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Re:A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by JoeyJoJoJunior on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @07:05PM (#20872243)
That statement is certainly debatable.
Re:A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by solresol on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @08:43PM (#20872896)
It is, but keep in mind that there are biological markers that are correlated with having chronic fatigue syndrome at p < 0.001 kind of levels.

e.g. if you happen to have blood work from a patient pre-CFS and post-CFS it's very, very common to see a raised T-cell count and an immune response against the Epstein-Barr virus (or some other retrovirus) in the post-CFS that isn't there pre-CFS.

Of course, it's not a great diagnostic tool because you need the patient to have had some blood work just before they got sick. But it does make the "it's all just psychosomatic for everyone" argument a bit unlikely.

Re:A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by cpncrunch on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @12:18AM (#20873967)
None of those biomarkers has been replicated, and stress causes ENV reactivation.
Re:A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by johnchristopher on Thursday September 05, 2019 @05:03AM (#20885061)
Does EBV reactivation implies fatigue and full mononucleosis symptoms or it just means T-cells count increases ?