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I think the situation is more akin to stomach ulcers, which everyone _knew_ were caused by stress, until of course a physiological cause was found.
by lukestevens 12y ago
I think the situation is more akin to stomach ulcers, which everyone _knew_ were caused by stress, until of course a physiological cause was found.
- cpncrunch 12y agoYour line of thinking is interesting. If you actually look at the research, you'll see that stress is still a factor in gastric ulcers (see for example http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25111233 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25111233 and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16581366 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16581366). Just because H.Pylori can cause ulcers doesn't mean there can't be other causes. Given that psychological stress increases stomach acid, it's plausible that stress can cause ulcers. A lot of CFS patients bring up the subject of stomach ulcers. It's almost as if they want to prove that psychosomatic illness doesn't exist.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> I think the situation is more akin to stomach ulcers, which everyone _knew_ were caused by stress, until of course a physiological cause was found. Everyone knew that there were multiple contributing risk factors, including physiological, behavioral, and stress-related, for gastric ulcers before H. Pylori's contribution was discovered. And all those other factors are still relevant after H. Pylori, too, its just one added factor that wasn't known previously.