The fact that ME/CFS is a mystery doesn’t daunt the leader of the NIH’s big intramural study on ME/CFS at all. Just a couple of years ago Avindra Nath and his compatriots cracked a mysterious neurodegenerative disease in East Africa that researchers had reached a dead end on. Nath recently reported that he’s using that East African work to inform his work on ME/CFS.Can Nath duplicate his feat? Just days before he speaks at the NIH Conference on ME/CFS, check out why Nath believes that mysterious East African disease might help him explain ME/CFS in a Simmaron Research Foundation sponsored post
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Fibromyalgia is a bogus condition created by Fluoroquinolone antibiotics such as ciprofloxacin. Search.
I believe that fluoroquinolone is a fluoride based drug, fluoride is known to inhibit immunity, neurological etc. I dumped the fluoride years ago after hearing this from my dentist.
So lucky to have logged on and finally found the cause of my long-standing illness! Cipro!
To think all all those researchers missed it.
Me, too, Jeff! Specially as I’ve had FM since around 1963, and Cipro (which I’ve never been exposed to) wasn’t introduced until the late 1980s.
My aunt developed FM in the 1930s, and her mother – born in 1887 – also suffered the symptoms for most of her life. What extraordinary prescience we all had!
My grandmother, who died in 1974, had it under it’s earlier name of fibrositis.
In reading the article I didn’t see any indication that Nath figured Nodding thing out. He is still using the “autoimmune” dogma to boot.
“There was still the nagging issue of antibody prevalence, though. Only slightly over 50% of the sick children had antibodies to leiomodin-1. If the antibody to leiomodin-1 was causing the disease in these children, what was causing the disease in the others?”
Actually Nath has fulfilled most of the requirements for autoimmunity in that subset of patients. He goes over them in the paper.
He believes it’s another combination of antibodies which are having the same effect. That’s one reason this may apply to ME/CFS: different groups of antibodies having the same effect.
Autoimmunity says essentially the body is attacking itself. I have never read any evidence to support this in the many decades. It is no different than the F-word in CFS. It is a thinly veiled attack. Autoimmune is an Orwellian medical terminology just like the vague F word. That “nagging issue” should raise red flags.