grams of carb / day and many people restrict protein intake to get into deeper ketosis.

Ketogenic Diets: Treatments for Epilepsy and Other Disorders by Eric H. Kossoff MD (Author), John M. MD Freeman (Author), LDN Turner Zahava RD CSP(Author), James E. MD Rubenstein (Author)

The Atkins craze comes and goes in waves, typically every decade or so. The people who experience no benefit or get wrecked discontinue the diet, leave the forums and pursue other things or join private forums and facebook groups or go down the naturopath route and get dx with things like...

The authoritative text on KD in childhood epilepsy is by the group at Johns Hopkins where this diet has been used for many decades. I don't know of any keto long term studies in normal adults but there are long term studies of children with epilepsy which of course should be taken with a...

Shocking stuff. The reviewers were asleep on this one. Or completely incompetent.

Check out the comments under the Youtube video to get a sense of how he came across to the uninformed.

A very unfortunate interview for the rest of us with this illness.

I suspect that the nanoneedle won't be specific to ME/CFS but if this test is validated and shows a clear-cut difference between sick and healthy people that would be amazing. Our first priority is to get authorities to have to admit there's a real problem and to stop sectioning people.

There is very strong evidence that mental illness as defined by psychiatry is real (i.e. caused by organic brain fail) and no evidence at all that it's a social construct. It is possible to induce and/or reproduce symptoms of various well-defined psychiatric syndromes using drugs and other...

I am sorry to hear about your friend's akathisia, a truly horrible and common side effect. I completely agree that the current medical establishment is unaccountable and doctors are permitted to basically terrorise patients. But there is genuine mental illness and there are many instances where...

What about the patients whose agency has been diminished or withdrawn by psychiatric illness? How is the system going to help somebody without "systematic use of force" who is in a psychotic state? Or manic? Or has delirium? Dementia? I am not talking about misdiagnoses and abuses/excesses of...

There's nothing worse than mentally ill people writing long essays to convince themselves and other mentally ill people that mental illness isn't real and they can all stop taking their meds.

The mere notion that CBT could or should be used in a disorder as serious and impervious to rational argumentation as psychosis is pretty disturbing IMO and what is even more disturbing is that ethics committees nowadays are permitting this sort of "research". Funny how so many psych trials are...

Ranitidine did nothing for me but cimetidine (another H2 antagonist) had a noticeable positive effect. I know two other people with CFS who benefitted from cimetidine. Unfortunately, the effects wear off over time.

Unsurprising.

I'm surprised to see water aerobics recommended for ME/CFS. Personally, no activity makes me weaker and more orthostatically challenged than being in a bath, jacuzzi or swimming pool, presumably due to vasodilation and thus severe worsening of orthostatic intolerance, a very common and disabling...