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I missed this thread to start with. Let me make a few comments. I am not sure that hormones form a triangle. Thyroid, adrenal and sex hormones are all controlled by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary but different cells. It is a bit like the toothpaste and painkiller counters that both...

I was puzzled by this but I think there is no connection. Someone may know for sure.

Oh, they would be really really lovely!

Yes, I understand entirely what is meant. The author does not want to impress with superior intellect but rather with togetherness with the girlie spirit. It is all about running across the lawn in your nightie rather than using controlled methodology to reduce risk of bias. As all girlies know...

What can one say? How is it that official educational establishments are encouraging drivel of this order of vacuousness? Presumably if White and friends get their way with ten thousand more talking therapists we ill have double the amount of drivel. Perhaps the one hope is that someone in...

I do not recall Luis saying anything definite. I am not aware of any evidence for increased risk of heart disease. I think he may have been speculating. Unless there is actually some evidence I would not think anything needs to be done. Exercise is good for keeping away hypertension but my...

I don't think there has been anything definitive. A lot more people are working on the immunology and mitochondrial metabolism. There are likely to be publications on T cells in the spring I think. There have been useful negative studies providing a consensus of an absence of evidence for...

A shortish trick cyclist named Simon Claimed that his chums all loved rhymin' Too bad his own prose Just gets up your nose Like those dreadful never-ending repetitive piano tunes by Michael Nyman

It need not invalidate the claim that personal microbiome is a guide to which foods will give you a high glucose. People who get high glucose with ice cream might have more rapid amylase release from the pancreas and that might skew the profile of the waste products coming down to the colon and...

I cannot find anything definite in that paragraph that suggests that gut bacteria contribute significantly to digestion of foods in a way relevant to my comments. They can do things we cannot do but as far as I know that do these things for their own benefit, not ours. Breaking down bile...

I have listened to the talk and I am not impressed. He does not talk like a scientist who actually has some reliable new information. That sort of scientist would provide convincing data slides even in a lay audience talk. This is more like an advertisement I am afraid. The problem now is that...

They saw about the first 20 minutes - some of the best material.

I have one or two thoughts. Bacterial infection can certainly remain in tissues for years. Typical examples are tuberculosis in the lung and staphylococci in chronic osteomyelitis. However, I think it would be misleading to generalise from that. These are very specific situations with specific...

I don't think we have any evidence for colonic bacteria being involved in RA or any non-GI disease much.

Guess I'd better find a shirt without paint stains!

Sorry, my post was ambiguous. The bit about people being good at helping others was me. Dr Wessely said he was worried that after the brilliant PACE trial lots of people would get 'CBT' but from people who were 'not properly trained' so it wouldn't be any good. What he did not explain is how...

There was a thing on the radio today about robot CBT being really good. But the psychotherapist made sure to say that it was not intended to replace psychotherapists. And it was too early to compare something as unproven as a robot with a (fully proven) psychotherapist. I am very happy to...

This looks like woo to me so far but I will listen to the talk. As far as I know all we all need to do is to avoid eating so much that we get fat - and develop insulin resistance. If you have type I diabetes it might be helpful to know which foods spike your sugar I guess but otherwise I doubt...

This looks like a heartsink list of speakers. I am slightly surprised to see Dr Hooper involved but maybe I did not understand his angle before.

Agree. Depression isn't even a diagnosis.