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That is a very interesting excerpt from Rich that you posted, thanks. Like most ME/CFS patients, I also very rarely get colds.
What Rich said makes a lot of sense: that the likely reason ME/CFS patients rarely get colds is because the interferon response is permanently switched on.
And the interferon response is permanently switched on because the two branches of our immune system — our natural killer cells and our CD8 killer T-cells — are dysfunctional, so the interferon response has to remain activated in order constantly make up for the failures of these two dysfunctional branches.
If only we could stop viruses like coxsackievirus B from thwarting the functioning of our CD8 killer T-cells, then these CD8 killer T-cells would likely rapidly eliminate these viruses from our bodies.
When viruses, bacteria and other microbes deliberately disrupt our immune systems (for the purpose of thwarting the immune attack upon them), this is known as immune evasion. If you could stop immune evasion from happening, I expect ME/CFS would very quickly resolve and clear up.
That is a very interesting excerpt from Rich that you posted, thanks. Like most ME/CFS patients, I also very rarely get colds.
What Rich said makes a lot of sense: that the likely reason ME/CFS patients rarely get colds is because the interferon response is permanently switched on.
And the interferon response is permanently switched on because the two branches of our immune system — our natural killer cells and our CD8 killer T-cells — are dysfunctional, so the interferon response has to remain activated in order constantly make up for the failures of these two dysfunctional branches.
If only we could stop viruses like coxsackievirus B from thwarting the functioning of our CD8 killer T-cells, then these CD8 killer T-cells would likely rapidly eliminate these viruses from our bodies.
When viruses, bacteria and other microbes deliberately disrupt our immune systems (for the purpose of thwarting the immune attack upon them), this is known as immune evasion. If you could stop immune evasion from happening, I expect ME/CFS would very quickly resolve and clear up.