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There's an interesting article on the NHS "Behind the Headlines" blog on a different study that attempted to use grip strength to make predictions about mortality rate from cardiovascular disease. It's from 2015. It's quite sceptical of the study claims, and covers some of the points made in...

Possibly worth noting that grip strength, like HRV, isn't a static value and can depend on fluctuating factors. E.g. if you have a cold coming on, your grip strength will decrease. That can act as an early warning system for athletes that they need to take it easy for a few days, because they're...

Low HRV is an indicator of a lot of things. AFAICT it drops whenever you're under any kind of stress, including allergies or insomnia. It's not particularly surprising that an increase in physical symptoms in ME/CFS would correlate with a change in HRV. FWIW I found that my HRV increased during...

There's nothing innate to women that makes them incapable of being sexist themselves. Sexism (and racism, and other isms) is a structural social issue, not an individual moral failing. Women are quite capable of holding regressive beliefs about women. I found the article interesting, thanks...

Can't say I've noticed any difference. I've always been very sensitive to smells, so am aware that I've always had arbitrary episodes of funky or otherwise unusual-smelling pee. Definitely nothing consistently associated with PEM, though I am on the milder end of ME, which could matter.

Dunno. I laughed pretty hard reading this abstract but if I had to describe it I'd probably have called it "mirthless"

Attention deficit, I think (but I could be wrong, haven't read the paper).

I do seem to be more sensitive to drops in blood sugar or running out of glycogen now. I'm not diabetic, but I recognise the sensation from all the many, many times I hit the wall when running or cycling (in cycling we call it "bonking". Not nearly as fun as it sounds!). I had to go to the...

Yes! Good way of putting it. Seems obvious now that you've said it, but it's something I've been struggling to articulate for a long while now, and people who don't have it really struggle to understand because of the ridiculous "chronic fatigue" labeling. When I have PEM, I'm not tired, I'm...

It is indeed! Thanks for pre-emptively finding that ;)

I had a look for the missing documents. Have linked the ones I found inline in the quote below. I wasn't able to find a copy of the AFME "severely neglected" report. Perhaps someone else will have better luck.

And depression! Does make me wonder if they've bought the "ME is depression" narrative, and think they're both made up or hammed up for the sake of the fantastic secondary gains of having to deal with the DWP and Job Centre.

"You may find it helpful to use official diagnostic terms, unless we have decided those official diagnostic terms are on our arbitrary list of terms we don't like, where you can use an obfuscating euphemism that makes it sound like something else instead" Genius. What's the purpose of this...

Lol. Well, now that 40% of adults have CFS, it seems even more important that we get some adequate research funding, no?

I've found that my smaller plates are easily negated by second helpings ;)

Maybe Larun and co. wouldn't let them. Why shouldn't another tail have a good wag of this particular dog?

When I first got ME I was talking to an acquaintance who told me that he had also had it as a teenager for three years. I mentioned that I was doing my best to remain positive, and he told me "Don't worry if you can't stay positive all the time. Focusing on that aspect can often be just another...

Trotskyists, rather than Marxists - they founded the Revolutionary Communist Party. The irony is that Spiked is very much a right-Libertarian publication (funded by Charles Koch no less!), and could hardly get further away from communist and left-wing ideology. It certainly speaks to their...

Awful news. Really sends a message to people with ME that even if your doctor can be trusted, the health authority certainly can't. And of course it sends a message to the BPS crowd that their abuses of vulnerable patients are just fine and dandy. I hope his appeal goes well.

Thank you! Those pesky ungrateful patients are such a nuisance. It's a wonder he hasn't found a new line of work...!