What Crap!
I don't know why, but I decided to click on the link to the press release of the book (above in i.f.'s post) and then onto Amazon where I took a look inside.
Ready to get a life you love? Read on to find out how. Love and blessings, Jacob Teitelbaum MD
The first few chapters deal with helping you, the sugar addict, figure out which type of addiction you have. Dr. T includes handy quizzes so that you don't have to rely on expensive unreliable diagnostic tests, because as Dr. T. says "Standard blood testing for hormonal deficiencies will not reveal the problems until they are very severe, sometimes leaving people deficient for decades". Who needs labwork when you can just take a quiz?
Here are some of the claims he includes about CFS/FMS <---- which he mentions in tandem every time, as if they are one and the same illness.
I have also seen thousands of people whose chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia are aggravated by their sweet tooth. I also understand the problem first hand. A former sugar addict myself, I came down with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in 1975. Eliminating my sugar addiction was an important part of my recovery.
Sure it was. And recovery had nothing to do with finding a place to live (he claims he was homeless at that time).
Constipation can also be a problem. When you don't eat foods with fiber, and load up on sugar instead, the transit time that food is in your digestive system increases: food tends to putrefy in the digestive tract, releasing toxins. You get brain fog, and feel sluggish and achy. In the extreme, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia may develop.
Yup, that's exactly how CFS happens. You stop eating AllBran, start downing the Twinkies, food starts to putrefy in your gut and whammo - you've got CFS or FM.
Using caffeine and sugar to boost energy artificially can lead to all sorts of health problems, including an impaired immune system, sleep disorders, headaches, high blood pressure, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia. You can feel better by following the SHINE protocol.
What did you say? You don't fit into the low fiber/Twinky profile? Ah well, it must have been all that sweetened coffee you drank that caused your CFS.
As you have discovered, the price of overindulging in sweets is high. A type 3 sugar addict often feels fatigued: You may even have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Fibromyalgia. But it doesn't stop there. Yeast overgrowth fueled by sugar can cause numerous other health problems...In addition to causing allergies, yeast overgrowth can lead to chronic conditions for Type 3 sugar addicts, such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and immune dysfunction.
Oh, it's the candida-leads-to-CFS theory due to Twinkies or Starbucks consumption. But you're right doc. CFS doesn't stop there. It goes on to cause cardiac myopathy, organ damage, and maybe even lymphoma.
Do you suffer from persistent, severe fatigue that does not go away with rest? Do you experience horrible insomnia, widespread pain, and severe brain fog? You may have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Fibromyalgia. These two conditions can occur as one type of sugar addiction snowballs into the next, creating a cascade effect. This means you may have symptoms of all four types of sugar addiction simultaneously.
Wow!! He covers all bases here. If you have CFS and kept eating Twinkies, you may have developed all four types of sugar addictions. You need to read the whole book.
The connection between sugar and CFS/FMS
Although the initial infection may have triggered your chronic fatigue syndrome, it could have been aggravated by the antibiotics exacerbating your yeast overgrowth.
Going out on a limb for this claim, he assumes that the initial infection that started your CFS was treated with antibiotics and
that is what promoted your yeast problems. So, now we are up to three possible causes of CFS: 1) low/fiber + Twinky diet 2) Starbucks addiction 3) Antibiotics
Sugar also impairs your immune system...This makes it harder for your body to fight off infections and can enable many kinds of simple infections to turn into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
I think you've got it backwards, doc. CFS impairs your immune system which subsequently impairs your digestion.
Having treated more than 3,000 patients with CFS and FMS successfully (and more than 15, 000 at the Fibromyalgia and Fatigue Centers nationally), we have found that sugar addiction is the rule rather than the exception.
And we believe this because???
As more and more people have grown addicted to sugar and have used it to deal with stress, CFS and FMS have become more common
Big leap of correlation here. But we trust you Dr. T. No need to cite any science.
When your immune system is impaired, many unusual infections can take hold. These include viral infections (e.g. XMRV, HHV-6, CMV, and EBV), parasites and other bowel infections, infections sensitive to other long-term treatment with the antibiotics Cipro and Doxycycline (e.g. micoplasma, chlamydia, Lyme disease, etc.), and fungal infections. Clinical experience shows that treating with prescription antifungals such as Diflucan can help relieve the symptoms seen in these syndromes.
Diflucan for XMRV??? Am I reading this right?
