Study Identifies Bacterial Blueprint For Patients With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Well” blog, a study published in Microbiome “has identified a bacterial blueprint for chronic fatigue syndrome [CFS], offering further evidence that it is a physical disease with biological causes and not a psychological condition.” In the study, which involved 39 healthy people without CFS and 48 people with CFS, researchers found not only that “stool samples of those with C.F.S. had significantly lower diversity of species compared with the healthy people,” but also that “people with C.F.S. had higher blood levels of lipopolysaccharides, inflammatory molecules that may indicate that bacteria have moved from the gut into the bloodstream, where they can produce various symptoms of disease.” http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/07/07/gut-bacteria-are-different-in-people-with-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/?_r=0