Antioxidant and immunomodulatory properties of Spilanthes oleracea with potential effect in CFS infirmity, 2018, Nipate et al

Open access at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S097594761730116X?via=ihub#bib1

 

hmm - the journal is called "journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine" is the article still of interest? (haven't had a chance to look at it yet)

 

I make no claim that it is of interest, I post it so that everyone else can discuss it.

 

And I'm very grateful for you doing that, @Andy

 

Yep, there has been a number of studies that use the method of forcing mice to swim to exhaustion as a claimed sufficient proxy for ME.

 

But I thought we were all lazy and deconditioned? Are we all extreme sports adventurers now?

 

We are, it's the mice who aren't..

 

You have to feel sorry for the mice..... what a complete waste of time, energy and resources.

 

There's no internal consistency with some of these theories.

 

I have heard that there is an "ME engineered mouse" waiting to be funded and studied at a major Canadian university.

 

How do they know it is an ME mouse when we dont know what ME is yet?

The mouse swimming is a stress protocol, which suggests a priori presumptions about the nature of ME in relation to a psychological model.

This isn't science its advertising.

 

Its obviously a very poor analogue but I do wonder if there could be at least some relevancy, given how similar PEM can be to overtraining syndrome.