Dr David Tuller: Simon McGrath on Ron Davis on “something in the blood”

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Trial By Error: Simon McGrath on Ron Davis on “something in the blood”

16 DECEMBER 2019

By David Tuller, DrPH

Simon McGrath provides excellent accounts of research topics at his blog, ME/CFS Research Review. He is skilled at rendering complicated stuff into easy-to-understand prose. On December 10th, Simon posted this update of developments discussed by Stanford geneticist Ron Davis during a recent talk at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.

In his talk, Davis discussed the latest on the notion that “something in the blood” is playing a key role in the disease–a topic being explored by a number of research teams in addition to his. With Simon’s permission, I am re-posting his overview of the discussion. Since I am incapable of advanced technological maneuvers, I was delighted to find out that I could just copy Simon’s blog and paste it in here, and the graphics would reproduce here as they appeared there. Whew!
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Latest from Ron Davis: more evidence of “something in the blood”

Dr Ron Davis recently revealed more evidence supporting the idea that there could be “something in the blood” that drives ME/CFS.

He’s been on a tour of the US East Coast, winning over scientists and clinicians, one lecture hall at a time................

 

[Rufous McKinney]

This is a really excellent recent summary of Something In The Blood.

We now have FOUR studies which have found SOMETHING transferrable in plasma.

https://mecfsresearchreview.me/2019/04/25/something-in-the-blood/

 

[junkcrap50]

This is a really excellent recent summary of Something In The Blood.

We now have FOUR studies which have found SOMETHING transferrable in plasma.

https://mecfsresearchreview.me/2019/04/25/something-in-the-blood/

And yet, we still don't know what it is. A bit odd since it's filterable.

 

[Rufous McKinney]

A bit odd since it's filterable.

I do not understand that part, at all. I suspect the something isn't; the cause of our illness, it is a result.

 

[Treeman]

It's considered there are many unknown auto antibodies circulating in the blood and I would keep an open mind that there are still unknown cytokins too.

Immunoglobulin therapy has shown to reduce fatigue. It's believed it neutralises any nasties in the blood so reducing fatigue.

The whole of medicine ( not just ME/CFS) research will take a long time to find out what is circulating in the blood.