{"id":40022,"date":"2018-05-06T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/05\/06\/missing-the-fizz-my-long-battle-to-understand-the-mysteries-of-me\/"},"modified":"2018-05-06T16:00:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T14:00:22","slug":"missing-the-fizz-my-long-battle-to-understand-the-mysteries-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=40022","title":{"rendered":"Missing the fizz: my long battle to understand the mysteries of ME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is chronic fatigue syndrome physiological or psychological? The medical world remains divided \u2013 leaving millions unsure about the efficacy of the treatment they receiveThe point at which I realised just how confounding some illnesses \u2013 and the human beings that suffer them \u2013 are was when, three years into a mysterious illness, someone told me that I could beat it by eating a clove of garlic each morning.This person \u2013 not a medical professional, it is perhaps unnecessary to point out \u2013 swore by its efficacy. By this stage, I had tried all sorts of things to get better \u2013 yoga, meditation, kinesiology, hypnotherapy \u2013 none of which had worked. So I took the garlic suggestion with the pinch of salt it deserved and resumed my search for a cure elsewhere. Correspondingly, I began to sympathise with poor doctors. No wonder they have such a hard time treating people like me. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/may\/06\/missing-the-fizz-my-long-battle-to-understand-the-mysteries-of-me\" target=\"_blank\">Missing the fizz: my long battle to understand the mysteries of ME<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is chronic fatigue syndrome physiological or psychological? The medical world remains divided \u2013 leaving millions unsure about the efficacy of the treatment they receiveThe point at which I realised just how confounding some illnesses \u2013 and the human beings that suffer them \u2013 are was when, three years into a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}