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Yes, I don't seem to tolerate oats well either. I use gluten-free pasta of various kinds, and find it fine. I still have occasional diarrhoea (hoping that the current one is temporary!) and a lot of wind. Maybe I'm becoming allergic/sensitive to more things, or maybe I'm just being exposed to...

I don't seem to be able to cope with buckwheat - I get similar symptoms to when I consumed wheat, I think. I tried it a few times and the same thing happened each time. It's added to quite a lot of things now, which is annoying.

Should 'Protecting Long COVID' be 'Preventing Long COVID'? There also needs to be clarification that Nirmatrelvir is the proper name for Paxlovid.

(re Douglas Kell) Maybe showing my ignorance here, but was surprised by: "He graduated from the University of Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biochemistry in 1975 (with a Distinction in Chemical Pharmacology)" Arts? Surely it should be Bachelor of Science?

I haven't had time to read the article yet, but just thought I'd post what I have posted elsewhere - that my hypertension, and my polyuria, have both gone, after suffering for many years and taking drugs for them. I wonder whether they were due to dental problems. I talk about it here...

That indicates that you don't care about animals, whereas I and many others, do.

I don't do anything readily. I might well have gone on to do a PhD, but in desperate poverty due to long-standing ME I had to earn some money. My Masters degree was at the top level (Distinction), so perhaps you can realise how hard it was not to continue studying.

It would need to provide the correct answers at least 50% of the time, rather than almost never.

Did you look at these links, @PeterW? https://forums.phoenixrising.me/blogs/cancer-researcher-slams-requirement-for-animal-models.1689/ https://forums.phoenixrising.me/blogs/why-differences-matter-more-than-similarities.1574/...

I can't tell from the abstract whether the findings have been effective in humans. Probably not, as the vast majority of animal experiments produce results which are completely different from those in humans.

Studies in mice or any other species other than humans nearly always give results which are not applicable in humans.

Hopefully this will become more common in research: "calculated risk separately for men and women" Men and women appear to have quite different risk factors in a range of illnesses, including ME/CFS.

Some more thoughts on animals' capacity to suffer: "Charles Darwin enjoys a near god-like status among scientists for his theory of evolution. But his ideas that animals are conscious in the same way humans are have long been shunned. Until now. "There is no fundamental difference between man...

Whatever it takes? Do you mean that literally? Including torturing humans?

Yes, I think so, or maybe it's just mental fatigue - I go blank, and it's brain-fog type - I feel as though I'm trying to get out of a fog, and after a few minutes I can think again.

I used to have short PEM, as evidenced by the notice I have for visitors advising them what to do if I experience it. Now I have short-lived or half- or whole-day PEM (rarely the latter), but it tends to come a day and/or more after activity if not short-lived (hope that makes sense).

"Exacerbate Mitochondrial Health" How can you exacerbate any kind of health??

If the wearable technology feels at all like a wristwatch I wouldn't be able to wear it for long, as watches irritate my wrist so much.

$55,944 raised, 86% of total. 3 days to go. https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/42302

From the above link: "...he noticed that I had posted a tweet–or an X–in which I referred to the PACE trial as “fraudulent.”" Re what is fraud in UK law, it's detailed here: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/35/section/1