Copyediting ME/CFS Research and Where to Find the Newest ME/CFS Study

I finally got to copyedit a research study on ME/CFS! Dr. Maureen Hanson and her team published a study on metabolism in patients with ME before and after two days of strenuous exercise in the journal I copyedit for, JCI Insight. Read it here. I’ll summarize what I took away from reading the article multiple times. Direct any questions to the article authors, not to me, because I am not a scientist or clinician.

Glutamate and vitamin B3 metabolism differed between patients and healthy controls, but there was no evidence for overall hypometabolism. In female patients, the data showed a gradual altering of something called the plasma metabolome resulting from exercise stress. There may be less passing of electrons through mitochondrial membranes in patients. Overall, exercise recovery is impaired in patients.

I am grateful for any research published on ME, and to my mind, the only positive result from the pandemic is the heightened interest in ME research because of the similarities between long COVID and ME. I look forward to my next opportunity to copyedit an ME study for JCI Insight.

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Darla Nagel is a biomedical copy editor who has an invisible chronic illness. She wants to educate healthcare professionals and encourage patients. If you want to receive quarterly updates from her, email darla.nagel{a}gmail.com.