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Conclusion: This study confirms that female ME/CFS patients have a reduction in exercise capacity in response to a second day CPET. These results are similar to published results in female ME/CFS populations. Patients diagnosed with ICF show a different response on day 2, more similar to...

"This means that it is possible to recover from CFS without reaching a physical activity level that is within normal limits." Translation: "This means whatever I want it to mean."

Somatic attribution by patients is not the problem. Non-somatic (i.e. psychosomatic) attribution by the authors is the problem. It is the assumption soaked sand upon which they have built their grand theoretical castle. Remove it and the whole thing collapses.

post-exertional fatigue :facepalm:

The fix is in.

Thank you, @Brian Hughes. :thumbup:

Yep. A ruthless cult by any other name is still a ruthless cult, and this one is right in the heart of modern mainstream medicine, and is now consumed entirely with its own perpetuation and expansion, actual real-world consequences for patients be damned. They are conceding nothing, and are...

'Errors & Anomalies' Good title for a book/play/movie about the whole shitty saga.

Exactly. On this we can all agree with the great Sir Simon and his trusty sidekick, Prof Chalder, when they said (bolding mine): "...in the later stages of treatment patients are encouraged to increase their activity (which must ultimately be the aim of any treatment)" Wessely, David...

Dr Charles Shepherd, medical adviser for the ME Association, said: “It is disappointing but not surprising to find that these doctors and researchers, many of whom have devoted a large part of their professional life to trying to persuade their colleagues that ME/CFS is caused by abnormal...

Gets better. From the original definition by William James (bolding mine): The great snare of the psychologist is the confusion of his own standpoint with that of the mental fact about which he is making his report. I shall hereafter call this the 'psychologist's fallacy' par excellence...

Very grateful that NICE is taking up this fight directly and publicly. I am very tired of patients having to do medicine's dirty work for them, and taking all the shit for it. Time the profession got to cleaning out its own house. I wish we had a video of that proceeding to show the world...

Besides establishing PEM as a real thing, this is the most promising research finding I have seen, found (IIRC) by three independent groups using three different methods. Yet...?

How is this not reckless cruel fraud? There is no way that claim holds against the evidence.

Which raises the possibility that ME and MS related conditions. If the result is valid, of course. I have no idea if it is or not.

Worth repeating. The mainstream 'experts' just view stuff like LP, et al, as another form of placebo.

In addition to her Holistic and Well-Being coaching practice, Lorrie is also a best-selling co-author with Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer, an RYT500 yoga instructor, a charter Healing Codes + Trilogy Energy Medicine coach, and a medical intuitive. At least she is a fully qualified charlatan.

You expected better from Lloyd and van der Meer?

Not a fan of narrative reviews.

We Don't Know What We Are Doing: Chapter 243