Fantastic post, @
ukxmrv. Very psychologically insightful.
There was another carpenter who also began an alternative healing and spiritual career, and also asked his acolytes to drop everything and focus purely on his teachings. He ended up founding a major religion. Had a bit of trouble with the Romans, though...
I agree with ukxmrv that there does seem to be a bit of a charismatic leader faith healer format to this treatment.
Perhaps one way to ascertain whether his treatment is for real or not is to ask him if you could contact a few of the 40 to 50 ME/CFS patients he says he has cured. Most ME/CFS patients will be very happy to detail their story of remission or cure, so by communicating with these treated patients, you might get a better idea of how authentic the treatment is.
Though it is an interesting idea that a squeezed nerve, or perhaps squeezed lymph channel draining the cerebrospinal fluid, in the neck might exacerbate the symptoms of ME/CFS.
If you are familiar with
Michael VanElzakker's vagus nerve infection hypothesis for ME/CFS, you will be aware that VanElzakker suggests that ME/CFS arises when the vagus nerve becomes infected, with this infection constantly triggering
sickness behavior in the brain, leading to all the symptoms of ME/CFS. Sickness behavior symptoms are defined as the mental and physical symptoms you experience when you come down with a nasty acute infection, like the flu, and these are very similar to ME/CFS symptoms.
The vagus nerve is known to be the main trigger and mediator of sickness behavior (the trigeminal nerve can also trigger sickness behavior), so it is not inconceivable that a physical dysfunction in these nerves might contribute to sickness behavior or ME/CFS symptoms.
Some time ago I came across
this interesting story of an individual who was diagnosed with probable ME/CFS, but was
cured using nothing more than dental appliances to realign her jaw (these appliances correcting her dysfunctional temporomandibular joints). This individual is a cancer researcher, so certainly we can assume her account is scientifically precise and accurate (although note that she may have had a condition other than ME/CFS). I speculate that her symptoms may have been due to a trapped or squeezed trigeminal nerve or vagus nerve in jaw area, and the jaw realigning fixed this, so that her symptoms disappeared.
The doctor who performs this jaw realignment to treat conditions such as ME/CFS, MS, IBS and migraines is
Dr M Amir of Putney, London. Dr Amir is a dental surgeon.
Dr Amir says that
aligning the atlas vertebra alone with not solve the problem, because a
major part of the misalignments is to be found in the jaw. The jaw must be realigned first. Dr Amir says "
The required change in the jaw is often much greater and needs long term treatment while the Atlas is corrected in one short visit."
A thread about Dr Amir's jaw / atlas realignment treatment can be found
HERE. Dr Amir himself also comments on that thread; some posts made by Dr Amir are the following:
I would think, though, that cases in which jaw realignment for a temporomandibular joint dysfunction leads to significant clinical improvements in chronic diseases like ME/CFS, MS, IBS and migraines are comparatively rare.