Sunday, September 20, 2009

U researcher helps explain chronic fatigue

U researcher helps explain chronic fatigue  
http://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/news/u-researcher-helps-explain-chronic-fatigue-1.1879696#5   
 
"Alan Light's new research into what causes fatigue has done anything but exhaust him.  Excited over the findings in his work, he animatedly described the intricacies of all the genes splashed across the cover of the Journal of Pain that published his findings. The more a person exercises, the more a newly understood gene everyone has tells the body's muscles they are too tired to keep working­—some to a debilitating degree, he said.  "It is surprising at the half-hour mark how much the gene increases in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome," said Light, an anesthesiology research professor, pointing to the differences between normal patients and patients with the disorder."
 

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