Nutritional strategies for treating chronic fatigue syndrome

Alternative Medicine Review

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 93-108

  Werbach, Melvyn R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CARNITINE; CYANOCOBALAMIN; ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID; FOLIC ACID; MAGNESIUM; MALIC ACID; SODIUM; TRYPTOPHAN; UBIDECARENONE; ZINC;

CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; DEPRESSION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FATIGUE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PAIN; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY;

ANTIOXIDANTS; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FATTY ACIDS, ESSENTIAL; HUMANS; METALS; TRYPTOPHAN; UBIQUINONE; VITAMINS;

EID: 0034050603     PISSN: 10895159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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