Personally, and this is the next phase of our research, I believe that oxidative stress and neuroinflammation, and possibly a secondary mitochondrial dysfunction, may all be co-conspirators in the etiology of most of these unexplained and highly overlapping and related multisystem/multisymptom diseases like ME/CFS, FM, Gulf War, IBS, etc
This theory speculates that mammalian, but not reptilian, brainstem organization is characterized by a ventral vagal complex related to processes associated with attention, motion, emotion, and communication
LC is taken up by the tissues via the electrogenic force of the voltage-gated Na + -channels
In the L-carnitine group, the mean hematocrit was 25.5% and increased to 37.4% after 12 months