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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5058807/People-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-exhausted.html
People with chronic fatigue syndrome ARE exhausted, claim researchers: Sufferers have 'less energy in their cells'
By Stephen Matthews For Mailonline
- The Newcastle University study has shed light on the truth behind the condition
- CFS has prompted uproar among the medical community in recent decades
- Skeptics dismiss the extreme tiredness and mental lethargy as psychological
- However, angry patients and campaigners are adamant it's triggered by a virus
- The new findings back up claims that it is a biological problem and not made up
- The scientists discovered that blood cells in CFS sufferers are drained of energy
PUBLISHED: 17:33, 7 November 2017 | UPDATED: 18:03, 7 November 201
Blood cells in chronic fatigue syndrome patients are drained of energy, researchers have discovered.
The study has shed new light on the truth behind the condition, which has prompted uproar among the medical community in recent years.
Skeptics dismiss the extreme tiredness and mental lethargy as merely psychological, but angry patients are adamant it's triggered by a virus.
The new findings, made by Newcastle University researchers, back up claims that it is a biological problem and not made up in the head.
Scientists hope the findings will allow for the root cause of CFS to be found, and for doctors to move away from treatments that involve psychologists.
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