Kenny De Meirleir and Think tank!
Professor Dr. Kenny Kenny working diligently to collaborate with experts worldwide.. Kenny De Meirleir is Prof. dr.medisin. He is medisnsk director both in Belgium and the USA. He has treated more than 20,000 patients and has a unique position with good access to data.
In 2009 he joined a group called Think Tank which several ekspterter worldwide began to cooperate to find more answers on ME / CFS riddle. Luc Montagnier were those who gave their support to this "Think Tank" which had its first meetings back in 2009.
Luc Montagnier of France, says, "Scientists havealready uncovered a lot about ME, but this information does not reach professional healthcare personnel, and the disease is still not taken seriously. It is about time this changes." Montagnier, one of the discoverers of the HIV virus, is a supporter of the Think Tank. "
European Think Tank Forms two Generate Research Establishing ME / CFS as Organic Illness
Kenny De Meirleir has worked with ME / CFS is now underway with new research. Here is a small summary from a radio interview from a amrkikansk radio show:
"1- patients with ME / CFS and chronic Lyme are the same, since they show the same abnormalities. He explains that Lyme and other infections that Bartonella (which claims to have 33 known strains) inmunodeprimen, lowering Th1 immune response (as combat intracellular infections), and that this leads to chronic inflammation and reactivation of herpes virus this creates a vicious circle. Explaining that in reality this disease is very homogeneous at the time of the survey, which "is not so difficult."
2- What is a bacterium (Borrelia) found in the tissues and that inmunosuprimirte may not make antibodies and therefore blood sample available is just not reliable.
3. It will be published within a few months has conducted a study with 140 patients and 140 controls, with four markers with an efficiency of 97% is able to detect them called "Chronic Lyme patients fatigue" or "patients with chronic fatigue and Lyme. "
4. Considering that Lyme now, is analogous to that in his time anyway HIV until pathogen was found, or multiple sclerosis (before it was discovered to be a real disease). Prepare the connection that medicine is very conservative, and that on the one hand it protects the population, but when does this situation occurs, and says that in this case is to commit fraud.
5. Shown hopeful about the future in relation to the better treatment of Lyme. Explain that in a few years (4-5) will be very effective treatments (which he says he is working with his team in Reno --instuto WPI, where he is director) to activate and / or deactivate certain receptors, bacteria (one Sort role play their LPS) used. He says that this way is much more promising than just "interfering" with bacteria (pointed: I guess refers to antibiotics, for example).
6. Explain it has nothing to do with acute chronic infection, which is so different diseases; And typical of chronic inflammation Lyme is chronic, and thus different from acute inflammation which is known in medicine where PCR is usually elevated. Here however cascade of prostaglandins which are very active there (are almost always elevated PGE2).
7. Explain how baton ella other infections is to be looked upon with great interest, as is often thought of it as "opportunistic" to Lyme, and sometimes responsible for the symptoms. Said to affect endothelial (blood vessel wall) and therefore normally increases VEGF.
8. He says that in Europe there is hardly Borrelia burgdorferi (and the US), but other strains, of which very little is known about their behavior in man. In this regard, pointing to global warming as a cause of this spread of Lyme, since there are many more such ticks since 50. He instances Norway.
9. As for treatment, explaining that are based on: 1. Eliminate infection (which is very difficult), 2nd enhance Th1 response and reduce inflammation 3. Seek (ie cytokine storm).
10. Explain how steroids are absolutely contraindicated in infections, as you learn in medical school (Personal Point: Can not immunosuppress a patient suffering from an infection).
11 patients often have low levels of esteriodeas hormones such as cortisol, due to neuronal inflammation.
12 explains that the key is the wall of the bacteria, formed by lipoporisacáridos (LPS), which forms the outer wall of gram negative bacteria such as Borrelia. (I recommend this abstract on this topic:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3577475). In this regard, said Borrelia has a special LPS, which is where its ability to create inflammation, etc. Therefore believes that the answer is in this molecule.
13. Clarifies that many operators never develop the disease, suggesting a genetic component.
14. When the interviewer asked, what do you recommend to those seeking answers, is to try to find physicians with a comprehensive view. Specifies that this is not "just infectious" multisystem disease, and there is still this specialty. Think over time it will evolve. For example explains how it is not logical that a patient with 20 to 20 different diseases have symptoms ... "
Here's an old statement - (I've put in / lyme since it is the same abnormalities) ..
"A number of discoveries recently made. The first surplus in "deep sequencing" shows that ME /Lyme patients suffer from many infections, so they carry many infections, many more than healthy people. I think that this will be evidence that the immune
system is not functioning as it should. I think this will soon be published. "
Kenny Kenny made some videos for a couple of years ago some interesting videos about ME / CFS (umbrella diagnoses) There is much interesting in these videos, but research everything goes fast forward. Many of the videos have helped me to understand a lot more, but we must get massive research on people with unromale immunity more.
Informative videos from Kenny De Meirleir. Remember ME - Lyme same abnormalities..
1. Is ME and / or CFS a disease?
2. Is it possible two Diagnosis ME / CFS?
3. Is ME A heraditary conditioning?
4. ME and sleep disorders
5. Me and pain
6. ME and hormones
7. ME, the immune system and several at virusses
8. ME and blood circulation
9. ME and Gastrointensional problems
10. ME, Co morbidity and Exclusion Criteria
11. Twelve answers two questions - ME origin and Causes
12. Misdiagnosis / Related Diagnosis and Tests
13. Sleep, Pain and nigthmare
14. ME and Treatment
15. ME, Remody and Hope
16.ME and Low - Dose Naltrexone (LDN)
17. ME and Brain
18. ME, Th1. Th2 and Th17
19. Subgroup of Patients
Parts also some nice videos that were made when he visited New York. These vidoes gives more hope for the future!
