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I've seen more pushback against this narrative recently, and I hope it continues :)

New rticle in Aftenposten about exercise and covid. The positives are that they say they screen patients so that anyone that get worse following exercise should not do it, but at the same time I wonder how well that screening process works. I also think some of the people who are able to...

Wyller, and I think a few more GP's in Norway, have been accused of misconduct for promoting LP to patients. Nothing has been done about it, and Wyller has used this as part of the "angry pwME-activist" narrative.

Glad they've done this, I wish indirect calorimery could be used more. Predictive equations are not exactly known to be accurate, as the data used to create them does not have to be reflective of the population it is used on. Like here, the equations have not been made to take into account that...

I think this will be difficult, for the reasons you state. Also food intolerances can require other factors, like exercise, to manifest. Like people with wheat dependent exercise induced anaphylaxis (allergy, not intolerance but still). If psychologists can, so can dietitians! :whistle: The...

Just skimmed this, and it feels very much like claiming territory. Basic stuff and some claims thrown in. That said, nutrient deficiencies when admitted to hospital is common in some (sub)populations, and unfortunately common in hospital settings as well. People at home with chronic health...

What about other compounds in these foods? Some compounds that are low might be low as a safety mechanism, and artificially increasing them could cause harm. Without knowing what's going on supplementing is problematic.

Just came to share the article @Kalliope Made my day :D

There is a problem of people claiming improved nutrition will cure all ails. Magnesium, various B-vitamins and vitamin D often show up related to this. At the same time micronutrient deficiencies is also a problem, which occurs in both healthy and the chronically ill. This deficiency can come...

It's also mentioned in cell biology courses and nutrition courses. Serum levels measure what's in the serum, which as I assume you know is not necessarily the same as what is available to the cells, and there is a difference between having a healthy amount of something compared to avoiding...

There's really no good way to test for this. Further problems is that adequate magnesium in the blood is not necessarily the same as adequate magnesium in the cells.

A problem with using foods to test for responses to various single nutrients is that food composition datatables are not good enough at this level, and the food item you bought at the store might not have the same nutrient composition as it says in the table because it was grown somewhere else...

Forskning.no has a narrative review of sorts about what goes wrong in the body of pwME. Overall it's good, although I struggle to understand why the Mayo clinic is cited instead of say, the new NICE guidelines. This is going to be nice to have with the lightning process study approval meeting in...

I think it's more likely the "me" is myalgic encephalomyelitis, just not capitalized. "My own" would be "min egen" in Norwegian, not "me".

I wouldn't be surprised to see a diet intervention like this either, although I don't think I have seen a dietary intervention study for an illness without a single objective marker, maybe with the exception of IBS studies but there at least the questionnaires are better validated than for us.

I'm glad it was mentioned that NAFKAM has issued a warning about LP, I thought this was missing the last time around. It is an omission from the research proposal, together with how the PACE results show no improvement in getting back to work after the intervention (and all the other follow-up...

A recent article about how a teacher with long covid in Norway needs accomodation at work (and now works only 50%): Deler av arbeidsdagen ligger lærer Marit Lehn (51) på en madrass på et grupperom I couldn't get a google translate link for now, but I could get the translation using Chrome :)

The diet information in this study seems sketchy. Participants had previously been part of a study where stool samples were collected, and were now asked to recall what they ate 24 hours prior to that sample collection. When performing 24 hour recalls, just asking about yesterday can be...

Posts on the questionnaire for classifying the level of functioning pf pwME under development by Kristian Sommerfelt/Norwegian ME Association has been moved to a new thread: Norway: Developing a new questionnaire for classifying the level of functioning in pwME/CFS, open for feedback

I've been telling my sister who tested positive last week to look out for any ME like symptoms, I wish we knew more about risk when someone in the family has it.