Even short exercise periods are enough to throw the autonomic nervous systems of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome out of whack - making it difficult for people with these diseases to recover.
Something in the plasma of chronic fatigue syndrome patients appears to be interfering with the ability of the blood vessels to open - thus impairing oxygen and nutrient flows to the muscles and other tissues.
As Carmen Scheibenbogen’s group was tracking down autoantibodies that affect the blood vessel functioning in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a small German group called Berlin Cures was using a different assay to assess the same autoantibodies in heart...
Several facets of chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) suggest it may have an autoimmune component including it's infectious onset, autoimmunity in families, research findings, and the results of small clinical trials.
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