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Hi @strategist hope you don't mind me pointing out @alicec explanation of how amino acids etc. are utilised for energy, there also info re diet supplementation, https://www.s4me.info/threads/amino-acids-and-energy-production.1262/#post-21189 perhaps alicec could link it to this thread. Also...

I recall that Ron Tompkins (OMF) was planning to do work on muscle cells i.e. with UK researchers - any news of that? Anyone with links to OMF on this forum? @Giada Da Ros

I suspect you're correct i.e. if you're consuming more of X (certain amino acids for energy production) then supplementing your diet with X may not lead to an improvement in your health/functioning. I wonder if a blood test (PMBCs) could identify people who have this problem and then a genetic...

Milo "The dysfunction in glucose oxidation [muscle cells] is similar to what has previously been shown in blood cells from CFS patients." This seems to indicate that PBMCs would be a substitute i.e. for muscle cells. However, @Jonathan Edwards suggestion, re MR Spectroscopy, would be much more...

If it's yet to be explained, and there seems to be evidence of utilising certain amino acids, then is diet unreasonable? Also I think Ron Davis and Chris Armstrong may have considered diet supplementation.

I think Ron Davis has said that there was some evidence that Whitney had been cannibalising his muscle - there's a particular excretion product which is increased in these circumstances. Not sure if Ron has introduced these amino acids as a means of increasing Whitney's nutrition. Chris...

I agree fully @Trish i.e. ME Action are a very effective lobbying organisation.

I looked briefly online after I posted this. As many of you know this story has been around since the summer i.e. in Spain mink farmers found their animals were sick (coronavirus) and the farmers also developed coronavirus - who caught it from whom isn't clear. So far it seems that nobody is...

I haven't checked the link but (as a lay person) this seems like a big deal i.e. coronavirus "jumping" from humans to mink and vice versa.

I think "prednisone" is the go to drug for MS etc.; however, it can lead to bone thinning (loss of calcium). I wonder if "CSF leak" is something that could give the symptoms found in ME; however, it is very difficult to detect a CSF leak (correct?). So "CSF leak" may be a great conspiracy...

Hi discussion on this website "Follow ME in Denmark" I'd be interested in your views - http://followmeindenmark.blogspot.com/2020/09/zfr-suppresses-antiviral-response-but.html @Snow Leopard grateful for your views but if you're too busy then don't feel obliged to respond.

To be fair the BBC Radio 4 (Evan Davis) had an interview this evening with a doctor in Altnagelvin Hospital (North West Northern Ireland). The doctor explained that they didn't have enough beds to admit the people who needed hospital treatment - sounds overwhelmed ---.

Maybe (assuming you and you're mum are in New Zealand) the question needs to be asked (of politicians) -- why are people not being treated? If you look at countries with comparable infection rates then are there health care systems functioning? How are things going in other countries, with...

I found parts of this BBC Radio 4 program (inside health) positive e.g. doing rapid testing in 12 minutes. With the low rates in New Zealand and the technology improving (rapid testing) then I assume the risk analysis would indicate that you can start treating people for cancer etc. --- I don't...

I was thinking of someone I know who labelled a persons illness as their fault - psychological. Partly I think it's some form of indoctrination i.e. to believe that it won't happen to them because of you beliefs/aptitudes whatever --- maybe it's just comforting--- Lets face it, there are a lot...

I agree; just look at the benefits of doing everything you can to reduce the incidence - e.g. you can access hospitals/health care with lower risk. I'm not sure controlling the virus does damage your economy; if you look at Australia etc. it's hard to imagine that their economy is in a worse...

Sounds like heads you win (get grant funding) and tails you win --- Pity about the mugs who pay for this (PACE was funded by UK Tax payers) and those who suffer the resulting flawed Government policy (inappropriate treatments).

Thank you very much for the laugh @Simon M --- oh it's not just funny it's true ---

Yea the whole thing (paying for access to peer reviewed journals) is a mess - Much published research is publicly funded e.g. through direct Government funding; gradually there seems to be a move to require this to be made available to the public (free access via the internet). Not all research...

Yes Chris Ponting; however, I was thinking of tagging Simon @Simon M The two are linked of course re the GWAS study --- Simon's Gods representative on earth --- or, in this case, Chris's representative on Science 4 ME! Attempt at a joke in case it's not clear! I had decided not to tag Simon...