A 2-day exercise test found people with chronic fatigue syndrome get weaker after exercise while healthy people get stronger. People with ME/CFS had higher lactate levels and reduced energy production on the second exercise test while healthy controls had lower lactate levels and maintained their performance.
How close are we to understanding chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) when we can accurately predict how the greatest stressor of all – exercise – affects ME/CFS patients’ physiology? Nothing, after all, whacks a person with ME/CFS like exercise....
Similar metabolic and endocrinological findings in chronic fatigue syndrome and overtraining syndrome suggest the two diseases - both defined by an inability to exercise - may be similar
A Critical Look at the NIH’s Accelerating Research Conference This chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) conference was different. Besides the normal goal of bringing researchers together to share their latest results, it had an ulterior motive – getting NIH...
( In this article Amber, a former biologist, explains the ins and out of one the most difficult to understand but important tests done in ME/CFS – maximal cardiopulmonary exercise CPET) testing. In doing so she’s produced a document that both patients...
Your family, friends and even your doctor may, probably will at some point, prod you to get moving. They think that if you can just get on your feet again and start exercising, you’ll be so much better. It’s irritating to hear and just reinforces how...
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