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It also completely lacks the depth of what it means to be so limited. Ask any MD about diseases or conditions that are that limiting and disabling and they would have to think very hard if they couldn't bring up the obvious ones where there is a physical impairment such as paralysis, nerve...

Yeah equating the sympathetic nervous system with being only about the "stress response" is just as much nonsense as calling cortisol the stress hormone or all the cringe nonsense about "dopamine hits" people keep going on about in recent years. The entire nervous system does slightly more...

I can't fail to notice how much convergence medicine is having in recent years with the longevity bro movement. I've seen too much of it lately. They seem to be taking any hint of "beneficial physiology" and assert that it must be good. Even though most of the experts marvelling at this being...

It does seem strictly intended to 'prove' the traditional model is useful. I would never trust the data on it, aside from being graded on an inflated curve like Uber drivers (where a 3/5 stars is a negative rating that gets you fired, except they get a 3/5 simply by not being insulting and fake...

Uh. They said that? We have literally multiple surveys and even academic studies showing that they don't. How can they not know that? Obviously it's possible that they do and simply pretended to, because the data don't support their claims. Wouldn't surprise me, but still we know that at the...

Uh, yeah, millions of people have been telling this to the medical profession for over a century and there is a huge literature on it, including how it's considered very controversial for no valid reason. But it could be deconditioning and low mood, might want to check this out for the...

Very much useful. It's the most common story I have seen over the years, including all over the LC community. It's probably what happens to about about 90% of us who end up ill long term, at least in general terms. I'm thinking that probably half of us wouldn't be ill anymore if the only change...

Which makes the fact that they keep being told that it's them and their wretched ideology that kills all hope so much more bizarre. They seem to simply prefer to believe whatever version of reality they want to be true, and it doesn't matter that there are literally tens of thousands of...

All different ways of saying that infections are the only determinant. Can this profession move on from trying to find excuses otherwise? It's endemic, congratulations, you did it! Now what? Now this! How Great Barrington Declaration of them. Let's protect, focusely. Or whatever. All...

I don't feel like reading this in-depth, maybe they do hint at it, but aside from the absurd assertion about this being new and never-before-seen, which does not suggest much about their ability to learn, they seem to completely miss the fact that in itself rehabilitation is not even close to be...

That seems about as useful as doing all the same things for a homeopathic clinic. The clinics don't have anything to offer, so how can their performance be achieved? The very best they can do is give out the equivalent of a one-page pamphlet that contains accurate information. Of course I say...

I have no idea what or who this is for or what it aims to accomplish. All it shows is that health problems that medicine doesn't understand are mishandled disastrously, the profession has made zero progress and is not about to, not with this nonsense. Reeks of even worse than amateurism, at...

Ugh. We're going to be hearing a lot of nonsense about effort preference in the next few years, are we? Ayup. We sure are. the study doesn't state effort preference but it explicitly describes it as a preference related to effort, 13 times. Good grief. Can we have machines take over already...

Ah I thought it was about government policies but it probably makes more sense. I changed the post. Thanks.

I read/skim each monthly RECOVER report and I'm still asking the very same question. I have no idea what this program is doing, if anything at all. They communicate a lot but it's promotional, not informational. It's probably possible to get an idea by doing a deep dive but that's just bad...

Aside from confirming what has been known for years and how interesting it is that categorization is along neurological and systemic symptoms, rather than the traditional mental health, I have no idea what they think is useful about, uh, this: Do they really think it's useful to pretend that...

But they don't control the symptoms, so how would they know? And they notice how they can't make a causal claim, but they do it anyway, just with a dog whistle. Obviously if the symptoms were controlled the psychological distress apparent in questionnaires would vanish. WTH is with this corrupt...

If you don't count the clients who left in disgust and loudly complained about being served inedible slop, all of this restaurant's clients are satisfied. They don't even understand the concepts they are dealing with. The numbers are atrocious. No actual benefits. This is presenteeism, being...

Very doubtful this changes any time soon. Every health care system has adopted defiance of reality, public health has regressed to the time of miasma theory, just not wanting airborne infections to be real, except even worse because ventilation is not part of the toolkit anymore and physics no...

I find the John Snow Project to be generally good so sharing this, although I can't have much opinion on whether it's solid because unlike the biopsychosocial stuff where high school science is more than enough, this stuff is over my head. SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System...