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Disease of the gut, such a Celiac disease, Chron's disease and chronic ulcerative colitis, can apparently interfere with the absorption of nutrients, including vitamin D. https://www.healthline.com/health/malabsorption My impression is IBS and IBD may be more common in ME/CFS than in the...

I would have guessed that mice experience chronic social defeat due to their terrible pick-up lines...

As long as PACE was limited to patients with ME, they may have felt that they could handle the criticism, but now... Would they really want a big Covid-19 spotlight trained on the PACE trial?

I've not read the whole paper yet, but that paragraph from the discussion section says: I would take that to mean "either microbial antigens or auto-antigens," so not necessarily auto-immune. Microbes could be many things: It could be a chronically "present" microorganism that the immune...

Andrew Gywnne talking about his post-covid symptoms could be me talking about my post-infectious symptoms 37 years ago. It does seem like there are at least two (possibly more) distinct, but not necessarily mutually exclusive, post-Covid processes that can occur. One sounds like the result of...

I think Dr. Lipkin's interest in ME/CFS actually goes back to the 1984 Lake Tahoe outbreak. I believe he was in San Francisco at the time and Dr. Dan Peterson got in touch with him to discuss the outbreak (unless I'm misremembering). Also, Dr. Lipkin was the principal investigator on a 1999...

I hope this doesn't become an oft-repeated excuse. It's not like there was a throng of scientists out there just champing at the bit to conduct meaningful biological research into ME/CSF who suddenly became disconsolate as a result of the XMRV debacle of a decade ago. US government health...

At some point in his late 60's, my father developed "rough skin" on all the knuckles of both hands. I just assumed they were calluses related to aging. After years of having this (apparently without any doctor commenting on it), a nurse informed him that the "calluses" were actually warts...

This article, which originally appeared in The Los Angeles Times on June 16th, talks about how to convert an N95 mask with a valve into a mask that will protect both the wearer and others. This simply involves putting tape over the valve openings. There is a video included in the article that...

I'm not sure if it gets rid of warts, but if you chant her name in a darkened room, I'm told that you'll see a scary ghost named "Mary Warts" looking back at you from the "other side" of a mirror. This apparently started as a game called "Bloody Mary." Somewhere along the line, the name of the...

According to this article from Harvard Health, "Studies indicate that about half of warts go away on their own within a year, and two-thirds within two years..." It's not clear from the abstract above how long the "experimental period" was, or how long each of the patients had had warts prior...

Wishing you strength and recovery soonest, @Graham. You're a hero here.

I'm pretty sure it means "editors" and applies to Mayou, Bass and Sharpe collectively.

As I mentioned before, it would also be interesting to see how post-Ciovid fatigue cases do on Dr. Davis' nanonneedle test. You'd think with the publication in PNAS, and under the current circumstances, the NIH would be able to find some money to help him scale up the test.

I realize that everyone's experience with ME is not the same. My onset was post-infectious, but it was not simply a "long tail" failure to recover. I had a really bad upper respiratory infection which had all but resolved. When I returned to normal activities, I felt "recovered" for about a...

CFS often has a cause/trigger that the patient can point to. It would be more accurate to say that CFS is often defined by doctors rejecting the cause that the patient reports because such long term consequences defy their expectations.

For best results, consider homeopathic music therapy: [Video is kind of loud. Be sure to adjust volume to OFF position for full homeopathic effect.]

I noticed that at the website it says this: I have no problem with this. I can understand how including people who once met the criteria - but who no longer do - could introduce uncertainties (though presumably no one's genome changes due to either onset or improvement). At some point in the...

It starting to look like calling ME/CFS "A Canary In A Coal Mine" was sadly even more prophetic than could have been imagined.

This 2011 paper showed that patients with the inflammatory bowel diseases Crohn's and ulcerative colitis, as well as those with gastric and duodenal ulcers, were found to be significantly more frequently colonized by significant amounts of candida than controls. 70% of ulcerative colitis...