to me it seemed like she made it out to be a self-evident fact:
"In particular, it is also known that cortisol axis is altered in CFS patients. The cause seems to be a change in the NR3C1 gene. This is one of the few markers that are meaningful."
a few paragraphs above she wrote:
"Further...
Klasing does not bother to cite a source.
A quick google search for "Cortisolachse, NR3C1, CFS" however will turn up a number of articles on stress, childhood trauma, epigenetic predispositions, psychosomatic stuff and so on...
yet she signed it "chairwoman of Fatigatio"...
the whole letter reads very strange, including cringe-worthy references to tobacco epigenetics and a shared month of birth with the Head of DEGAM and describing other activists as lacking "respect and decency". It almost appears af if a private...
you don't, as that will only serve as further proof to them. Even engaging in this subject is a success to the BPS folk, so one has to always and again recur to biomedical research facts. There is no point in arguing with someone who does not even in theory accept that your condition is an...
awareness in Germany is low, nowhere near comparable to english-speaking countries. this is being perpetuated by guidelines like these which serve as information source and recommendation to general physicians.
There is one single place that is specialized in diagnosis and does some research...
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