By Professor Art Ayers:
CFS/ME results in increased levels of the receptors for IL-6 and TNF, but not for the corresponding cytokines, IL-6 and TNF, which trigger fatigue and wasting associated with chronic inflammatory diseases. These findings suggest that people with CFS/ME should be very sensitive to activities or conditions that produce inflammatory cytokines
People with CFS/ME do not seem to benefit from exercise, but rather the combination of exercise-induced IL-6, together with enhanced preexisting IL-6 receptors, produces extreme fatigue.
Many doctors discourage CFS/ME sufferers from exercising, because the exercise-based IL-6 never reaches therapeutic levels required for muscle enhancement.
These recent studies explain what people with CFS/ME have experienced -- exercise is bad for CFS/ME. Hopefully, therapy will follow the new insights. Read more>>
See also: Professor Paul Cheney: why exercise in CFS is counter-productive
1 comment:
simon wessely will do everything in his power to downplat cfs/m.e. i feel very sorry for every gulf war vet in the u.k. where wessely is in charge of these very seriously sick veterans...the man is a disgrace to the british public as a whole and he should be stripped of his papers to practise...he is a very deceitful dangerous person who needs immediate phyciatric help...his attitudes towards patients is criminal behaviour...he should be immediately removed from office...sincerely, aidan walsh southmpton, u.k.
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