Treatments that have worked??
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- several years
- Published
- Jun 2018
Summary
One to two weeks into a strict Fuhrman-style whole-food plant-based diet plus L-tyrosine, B12 and chlorella, reports sleeping well and exercising daily with "NO PEM, none whatsoever," resuming running and gaining muscle after years of losing it despite working out. Explicitly flags it as early -- "early on but so far this is the best I've felt in years" -- contingent on strict adherence.
What they credit
Credits Diet, Supplements, B12 injections and methylation, Carnitine, BCAA, amino acids, Elimination and ketogenic diets.
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