Hi ukxmrv,
Those suggestions of things that help me personally in reducing inflammation are not Dr. Shoemaker's suggestions. Sorry I wasn't more clear about that. He has a whole program of prescription drugs that treat the inflammatory response in the immune system, and must be done in a particular order.
I have to confess that I have not been able to follow Dr. Shoemaker's program, because I don't handle most prescription drugs well. He is a conventional doctor, not an alternative medicine guy, so he uses prescription drugs.
I believe his very first step is to put people on cholestyramine for a month or more. It sucks out neurotoxins.
I flunked out at this point, because cholestyramine was too strong for me. So technically, I am probably still at his first step. I've been taking soluble fiber for ages, which does the same thing as cholestyramine but a lot more slowly.
If you want to see if his approach would work for you, you could try some phytosterols. They are available at health food stores without a prescription. They are not as strong as cholestyramine, but stronger than soluble fiber. If they make you feel better, then you might get some help from following Dr. Shoemaker's program. He spells out his program in his books and maybe on his website,
www.biotoxin.info
The frustrating thing to me is that Dr. Shoemaker has so far not seemed to really get interested in the XMRV discovery. Here we have this doctor who understands so much about the immune system and how his patients have an inflammation cascade, and on the other hand we have CFS patients experiencing increased inflammation when they take an antiretroviral drug.
I wish someone could integrate Dr. Shoemaker's knowledge with the things being learned about XMRV. You know what I mean?
Forebearance