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But isn't it that as well? I am now three weeks from starting Covid-19 (second bout). I am probably 2 weeks from severe symptoms and a week from mild/moderate. There is no way that I would see any reason to undertake an exercise program. I have been doing odds and ends of things that I might...

I have been through it. It is pretty much what it says on the tin - very few treatments come out with high quality evidence on Cochrane reviews and harms are under-reported and common. But the pinch of salt is that they think GRADE is great and maybe even a bit strict. On the other hand that...

Going for the jugular there?

Absolutely not, because the BPS people have no evidence to make such claims - (other than where the NICE guideline is in fact at fault that is.) If the idea is to pass on what the NICE guideline says verbatim then it should be presented like that - or just give the URL for the guideline. If the...

In the abstract yes, but I don't buy this as an excuse. The NICE committee had an ethical duty to produce a guideline based on reliable evidence and good rational argument. They did pretty well but on this point they muffed it. To my mind anyone writing on a website that appears to be...

But is that right? As far as I am aware clinical magnesium deficiency is largely limited to specific conditions where it will be expected - like severe renal disease or malabsorption. I don't see any reason to think PWME are likely to need to take magnesium. That looks highly implausible. The...

I don't see it as a consequence. To repeat it as advice you have to think it merits repeating. Strain wasn't on the committee so I don't see that he is obliged to repeat it.

Not really. You wait until you are ready. Unless someone discovers how to get rid of LC symptoms, but that is another matter.

So who produces and funds Medscape? We seem to live in a world of predigested information served up 'on message' in line with nobody quite knows who.

I am wondering what 'Guidelines' is - who produces it and who funds it and what relation if any it has to NICE? I find this article quite disappointing because it seems to be a mish mash of repeated material from various sources rolled into a 'recipe' without any background thought. Why is CBT...

If he had been ill and not eating much that might be relevant to a low folate level but I doubt it has anything to do with the Covid, or vice versa. We have just had our second Covid after three jabs and it is pretty draining - now nearly three weeks in. I don't think all the stuff about...

very much so

Ethnography is also a type of social research that involves examining the behaviour of the participants in a given social situation and understanding the group members' own interpretation of such behaviour.[3] That sounds like 'gossip' to me. So this is meta-gossip: gossip about gossip.

Believing that people have the symptoms they have is a completely different thing from accepting causal explanations based on individual cases that can never be proven. Coincidences occur all the time. The only way to establish that there is a causal link is to do large systematic studies...

What with the ex-king of Spain and some of the Windsors, being royalty isn't necessarily something to be proud of these days!

I don't think medics would deny that odours can trigger symptoms. Nausea, streaming eyes and nose and all sorts of other things are symptoms triggered by odours everyone recognises. Where I think the medical profession is justified is in being sceptical about calling this 'Multiple Chemical...

This was the only agenda I was hearing at the Round Table.

About 20 people, now up to 37, testified in a closed Facebook group to exactly the same kind of symptoms: numbness, tingling, a feeling of fire in the body, tinnitus, all linked to the time of vaccination, often immediately after injection. For a population of ten million you would expect at...

It all sounds very nice but reminds me of the Round Table member who introduced themselves as the 'friendly sort of psychiatrist (with artificial smile) presumably to distinguish them from people who do trials of GET and CBT, although those surely should not be dismissed out of hand... If GPs...