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Dr David Tuller: Mayo Still champions GET

Countrygirl

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http://www.virology.ws/2018/08/06/trial-by-error-mayo-still-champions-get/

Trial By Error: Mayo Still Champions GET
6 AUGUST 2018
By David Tuller, DrPH

Last week I admonished the US Centers for Disease Control for including fuzzy language about exercise in its new package of “information for healthcare providers.” The way the Mayo Clinic deals with the illness it calls chronic fatigue syndrome is an excellent illustration of why it is so important for the CDC to stop fudging and get this right.

Mayo has long advocated graded exercise and cognitive behavior therapy, or what it calls on its website “cognitive training,” as key elements of its treatment plan. Here’s how Mayo’s website explains the mechanism of graded exercise: “Gradually increasing the intensity of your exercise over time may help reduce your hypersensitivity to exercise, just like allergy shots gradually reduce a person’s hypersensitivity to a particular allergen.” The hypothesis that patients are experiencing a form of hypersensitivity to exercise akin to an allergy is just that—a hypothesis. It is unclear why Mayo appears to be presenting it here as fact.
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David Tuller might be interested in this.. .don't know if he's on this board, though....

The NYT just published a story on immune dysfunction triggered by tick bites... not lyme, though... a MEAT ALLERGY!

what struck me is the metapatterns that are similar to CFS AND the reaction by some docs.. they are actually just starting to wonder if their "frameworks" are wrong.. see below

> infection triggers immune system... duh
> In this and other respects, meat allergy is upending longstanding assumptions about how allergies work. Its existence suggests that other allergies could be initiated by arthropod bites or unexpected exposures. It also raises the possibility that other symptoms often reported by patients that clinicians might dismiss because they don’t fit into established frameworks — gluten intolerance, for example, or mucus production after drinking milk — could, similarly, be conditions that scientists simply don’t understand yet. Mammalian-meat allergy “really has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of food allergy, because it doesn’t fall under the umbrella of our paradigm,” Dr. Maya R. Jerath, a professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine, in St. Louis, told me. “Maybe our paradigm is wrong.” ... duh
> Fatty meat leads to more alpha-gal crossing a person’s gut barrier into his or her circulatory system, triggering a stronger immune reaction than leaner cuts. A study of German patients also found that alcohol imbibed with meat can push people toward an allergic reaction, as can exercise; both actions make the gut more permeable, exposing the immune system to more alpha-gal. .... love hearing about gut permeability noted as a problem!!

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/...the-tick-borne-meat-allergy-could-reveal.html


send this to the Mayo Clinic!! gee, exercise increases gut permeability.... it's almost like they purposely hurting patients
 
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