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Read the master post and look for the link to the Taiwan study, which is causing big waves in Alzheimer's circles. This study did not establish tight causality, but the associations seem pretty obviously destined to be proven out as causalities. The study shows that: 1) If you have HSV1 over...

As a patient, I would not be crazy about the post-mortem solution :) Just for hypothesis sake, if I had an HSV1 chronic low-level infection of the cerebral cortex, would the viral load in CSF parallel in some way the viral load in the relevant brain tissue? I would hope yes since the body is...

I agree strains are important for further research, but don't kill a good idea with more detail than is needed to appreciate why the idea is good. If having HSV1 is sufficient to generate a 250% higher Alzheimer's risk, that's interesting by itself, without any discussion about strains. They...

I have been reading about the mitochondrial issues as well, so certainly you would not want to be on antivirals forever. And realistically you would want to identify the specific virus that you hypothesize to be responsible for your condition and ideally measure the viral load before and after...

I am not going to attempt to review every part of the Marshall protocol, but what is most disheartening to me about the whole thing is Marshall clearly does not understand the difference between a hypothesis based on computer modeling and a tested drug therapy that is safe for real patients. A...

Here is some background on Lipkin's CFS research.

Reading their full remarks, it is pretty clear that just measuring viral loads alone is not going to give any insights.

That study is not showing a stronger immune system in CFS. That study is showing that the CFS patients might be having an immune response to "something". That immune response might be measurable but somehow compromised or insufficient to resolve the insult.

Is there a link to any discussion of their data? I guess they could not get the study published. I am going to use your research approach against you. Let's go back to this old study, which assured us that Alzheimer's brains had a viral load no different from normal. And yet, here we are...

There are at least eight herpes virus variants that infect humans. These include: Human herpes virus 1 (HHV1) is also known as herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV1). Human herpes virus 2 (HHV2) is also called herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV2). Human herpes virus 3 (HHV3) is also called varicella-zoster...