Dr M's place and one of her 'labs' was most uninterested in XMRV, which somewhat dissapointed me to honest as I have a very low ATP from her own test and was keen to see if XMRV depeletes ATP. Dr M appears somewhat single minded as to 'fixing' CFS with one idea and not keen to wander off into any new news on CFS. If patients claim they are better on supplements, then this would be logical for her to ignore XMRV, I guess.
We've seen this disinterest from Dr Teitelbaum, and Dr Marshall. They all have businesses to protect and of course cannot
trash their own theory easily. The other way to look at it, is they aren't wrong at all, and are succesfully treating a different illness from those with XMRV. Which would seem the case.
I've tried her protocol and it never did a thing at all for energy or any other symptom. Then again when did supplements diminish retroviral infections or vanish POTS?! People infected need medications prescribed by doctors at the end of the day, and not vitamins alone. Also I would say that 'CFS' can include maybe 20+ different on-going reasons to be sick, and therefore people who are 'fixed' don't have as many ongoing poor functioning bodily systems.
I'm sure her protocol is helpful for many with CFS, especially those who are defficient in many important nutrients
by poor diet, malabsoption, poor thyroid etc etc.
I think in conclusion I was fishing in the wrong pond with Dr M expecting her to embrace XMRV and expecting her to take an interest in XMRV like Dr Peterson, when infact she's 'only' a GP with an interest in environmental illness and not an immune specialist. This error of mine comes from years of being desperate and asking anyone to help. Many of us are still operating on the medical equivalent of asking a Fireman to fix a blocked drain. So we go for anyone with a sound theory, or sound evidence.
I'm sure over the next few years 'CFS' will become many different conditions and we'll all
need different types of doctor and one who is relevent to the personal reason we are sick, rather than the presumed reason, or even theorised reason we are sick - due to having this little badge we all wear.
I'm sticking with the Americans, hopefully they can explain why XMRV depletes ATP and come up with a better idea than taking supplements. I'm thinking it's something to do with
RN-aseL. Cort will know that, for sure.