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That's great news !KDM in Brussels and he told me that he has found the cause of the illness and the information will be disclosed around July this year.
Is it your first appointment with him?Very interesting. I'm seeing him Friday, I'll try to learn more
Hi all,
Its my first post, Just had my first appointment with DR. KDM in Brussels and he told me that he has found the cause of the illness and the information will be disclosed around July this year. Don't really know what to make of it, Just thought I would share.
Very cloak and dagger from KDM.
has us in suspense now.
PGE2 activates dendritic cells and suppresses their ability to attract T cells.
It also suppresses the function of macrophages and neutrophils as well as
Th1, CTL-, NK-cell mediated type 1 immunity (e.g. CD3- / CD57+ lymphocytes).
PGE2 additionally promotes Th2, Th17 and Tregs and also modulates chemokine production (e.g. IL-8).
When taken together, these data suggest that lipopolysaccharide (LPS),
likely from gut bacteria, plays an important role in the pathophysiology of CFS/ME.
https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2017/03/21/immunosignature-biomarker-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/seven of the top sequences were associated with a human endogenous retrovirus protein.
@Jonathan Edwards -- any thoughts of what the cause could be according to KDM?
If you see him again tomorrow, be sure that you ask for your diagnosis. I have seen Dr. De Meirleir for several years. Some of the treatments he proposed for me helped (see the the file Kina attached about GcMAF)--others didn't. Over the years, he has said many times that he has found the cause and, while he seems to have found some interesting markers, nothing has turned out to be the actual cause.Just had my first appointment with DR. KDM in Brussels and he told me that he has found the cause of the illness and the information will be disclosed around July this year. Don't really know what to make of it, Just thought I would share.
If you see him again tomorrow, be sure that you ask for your diagnosis. I have seen Dr. De Meirleir for several years. Some of the treatments he proposed for me helped (see the the file Kina attached about GcMAF)--others didn't. Over the years, he has said many times that he has found the cause and, while he seems to have found some interesting markers, nothing has turned out to be the actual cause.
Good luck with your appointment. If you have a problem remembering what he has said, you can ask to record it.
Yes, I would concur. I think he is genuinely working hard to unravel this, but sometimes he is overly enthusiastic about findings that do not pan out.I think that history also shows he gets too enthusiastic too fast.
Let me say something in defense of enthusiasm. Something has to keep our doctors treating patients and our researchers investigating. Enthusiasm is OK to a point, maybe even necessary for many, so long as good scientific methodology is adhered to. The enthusiasm becomes tempered or enhanced by results. So long as sound reasoning is not compromised I think its a good thing.sometimes he is overly enthusiastic about findings that do not pan out.
.http://www.ncf-net.org/forum/CallForResignation.htmNCF Board Calls for Researcher's Resignation.
The board members of the NCF did not take this vote lightly, but considered the ramifications of the work that Dr. De Meirleir neglected to publish in peer-reviewed medical journals, although he carefully put his work into patents to protect the monetary rewards he would get from his discovery as well as in a book he published, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Biological Approach, that was published by CRC Press (Florida) in 2002. The book presents his research as well as research of others on ME/CFIDS
As you said, that is old. Later it was refuted. It is a shame it is still out there.i have no idea of the veracity of this article, the organization that wrote the article nor the treatment promoted. At first glance the writing looks a bit overdramtic even if the allegations are true. The article was written a long time ago but there is no date.
To publish in peer reviewed journals the article has to be accepted by a peer reviewed journal. He has numerous articles that he has submitted that are awaiting acceptance but there is no guarantee that this will happen.Dr. De Meirleir neglected to publish in peer-reviewed medical journals.