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Stress can cause physical disease by increasing levels of adrenaline in the body. An overactive thyroid causes damage because it increases the levels of adrenaline in the body which leads to a high heart rate, itches, and disrupted hormone function. The body burns through stored fat and will...

It doesn't even make sense So prone to directly and prone to indirectly!!!

So you have a disease with PEM and you are expected to put lots of effort into changing everything about your life. I have tried that sort of thing so often but I've always ended up sicker with a worse diet and less exercise than before I tried. A healthy diet with lots of veg is great and I...

That sounds like a line from a comedy show.

My son had recurrent migraines as a child with bad stomach problems. He now has coeliac disease but that may be a coincidence. I was told that children have such small tummies that when the lymph glands in the stomach swell up they cause more problems than they do in adults. More stomach...

If functional movement disorders were really caused by emotional and psychological problems the present treatments would be very successful so there would not need to be a search for new ones. Pathophysiology sounds suspiciously like thye now think there is a hardware problem!

It has been said before but how can it be a functional disorder if they have found the brain results of patients differ from healthy controls?

The only part of Freudian theory they missed out is an in depth investigation of potty training methods. I suspect bribery and corruption from the manufacturers of disposable nappies.

Of course interstitial cystitis is an FND because there is no infection because urine is sterile. Wait a minute, they found microbes in urine by growing them a different way, possibly PCR. In science, finding something gives you definite information but not finding something does not. It could...

There was an acknowledgement that people could feel fatigued but that was seen as something that happened with illnesses. It was the CDC which brought in fatigue as a characteristic. Muscle weakness was being studied because that is the first thing you look for in a disease where exercise made...

So, did they refuse to make him a member of the board?

Weakness is not a defining symptom of ME/CFS! Why can no one admit that it is an abnormal response to exercise or just say PEM. Exertion and exercise are a problem, that is not difficult to say is it?

Since SEID, the CDC and the NICE guidelines no one should be talking about CFS anymore. The criteria for CFS are so loose that any research like this tells us very little about ME or dialysis. It may or may not be ME, we don't know and if we have to try to guess whether this has any relevance...

Slipping into conspiracy territory but you can't believe everything you read, unfortunately, even scientific papers. A quick read of "The Dark Psychosomatic History" series of blog posts (https://mecfsskeptic.com/the-dark-psychosomatic-history-of-heart-disease-part-i/) shows that. Talking about...

This is a very misleading statement. There is no evidence that ME patients, apart from the severe, have prolonged inactivity. And the severe are not included in the research or the clinics. If someone can get to a clinic consistently - and they said that drop outs were not a problem - they are...

So what are they trying to say here? That exercise is good for fatigue is taking for granted but they are desperate to say that supervised exercise is better which can only be to keep professionals employed. Even if supervised exercise is marginally better, if it continues to work, and there is...

I read about this in a rather confused article in the New Scientist. There was a lot about marathon runners being exhausted if they did not know about a hill at the end of a race but managing if they knew beforehand. Then they spoke about cyclists who took cocaine but then died of a heart...

When you read in the dark psychosomatic histories series of blogs how the tobacco companies manipulated the science you do not have to be a conspiracy theorist to see a hand behind the treatment of ME. When CFS was first bandied about it was made explicit that there was a great worry that...

A disease like diabetes has lots of little symptoms that are difficult to live with but no one is researching them or looking for treatments because they are not important compared to feet infections or blindness. But they are prime targets for anyone looking for SSD. Then, as my mother-in-law...

Years ago now, early 90s or so it was said that ME (CFS) "is a strange, new type of disease which sits at the interface of biomedical disease and psychological disease" At the time I felt that such a claim needed iron clad evidence to show it was not just a disease that fitted the usual...