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Poll for Causation Models of Chronic Enivronmental Disease

What is the greatest sole underlying probable weighted causitive risk of developing Chronic Disease?

  • Gluten (Celiac and Gluten Insensitivity)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Dairy (Lactose, Casein allergy, etc)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Vitamin D deficiency

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • High Glycemic Oxidative Food (Corn syrup, sugar, grains, carbs, sodas, potatoes)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Epstein Bar Virus, CMV, other related

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Herpes Hetero Virus 6, HHV1, HHV2

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Candida

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Individual and Varities of Food Antigen, Food autoimmune triggers

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    5

Sam7777

Senior Member
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I have been trying and trying to review Chris Shade, Larry Wilson, Andrew Cutler, Freddd, Russell Jaffe, Boyd Haley, Klinghardt, Richard K Vank, Natasha Campbell McBride, Kenneth Bockman, Nora Gegaudas, Gary Null, Mercola, and countless other sources over what the underpinning etiology of degenerative disease is, particularly the prognosis of it developing into full blown conditions. What I do know, many, many people exist on a grey area of the spectrum where they haven't fully been diagnosed. So what follows is a poll to determine what people feel like has the highest probability to cause disease and the highest association with disease.
 

Sushi

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Sam7777

Hi, the poll is a nice idea but I think it may be too broad for chronic disease as one category as chronic diseases differ so much. Maybe you could change it to ask about one chronic disease?

Best wishes,
Sushi
 

Sam7777

Senior Member
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Excellent point so let me clarify what kind of outcome I am expecting.

I believe that while many different diseases form from different routes, some diseases and some routes overall are more prevalent. That is what I am hoping will show in these results.
 

Sushi

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Sam7777

Yet, for instance, all of those are probably involved in ME/CFS, and it would be very hard to rank them, as frankly we don't know that answer. And, while some are likely more important than others, some things in the list are more likely consequences rather than causal factors.

Sushi
 

ahmo

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I agree w/ Sushi. This might work better if you poll for how many of these things are contributing to an individual's illness, rather than which one we think is causal. ahmo
 

ukxmrv

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can you add something along these lines?

1. An unknown virus
2. Genetics
3. An unknown pathogen
4. common pathogens and viri found in patients with chronic disease
5. Mixture of genetics and pathogens

and maybe something like

6. None of the above
7. Wouldn't have a clue, the question is too vague
 

Sam7777

Senior Member
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ahmo

You can vote for multiple selections, so in effect you are able to select the number that you believe are contributing to your overall illness.

For instance, when I voted, I selected 6 different things.
 
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Compromised immune system caused by any of the above (or undiscovered pathogens/viri like ukxmrv said), but with epigenetic/genetic predispositions in place first. Usually with stress weakening the immune system too.
 

Freddd

Senior Member
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Salt Lake City
I have been trying and trying to review Chris Shade, Larry Wilson, Andrew Cutler, Freddd, Russell Jaffe, Boyd Haley, Klinghardt, Richard K Vank, Natasha Campbell McBride, Kenneth Bockman, Nora Gegaudas, Gary Null, Mercola, and countless other sources over what the underpinning etiology of degenerative disease is, particularly the prognosis of it developing into full blown conditions. What I do know, many, many people exist on a grey area of the spectrum where they haven't fully been diagnosed. So what follows is a poll to determine what people feel like has the highest probability to cause disease and the highest association with disease.

Hi Sam,

I would say that it is lack of the Deadlock quartet in any different variations and varying co-deficiencies. See the list in Active B12 protocol Basics.