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, August 28, 2010

Is the polio virus to blame for CFS?

Dr. Bjorn Sigurdsson, the chief medical examiner for Iceland during WWII, who was actually a vetinarian, also puzzling about the epidemic in the far northern town of Akureyri, said that the disease simulated poliomyelitis (there were 3 actual cases of polio prior to this outbreak).
The 3inch thick tome published in 1992 by the Florence Nightingale Foundation in Canada, The Clinical and Scientific Basis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, also brought up the by-now-fading-but-lingering poliomyelitis theory. One contributor stated that CFS was subclinical poliomyelitis; another that it was delayed acute onset poliomyelitis-like illness.
Yet the very same book has a couple of different contributors noting that during the acute febrile phase of the illness, people do not get colds. Now colds are caused by an adenovirus, so it seems obvious to me that the disease is not caused by a virus; that there is a virus suppressing mechanism at work here.
The acute phase has often been called as feeling as though the sufferer has "a dose of flu"; this is actually carrageenan (a seaweed additive common in many foods) reaching a certain point, a point of no return, where it overloads the intestinal system causing lysosomes (containing caustic digestive enzymes) to break open spilling their contents thus damaging and ulcerating the intestinal wall. Carrageenan then floods into the body - this is the part that people say feels like the flu.

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