susan
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This young guy a Physicist came to our CFS group to talk about his book. He became ill with CFS and after the usual run around, decided to discover a unifying theory of CFS based on a review of the studies. He may have succeeded. His explanation is in very clear English and not gobble-de-gook, very appealing..
He has also written another ebook that he is giving away FREE from 8th of Dec till 12th on HOPE essential to recovery on Amazon. Note this is not the book I am referring to, just a short 58 page book on 34 ways to engender hope.
The first section of CFS Unravelled describes the three self perpetuating cycles of systemic dysfunction that create the illness. Mitochondrian, bowel, adrenal, methylation, glucose, liver dysfunctions, add with various kinds of stress and autonomic nervous system dysfunctions and mix. Voila! Not a lot I haven't heard before but this time told in a integrated story start to finish and with more clarity and detail.
The two most interesting parts personally were that not only is the amygdala/sympathetic nervous system switched on to hypersensitivity but so is the parasympathetic nervous system so that we have only two speeds: full on or full off. No gray in between. The other nugget is that glucose is deeply implicated in our fatigue cycle. This is born up by many other people I have been reading the past who see simple sugars as a culprit in many disease cycles. This means when I am eating my 6 foods and I eat white rice instead of brown because it is easier to digest I am probably making my fatigue worse. He has come to many of the same conclusions I have about diet. Especially for the ill. Avoid grains especially wheat, no dairy, no alcohol, no sugar or vegetables with major starch, no coffee or caffeine, chocolate. You've heard it before. But there is much more than this.
Annoyingly it costs $17 as a pdf that is print protected so you must read it on screen. It is long. 260 pages. The line spacing is generous, he uses lots of color and formatting so it is physically easy to read. It is well written. It is indexed. He has a protocol for healing. He suggests hitting several nails on the head at once. It is what we are already doing haphazardly but with solid reasons behind it all. Far more motivating. A solid document if you are interested. His website has some free videos cfsunravelled.com
He has also written another ebook that he is giving away FREE from 8th of Dec till 12th on HOPE essential to recovery on Amazon. Note this is not the book I am referring to, just a short 58 page book on 34 ways to engender hope.
The first section of CFS Unravelled describes the three self perpetuating cycles of systemic dysfunction that create the illness. Mitochondrian, bowel, adrenal, methylation, glucose, liver dysfunctions, add with various kinds of stress and autonomic nervous system dysfunctions and mix. Voila! Not a lot I haven't heard before but this time told in a integrated story start to finish and with more clarity and detail.
The two most interesting parts personally were that not only is the amygdala/sympathetic nervous system switched on to hypersensitivity but so is the parasympathetic nervous system so that we have only two speeds: full on or full off. No gray in between. The other nugget is that glucose is deeply implicated in our fatigue cycle. This is born up by many other people I have been reading the past who see simple sugars as a culprit in many disease cycles. This means when I am eating my 6 foods and I eat white rice instead of brown because it is easier to digest I am probably making my fatigue worse. He has come to many of the same conclusions I have about diet. Especially for the ill. Avoid grains especially wheat, no dairy, no alcohol, no sugar or vegetables with major starch, no coffee or caffeine, chocolate. You've heard it before. But there is much more than this.
Annoyingly it costs $17 as a pdf that is print protected so you must read it on screen. It is long. 260 pages. The line spacing is generous, he uses lots of color and formatting so it is physically easy to read. It is well written. It is indexed. He has a protocol for healing. He suggests hitting several nails on the head at once. It is what we are already doing haphazardly but with solid reasons behind it all. Far more motivating. A solid document if you are interested. His website has some free videos cfsunravelled.com