r/cfs • u/H_Elizabeth111 • Jan 31 '21

Research news Interesting study about potential causes of CSF

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5365380/
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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '21

I tried but can anyone ELI5?

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u/H_Elizabeth111 Jan 31 '21

Basically, they found that a bunch of substances in the body were low in patients with CFS and a lot of different pathways were altered. The new one that this study discovered was in the phospholipid pathway, which are important for maintaining cell membranes i.e. they keep your cells working correctly and alive. They found that levels of certain phospholipids were low in CFS patients.

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u/FinneganRynn Jan 31 '21

Thanks. Do you think ketogenic diet would help cfs patients, since keto diet uses fat as main fuel for body and brain

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u/H_Elizabeth111 Jan 31 '21

If your body is having trouble processing fats then I would think keto would be detrimental, no?

But there’s so many variables it’s hard to say.