Ember
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I wonder how many of us have "Viking genes?"
Sushi
i think its interesting how he mentions that cfs/me progresses into an autoimmune illness after the initial infectious illness. This seems to happen alot in MS too.
Generally people think that autoimmune problems are when the immune system attacks ones self but is it?
in cfs/me i dont think this is apparent but i have been thinking that immune dysfunction is auto-immune where immune defiency is a lack of or reduced number of certain immune cells where in cfs/me we have the right number but the buggers dont work( or combo of reduced number and function).
So this immune cells not working also a definition of autoimmunity not just the immune system attacking itself??
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Thanks Ember, and of course thank you LLewellyn King for these excellent interviews. This interview must have taken place when Prof. De Meirleir was in NYC recently meeting with the group at Mt. Sinai.
I wonder how many of us have "Viking genes?"
His advice to researchers to look for the source of atypical inflammation is also a lead. Things are moving, even though it often seems they are in the background.
Sushi
I wonder how many of us have "Viking genes?"
Sushi
Now I am getting to this thread. My take on what he said is that this can begin from multiple infectious starting points--and if it can be treated early, it can be stopped--but if not, it progresses eventually to an autoimmune illness. This has happened in my case. And what he observed about ancestry was exciting to me too--as a "yes"--because I have Scottish and other northern ancestry too. I hope some researcher gets on this track--
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I was told once that if you see a Red Head that it's from the Vikings.
For anyone who has done the 23&Me testing....
If you go to the page with ANCESTRY COMPOSITION, they give you a breakdown of what percent of your DNA comes from each of 22 populations worldwide.
As it turns out I have only .2% Scandinavian and .1% Finnish, and 2.7% nonspecific Northern European... whatever that means. So not really significantly Viking in my case.
I don't think the 23andme is really specific enough. 99% British/Irish?? I mean the Vikings invaded over 1000 years ago and settled so will be part of these genes I would think.
Especially so in the North and East of Britain - Scotland too. My g/father was scottish and my mother was irish, loads of red hair in the family, interesting stuff........