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    Anyone Treating the Eight Herpes Viruses with Antivirals?

    This has not been completed in a research capacity, let alone a clinical one. Yes, you measure quantitative PCR copies of CMV/EBV in the cerebrospinal fluid or you do post-mortem in situ hybridization, it's pretty easy and make sure it regiospecific for the susceptible substructures.
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    Viewpoint: “It’s All in Your Head”—Medicine’s Silent Epidemic

    A person born without legs can have pain in their ankle. I am wary to underestimate that relevance to CFS. The idea of a new grad doing this is hilarious to me: the MCAT is now like half organic chemistry, half "how woke are you?". I know old school docs like this though.
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    MS research versus ME/CFS research

    Objective diagnostics in MS allow for better patient cohorts - lesions, objective measurements of optic neuritis, oligoclonal banding. Even beyond that, they properly split the illness even with 1/10th the patients. It is a pharmaceutical goldmine for endpoints - but lesion size etc. rarely...
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    Plasma exchange

    Yes, I have had double exchange plasmapheresis in Thailand. No, it did not help. Yes, it would not hurt.
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    A study I want someone to do

    Stuart Johnson was a consultant studies that I referenced. He is a neuroscientist at Georgetown. The protocol is here. The patients were quarantined, diet-controlled, had drug restrictions and I do not see how it would be helpful to know that repeated administrations would decrease cognitive...
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    A study I want someone to do

    They already did in the studies I posted. Blood tests and lumbar punctures after the cognitive testing but before the exercise (regardless whether they published it - the default mode network study had CFS patients but they were not included in the manuscript). You would be able to interpolate...
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    A study I want someone to do

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-15383-9 https://bmcneurosci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12868-019-0488-6 They excluded a lot from these papers even though they covered a lot of what you asked. They could be data mining or the results could be irrelevant, it is probably the...
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    An Isolated Complex V Inefficiency and Dysregulated Mitochondrial Function in Immortalized Lymphocytes from ME/CFS Patients Missailidis et al. 2019

    So what this study tells is that healthy controls are more active. It is one thing to criticize patient/control selection as a semantical issue (to make results generalizable), but is another to criticize the control selection and knowing why the underlying physiology could nullify it.
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    Trial of CT38 for ME/CFS by Cortene Inc.: big claims being made...

    The owner of the molecule may be pumping its value for resale. One way to do this is a performative and non-substantive open-label study, make a press release and get some buzz to increase its right's of manufacture price and sell it to another entity. This guy is Garry Marshall not Barry...
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    Basic questions about metabolism

    Partial sublingual absorption - your saliva has amylase so you will get some glucose - not a lot. It is not necessarily Pavlovian.
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    A systematic review of cytokines in CFS/ME/SEID (2019) Corbitt et al

    Sorry for my English - I believe they are recommending that other avenues be pursued outside cytokines. "CureME is committed to patient participation, and ensures that its research is always informed by and for the benefit of people with ME/CFS. We have contributed to highly significant...
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    A systematic review of cytokines in CFS/ME/SEID (2019) Corbitt et al

    CFS and ME organizations will fund four of these studies within the next year, minimum - against these recommendations.
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    US NIH: Responses to NANDS Request for Information: How to advance ME/CFS Research

    Segregate gradual and rapid onset patients. It is so easy no one can do it.
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    FDA Approves Pitolisant for Daytime Sleepiness in Patients with Narcolepsy

    Does anyone from Solve/MECFS and OMF read this? Get in contact with Harmony Biosciences business development and ask for a donation of product to start a trial, crossover amphetamine crossover placebo.
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    Antibodies to Human Herpesviruses in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients (2019) Blomberg et al

    People that die from oncogenic viral brain tumors do not have any evidence of serological antibodies to their giant brain tumors that make them die. HHV exists in lymphatics for transmission purposes at best. So do a biopsy of the lymph nodes or a lumbar puncture (you will not get very robust...
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    Treatment for Gulf War Illness (GWI) with KPAX002 (methylphenidate hydrochloride + GWI nutrient formula) - Holodniy, Kaiser Aug 2019

    There's this new drug called cheese, it gets you high. it's tylenol and heroin. so basically... heroin.
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    The IDO Metabolic Trap Hypothesis for the Etiology of ME/CFS 2019 Kashi, Davis, Phair.

    The idea of any infection starting CFS's specific fatigue was abandoned rapidly when a few people had an atypical onset and didn't have peripheral antibodies. This was a problem in other illnesses too, until a few researchers suspected it was impossible for that rapid of an onset to not be...
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    ME Epidemiology - prevalence and peak ages of onset

    Study was cohort participatory and not observational and generally reflects who participates in these studies uncompensated. I do not have any comments on it directly other than the context I posited above.
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    ME/CFS Epidemiology - sex ratios, female predominance

    Copied post Study was cohort participatory and not observational and generally reflects who participates in these studies uncompensated. I do not have any comments on it directly other than the context I posited above.
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