Yeah the guy from the Bateman Horne Center (brayden yellman) and the slides you linked to talk about how the CPET test can help people qualify for disability payments. The test is not good for your health though.
Some of the stuff coming from the Bateman Horne center troubles me. They take a very conventional mainstream approach to treating ME/CFS, so they have blind spots. They simply don’t know about the dangers and downsides of certain drugs that are popular in mainstream medicine:
- Gabapentin
- Most psych drugs including SSRIs. DO NOT suddenly discontinue these drugs- it can lead to suicide risk. Starting these drugs can put you at risk of PSSD, which is poorly understood at the moment. For a longer discussion, see the SSRI thread. Most doctors don’t understand how dangerous these drugs are and how their risks are now being recognized on the drug labels.
Lucinda Bateman has done some good work trying to get away from the misleading label Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and was trying to replace it with SEID - systemic exertional intolerance disease.