8 Chronic Immune Activation
<p>From: <a href="https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2014/09/15/unrewarding-reward-basal-ganglia-inflammation-fatigue-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/">Unrewarding Reward: The Basal Ganglia, Inflammation and Fatigue In Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Health Rising</a></p>
<p>The big difference between the ME/CFS patients and the hepatitis C patients and healthy controls being given endotoxins, of course, is that the ME/CFS patients in this study aren’t being given anything to activate their immune systems. Their immune systems are <strong>already</strong> activated. If Miller gets the same results in the ME/CFS patients as in the interferon alpha (IFN-a) hepatitis C patients, he can suggest that the same process – immune activation – perhaps driven by a pathogen, is causing the fatigue, motor slowness, and depression.</p>
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