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by inieves 3239 days ago
CFS is most likely "Candidasis". An overgrowth of candida bacteria/yeast in the gut.

This is very well known, and easily and cost effectively treatable.

Consistent overconsumption of processed sugars leads to candida overgrowth. The body addresses this naturally through inflamation. Prolonged inflamation yields depression symptoms, and a host of other things.

Google: candida

You can recover from this mostly in one night for $5 and fully in about 2 weeks for $30.

Ultimately these Stanford guys will try to design and patent an anti-inflammitory and it will cost you alot and not solve the problem. Address the source of inflammation.

Im surprised no one in this thread knows this and debate has wandered into little to no value.

If you are suffering from this, please please research candidasis or candida cleanse.

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The trouble with this kind of comment is that I can find scores of people who say that CFS (and fibromyalgia) is most likely a misdiagnosed hypothyroidism, treatable with standard T3/T4. Lots of people say "it's obviously <this thing> treatable in <this cheap way>" for some value of <this thing>, and that makes them all less credible.
This study suggests that candida is probably not the culprit:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18339054

FWIW, this did not work for me.