Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myalgic Encephalitis: It's Mitochondria, Not Hypochondria - by Sarah Myhill

I couldn't think which section to put it in. Can you suggest a better one?

 

If you think so, fine.

 

I don' t know. Storm in the head sounds awful. There is dome thought that T2 levels modulate fat burning. It could be this for my aunt- she has gone from hyperthyroid and partial thyroidectomy in her 30s to hypothyroid now .

 

https://sci-hub.tw/http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-277X.2008.00933.x/full

Here is a paper that looked at the issue. Unfortunately I don't think it gives normative data on diet but does say:

 

I thought there had been epidemiological studies that discredited the "personality type" connection?

 

They also don't give scores, for the most part, or correct for making multiple comparisons outside of the symptom comparisons within the patient group. They also only had BMI data for one-third of patients, which seems dodgy as hell since it's an extremely easy thing to measure and calculate. Since patients were recruited from the Radboud clinic without extra data collected (to avoid the need for ethical approval), they were probably much more likely to have BMI data on obviously overweight patients, especially since they purport to use Fukuda which has a BMI restriction.

But the Dutch concept of a healthy diet involves eating a ton of bread for fiber, which is problematic if patients have a gluten intolerance, and tends to ignore other (better) sources of fiber. The questionnaire used doesn't seem to exist anymore, so the cut off values used in this paper can't be verified. And without seeing the calculation methods for what constitutes too much fat, it's impossible to know if there was a reasonable cut-off or it if the questionnaire was the victim of low-fat dieting fads.

 

Fructose is the one sugar that's not used by cells for energy : it' s dumped in the liver and can contribute to non alcoholic fatty liver disease - explanation below
https://www.dietdoctor.com/fructose-fatty-liver-sugar-toxin

 

Interesting
I' d looked at fructose due to the role it plays in both NAFLD and insulin resistance with more of a molecular overview. The deciding factor is probably the amount ( i eat a lot of fruit and always have ) ie what is " chronic" fructose consumption .

This was a reference i' d looked at and bookmarked previously
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5372893/

Sorry on my phone and can' t cut and paste the actual body of text.
Both are interesting.

 

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• Multi-vitamin - one daily;
• Multi-mineral Mix - 2-3 grams daily;
• Hemp oil - one tablespoonful daily;
• Vitamin C - 2 grams at night.

and will only set you back a tiny £90. To be fair, some of these will last more than a month. What's more, they are available at Dr. Myhill's own shop! Oh, and don't forget to get all your amalgam fillings removed and have a good old detox while you're at it. If you haven't found the "key" to your recovery yet, just keep spending, people; it's bound to be hiding somewhere under a pile of junk.

Aha!! I knew the "key" was in an alternative bottle somewhere

 

Where can one obtain the supplements with added moral fibre to make up for our obvious lack?