Medical News Bulletin - The ME/CFS Myth

An article from December 15th which I don't think has been shared here yet.

Sympathetic and talks about the myths that ME/CFS is psychogenic and treatable with exercise.

Sadly it seems that the author doesn't understand how little it can take to initiate PEM, she seems to believe the debate is only about vigorous exercise..

The ME/CFS Myth

 

The references are odd also. Eg —

[11] is Updated NICE guidance on chronic fatigue syndrome (2020, BMJ editorial by Turner-Stokes and Wade)

[9] is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (1992, Clinical Infectious Diseases) which I haven't yet reviewed the historical references used to support these paragraphs —

 

And why do people keep using such out of date references? In the very same journal there is an article on the WASF3 protein (just presented at NIH!) that's doing something bad to muscle mitos. And yet this author is using a paper from nearly 30 years ago to say there's nothing wrong in the muscle!?

 

The problem with papers from 30 years ago was that the subjects were not required to have PEM. We can have no idea how many had problems with exertion so the research tells us nothing.