Stupid question... But what is 256 Peptide? Can anyone explain the results in "laymen terms" lol
Not stupid at all.
I'm reading and reading, but still not sure.
But those peptides, whatever they are, kind of shows how the body's immune system works, and where the immunsystem has a hang up.
And it is like a fingerprint. In a fingerprint you have so and so many lines and points that needs to match, to know who's fingerprint it is.
Many diseases has a petide "fingerprint".
They are used to diagnose cancer and other things.
This me/cfs "fingerprint" has 256 peptides in it, they hope to narrow it down to maybe 25 peptides.
The good thing is that those peptides (whatever they are) can make it easy to diagnose me/CFS in the future. You go to the doctor, they run some tests, and them they will know. Nothing to discuss, they have the proof.
The other good thing is, as far as I understand, that those peptides gives the scientists an idea about what went wrong, why we are sick.
Like the detectives on television, looking for clues, and then able to understand what happened.
Because they found this peptide "fingerprint", they still believe the immunsystem is involved in the sickness. If they had not found a peptide "fingerprint" , the immunsystem would not have been involved and they would have to look elsewhere.
And the more they know, the easier it will be to make a treatment.