It has long been one of the most complicated and complex medical conditions and routinely dismissed by friends, family and even medical professionals because \u00a0– maybe it’s in your head?\u00a0<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The only sure thing is how debilitating it is to have ME\/CFS.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has long been one of the most complicated and complex medical conditions and routinely dismissed by friends,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,43185,137,227823,146778,3755],"class_list":["post-436598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cfs","tag-health","tag-medicalresearch","tag-nightlife","tag-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}