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I have also seen some interesting hypotheses that chronic refractory obesity may be a neurological condition. Not much data yet, but interesting ideas. I have heard the opposite, although I’m no expert in this area: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30293134 For the record, however, I...

The theory is based on a persistent enteroviral infection of the central nervous system. If you’re interested in some of the issues surrounding the question of enteroviral persistence, I am attaching the slides of a small talk I gave at Berkeley a couple of years ago. Although the talk was...

Dr. Chia has predicted that the Rega drugs will enter human trials in 1-2 years. Even if he is correct, the drug would face a long road and long odds to approval. Don’t get your hopes up just yet...

Good point. Some battles are just not worth it. (Trust me, I know)

Promote a new line of health supplements? With rocks in it? Oh, come on Sisyphus, if anyone has the talent to push rocks it would surely be you!

For an insight into the CDC’s thinking, consider this 2014 article from the Lancet: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422(14)70132-2/fulltext “Maybe we should know more about it” Does Mark Pallansch know that poliovirus does not show up in the CSF, except in the...

Well, someone’s named something poorly here. :banghead:

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/AFM-acute-flaccid-myelitis-CDC-Keith-Van-Haren-13352518.php From a local news outlet, but it provides a good quote from Stanford’s Dr. Keith Van Haren:

Trigger warning...

I have heard similarly. The authors I read, however, emphasized that it was still not entirely clear what the precise mechanism of ‘muscle burning’ is. There may be slightly different mechanisms behind immediate-onset muscle soreness and delayed-onset muscle soreness, in the context of healthy...

I have two friends with ME who also suffer from periodic paralysis. One of them suffers from neck-down paralysis, along with decreased ability to use facial muscles. She communicates using eye movements during these episodes. The other has episodes of both waist-down paralysis and neck-down...

Remember that we first saw two age peaks in work by Dr. David Bell, who remarked that his teenage patients would recover from ME in their early twenties, only to relapse in their mid thirties. So, we may see two peaks not just in age at onset in separate individuals, but also in age at...