The Setpoint Trap: A New Way to Think About ME/CFS (Desmolysium.com)

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Wanted to share a blog post, an interesting read. The author is an anonymous doctor.

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The Setpoint Trap: A New Way to Think About ME/CFS - Desmolysium

If I were a researcher and had to decide what to research, I would probably research myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). The disease is beyond fascinating (and scary) and I personally know quite a few people who have had their lives derailed by it. ME/CFS is probably the...
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Edit: Clearly not a scientific paper - nonetheless expressing interesting thoughts in my opinion.
 
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Contains quite a few ungrounded assumptions ("A very simple formula that helps to predict the development of ME/CFS is disease severity times the time it takes until complete viral clearance"; "Individuals with CFS all have a similar phenotype. They have [...] a host of psychiatric symptoms (e.g., a tendency to be anxious)"; "It seems that type-A personalities are overrepresented among CFS folks"...).

The author should join here and work through those questions!
 
Yes, this is surely not at a scientific level of what we're looking for here at S4ME! Absolutely agree!
Interesting though that other people also are trying to hypothesize the topic.
Shared it more as a curiosity than as a sound scientific hypothesis :)
 
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