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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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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.