Radiation Model for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Announced by the National CFIDS Foundation 2019

It seems this or something like it goes back to Jonathan Swift (of Gulliver's Travels) in 1721. According to https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/07/10/reason-out/

 

Thats pretty good though i like @rvallee's interpretation better

 

I meant nothing offensive by what I said @John Mac . But I find it amusing that someone (the ones who have made the study) would connect an accident to people fearing that they might have been affected by that accident and as a result, acquire CFS. Everyone seems to be obssessed with connecting psychology to CFS for some reason.

 

Sure @Alvin. But it is not simple to predict what radiation might induce and suggesting fearing it might cuase CFS is quite a bad theory if there is no proof. Who was fearing that the accident of Chernobyl could harm one and as a result, acquired CFS? I, at least know, that I was not but the workers there apparently were, according to the study. I find it very hard that the workers have found symptoms that "resemble" CFS just by thinking they might get radiation. The study was condcuted in 2002, which is quite a long time ago when doctors used to think CFS is "just in your head". No follow up studies on this or similar ones to this @Sly Saint ?

 

Thats more or less exactly what i am getting at.
Stupid theories are a dime a dozen and morphing nonsense into a theory at a cognitive level of a 5 year old is just a waste of paper.

 

I could not have said it better myself.

 

Hey, I stole it first!

 

In the words of Grandpa Simpson

 

Chernobyl the series is on at the moment for those interested.
Radiation is a mutagen
Maybe it effects the genome and induces an immunodysregulation
Then there is the Fukushima AIDS idea

A bit about Lake Tahoe(2006) on that site says some patients had low or no B cells

 

But mutagens are good, without them we wouldn't have the internet, or legs, or more than one cell, if that.

 

Yes, but like anchovy sauce, moderation in all things is best.

 

But it has yet to bring us the kinds of superpowers seen in fiction

 

I don't know, @TiredSam and chums seem to be having a great time

 

Just watching that is taxing

 

Could there of been a temporary source of radiation at Lake Tahoe,I wonder

 

Aberdeen has a higher than average background radiation because many of the buildings are built of granite. I have never heard that there has been a higher rate of CFS there.

 

That'll be coz of all the heavy granite shielding protecting people, from all the radiation in the heavy granite shielding.

 

Merged thread

I started a facebook page to collate any newspapers articles or research that lend evidence to the theory that ME or "CFS" is caused by radiation. I try to make it clear on the facebook page that it is presently only a theory that the CFIDS Foundation came up with.

I am not connected to the CFIDS Foundation and I only started it because was interested in the subject.

I hope to update it once a week, my own health permitting.

It would be great if anyone here could have a look at it and give it a "like".

https://www.facebook.com/meradiation/

 

What kind of radiation? Infrared, gamma, beta, UV, alpha particle..... ?

 

This is the first time in the 28 years that I have had ME that I've ever heard of there being a connection between ME and radiation.