RyanCarey comments on A Medical Mystery: Thyroid Hormones, Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia - Less Wrong
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I've only skimmed this but let me give a bunch of info that seems relevant. (As I understand it, the question is whether low thyroid levels could cause chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia). For background, I am a junior doctor with no specific experience in endocrinology and support healthy scepticism towards the medical establishment:
I also must admit that the since the post seems to me to be not just wrong but also very slow-moving, I haven't read all of it. I would suggest rewriting this in a few paragraphs with citations to get feedback on a more brief version.
A likelier solution would be that pain-sensitivity and vulnerability to demotivation and fatigue are just (mostly additive) polygenic traits. Look to partially confirm this in 0-5 years when the first GWAS come out and demonstrate that thousands of genes make these diseases more likely, similarly to IQ and height.