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    OAT, PLEASE INTERPET

    I completely agree, Jimbo. I've been helped immensely with diet and customizing my own therapies by supporting my genetics. Doctors didn't have the time, so it took a lot of creative thinking. Have you heard of SelfDecode? It's an extremely thorough genetics analyzer. You just take your...
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    My life got taken away from me - what it's really like to suffer from CFS - Telegraph, Sept 2016

    Gold.
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    Reduced diversity and altered composition of the gut microbiome in individuals with ME/CFS

    Thanks ;) digging them up now!
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    Reduced diversity and altered composition of the gut microbiome in individuals with ME/CFS

    Have any of you had noticeable success with taking butyrate to help correct autoimmunity, fix "leaky gut," and prevent bad bacteria in the gut? Have you tried Hi-Maize (resistant starch) for this as well? Or did this increase your brain fog due to increased carbs.. It seems people have...
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    Naviaux et. al.: Metabolic features of chronic fatigue syndrome

    These mutations show that the latent ability to enter into a hypometabolic state during times of environmental threat is adaptive, even though it comes at the cost of decreasing the optimal functional capacity. Similar to dauer, CFS appears to represent a hypometabolic survival state that is...