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IOM Recommends Replacing CFS with SEID
The Institute of Medicine has proposed replacing the terms chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis with systemic exertion intolerance disease (SEID).
Miscellaneous: Colonics, CFS, Magents, Morgellons, Weight loss, Other
Topic Editor: Sections: Topic Overview Index of SBM Posts Outside Resources Summary of Key Research Topic Overview Index of SBM Posts Colonics Colon “cleanses”: A load of you know what… Would you like a liver flush with that colon cleanse? Energy Therapies Touched by a Touched Healing Toucher Impossibilities Magnet Therapy Can Magnets Heal? Morgellon’s disease Itching and the Imaginary Passenger Brake...
CFS: Viral vs somatization
If the association is confirmed, the finding will have near-revolutionary implications for our understanding disease – particularly infectious disease. If there is a confirmed model for such a vague set of symptoms signifying some occult infection limited to immune cells, which produces no repeatable cellular or antibody abnormality, no susceptibility to other infections (such as with HIV) and in which the sites...
Serologies
“You keep using those words: positive serology. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Yes. I Remember it Well. A COVID 45 Retrospective
With faltering memory, questionable opinions, and sketchy references, an infectious disease revenant reflects on the last 2.5 years of COVID 45. Grizzly bear assault free. As in no assault, not the price of a Grizzly bear assault.
The search for long COVID treatments
What are current treatments for long COVID, and are they effective?
NAD Therapy
NAD therapy is touted as a cure-all for addiction and several chronic diseases. Evidence supporting these claims is lacking.
Irreversible Damage to the Trans Community: A Critical Review of Abigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage (Part One)
Irreversible Damage, a controversial 2020 book by Abigail Shrier, has enjoyed renewed attention in the last several weeks. Shrier appeals to her audience’s emotions by voicing their deepest fears to create uproar against an already marginalized community. The claims presented do not meet scientific rigor, yet have been praised and upheld by many, effectively pushing back against equal rights for gender minorities,...
Catgut Acupuncture
Catgut acupuncture is but one example of how acupuncture's basis in pseudoscience provides an infinitely malleable template for fabricated mechanisms of action and feigned health benefits.
FDA warns companies selling illegal hangover remedies
The FDA recently warned seven companies not to claim that their dietary supplements can prevent, treat, or cure a hangover, because only FDA-approved drugs can make such claims. The agency also warned that NAC, a popular supplement ingredient, cannot legally be used in dietary supplements.