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Re:Acute aerobic exercise to recover from mental exhaustion by PragmaticPulp on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @10:25AM (#30361150)
ME/CFS is defined by post-exertional malaise, so by definition it wouldn’t be improved by exertion.

Burnout, however, does tend to respond positively to exercise over time. Burnout and ME/CFS are very different conditions.

> Making this comment because I suffered (and recovered from) ME/CFS myself.

How were you able to recover from ME/CFS? It seems spontaneous recovery does happen to some, though for others it is a chronic condition that will likely require some future medical advances to overcome.

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Re:Acute aerobic exercise to recover from mental exhaustion by cpncrunch on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @07:38PM (#30368008)
>ME/CFS is defined by post-exertional malaise, so by definition it wouldn’t be improved by exertion.

That's not quite true, because it isn't all exertion that causes PEM. Generally it is only doing too much that triggers it.

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