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This article in the Los Angeles Times reports on research that indicates that the sugar additive trehalose makes two different C. difficile strains more virulent. Despite the article's title, the sugar additive does not seem to increase the number of these bacteria (which might help them to...

You can want more food, but can reject a "spider goulash" on the grounds that it isn't proper food. Well, most of us can...

Sounds familiar, except for the sensation of feeling faint. I think it can make you feel dizzy, though, which may be interpreted as feeling faint. I'm pretty sure that this is a consequence of the eyes not working together well, something which is controlled, in part, by the vestibular balance...

Since it is claimed that ME can be "cured" with these techniques of the mind, it seems reasonable to assume that a "mirror" version of these techniques could also be used to induce ME. I suggest that its proponents can prove their claims by inducing CCC ME/CFS in themselves and then failing to...

Something I seemed to develop a few months before post-infectious onset was body-wide, uncontrolled shivering when I hopped into a cold car at night. I'm talking about massive waves of shivering, not the kind of thing one might usually expect in moderately cold weather. I remember wondering what...

From the paper: Low blood volume in ME/CFS patients has been suggested for decades. I don't know if anyone has rigorously tested the hypothesis in a well-characterized cohort using radioactive marker concentrations as a metric. In 2015, Dr. Bell wrote an article on low blood volume in ME/CFS...

Well, there's always someone who doesn't see the paradigm shift coming.

Favorite observation from the article:

In the 2015 Columbia paper, IL-12p40 showed very significant differences between controls and both long- and short-term patients (DN p=0.0012 and UP p= 0.0009. respectively) and between the two patient subsets themselves (p<0.0001). The finding was far less significant when short- and long-term...

The History and Acknowledgements page displays a very impressive line-up of experts in various subgroups. https://www.commondataelements.ninds.nih.gov/MECFS.aspx#tab=History_and_Acknowledgements I'm not quite sure how to approach this, though. The combined subgroups' .pdf's come out to 518...

I beginning to think that CBT and GET act as placeboes... for doctors who are depressed at having no effective treatments for CCC/ICC ME/CFS. Of course, the placebo works best when you conflate ME/CFS with chronic fatigue.

The theme of martyrdom doesn't just run through her public comments, it practically gallops.

Ah, yes, that "huge investment" must be why Dr. Lipkin likened the raising of funds for ME/CFS to "begging for quarters," and why he and Dr. Hornig found themselves downing hot chili peppers in order to attract donations.

Call me an optimist, but I'd like to think that whoever wrote this letter had the good sense not to actually publish it just 3 days before Christmas.

I'm sensing something new coming from Bristol... The SELFIE Trial! Self Effectuating Lifting of Fatiguing Illness via photo Exposure

Women may get told that "it's all you head" more readily than men, but, without a biomarker, I suspect most men eventually hear something along those lines, as well. I certainly did. I had respected doctors suggest that I should see a psychiatrist, and I had respected doctors warn me against...

In his latest video, Dr. Davis does mention that they tested the nano-needle on 11 patients and 10 healthy controls and the results have been "absolutely consistent." After salt is added to the samples, all of the patients show an increase in impedance and none of the controls do. [See video at...

If you're hitting a paywall when trying to read the article at the top of the thread, this worked for me: 1) Clear your browser cache/history 2) Google "sonya marshall-gradisnik" 3) When you see the results, click on "NEWS" at the top of the screen. 4) The first result should be a link to this...

[Warning: Nerdom ahead!] I have a feeling that Bristol's complaint to Berkeley went something like General Trelane's complaint to Kirk about Spock's actions in "The Squire of Gothos" episode of Star Trek.

Obviously, it sounds like something you should have checked out by a doctor. I once rushed my father to the ER because he had suffered a transient speech impairment that I thought was a sure sign of stroke. Nothing showed up on X-ray, so it was ruled a transient ischemic attack (TIA). Wondering...