Why Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, fibromylagia, cancer & more.

This blog is about the on-going challenge I'm having to finish the book about CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/UK) and several secondary diseases which can present as a result, i.e., fibromyalgia, depression, IBD, cancer (especially colon cancer), schizophrenia and Parkinson's, etc.
If you have followed the recent news that an American lab determined that the retrovirus, XMRV, was found in over 90% of people with CFS, although British and German labs have not been able to find this virus in CFS patients' blood, then you might assume that a cure is in sight. Vaccination is being talked about; the use of AZT (the same drug as HIV/AIDS patients take) is also being talked about, even though AZT can make a person who does not have AIDS very sick indeed. I tried to post my scepticism about the XMRV virus several times on the recent New York Times blog about the virus and CFS: I just mentioned that it is a well-known fact amongst CFS researchers that people with CFS are extremely prone to having antibodies to whatever virus is prevalent without actually ever coming down with a viral disease, and my comments got posted only once and were then quickly removed within a few days. So I doubt my that stating the non-viral cause is going to go down well either.

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Dr. Malcolm Hooper, Emeritus Professor of Medicinal Chemistry

If you want to read an excellent rebuttal of the latest pro-exercise PACE theory, then go to CFS or the British-named myalgic encephalomyelitis UK web site and look for The Gilbert Report supported by the above-named professor at the University of Sunderland in the north of England.
Dr. Hooper lays out most, if not all of the problems that CFS patients have and shows how this information totally disproves the latest wrinkle: that exercise and pyschology is the key to treating CFS/M.E. patients.
The doctors at the heart of the exercise theory are all psychology based; the doctor in charge, Dr. W-, is partly financed by a Swiss medical insurance company whose prime motivation is to deny disability payments to anyone with this disease. Furthermore, all scientific research has to have a control group to make such research valid - and this latest PACE group research does not. And down in the small print is the admission that such excercise gains are limited and could cause damage to people.

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