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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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How insufficient sleep can damage your immune stem cells

https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/poor-insufficient-sleep-damage-immune-stem-cells/

ME typically gets worse with immune activation, and immune activation typically worsens sleep quality. Not a good feedback loop.

I doubt that this is a major factor in ME, but it may be making some PWME worse than they would be otherwise.