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posted by janrinok on Tuesday May 07 2019, @03:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the telling-the-truth dept.

Chronic fatigue syndrome affects some, is ignored in those who have anything-at-all wrong, might be accepted with a shrug and a pat on the back for the otherwise healthy, and is otherwise unknown. Until now, no one has had anything to go on — but now, there's a way to show that seemingly healthy people are, in fact, affected by something. Well, it's a start.

Using a test to judge the stress of the immune system, researchers at Stanford have now identified those symptomatically diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome as having a condition that is not identified in a control group. While this is very little to go on, it is more than nothing to go on, and so could start a search for a treatment for an otherwise clueless grab at nothing. The simple fact that there is now a distinction is itself news, but also that the research uses a lab-on-a-chip to assess change in current of a sample of immune cells, giving them an indicator of the health (or stress) of the sample is an example of a technology that hasn't been considered until the last few years — and a hint at advances offered by even simple, routine advances of technology.

As a shameless plug, I consulted a trusted holistic health friend (note: whole-health/holistic, not homeopathic/pretend) about CFS, and she mentioned that she feels it's a general toxicity problem. The immune system does play a role in clearing various toxins from the body, so perhaps another clue for researchers to pursue. (Tip: up until 1990, lead-based solder was used in household plumbing. How much that matters, perhaps not a whole lot.)


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 07 2019, @03:42PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 07 2019, @03:42PM (#840215)

    I swear we just had an article about this and I posted that it has the same symptoms as a neverending hangover (which also are not "understood" by medical researchers). So I can totally believe the same thing is happening but the body gets stuck in that state while whatever is going on with a hangover eventually resolves.

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  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday May 07 2019, @03:48PM (1 child)

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 07 2019, @03:48PM (#840220) Journal

    Possibly - but I couldn't see it in the queues for the last few days. We read so many stories I cannot remember which ones were published and which were not. If it is a dupe, then I apologise.