picante
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Actually, given the way Dr. Davis & team are funded, there is a huge opportunity here to not limit identification of possible treatments in the way they are limited by the medical industry, and I'm sure they know that.Quite honestly, people have tried a gammut of non toxic and non patented treatments. What is needed is effective treatments that are tested in clinical trials and approved by drug regulating bodies for efficacy and safety. The last thing we need (and this is my opinion) is yet another vitamin protocol. Time for science and medicine to reign.
Patentability increases profits by a long shot, and monopolies increase them even more. The profit motive has made the entire industry blind to the accumulated medical wisdom of the world's oldest cultures. They're looking for health in all the wrong places. Look at the rates of iatrogenic disease. For all we know, ME/CFS may be iatrogenic.
Naturally occurring substances are not necessarily non-toxic, and any good candidates found would need study and possibly development. But there is a whole world of traditional medicine (Ayurvedic and TCM, for example) to draw on in the search for ways to rebalance the metabolic pathways and neuro-immune mechanisms involved.