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Dr Shealy has a website selling magnesium solutions, among other things. He looks pretty dodgy, although I guess that doesn't mean products he has promoted necessarily are useless. Among the products are the Bliss range I don't know, maybe? It's just that I can't find convincing studies to...

Mij, that study is the one I mentioned first in my post above. Dr Shealy is the founder of the Americas Holistic Medical Association. According to the paper I quoted, his study was only published as an abstract at a conference. It wasn't published in a journal with peer review. And it's...

http://www.europeanmealliance.org/index.shtml Linking EMEA (the European ME Alliance) here. They currently have pages with contact details for Croatia: ME Association in Croatia Serbia: Association of People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Serbia Slovenia: Zebra Patients' Association

I don't understand your comment. The paper says that 'fatigue not alleviated by rest' is an exclusionary condition for their exercise protocol. So, they are essentially saying, 'if you have fatigue that doesn't get better with rest, then you are not a candidate for the protocol'. Of course...

You are probably right. I guess I was thinking of the entire range of people with some lasting effects from Covid-19. Some of these people won't have ME/CFS and may indeed have become deconditioned as a result of being in hospital. Some people might want help to regain their fitness. Or...

Yes, @Wonko's option is possible. I wish authors would provide good commentary on how their findings compare to population means. These authors don't tell us what levels of testosterone might be expected in the general population. All of the men in the study who had testosterone levels tested...

Yes, we don't know if people with low testosterone are more likely to get post-Covid ME/CFS, or if Covid-19 causes lower testosterone in some men. This study doesn't tell us anything about the testosterone levels prior to Covid-19. The authors suggest two possible mechanisms for Covid-19...

As I think @rvallee said, it's like watching a train wreck in slow motion. A. Exercise is good and it's the approach we take to rehabilitate other conditions - therefore, long-Covid-19 patients should do exercise. B.We don't have any good experimental data, but, see A. There's a...

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Yes, I was left feeling confused as to who they would in fact be studying. "People with severe organ damage or dysfunction that can be objectively verified" - so, does that mean 2xCPETs? tilt table testing? Or just people with heart or lung damage etc that shows up on a scan, and where the...

COVID Human Genetic Effort consortium - includes link to their website

I haven't looked at the evidence for oral magnesium supplementation. The NIH fact sheet that I quoted above says that overt deficiency is rare, but that magnesium inadequacy is fairly common due to some health conditions and some drugs. Maybe a restricted diet and/or diarrhoea might be reasons...

(We have a members only thread on magnesium deficiency here) I know a lot of members take magnesium, and there does look to be good evidence for magnesium deficiency being fairly common, and credible support for orally administered magnesium being useful for things like muscle spasms, and...

There's a lot of this as a 'get out of jail free' card too. Maybe it should be asked how long 'over time' reasonably will be, and what people with ME/CFS with no access to safe services in the meantime should do.

That is the Transgenerational Violence. what a terrible term

Yes, I don't think Perrin is the problem here, or at least not the biggest one. It's the journal, and the people behind the journal, who are subverting science. Here's another one of the papers coauthored by Adrian Heald: There are no conflicts of interest declared. Actiste is a system of...

Thank you @Samuel. :hug:

This isn't science. This is an advertisement. Yes, the authors acknowledge that the study is uncontrolled and that it's exploratory, but that isn't enough. A study like this shouldn't be published because its flaws make it worthless. So, what is this journal doing? I can't see a way to...

So, Perrin™ practitioners (who make a living providing this therapy) mailed in anonymised patient data? What could possibly go wrong?

If any of us should ever feel despondent at the limited impact we have made on the world, we can think of Angel Garma, and console ourselves with the knowledge that our life's work did not consist of producing and promoting fantastical drivel that harmed many people.