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Interesting debunking of blatant misrepresentation of Long Covid data from the UK national survey. None of this can be argued to be accidental, it's very deliberate manipulation of perception. It clearly aims to misrepresent the lie that most people who would go on to develop LC already have. We...

The US army has a loooot of people on active or reserve duty and lots more in veterans affairs. On top of a huge number of civilians in the administration and support side of things. Even something with a 1-2% prevalence can have a lot of impact if it's fully disabling, requiring lots of complex...

The same old nonsense as always. The small study doesn't support this, but it's said anyway, because exercise was already obsessively pushed, though they frame this as though there has been a full stop on all recommendations, even though it clearly does not treat or improve the condition...

Published in BMJ and cites COPE, which as we know has been ignoring issues with Cochrane's terrible reviews on GET, where authors somehow, sometimes, get a veto on not retracting because "nuh uh", and simply mumbling about how it's out of their hands. LMAO. It's things like this that makes it...

Phenylephrine is a decongestant commonly found in some over-the-counter cold medication like Sudafed. Usually it's to reduce swelling and congestion in the sinuses, but apparently it works rather poorly for that when taken in pill form. Also apparently in some hemorrhoid medication, again to...

Oof. Not exactly encouraging... It's so poorly studied, and yet it may in fact be the most well-studied. Loooong way to go yet. I still get a strong feeling that once research produces significant breakthroughs here it will fuel a massive boost in medical science, basically uncovering many...

They're claiming whatever explanation satisfies the person asking at the moment they're asking.

Also as I tend to be the polar opposite of almost every feature of the psychosocial stereotypes, this is yet another one. I'm a stoic by nature, it takes no effort for me to be 'resilient' in its usual meaning (as opposed to whatever is meant by this weird questionnaire, which includes questions...

I found that pretty amusing too.

I don't think there's much confusion here. Rather it's preferring to think that a correlation must be causative because reasons.

This stuff is really the core of the problem. This needs no such thing. The biopsychosocial model is mostly useless, there is never a need for something that is useless. It's what the authors want, what is oddly fashionable despite being useless, which has nothing to do with what the patients...

Going back to this thread in the light of another where comments submitted for the NICE guideline by various medical bodies that rely on active rehabilitation were discussed, it's clear that one problem is that it's assumed that exercise is good for everyone all the time, and that more exercise...

That framing has long been around, the idea that patients can choose to re-engage with the treatments later on, if they finally find the motivation for it. Yes, you've tried CBT and GET, but you can always try them again. And again. It works, if you have the motivation, has always been the core...

I can't see it another way than that this is the same framing as in most psychotherapy, or addiction treatment, where this is explicitly demanded of patients that they actively engage in their therapeutic process. Which is consistent with the general idea that they may pretend that a biological...

So, the exact same thing, but with different words. Good grief. This is why the subject can't even be broached, that we basically have to categorically shut the door to it because even when it recognizes what's always been denied, PEM/PESE, they just want to do the same thing for the same reason...

All of this makes a lot of sense when stress is used with its common meaning, typically an external force making a demand and requiring energy to return to its previous state, rather than the modern woo-woo definition misused in psychosocial ideology. Physicians have long advised ill people to...

This is not an appropriate thing in ME/CFS, it's highly arbitrary and I can't think of a single possible use for it. In fact for many of those questions, answering in the way that is framed as positive resilience would be significant denial of reality.

It'll be something watching him completely change his tune once this happens and his own research is dismissed as garbage. It's easy to dump on LLMs and their potential to simply parrot what's in the literature, but that's only as long as they can't reason. Once they can do that, once they...

I noticed studies and headlines about this over the last few years and it's all over the place, there is zero consistency in anything. One day you can read about a study saying one thing, the next week the opposite, the next week it's about how no amount of exercise can make up for sitting 8...

I don't see the point in applying generic advice to specific problems. People should drink water when they're thirsty and eat good healthy food. Not for any particular reasons. They should also breathe oxygenated air that is as little polluted as possible, but not everyone has that luxury. None...