By Cort Johnson in Simmaron Research.

This is another hypothesis paper that gives one hope – and makes one wonder if the authors might have a handle on what’s happening with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). The paper proposes that a tantalizingly simple problem – an autoimmune attack on just one receptor – out of hundreds of potential receptors –  could be causing virtually all the symptoms of ME/CFS.

Receptors dotting the surface of a cell don’t seem impressive, but they’re actually the key to the activity of our cells. Lock onto a receptor and you make the cell change. Most drugs don’t target cells – they target the receptors on cells.

Could just one messed up receptor, though, produce the symptoms of ME/CFS? If it’s an important enough receptor found in enough places – yes, it can, and the receptor in question in this paper –  the beta-2 adrenergic receptor or B2AdR is indeed a heavy duty receptor.

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