sickness behavior

How to explain the evolutionary advantages of Sickness Behavior. This article is from 2015. Maybe the scientific frontier has advanced since. Anyone knows? Anyway: I'm a bit impressed. :) Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002276

You will, from time to time, have seen references to "abnormal illness behaviour" in connection with ME or CFS, and these will no doubt have cited the various papers by Mechanic on the subject of "illness behaviour". It seems that this is not quite the full story. There appears to be a lacuna...

Sickness behaviour is a concept that's often referred to in relation to MECFS. I want to see what people think of it. Whether there's something in it, or whether its just a tool used by the mind-over-body crowd. Here's a rough intro to the concept: Sickness behaviour refers to the behavioural...