MDVIP : New Study Suggests Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Is Not in Your Head; It's in Your Gut

Sly Saint · Jul 18, 2023

Chronic fatigue syndrome (also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome or ME/CFS), is a complex disorder that affects about 2.5 Americans. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that ME/CFS can strike anyone, but it most often occurs among middle-aged Caucasian women.

Chronic fatigue is often mistaken for ME/CFS; yet the two conditions are considerably different. While chronic fatigue can be long-term like ME/CFS, extreme tiredness is usually the main symptom and generally stems from stress, nutritional deficiencies, insomnia, overexertion, depression or another condition. And while the typical ME/CFS patient also experience exhaustion, the Mayo Clinic reports that it’s also typical to have symptoms that can take a lasting toll on your health, such as:

Disrupted, poor quality sleep

Extreme fatigue and general malaise after mental or physical exertion that lasts 24 hours or longer

Difficulty concentrating and remembering information

Muscle aches, joint pain, headaches

Enlarged lymph nodes in neck or underarms

Sore throat

ME/CFS also can co-occur with conditions other conditions including:

Fibromyalgia

Chronic pelvic pain and/or Interstitial cystitis

Irritable bowel syndrome

Temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJ)

Multiple chemical sensitivity

ME/CFS lacks a specific diagnostic test, and its symptoms mimic those of other conditions, making it difficult for doctors to diagnose. If a doctor suspects ME/CFS, they often conduct a wide range of screenings to rule out other illnesses before settling on an ME/CFS diagnosis.

For years, stress was considered the primary culprit in CFS/ME. But over time, experts realized a growing list of issues like early menopause, brain abnormalities, inherited viruses also were possible triggers. But additional National Institutes of Health-funded studies also suggest that disruptions in gut microbes may be a signature for ME/CFS, according to two studies published in Cell Host & Microbe.
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Trish · Jul 18, 2023

Starts of OK in describing ME/CFS by distinguishing it from chronic fatigue, but then gets lots wrong too, not mentioning PEM by name and underplaying it as increased exhaustion. And then this:

Studies have suggested that light exercise like stretching, walking and swimming can help alleviate some symptoms and raise energy levels.
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Trish · Jul 18, 2023

Thread on a study mentioned in the article

Deficient butyrate-producing capacity in the gut microbiome is associated with bacterial network disturbances and fatigue..., 2023, Guo,Lipkin et al
(not sure if this is the right one. They don't give names or references)

Reduced diversity and altered composition of the gut microbiome in individuals with ME/CFS, 2023, Giloteaux, Hanson et al
Correction: I got the date wrong on that one. It's from 2016

Sly Saint · Oct 11, 2023

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