frozenborderline
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I understand what you're saying and I don't think he's necessarily correct. But if you look at his reasoning, it's far more sound than homeopathy. CFS does tend to exist in clusters with other correlated diagnoses. And it is true that around the 70s , people stopped diagnosing thyroid issues based on basal metabolic rate and started diagnosing them based on blood tests only. And that was about when the first CFS cases started.The problem I have with his article (that attempts to be scientific) is when I read sentences like this. Essentially he tries to lump CFS, IBS and depression (and probably everything else that doesn't have well established diagnostic markers) into one disease, which he claims is hypothyroidism. This is nothing much different from what the BPS crowd is doing at the moment, where they try to label all these diseases as MUS (medically unexplained symptoms). Or what homeopathy or many other bogus alternative treatments are claiming, that they essentially can treat any disease and every disease is due to "problem X". Just because a disease is not easy to objectively diagnose, it shouldn't be subject to quackery like lumping everything into one category.
It's also true that there's a lot of overlap in symptoms. Overall I think it's too simplified, but there are links between purinergic signalling and the thyroid