(Not a recommendation) (UK) "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Conference: Costs, challenges and practice"

[Amw66]

In the interests of information gathering and sharing, I just signed up for and received on line links to the free report which I've now skim read.

The 'theory' is dubious - for example they state that there are 9 subtypes of ME:
Nutritional subtypes: adrenal, immune, digestive, toxicity overload and structural.
Psychological subtypes: helper, achiever, trauma, anxiety.

Their treatment comes in two parts:
Psychological, which they are proud to boast includes aspects of NLP, Reverse therapy and LP (which their leader says he helped to develop). The program of psychological treatment is described as a 90 day program including group and individual sessions.
Nutritional run by nutritionists (I have no idea what their qualifications are) and uses blood tests to help determine what diet and supplements to recommend.

From the hype on their web page:


Not for me.

Sponsered by Biocare - is there a relationship between volume of supplements and practice status ?

 

[Sly Saint]

Sponsered by Biocare

AfME used to have (not sure if it still does) a relationship with a number of supplement suppliers; there was also a dedicated website (company based in Bristol) which has since ceased to exist.

This was one of their (AfME InterAction mag) Ad pages from 2011 which also features OHC and the Lightning Process:

 

[Ben McNevis]

I know from an email that this is on July 17.

http://www.salford.ac.uk/onecpd/conferences/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-conference

This caught my eye https://www.fatiguesuperconference.com/buy-the-conference/ Fatigue Super Conference
I'll need to detox and optimise my chi before I'm up to reading any of it
Or maybe all the smiley power poses sapped my last sixteenth of a spoon
https://www.fatiguesuperconference.com/agenda-page/

 

[rvallee]

This caught my eye https://www.fatiguesuperconference.com/buy-the-conference/ Fatigue Super Conference
I'll need to detox and optimise my chi before I'm up to reading any of it
Or maybe all the smiley power poses sapped my last sixteenth of a spoon
https://www.fatiguesuperconference.com/agenda-page/

Ugh. Dr Myhill is a presenter. Not good. Definitely can't take her seriously anymore.

But you really can see how this will develop in the next few years. The whole obsession with fatigue will see the psychosocial ideology gradually engulfed in even worse pseudoscience and they won't be able to stop it, especially now that they're accepted LP into the fold.

Really only a question of a time until MUS get swamped with healing crystals and aura energy or whatever. After all, it's all the same crap at its core anyway.

 

[chrisb]

Really only a question of a time until MUS get swamped with healing crystals and aura energy or whatever. After all, it's all the same crap at its core anyway.

There were always the loopy, and the desperate, to divert attention from the core. I think that was what led SW into some of his views about the illness. There must be difficulties in being presented with people who believe in all this sort of guff

 

[MEMarge]

This caught my eye https://www.fatiguesuperconference.com/buy-the-conference/ Fatigue Super Conference
I'll need to detox and optimise my chi before I'm up to reading any of it
Or maybe all the smiley power poses sapped my last sixteenth of a spoon
https://www.fatiguesuperconference.com/agenda-page/

This looks prety different from the 2018 conference.

It is termed a Fatigue super conference, not a CFS conference.