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@Iansbergen, would you consider changing the thread title to match the article title: "Integrative Personal Omics Profiles during Periods of Weight Gain and Loss". It makes it easier for people to search for if they ever want to.

Enuff said. :yuck:

OMG, I tried to work through these, but it just went on and on and I felt sicker and sicker to my stomach. All that appeal to GPs self-interest and references to dodgy "evidence". I was astounded at how it all contradicted itself "gotta stop being dualistic, but the problem is definitely...

Fascinating to read the stories from other countries. Thanks so much for posting, @Solstice, @unicorn7, @Inara, and others I haven't mentioned by name. Thanks for taking the time to put it in English for us.

Just caught up with this thread, and shocked with what's happening in the UK. Special clinics to train those that can't easily be dealt with - so that they just give up and go away. I don't want to single out the UK, because this sort of thing is going on in a lot of places. But there seem to...

@Louie41, the issue of carbs vs. calories is a whole topic on its own right! Maybe that's one for the weight loss thread?

Of course you're right. But then nobody's weight loss recommendations include going to bed and moving as little as possible for the duration of the diet! Obviously not, because then you would have to drop your calories to absurdly low levels to effect weight loss. Just cos you can't lose weight...

This is a cool design. It was an actual intervention. Participants (all men, who looked to be overweight at the time of recruitment, age not known) had their diets assessed, and were then instructed to eat specified additional snacks designed to cause a gradual weight increase (3.2kg over 30...

Sorry to offend you, @petrichor. As a new member, I thought you might be genuinely interested in knowing that other people's experience is a little different. I was in no way saying your symptoms were not awful or debilitating, not at all.

Nor me, @NelliePledge. I've been on a similar restriction (lost 6kgs since September), and the only benefit is that I no longer experience uncomfortable fullness and heaviness after my evening meal... I have pretty much no evening meal, actually... which I guess will fix that!

Well, with intelligence, you can at least measure performance on difficult cognitive tasks. I would call that objective (although other may disagree). But then there's all sort of other cans of worms mixed there... we would be here all day....

Nicely said, @Barry!

Good find, @arewenearlythereyet. Although if we want to use this scale in MECFS samples, it needs to be validated on that population. Controls just does not cut it.

Your symptoms are quite unusual, @petrichor. For most of us, our activity is not primarily limited by current feelings of fatigue, its limited by the flare-ups we get the next day if we overdo it. You have to predict exactly how much is enough - for that particular day - to avoid PEM.

Oh, this is really nasty stuff, @Kalliope. It starts off all innocent about "soothing and alternative therapies", but then gets quickly into what its really all about: Target groups include: - School nurse wondering how to help the children return to school stability and out of social isolation...

I don't think it was anything like that. Its not like my dinner consisted of lots of sugar (never dessert or sweets). I did have pasta when the family was having it, but the feeling wasn't specific to those evenings. And I never had any rush-then-crash or mood changes. Just a feeling of...

I also get this. The worst sensations would get me in the evening, after an evening meal. I would feel so full I couldn't get to sleep. Even when the actual food serving I'd had didn't seem exceptionally large. Since I've been on a weight reduction diet (since September), the problem has almost...

I'm no doctor, but I'd be playing down the CFS angle as much as possible. Noting that was your diagnosis prior to the discovery of RP. And that you're guessing your new diagnosis probably supersedes that. That's all completely true. And the less you say about CFS, the better you will be...

Perhaps its that I don't know enough yet, but I always get the feeling that the gut/microbiome is the NEXT BIG THING. And I feel sceptical about the scope of the claims being made. I had a look at some of the references in that article, and they seemed to be making strong claims on pretty...

Maybe we should start an S4ME picture library for the verbally challenged: