ryan31337
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In his defence, by internet standards he did respond fairly well to being corrected. Maybe he will realise he should listen and learn before forming an opinion....
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Created in 2008, Phoenix Rising is the largest and oldest forum dedicated to furthering the understanding of and finding treatments for complex chronic illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), long COVID, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), and allied diseases.
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The reddit cfs page is very nice place with an excellent moderator. It is far less intimidating than here (with all the biochemistry chat that goes on!) and a good intro point for people who'd like to share things about the disease at a simpler level, get some basic tips, etc.I find reddit utterly uninteresting. I don't think I ever read anything of value there.
Biological underpinnings of chronic fatigue syndrome begin to emerge
Amy Maxmen Before his 33-year-old son became bedridden with chronic fatigue syndrome, biochemist Ronald Davis created technologies to analyse genes and proteins faster, better and more cheaply. Now he aims his inventions at a different target: the elusive inner workings of his son’s malady. In his office at the Stanford Genome Technology Center in Palo Alto, California, Davis holds a nanofabricated cube the size of a gaming die. It contains 2,500 electrodes that measure electrical resistance to evaluate the properties of human cells. When Davis exposed immune cells from six people with chronic fatigue syndrome to a stressor — a splash of common salt — the cube revealed that they couldn’t recover as well as cells from healthy people could. Now his team is fabricating 100 more devices to repeat the experiment, and testing a cheaper alternative — a paper-thin nanoparticle circuit that costs less than a penny to make on an inkjet printer. Davis’s findings, although preliminary, are helping to propel research on chronic fatigue syndrome, also called myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), into the scientific mainstream. Physicians used to dismiss the disease as psychosomatic, but studies now suggest that it involves problems in the chemical reactions, or pathways, within cells. “We now have a great deal of evidence to support that this is not only real, but a complex set of disorders,” says Ian Lipkin, an epidemiologist at Columbia University in New York City. “We are gathering clues that will lead to controlled clinical trials.” © 2017 Macmillan Publishers Limited,
Keyword: Depression; Neuroimmunology
Link ID: 23420 - Posted: 03.29.2017
Yes, but for all doubters to see it has the following:-Well, look at those keywords that they've used for it, the first one tells you all you need to know.
Physicians used to dismiss the disease as psychosomatic, but studies now suggest that it involves problems in the chemical reactions, or pathways, within cells.
LPS and gram positive bacteria, too!In relation to the Lipkin research into the gut microbiome. There's a drug called filgotinib in the pipeline for the near future which could also have an impact on M.E. sufferers, it's an anti-inflammatory and is tested amongst others on crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. It could perhaps stop LPS throughout the body?
http://www.gilead.com/research/pipeline
Under inflammation/respiratory there.
I contacted de Meirlier and there are no plans for a trial of that drug. So who is going to trial it....I think this is another pipe dream drug for us!In relation to the Lipkin research into the gut microbiome. There's a drug called filgotinib in the pipeline for the near future which could also have an impact on M.E. sufferers, it's an anti-inflammatory and is tested amongst others on crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. It could perhaps stop LPS throughout the body?
http://www.gilead.com/research/pipeline
Under inflammation/respiratory there.