There is an underlying disease process fueling all this stuff along clearly. The ICC Definition points to multi system disorder.
There are areas of science ex Brain and Gut where Dr. Only know 30% about....there are many theories as to where this thing is starting from and being fueled by (virus, gut, vagus nerve,etc). We have not even come close to discovering the amount of viruses and bacteria that are actually out thier.
There are many neurological diseases that are now being implicated as being connected to the GUT. 60% of immune cells are in there. There has also been Proven translocation of bacteria into blood after exercise in CFS patients. Which when the fo into the blood the immune system attacks.
Most organic raw foods feed intestinal microbiota but if you have SIBO, Gut Motility problems, Active Viruses, Brain Damage, endocrine dysfuntion, toxicity from liver and kidney not functioning correctly. We have an awful lot of crap to clean up before we start healing wouldnt you say?
I feel there is a distinct link between the gut and the brain via the Vagus nerve....to many diseases that involve brain dysfunction are caused by nasties in th gut.....guess what they are all the major neurological or multisystem disease from MS to Dyautonomia to PANDAs...
Just my thoughts....we really should be using our time to figure out a way to strength our stance on ME/CFS amongst government, polotics, insurers, etc.
We need money for research, we need to piss off enough people to give us the money, we need to build awareness, we need help from our organizations, we really just need to work together to get something going.....
The one that gets me is thats stats are stagering for cfs 1,000,000 people but most likely more....zikka virus got 1.8 billion in funding and only a few have got it.....i picked that info up from someone else on PR...guess what they make Zika scary to people and they display it Via media coverage (it is scary but they knw what it is).....should we really be showing how scary our diseases is too the media?????????? It only affects almost 1% of the population and can make you develop 15 plus co morbities and thats with minimal study.....why dont we televise that....????
Just my rant for the day.......