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    How Do You Handle Autumn?

    Many ME patients feel better in the summer and relapse in winter. I have always presumed that higher levels of vitamin D in the summer from the sun was the explanation. But ME patients with high plasma levels of vitamin D and relapse in the winter made me wonder that something did not add up...
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    How Do You Handle the Summer?

    I also feel a lot better in the summer, when I get a tan. But since vitamin D didn't help me, I wondered if it could be something else. I think it could be immune system regulation through Photoimmunology: http://followmeindenmark.blogspot.dk/2012/11/photoimmunology.html
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    Vertigo: Unwelcome Gift on My 25th Wedding Anniversary

    Thank you for your article. It made me connect some knowledge. The ion channel TRPA1 is expressed in sensory neurons of the dorsal root, trigeminal and nodose ganglia, and in hair cells of the inner ear. I have a hypothesis that regulation of TRPA1 is involved in some of the complex...