Blog: ME/CFS Skeptic: 2022: "Looking back at a year of ME/CFS research"

"As 2022 is closing, it is time for our annual tradition where we look back at the most interesting scientific studies on myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) of the past year.

The yield for 2022 is far from impressive but there were a couple of interesting ME/CFS studies that are worth discussing. A recurrent theme seems to be problems with the transport (or utilization) of oxygen into tissues. It will be interesting to see if this hypothesis will receive further support in 2023."

https://mecfsskeptic.com/2022-looking-back-at-a-year-of-me-cfs-research/

 

That was an impressive writeup! Very well written and easy to understand. Thank you!

 

Thanks. To be honest I'm not the best at dissecting biomedical studies. Much of the biology and techniques goes over my head. But I thought an overview of the most significant studies of 2022 would be useful for others, even if we could only briefly summarise the findings without explaining them much further.

 

Great that you're doing this, am gonna read through the entire thing tonight or tomorrow when I have a bit more time.

 

Thanks, @ME/CFS Skeptic. I’ve struggled to keep up with things this year, and have forgotten quite a bit of what I’ve read, so this was really helpful, and very well written, as always. It is also a sober and welcome counter to some of the absurdly over optimistic and/or overhyped claims that seem to be made with increasing frequency on social media and beyond.


Thanks again, and happy new year to you, and to everyone on here. Let’s hope 2023 is a better one for ME/CFS research and for the world in general.

 

Thank you @ME/CFS Skeptic . I really appreciate your work.

 

Thank you for this!

Under the section about blood clots, one could substitute the term "ME" for "Long COVID", in the Guardian article about desperate patients trying unfounded "treatments". Very familiar stuff.