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There are occasional outbreaks of Hepatitis A that are traced back to restaurants. It seems to follow the fecal-oral route. In other words, someone is not paying attention to the "All Employees Must Wash Their Hands" sign. Other diseases, like polio, have the same mode of transmission.

Jason is a professor of psychology - and he was diagnosed with CFS in 1990 - so perhaps including the psychological angle was important to getting support from the psychology department of which he is a part. As @rvallee said, seeking psychological risk factors may well be just a way to...

There is a thing where, if there is a source of "white noise" present, like a fan, or wind, or rain or a radio tuned to static, the brain can perceive the white noise as indistinct music or voices. I've experienced this on a few rare occasions in the presence of white noise, but the vast...

At one point he says that ME/CFS is: 2x as common as epilepsy 3x as common as Parkinson's disease 4x as common as MS 40x as common as motor neuron disease (aka ALS, "Lou Gehrig's Disease") ...which are pretty interesting statistics that I've not really heard presented all at once before.

I wonder if they consider the possibility of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction as a possible cause of hyperventilation. I say this because I've experienced this since childhood and only recently discovered what it was. I've had several treadmill tests over the years and no doctor has ever...

Well, that takes a load off my mind.

Interesting that his onset followed strep throat. I suspect my onset also followed strep. I (foolishly) didn't see a doctor about it, but it was unlike any sore throat I'd ever had. Every time I swallowed, the back of my throat felt like I was drinking acid. Those sore throat lozenges were...

I'd guess that footnotes 4 & 5 probably pertained to paragraphs on the second page of the letter (footnotes 1-3 are referenced in paragraphs on the first page). Footnote 4 does seem like it could apply to the second paragraph of page 2 of the letter. Footnote 5 is harder to figure out. Maybe it...

I'm pretty sure that Shorter has argued that "shellshock" was similar to, if not just another cultural appellation for conditions such as neurasthenia, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and Gulf War syndrome. I came across this paper from September 2019, however, in which the author...

I have occasionally experienced the afterimage thing. It has seemed connected to the tail end of a viral infection, or otherwise being more run down than usual. It might have something to do with sleep deprivation. Odder, for me, is "flickering vision," in which image brightness rapidly...

Using "alternative explanation" doesn't make sense unless some other explanation had been mentioned earlier in the letter. None was. I think it's probably a "typo" in which the word "alternative" was used instead of "explanation." "The patients in this trial had a disabling chronic illness in...

In case anyone was wondering how they got "CORPUS"... COst-effectiveness of psychosomatic theRapy for patients frequently attending Primary care with medically Unexplained Symptoms https://www.trialregister.nl/trial/7157 [ I judge this as the worst acronym since the "PHLEGM" trial. :)]

Hmmm. I would have guessed that "psychosomatic therapy" was where practitioners offered psychological advice because it makes them feel better.

The general idea of CFS-like symptoms being created by the overgrowth of a toxin-producing microbe in the gut goes back at least to the early 1980's, with the "hangover" toxin acetaldehyde being thought overproduced by too much "candida albicans" in the gut. The media played this up in the...

I'd imagine that a battery powered LCD alarm clock would be silent. The backlight on these is OFF by default (because it consumes too much battery power), so it should be invisible in the dark until you press the backlight button. Some are USB powered, so battery life is not an issue (although...

From the paper: This kind of reminds me of what someone once said about the correlation between intelligence and longevity. "Einstein was a very smart guy, but he didn't live orders of magnitude longer than the rest of us."

I can't judge the quality of this paper without knowing the authors' incomes. ;)

I wondered the same thing, but it's impossible to know. Even if this discussion of funding were the reason the video was pulled, Dr. Lipkin may have been the one who asked that it be pulled.

I didn't completely follow this, but he mentioned herpes viruses a couple of times. Later when talking about an expensive sequencing test he mentions: Later still, when talking about developing animal models to test, he says: I could have this wrong, but it sounds like the persistence of...

A couple of quotes I found particularly interesting... [bolding mine] Speaking about the microbiome: And...