Carrasco-Querol, Noèlia, Cabricano-Canga, Lorena, Bueno Hernández, Nerea et al. · Nutrients · 2024 · DOI
This review examines how diet and body rhythms (sleep-wake cycles) affect fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. The authors found that what you eat, nutrient levels, gut bacteria, and your natural circadian rhythm all play important roles in these conditions. They conclude that treating FM/CFS effectively requires paying attention to nutrition and sleep timing alongside other therapies.
ME/CFS patients often struggle with standard medications and need comprehensive approaches. This review provides evidence that nutrition and sleep-wake timing deserve serious attention in treatment plans, offering patients and clinicians actionable non-drug strategies that are frequently neglected.
This review does not prove that nutrition or chronobiology changes alone can cure FM/CFS, nor does it establish causation in either direction—nutrient deficiencies and circadian disruption may result from illness rather than cause it. The narrative review design means findings are not systematically ranked by evidence quality, and specific dietary interventions or chronobiological timing protocols are not tested here.
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Carrasco-Querol, Noèlia, Cabricano-Canga, Lorena, Bueno Hernández, Nerea, Gonçalves, Alessandra Queiroga, Caballol Angelats, Rosa, Pozo Ariza, Macarena, et al. (2024). Nutrition and Chronobiology as Key Components of Multidisciplinary Therapeutic Interventions for Fibromyalgia and Associated Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Narrative and Critical Review.. Nutrients. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16020182
BibTeX
@article{mecfsatlas-carrasco-querol-2024-nutrition-chronobiology,
author = {Carrasco-Querol, Noèlia and Cabricano-Canga, Lorena and Bueno Hernández, Nerea and Gonçalves, Alessandra Queiroga and Caballol Angelats, Rosa and Pozo Ariza, Macarena and Martín-Borràs, Carme and Montesó-Curto, Pilar and Castro Blanco, Elisabet and Dalmau Llorca, Maria Rosa and Aguilar Martín, Carina},
title = {Nutrition and Chronobiology as Key Components of Multidisciplinary Therapeutic Interventions for Fibromyalgia and Associated Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Narrative and Critical Review.},
journal = {Nutrients},
year = {2024},
doi = {10.3390/nu16020182},
note = {PubMed: 38257075},
url = {https://www.mecfsatlas.com/evidence/carrasco-querol-2024-nutrition-chronobiology},
}Atlas snapshot reference
ME/CFS Atlas. Generator v1 / Scanner v1.4 / policy v0.1. Accessed 2026-05-28. https://www.mecfsatlas.com/evidence/carrasco-querol-2024-nutrition-chronobiology
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