Yoga And CBT Help Smoking Cessation Efforts!

"Use of yoga, along with cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), may help improve smoking cessation efforts, new research suggests." Read more...

Yoga May Aid Smoking Cessation Efforts . Medscape. Deborah Brauser. October 22, 2018

The CDC Finally Reverses Its Recommendations for Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome!

After years of trying to convince the CDC, the CDC has now dropped its recommendations of exercise and cognitive behavioral therapy for patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. As anyone with the conditions know, these two things do not help and often makes them worse. Even a little exercise can have long-term impacts on the patient's ability to recover from the condition. However, I believe that cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) may be of some benefit to the depression that usually goes along with suffering from CFS. But it does not treat CFS and may not be worth it in some patients. The recommendation of CBT stems from the thought that CFS was mainly a psychological condition. Whereas, we now know that patients that have CFS have immunological, neurological and other physiological effects. Read more...

Why Did It Take So Long For the CDC to Reverse Course on Debunked Treatments for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? Julie Reymeyer and David Tuller. September 25, 2017.






Association between cytokines and psychiatric symptoms in chronic fatigue syndrome and healthy controls. Nordic journal of psychiatry (31 July 2018), pp. 1-5 by Nina Groven, Egil A. Fors, Valentina C. Iversen, Linda R. White, Solveig Klæbo K. Reitan https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08039488.2018.1493747