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Dr Karl Morten's talk on ‘Understanding the Underlying Biology Behind ME/CFS’

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Dr Karl Morten spoke at the ME Support New Zealand AGM (November 2023).


[From video summary:]
"This is a video of Dr Karl Morten's talk on ‘Understanding the Underlying Biology Behind ME/CFS’ at our 10th AGM, 2023, on the 11th of November 2023."

"In this video he also talks about: his research into identifying fatigue associated blood factors in ME/CFS, developing a blood cell-based diagnostic test for this illness, the importance of chronic Infections in chronic disease, the potential role of mitochondria and our microbiome."

[Link to the Presentation Slides from the talk:]
https://tinyurl.com/Dr-Morten-Slides
 
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I have not watched it all yet but there is some interesting stuff on why he thinks a "low level" infectious causal factor is quite possibile. Such as elevated CAMP/IL27, evidence of monocyte activation,
"human endogenous retroviral reactivation".

He also discusses some new data which showed a relatively high level of L form bacteria in the blood of ME/CFS and even more in ME/CFS+FM patients.

And how a large proportion of Scottish patients in fact appear to have Borrelia.
 
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