Her er en liten rapport fra prohealth om konferansen i London!
Dr. Judy Mikovits, who astonished so many folks at this conference last year, was back for another lecture. She made her usual complex and far reaching talk, most of which passed over my head. (I should have studied biochemistry.) Her work at the Institute involves sub-setting CFS through gene array chips and cytokine testing. During the question period Dr. Mikovits was asked if they had been working on a specific virus involved in CFS. She answered: yes, and then she followed up that there is a novel virus that has never been associated with this disease and that they had submitted their research for publication.
Dr. John Chia gave another one of his fine presentations. Dr. Chia has identified a serious subset of CFS, which is identified by real markers – stains of enteroviruses in the stomach. (Of course as soon as a subset is identified and markers established, this no longer is CFS in the mind of the establishment and they use this to further substantiate that CFS does not exist.)
The soft-spoken Jonathan Kerr gave an update on his search for subsets and markers for CFS. About five years ago Dr Kerr announced that it would be a year until a marker and two years for a treatment (or the other way around). At that time he was thinking of using existing drugs like Enteracept. That did not work out when he was denied funding. Many people speak very highly of Dr. Kerr’s work and of the strides that he has made. These days he announces no time line and soldiers along, making slow but steady progress. He is involved in important collaboration with the Whittemore-Peterson Neuro-Immune Institute.
Kenny de Meirleir gave a precise lecture on his experience with very severe ME patients in Norway. He unexpectedly began his talk with a very short film documenting a young Norwegian woman’s descent into a near death isolation. He also had the sister of another very severe ME patient tell briefly of her sister. This young woman has lived in the same house with her sister for four years without every seeing her. Her sister cannot tolerate any stimuli. It was a powerful moment.
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