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There's some heavy metal issues with some spices and brands as outlined in this article: https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/your-herbs-and-spices-might-contain-arsenic-cadmium-and-lead-a6246621494/ Generally the more expensive brands of ground cumin are safe.

This focus on obesity as "causal or confounding" for FM is a bit disingenuous. References listed in the paper about FM and obesity are many and include one that states (International Rheumatology) that 40% of FM patients are obese (and 30% are overweight). Not sure which country or countries...

Qualitative research by PhD nurse researchers of FM subjects was the only repository of the personal reactions of PwFM to their illness and its effects on their lives that I've found, outside of online support group members. That a health profession took the time to investigate the effects of...

Higher levels of fragment RNA of the covid-19 virus in Long Covid patients in China. Still is unknown if these fragments are a causative factor in the development of LC symptoms. Also unknown whether these reservoirs contain replication-competent virus. Per Dr. Daniel Griffin TWIV approx 28...

Quite indicative of the writers' confusion. Not only bypassing the years of prior research into FM and ME which point to a molecular etiology (as yet unknown). But they seem to throw all the acronyms they are confused by into the air like so much spaghetti.

Merged thread Eric Topol at Scripps is involved. Recruiting USA residents, only. https://longcovid.scripps.edu/?ref=studyme

Sounds like false repurposing the FDA-approved for FM drug duloxetine. According to Daniel Clauw, MD, an expert in FM research, these FDA-approved FM drugs: duloxetine, pregabalin, and milnacipran (solo or in some combination) are for the most part ineffective and/or have overwhelming side...

In the USA, if supplements have the certified USP label, then at least the ingredients should be what the label says and from standard reputable sources (whatever that means these days). Mostly that means the major, best-selling brands have the USP designation. Here's the USP.org site...

In the article above the Minnesota ME/CFS doctor Dr. Tam is a big proponent of the Perrin Technique (https://theperrintechnique.com) A type of of miraculous massage, apparently.

I was prescribed it for my non-specific autoimmune disorder/fibromyalgia and took it for three months twenty years ago. Felt no side effects nor anything at all, no improvement of pain or fatigue.

What? Will Montalbano TV series have all the deliciously serious eating scenes edited out? And what about the obese pathologist who, if sitting down, has a plate full of pastries on his desk. And the detective takes his seaside, seafood restaurant meals as seriously as his murders. No talking...

I find any group exercise intervention for FM problematic pain-wise. I couldn't walk through chest-high water without inducing later pain in upper body region. Can't move my arms much, no lifting and the weight of the water is a deceptive resistance. Not sure what I would do in the...

The authors of the review study have not published any previous work indicating any clinical exposure to FM patients. They are all psychologists at a university. They do urge caution using the somatic symptom disorder for FM patients (in the DSM-V) because of potential harm. But it is up to...

Oh dear.

The subjects with FM that were selected in the above study were limited by having to test positive to the researchers' own prior cytokine assay of peripheral RBCs in FM patients, published in 2012 here: https://bmcclinpathol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6890-12-25 As in the...

Rice: I used to love rice (and had a rice cooker), but rice is carby and too tempting to go beyond the my 25 gram meal allotment. I'd rather indulge in a half a cup of stuffed pasta. Laundry detergent: I mostly hand wash using Ivory bar soap, dish soap, and ammonia for stains. California...

Here is the background of optic nerve sheath ultrasound. It is correlated with intracranial pressure (if done right). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK554479/ Upper limit normal for adults is 5.0mm average (ultra sound optic nerve sheath measurement) 54 out of 80 FM patients were in the...

I did my rebuttal.

Link: https://wapo.st/3w0qOJ0 Here one of the best known FM clinician-researchers diagnosed the writer with FM and chronic fatigue syndrome. Besides meds (muscle relaxant flexeril, anti-depressant Wellbutrin, steroid florinef) recommended CBT and graded exercise therapy. Ahem.

A non-systematic narrative review, indeed. Throw up the kitchen sink and seek cover.