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Re:Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified by GordonS on Sunday May 05, 2019 @04:19PM (#19834818)
> viral infections (which are physiologically stressful)

There is evidence relating to viral infections, yes. But is it really necessary to refer to such infections being "physiologically stressful"? I just don't see the relevance of that.

> Here on HN there is myself and tomhoward for starters, and I know lots of other patients who have also recovered

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply recovery wasn't possible, but re-reading my comment I can see how it might have come across that way.

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Re:Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified by cpncrunch on Sunday May 05, 2019 @07:39PM (#19835777)
>But is it really necessary to refer to such infections being "physiologically stressful"? I just don't see the relevance of that.

Viral infections activate the HPA axis...that is what is meant by "physiologically stressful". See:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1224723/

The relevance is that stress seems to be the common factor as a trigger, and the stress system seems to be dysfunctional in CFS.

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