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http://www.gordonmedical.com/unrave...unding-replication-study-on-cfidsme-findings/
Posted 5/27/16 by Eric Gordon, M.D., a physician focusing on "chronic illness".
I do hope that this "post Lyme" group is one clearly defined subset heading into the study.
One sticky bit is this here:
Hoping the selection criteria for the completed Naviaux study is not too murky to be useful...
This part seems a bit fishy to me:
Posted 5/27/16 by Eric Gordon, M.D., a physician focusing on "chronic illness".
.Dr. Robert Naviaux and I have submitted for publication a study, now under peer review and expected to be published in the fall of 2016, looking at 450 metabolites in 43 people with CFIDS/ME and 43 age and sex matched controls. We found a characteristic chemical signature differentiating the patients from the controls. We just received a grant, that along with donations to our newly established non-profit, will allow us to replicate this study. If our findings are indeed replicated we will have a biochemical test for CFIDS/ME.
Dr Naviaux has written articles showing that the mitochondria also are at the heart of the bodies immune response.. He named this The Cell Danger Response. Toxins and infections are some of the main danger signals that mitochondria respond to. When that signal persists, chronic inflammatory disease often ensues. Dr Naviaux has some exciting experimental work showing we can “unstick” the persistent Cell danger Response and allow the immune system to stand down.
Our plan is to start enrolling Gordon Medical patients this Fall in a “post Lyme” metabolomic study. This study will biochemically define chronic Lyme disease and if large enough, allow us to define subgroups of these patients.
I do hope that this "post Lyme" group is one clearly defined subset heading into the study.
One sticky bit is this here:
The applicability to Lyme is that CFIDS/ME is a wastebasket diagnosis. It is the most common end state of many chronic inflammatory diseases. Chronic Lyme and Tick Borne Diseases that don’t respond to antibiotic therapy are in this class of illnesses. Many of the CFIDS/ME patients have Lyme in their history. Most of the chronic Lyme or “post Lyme” patients fit the criteria for CFIDS/ME.
Hoping the selection criteria for the completed Naviaux study is not too murky to be useful...
This part seems a bit fishy to me:
If you can donate $1500, you or a person of your choice will receive a free Metabolomics test.