A few theories based on recent findings

[msf]

Trouble is, (to quote Homer Simpson) I´m a lazy, lazy man, and I only feel like writing it up because I´m worried that someone (like you!) will ´scoop´ me.

 

[msf]

Of course, it could be a total non-story, which is another reason to get people´s input.

 

[ljimbo423]

I think I´ve got a fairly detailed description of the problem in my head now (although being detailed doesn´t necessarily mean that it´s right). I will try to write it up so that it makes sense sometime later in the week, and then we can compare notes.

I look forward to that write up! To get the overall theory and the details right is a big task. I think the best any of us can do at this point, is to hope that are overall theory is mostly right.

 

[ljimbo423]

Trouble is, (to quote Homer Simpson) I´m a lazy, lazy man, and I only feel like writing it up because I´m worried that someone (like you!) will ´scoop´ me.

LOL- I laughed right out loud when I read this! Watch out, I just might scoop ya. I have written my basic theory on my profile page, under my information tab.

That's as far as I plan on going with it. Have a look at my theory, if you haven't already, maybe that can help you with yours? I also have a few links in there too.

 

[msf]

Cool, thanks for the pointer. I see someone has been paying attention to Dr. Younger (re microglia and LDN). I´m glad that he´s going to be there at the meeting in August, as it´s all part of the same puzzle.

 

[msf]

Your description (I´m not sure we´re allowed to have theories as lay people) contains many of the same elements as mine, with a slightly different focus.

 

[msf]

Haha, it sounds like I´m going to rip you off now.

 

[msf]

I should never have read your theory!

 

[ljimbo423]

Haha, it sounds like I´m going to rip you off now.

I should never have read your theory!

LOL- I hope you do! I just want the message to get out there to anybody that is interested in this kind of treatment.

 

[msf]

Thanks, I think it´s a good idea, but it´s hard to know where best to put it - think I´ll write it as a blog, but they disappear quite fast. I already have benefited from that kind of treatment, as I´m a patient of KDM (who I´m sure has a similar theory, and in fact my ideas have built on what I know of his ideas about the gut and ME), but hopefully it will convince some of those who have never considered the gut as the cause to look into treatments for the gut.

 

[wastwater]

I think FOXO1A is important

 

[Isaiah 58:11]

I think large increases in extracellular ATP may be linked to Naviaux's Cell Danger Response. To be honest though that's about as far as my knowledge goes, i'm sure someone with more knowledge on the subject will put me right!

I don't have more knowledge on the subject, but that was my thought too. Osler's Web mentioned deformed RBCs as causing our low SED rates and I saw somewhere (Health Rising?) that shear stress from the RBC deformities cause ATP release. I think if you plop normal cells into our overly ATP'd plasma it sets off their CDR. On the flip side, our cells act normal in control plasma in vitro, but that isn't the same as sending RBCs careening around a vascular system.

If this were actually the case then they would be describing a mechanism. The cause would be what was causing the RBC deformity in the first place.

 

[dreampop]

In response to some of the comments on neuro-inflammation.

I know microglia have p2x & p2y receptors. I was wondering if microglia p2x signalling could translate to peripheral purigenic signalling CDR and cause the hypometabolism. I don't even know if that's possible. But we don't see really neuro-inflammation per se, so the whole thing is even more confusing. We see what should be neuro-inflammation in the Japanese study and in the consistent rCBF finding in the brainstem. But then, not anything consistently remarkable in the cerebral spinal fluid.

And we all feel like we have neuroinflammation! Makes me wonder if the microglia have a state other than M1/M2 that activates the CDR but not the production of cytokines, chemokines and other stuff the churn out.

 

[wastwater]

FOXO1A and diabetes search brings up something on pyruvate and starvation

 

[wastwater]

If there is a genetic tendency towards ME then I may of found my pathway,there maybe many other pathways
If missing foxc1 (still waiting for results) this has an effect on many other genes but I’ve picked out the ones that seem relevant hsp70 and foxo1a
EBV also lowers foxo1a further