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WASHINGTON, October 17, 2013— The National Biotechnology Information Center (NBIC) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently released the findings of research funded by grants from Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals and Forest Laboratories that claim to have discovered a pathological (the science of cause and effect) cause for fibromyalgia.
The causes of the disease have escaped researchers for year. In fact, the condition was considered by many in the field of medicine as psychosomatic (in the mind) because of the variety of symptoms that could not be clinically pinned down.
Dr. Frank Rice writes of findings at Integrated Tissue Dynamics that has made a major discovery of the cause of fibromyalgia making diagnosis more certain and explaining the multitude of varied symptoms and effects.
Research has identified alterations in our core body temperature is a culprit as our blood acts as a coolant in much the same fashion water does in the radiator of a car and our major organs and active muscles require a constant temperature of about 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
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