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  1. Midnattsol

    News from Scandinavia

    I have met a student of Wyller and been told about the aggressive ME patients community. Ah yes, I'm sorry I can read the research too :rolleyes:
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    News from Scandinavia

    Thanks for the heads up @Kalliope, I don't think I will listen to the program now. How is it possible to mess things up like this :banghead:
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    Oxidative stress in exercise training: the involvement of inflammation and peripheral signals, 2019, Francesca et al

    In my studies it's been used in cell biology and biochemistry mostly, and somewhat in microbiology. Stress in this case means a type of pressure, but it's not measured in mmHg. It's more along the lines of stressing a system with too much heat, cold, poor nutrient medium (but unlike a cell...
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    Oxidative stress in exercise training: the involvement of inflammation and peripheral signals, 2019, Francesca et al

    Which could be caused by the high oxidative stress, the system becomes overloaded. Low glutathione (our strongest antioxidant) is also not uncommon in diseases, it gets used up at a higher rate than normal. This is why I wish dieticians would be more involved with the chronically ill, our bodies...
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    Oxidative stress in exercise training: the involvement of inflammation and peripheral signals, 2019, Francesca et al

    I do believe oxidative stesss is a problem for us, but so is it in many other diseases as well. That overexercising can induce flares in autoimmune diseases is not uncommon. Some years ago there were someone who looked at oxidative stress and heat shock proteins (HSP) in CFS patients (I think...
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    Abnormalities in the urine of people with ME/CFS? A clinician asks for feedback

    I remember happily exclaiming to my bf "And they even looked at the urine!" :D Mine smells fruity from time to time and can be cloudy, but that happens also when I'm not in PEM. My sweat smellls differently when in PEM. Like others I pee more often when in PEM and feel dehydrated no matter what...
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    Hypoxia has delayed effects on the brain. Could this explain PEM?

    Also heat-shock proteins that help cells when they are stressed (for one reason or other). Why hasn't anyone followed up on that? I'd also like more studies on our blood vessels and nitrogen oxide.. And perhaps even nitrogen oxide and the electron transport chain.. I like this as it is...
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    NPR: The Placebo Effect Works And You Can Catch It From Your Doctor

    I don't read much about turmeric, but other compounds that's not very well absorbed can still be anti-inflammatory from acting on gut wall integrity, microbiome, or something else in the gut that could lower inflammation in the body. Quercetin for instance can change protein expression (and...
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    Is ME a metabolic problem or a signalling problem?

    It is a redox change, lactate is the reduced form of pyruvate. To do this, cells use NADH as a reducing agent. To keep up with energy demands, cells import glucose, pyruvate gets turned into lactate and then transported to the liver to make more glucose. Why would there be so much pyruvate be...
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    Application for RAMSAY Awards 2019 - Machine Learning-assisted Research on ME/CFS

    Remember glutamate in itself is not bad, it's when the body cannot regulate it property it becomes problematic. And when that happens it can increase oxidative stress which in itself can lesd to dysregulation of this system. That's one viscious circle. How about glutathione regulation? It is...
  11. Midnattsol

    Glutamate / glutamine / glutamic acid

    Glutamate is the anion form of glutamic acid, while glutamine is glutamic acid + and extra NH3 group. They can be synthesized from eachother. Excess glutamate is common in many chronic health conditions (also together with reduced glutathione). A decrease in glutamine is often seen together...
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    PhD Project: ME/CFS FMT study. Application Deadline 31 Oct 2019

    Bioinformatics AND microbiome? :woot: Wish I were done with my master degree.
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    Childhood traumatization is associated with differences in TRPA1 promoter methylation in [..] multisomatoform disorder [..], 2019, Achenbach et al

    Haven't read the study properly, but the abstract says something like this (not sure if I managed the "simple", though): Basicly they looked at methylation at certain CpG islands found in the promoter area of TRPA1. They found that an increase in methylation at CpG -628 and -411 led to a higher...
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    Neuro-computational Impact of Physical Training Overload on Economic Decision-Making, 2019, Blain et al

    Excessive physical training > (low grade inflammation >) excessive oxidative stress > change in dopamine and glutamate in the brain > cognitive fatigue and more impulse behavior (I'm simplifying a bit).
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    Audio distraction: podcasts, audio books, radio on demand

    BBC Radio crime allows for online listening of shows that are currently running. Right now they have a Paul Temple play, I also enjoy their versions of Hercule Poirot and Mrs Marple when they show up, and also the two Cordelia Gray plays (they could be found on youtube not too long ago), and...
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    The Potential Impact of Probiotics on the Gut Microbiome of Athletes, 2019, Wosinska et al

    Andy is correct :) It is a very potent toxin that the immune system reacts strongly to. This could explain the flu like feeling after overexertion. Or part of it, for some people. There are many things that affects this. Exercise increase LPS translocation also in healthy people, and normally...
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