Irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome and anorexia nervosa may all have a common origin according to researchers.
They speculate that all three disorders may be caused by antibodies to the body’s own nerve cells because of a mistake by the immune system following infection. At the moment, the ultimate cause of these illnesses remains a mystery. Writing in Medical Hypotheses, Dr Jim Morris from the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust, Dr Sue Broughton and Dr Quenton Wessels from Lancaster University say current explanations are unsatisfactory.
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