I saw something from Rich in the past year or so where he said those people didn't really fare any better than the ones doing the Simplified Protocol.
Hi, Caledonia.
My impression is that both the full Yasko treatment program and the simplified protocol have been very helpful to quite a few people with ME/CFS, but so far neither of them have produced very many complete recoveries, as far as I know. I haven't done a quantitative comparison of outcomes from the two approaches. However, I have been in contact over a period of more than five years with several of those in the Yahoo cfs_yasko group who followed the full Yasko program diligently. Many have experienced improvement, but again, not many have completely recovered. As far as I have been able to tell, the same is true of those who have followed the simplified protocol.
I think the main thing that holds people back from complete recovery is well-entrenched infections. Some of the toughest cases are people who have long-standing Lyme disease and coinfections together with ME/CFS. Another category of tough cases consists of those who have severe biotoxin sensitivities together with ME/CFS.
I think we've made a lot of progress over the past few years, but we definitely have more work to do to figure out how to improve this situation to the point that people can really get their lives back.
Best regards,
Rich