It has long been one of the most complicated and complex medical conditions and routinely dismissed by friends, family and even medical professionals because  – maybe it’s in your head? 

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome has never had a one-stop reliable diagnostic test, the cause can be unknown and the symptoms are broad.

The only sure thing is how debilitating it is to have ME/CFS.

But my next guests have dedicated years of their professional careers to ME/CFS .. one in the lab, the other in the doctor’s surgery.

The Director of Griffith University’s National Centre for Neuroimmunology and Emerging Diseases (NCNED) and senior author of a new Australian study that could be a turning point for understanding and treatment of ME/CFS .. Professor Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik and Dr Peter Smith – a clinician who treats ME/CFS patients and allergy specialist with a PhD in molecular biology joined Bern Young on Nightlife.