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BUt if you have a doctor that really wants you to exercise, find another doctor. [I'm editing to point that of course I am not qualified to give medical advice. But let's just say I've lived with this for a very long time, and I've done a great deal of research. And so this is just my opinion...]
There's a cover-up of CFS in this country and in the world. There's legitimate research that they try to shut down. Part of this effort has centered on making us all look bad and look like we're "too stressed out" or psychologically susceptible or some other nonsense. There's a physical cause, and somehow the government is responsible, and they don't want it figured out.
There is a school of thought that it's partly caused by left over radiation from all the atomic testing. I think they might be right. there's a veritable epidemic of CFS in the South Pacific.
Exercise is bad for people with CFS because your mitochondria, where energy is produced, do not work correctly. When you use up the energy you have stored in ATP, which you do not have enough of, your body starts breaking down the ADP. Then, you have to spend days recuperating while you make the ADP that your body broke down as emergency energy supplies.
If you do have to exercise, do not do anything aerobic. Do very mild strength training.
This is just my opinion, mind you. But it is based on a lot of experience with this disease.
And find a doctor that knows about it.
Years ago, I went to Dr. Benjamin Natelson in Newark. He diagnosed me. But, at that time, he believed it was caused by stress. I found another doctor. But Dr. Natelson has done lots of research, and he has now changed his mind. Too bad for me, he's in New York now. He's a neurologist, and he says it is clearly a neurological illness.
HE's recently done studies that pretty much rule out depression as a cause, as well. Thank you. Dr. Natelson. We're not depressed. We might feel depressed because we're so sick, but we're not sick because we're depressed, because we actually are not clinically depressed. So there.
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