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Hi, this is Your Health Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series.

We bring you the latest vital health news, discoveries that affect your body and your mind.

And we break down the medical research to help you stay healthy.

I'm Tanya Lewis. I'm Josh Fishman.

We're Scientific American senior health editors.

Today we are delving into the disease originally known as chronic fatigue syndrome.

Now it's called ME CFS. Recently a big study looked at people who got the

illness after an infection and it turned up a few clues about

what might be causing their debilitating and often lifelong symptoms.

The disease once called chronic fatigue syndrome has historically been dismissed by doctors and other health care professionals as a psychosomatic illness without any real physiological causes. But in recent years

researchers have begun to take the disease whose official name is now myalgic

encephalomyelitis slash chronic fatigue syndrome or MECS for short. More seriously.

That really is a mouthful and I'm not even going to try it but tiny what does it mean?

Well it comes from myalgia which means muscle pain and encephalomyelitis which is

inflammation of the brain and spinal cord due to an infection and while it's

sometimes referred to as just chronic fatigue syndrome people with me cuffs

...