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Google translation of the response by Karl Johan Tronstad, Øystein Fluge, Olav Mella

Of course the vestibular rehab is just there to deflect sarcastic comments about treating every(censored) poorly understood illness in the exact same manner as depression, with CBT and SSRI's.

Are there brain samples in the biobank? If not now, in the future perhaps? Compared to a while ago, are more researchers applying to get access to the biobank samples now? Have any applications been turned down?

I'm guessing a good psychiatrist firmly stands with the patient, is well aware of the diagnostic uncertainty present in this area, and is pragmatic when it comes to treatment. So basically the opposite of White, Sharpe, etc.

Excellent letter.

Or maybe many cases of anxiety and depression (enough to create a statistical association) are misunderstood physical conditions, and not as claimed, primarily psychological conditions.

I suppose it's good to tell students that not everything they hear and read is true. I'm not sure if there is a simple technique to distinguish between real and fake news. One needs in-depth knowledge of the topic to tell who is making sense and who isn't.

Yay, hurray! Good news. This was overdue. Now please come up with a clear definition of research fraud that includes things like the PACE trial. There must be at least the realistic possibility of serious consequences for researchers that promote their brand of therapy by falsely describing...

Which is just a nice way to say: this is how we want this illness to be viewed and treated, even if we have no proof that it makes any sense.

When the goal is successful treatment, what matters is the biology. Since different biology can produce the same or similar symptoms, trying to deduce the biological phenotype from symptoms will often not work. Of course, some people will challenge the claim that biology is what matters...

Many patients use these supplements but we don't know how good they are. Fingers crossed for a good blinded followup RCT that will tell us more. Does anyone have a copy? It's not on sci-hub and I'm interested in how the charted data looks like and in any other things they measured.

My impression is that carnitine, CoQ10, magnesium, B complex are all somewhat effective. I can clearly do more with the carnitine. They can also be too much and lead to increased or new symptoms if the dose is too high.

Crawl There Yes

Discriminative value of cardiopulmonary progressive exercise test in mitochondrial myopathy and chronic fatigue syndrome https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8a0e/7ca972959fbf217a50b4c6a3a5f35bf90e74.pdf I did not read it all but looked for evidence for or against the deconditioning hypothesis...

The symptoms attributed to major depression map fairly well to sickness behaviour. One way to interpret this is that the the mind has a powerful effect on the body. Another way to interpret this is that there is a problem with the diagnostic criteria of MD (too broad and unspecific) or with the...

Are you able to document improvement of PDH or mitochondrial function in responders? There's a device called a Seahorse flux analyzer which has been able to show abnormal energy metabolism in ME/CFS, and I'm guessing that some university in your area might have one.

I'm afraid you're being persuaded by talk that is meant to persuade. These people are not honest. To know what they really think, you have to look at their actions. In the case of Fink that includes forcibly removing Karina Hansen from her home and trying to cure her ME with forced exercise and...

It's here https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02229942

Esther Crawley - what drives her? She saw the opportunity to make a career by filling the void where an effective treatment should be with a bogus therapy. Psychosomatic mumbo-jumbo was and still is in fashion in the UK, and clinical trials in the fields of psychotherapy and behavioural...

Sorry. I hope no unpleasantly increased heart rate occurred.