Because of "oxygen debt", the toxic effects of carbonic acid, and other reasons, ME or CFS patients must exercise with extreme caution, or they risk making their health worse. For some, 30 second exercise bouts are an appropriate starting point. There is also an article about
this at the cortjohnson/ Health Rising site. Here is a video presentation about
appropriate exercise in ME/CFS patients.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_cnva7zyKM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
(also, there are lots of tweets from Cort Johnson from the ME/CFS symposium in Stanford earlier this week. You could Google @cortjohnson & you might add the word twitter if you're not on twitter already. and also a few tweets from @about
mecfs (from the Phoenix Rising site). Additionally, one of the founders of HealClick also attended and has begun to share some info.
The September 2013 fibro study: Fibromyalgia: Anti-Inflammatory and Stress Responses after Acute Moderate Exercise. Bote, Garcia, Hinchado and Ortega have done other Fibro (and CFS?) studies.
"FM patients have higher circulating levels of IL-8 [an inflammatory cytokine], cortisol, and noradrenaline (NA), together with an increased release of pro-inflammatory cytokines by monocytes; and that these inflammatory and stress biomarkers improve after habitual aquatic exercise [7]–[9].
"Nevertheless, the effects of habitual and acute exercise may be different in patients with chronic diseases and in healthy controls. It is well known that acute exercise activates the innate and inflammatory response in healthy people in terms of phagocytic function [10], and such inflammatory markers as the release of inflammatory cytokines [11]–[15]. In addition, many aspects of the exercise-induced activation of the inflammatory response are mediated by stress hormones and proteins, ....."
"The objective of the present study was to compare the effect of a single bout of moderate cycling on the inflammatory (serum IL-8; chemotaxis and O2− production by neutrophils; and IL-1β, TNF-α, IL-6, IL-10, and IL-18 [other inflammatory cytokines] production by monocytes) and stress (cortisol, NA, and eHsp72) responses in women diagnosed with FM compared with healthy women.
"The effect of a single bout of moderate cycling was surprising: whereas exercise increased IL-8 [an inflammatory cytokine], cortisol, NA [Noradrenaline] and eHsp72 [extracellular Heat shock protein] in [Healthy Women] HW, it decreased IL-8 (p<0.01), cortisol (p<0.05), NA[Noradrenaline](without the differences being significant), and eHsp72 (p<0.05) in the FM group. It was noteworthy that, after exercise, the systemic biomarkers were statistically similar to those determined in HW in the basal state (except NA)."
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F
10.1371%2F
journal.pone.0074524
Post Edited (Rockon) : 3/21/2014 10:23:45 PM (GMT-6)