Re: Exercise Can Cure ME

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I just came back from a 45 minute walk, taking my daughter to school and then walking with my wife. We went to Starbucks and saw many people we knew along the way. So lots of social contact.So hopefully I'm doing something right. Thank you to everyone who has been advising me over the last few days. It's helped a lot. I'm sure I'll be posting again, as I'm working from home again today and the day looks pretty long. It's about 9:45am here.What is ME?BruceI put this out on my PSSD site but I think it might be useful to peolpe here. The Amazing Power of Exercise - which is a fantastic form of ACTion.With a graded exercise program 60% of ME sufferers got much better and 29% made a complete recovery. Talking therapy was also very effective for relieving the symptoms of ME. So exercise, yet again, has amazing physical health and psychological benefits. See link below.I hope people did not miss my link on the research showing that vigorous exercise (but keep it pleasant and don't make yourself ill) can rebuild damaged dopamine cells in the brains of monkeys. Scientists had damaged these cells in the brain of the animals by using a drug which selects dopamine cells only. The monkeys then had difficulty moving about so the damage was quite extensive and yet the ones that got the vigorous execise started to recover and move about normally. Brain scans showed that their brains were rebuilding the lost dopamine cells returning the brain to normal function. Dopamine is problably the most important chenical for happiness and good sex drive.This article is a PDF file and the link is massive, so if you are interested, Google Can our brain repair itself through exercise? Dr Zigmond.There's hope for us yet.Execise/ME:http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/video/Exercise-Could-Help-Cure-ME/Video/201102315935904?lpos=Latest+Video_3 & lid=VIDEO_061801_Exercise+Could+Help+Cure+ME & videoCategory=Latest+VideoKV