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Is the rate of ME in Britain increasing? Particularly with respect to children?

You could try post-isometric relaxation stretching in different eye directions to relax and stretch the eye muscles. https://www.dynamicchiropractic.com/mpacms/dc/article.php?id=41025 https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Extraocular_muscles

One thing I've noticed with ME is that all of the muscles get weak. I've had to strain to force them to work. This shows that the underlying process is affecting the neuromusclar system directly. You end up feeling like this. Picture of man with eyes popping out

I think this needs a multi-tier strategy. How about hiring or recruiting a high profile celebrity to do a fundraising tv event? Cher has chronic lyme fatigue so she would be a prime candidate. Also petition Senators and Congressman to support a resolution for a much higher funding level at NIH?

I'm more sensitive to low glucose. A glucose meal definitely will raise my energy. ME inhibits mitochondria so this makes sense.

You can't feel cells dying off. You can only feel nerves with intact connections to the brain. Apoptosis releases histamine and a cytokine response that causes pain in the nerves in that area. You can detect histamine response as rhinitis. Completed nerve death is perceived as numbness. I...

I don't see a mechanism for an abortive infection becoming more virulent during a period of low immunity like you do with Herpes Zoster or EBV solo infections. Since that is the basis of viral infection recurrences it explains why we don't see them with ME.

It's a proof of concept for the theory. If ME is a coinfection due to abortive viruses then allowing the infected cells to die should improve the disease. Apoptosis occurs when the cells undergo automatic death. Normally this is blocked from inhibition by the viruses. For example, epstein...

It has been something I have been exploring in my own history. I've had bizarre results like being EBV+ in 2007 with acute mono-nucleosis then having it go negative after HSV6 infection. I also have had success triggering apoptosis using blockers of viral apoptosis inhibition and this has...

Not pure speculation. -Buller, 1981. https://jvi.asm.org/content/jvi/40/1/241.full.pdf In EBV and HIV coinfection: -Sehrawat, 2018. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5981231/ Let's say you are right and there is no interaction. Another hypothesis would be that coinfection...

I think it's a good hypothesis considering that EBV is very common. Two different herpes viruses could very well interfere with each other's replication because of similar but incompatible molecular RNA. Sort of a Frankenstein's monster creation with broken virions that are sterile. Another...

Sorry, I confused latency with abortive. I meant to say what mechanisms cause abortive viral infections.

Thanks. Actually I'm prospecting for a new experimental treatment. I need to connect with physical therapists interested in testing the therapy component on ME patients.

Martin Lerner MD proposed that the reason why patients could have negative blood tests for virus yet still be infected was because the virus(es) that infected them became abortive and therefore unable to reproduce. What could cause this change?

I agree and would add that ME isn't a recognized disabling condition on the US Social Security Administration list of disabling impairments despite the fact that 75% of ME patients are unable to work. https://www.disability-benefits-help.org/disabling-conditions It is to the government's and...

Can you be more specific. State hypotheses.

If a billionaire leaves $100 million to you as a trustee to be allocated to research with a good chance of curing ME what specific types of research projects would you support?

What does BPS stand for?

This sounds like the author thinks ME is a type of mass hysteria and that it is perpetuated by online information saying that it is a physical illness perpetuated by viruses. If that were true than CBT should have a very high effectiveness rate. All you should have to do is to convince...

Here's a technique I use. After a course of antibiotics when I need to repopulate the gut I take one probiotic capsule, mix it with lukewarm water for one minute then load it into a no needle syringe and inject it into the anus. I figure that it needs to get there anyway and it bypasses the...