Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Alternative Treatment
CFIDS is normally
caused by viral infection.
Cure is possible with electromedicine and rebalancing the
hormonal/glandular system.
If you feel like you
have a constant flu or chronic mononucleosis then you probably have an
ongoing viral infection causing symptoms of CFIDS (Chronic Fatigue
Immune Dysfunction Syndrome). This viral disease was beating me to
death for 16 years until I tried this alternative
treatment.
The Epstein Barr virus
is a common infection with this disease, and when it (or any other
causative virus such as the XMRV) is treated with electric current it loses
its ability to infect human white blood cells. Without being able to
infect cells with their nucleic acids then the viruses are stopped from
being able to use the human cells to reproduce themselves. Being left
'free-floating' in the blood serum (fluid), then the white blood cells
will eventually take the viruses out of the bloodstream one-by-one
(which is their job as immune cells). This type of treatment with
electricity presents the most important step to a possible cure.
Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in NY discovered
this activity of electricity against viruses,
stopping their ability to attach to human cells receptor sites. The
electricity needed was only a scant 50-100 micro-amps (millionths of an
ampere) which is not enough to feel. Afterwards they created a medical patent which describes two different
ways for hospitals to give alternative treatment to patients blood with
electricity. One way was by removing it, gently electrifying it, then
re-injecting it (like the circular blood flow of a dialysis machine
does). The other way was by surgically implanting into an artery a
battery powered vessel that would electrify blood as it passed through
it in order to affect the viruses to disable them. Robert
Beck came up with a simpler and less costly and less painful way to
electrify the blood without having to cut
or needle the patient at all. The result is a blood electrification
device (the Microbe Electrifier that BioElectric sells) for chronic
fatigue alternative treatment, and treatment of other diseases caused
by infectious microbes. First you definitely need to click onto this link to see the lab results of the
researchers experimenting on HIV-1 with electricity for their
deactivation, which is the scientific basis for this type of therapy.
My chronic fatigue alternative treatment testimony:
I showed all the classical symptoms of CFIDS since 1980 when I lived in
Dallas. These included feeling infected by something like the flu,
profound fatigue (especially after exercise), muscle weakness, muscle
aches, sleep disturbance, forgetfulness, irritability, confusion,
difficulty thinking, depression, light sensitivity, anxiety, emotional
lability, sensitivity to heat and cold, intolerance of alcohol, low
temperature, hearing sensitivity, chemical sensitivities, and foggy
thinking.
In 1996 I used the Beck Electrifier and
Magnetic Pulser for two months of
treatment for a total of 92 hours. Much cleansing of deactivated
viruses and whatnot was experienced during this time but 2 weeks after
stopping usage of the devices I noticed a sudden marked improvement in
how I felt overall with a great lessening of all the above symptoms and
a complete alleviation of the feeling of having a constant flu.
Everyone who knew me then would comment on how I looked so much
improved even though I hadn't told them about the treatment I had just
completed. Click here to read the details of
my usage of these electromedicine devices.
Here are
important excerpts from a recent online article on CFIDS and symptom
causing microbes:
People with CFS/FMS are
at high risk of having multiple viral and antibiotic sensitive
infections because of their immune system dysfunction. That people
usually have not just one, but several, infections simultaneously is
significant. It suggests that although these infections may be a
trigger for the illness in some cases, most of the infections occur
because of the illness, setting you up for multiple and sometimes
unusual infections that persist. These infections may then drag you
down, further suppressing your immune system.
Predominantly flu-like symptoms, with debilitating fatigue and
little or no pain or fever. People with these symptoms are more likely
to have an underlying persistent viral infection, such as HHV-6, CMV,
or EBV. These infections are common in CFS, and the available IgG test
may still offer useful information. Unfortunately, despite all of the
data to the contrary, most doctors are not familiar with the research
and still mistakenly think a negative IgM antibody test confirms that
there is no active infection. Because most physicians are not aware of
this research, and it may be important for your doctor to know about.
It is clear that multiple infections are present in CFS/FMS patients.
For example, one study found that 52% of CFS patients had active
mycoplasma infection, 30.5% had active HHV-6 infection, and 7.5% had
Chlamydia pneumonia infections vs. only 6%, 9% and 1% of healthy
people, respectively. They conclude, "The results indicate that a large
subset of CFS patients show evidence of bacterial and/or viral
infection(s), and these infections may contribute to the severity of
signs and symptoms found in these patients."
Human herpes virus type 6 (HHV-6) is a virus that is related to
the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), cytomegalovirus (CMV), and also to the
herpes viruses that cause cold sores and genital herpes. All of these
are in the Human Herpes Virus family and stay in the body (usually in
an inactive latent form for EBV, CMV, and HHV-6) for the rest of your
life. Usually HHV-6 is transmitted like the common cold, and most
adults have had HHV-6, as well as EBV and the cold sore virus, by the
time they are twenty years old.
When HHV-6 is present, it seems to affect the immune system's natural
killer cells that are critical in fighting infections and are also
often malfunctioning in CFS. Natural killer cell function is described
in what is called lytic units—which means the ability of cells to lyse,
or break down, foreign invaders. An average person has a lytic unit
level of 20 to 250, with over 80 percent of healthy people having more
than 40 units. However, in people with CFIDS, the mean natural killer
lytic unit level is just 12 units. With your immune system so low, the
reactivated HHV-6 can then also cause reactivation of the Epstein Barr
virus. In addition, both HHV-6 and EBV can suppress immune function,
and HHV-6 can suppress your body's ability to fight fungal/yeast
infections as well.
The roles of EBV (Epstein Barr Virus) and CMV (cytomegalovirus) in
CFIDS are also not clear. It is not uncommon for antibody levels of
these viruses to also be elevated in people with chronic fatigue
syndrome. However, we do not know if this elevation reflects an old
inactive infection verses an ongoing infection with these viruses.
Given the findings with HHV-6 and the drop in EBV antibody levels after
treatment, I am inclined to believe that reactivation is occurring with
these viruses as well.
Research by Dr. Garth Nicolson and his wife, Nancy L. Nicolson, has
shown that a number of antibiotic sensitive infections, including
Mycoplasma and Chlamydia, can be important in CFIDS. These
microorganisms can cause persistent infections and have similar
characteristics. Mycoplasma are a type of ancient bacteria that lack
cell walls and are capable of invading a number of types of human
cells. They can cause a wide variety of human diseases. These organisms
can cause the types of symptoms seen in people with CFIDS and,
according to Dr. Nicolson, tend to be immune-suppressing.
Unfortunately, they cannot be readily cultured on a culture dish. They
are sensitive to antibiotics though.
For more information I recommend reading the book "From Fatigued to
Fantastic"!
Excellent NIH article: Consortium of Researchers Discover Retroviral Link to
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Please read the report
below to discover the second most important step to a cure, which is
rebalancing your hormonal/glandular system which was damaged by years
of viral infection (and can keep you feeling tired even after the
removal of the offending viruses). Please don't think that you can
get off cheap by just rebalancing your glands! If you don't first get
rid of the offending microbe then you have very little chance of
success. CFIDS symptoms happen as a result of viral infection, not
because of glandular imbalance. The glandular imbalance is the
secondary effect of this invasion by microbes. I myself did not have
the money needed to rebalance myself but it happened on its own during
the years after getting rid of the symptom-causing virus.
Watch a video of a testimony of cure by doing the
Beck protocol as well as other changes to recover from CFIDS.
Diagnosis
and
Treatment
OF
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
by Dr Barry J Durrant-Peatfield
M.B.. B.S.. L.R.C.P.. M.R.C.S.
Let's first explain what M.E.
actually means; we've all heard the term, but our understanding of it
may not mean more than "Yuppie Flu". M.E. stands for Myalgic
Encephalomyelitis - which perhaps doesn't get us much further.
Literally this means brain fever with aching muscles. But it has other
names. P.V.F. is an acronym for Post Viral Fatigue. C.F.S. means
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. C.F.I.D.S. means Chronic Fatigue Immune
Dysfunction Syndrome.
In fact it isn't very clear cut, since M.E. -as it is mostly known in
the U.K. results in a wide variety of different symptoms, which can
make diagnosis confusing and treatment difficult. Some features
certainly, are always to be met with. The sufferer experiences a level
of extraordinary fatigue, so severe that sometimes it's impossible even
to get out of bed, sometimes for days or weeks on end. Even quite
ordinary exertion may result in complete exhaustion and will greatly
delay recovery. The endless fatigue is accompanied by aching muscles
and joints, poor memory and concentration, mood swings, digestive
problems, intolerance to heat and cold, and an overwhelming need to
sleep, which may be disturbed, and unrefreshing. Some idea of how you
feel is to think back to how you felt the few days after a bad flu.
People with M.E. feel like that all of the time.
How does it start? There is often a history indeed of a particularly
vicious flu attack - which never seems to get better. It may begin with
a glandular fever like illness; but the sore throat and swollen glands
keep recurring. An episode of major stress, be it psychological or
associated with illness or accident, may also be the starting point.
The symptoms may persist for years; sometimes slowly improving,
sometimes not. The frustration and anxiety may result in depression and
changes in personality, which may well cause the illness to be
misdiagnosed as simple depression; or worse, as some form of opting out.
So what goes wrong? There have been endless theories and speculations;
the problem being that however many tests and examinations you do,
nothing very much shows up as being very wrong. This has led to the
regrettable attitude of so many doctors that, since they can't find
anything wrong, then there isn't anything wrong. Hopefully this
approach is slowly being corrected; but sadly too many doctors look at
the blood test reports and shake their heads. A classic example of
treating the blood tests, and not the patient.
It has now become clear that M.E. is actually a disease process
involving many factors, each contributing, but none the main cause. It
is
now
clear
that M.E. starts with damage occurring, usually viral, to
the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus, deep in the center of the
brain, is part gland, and part brain, and controls the whole of the
glandular system, through the pituitary gland, just below it. As a
result of this damage, the thyroid and adrenal glands, and to a
variable extent the ovaries or testes, become deficient. The loss of
proper function of the thyroid and adrenals is responsible for the
majority of the symptoms. Much of what follows is based on the work of
two celebrated American physicians, who devoted their entire working
lives to the unraveling of two inadequately understood and often little
recognized illnesses.
The first was Broda Bames, who died in 1989, who founded the
foundation, which bears his name and carries on his work of the study
and treatment of low thyroid function, or hypothyroidism. The other is
William Jeffries, who made vast strides in the understanding of adrenal
function, especially in deficiency.
It is the close relevance of deficiencies in adrenal and thyroid glands
to M.E. that I am going to explain. First, a little physiology. The
thyroid sits astride the windpipe, just below the adams apple. It is
crucially important to health because it controls the metabolism, in
adults, and also the growth in children. Metabolism is the rate at
which all biochemical processes in the body work, and hence their
proper and efficient functioning.
To do this the thyroid produces mostly thyroxine (T4 for short) and
some triodothyronine (T3). T3 is the active hormone, and enzyme changes
T4 into T3 as the body requires is. From the blood system, the T3 moves
into tissues at receptor sites in each cell.
The adrenals sit like little hats over both kidneys. The inner part of
each adrenal (the medulla) produces adrenaline and noradrenaline, and
is concerned with the systems immediate reaction to stress.
The outer part, the cortex, is concerned with the systems longer-term
capacity to deal with stress - of illness, injury and stress in
general. Also it produces hormones which regulate glucose metabolism,
water balance, acid/base balance and certain sex hormones.
The thyroid and the adrenals are ductless glands, where the hormones
they make enter the blood stream directly. Of similar type is the
pituitary, at the base of the brain, which controls all the other
endocrines (or ductless) glands by producing instructor or trophic
hormones. The sex glands, thymus glands, and part of the pancreas are
also endocrines.
What concerns us is when the function of these glands is disorganized,
and in particular, when deficient. Failure in the beta cells of the
pancreas is the basic cause of diabetes. Failure in the sex glands
occurs in women, at menopause, and also in men; and the treatment of
these problems - Hormone Replacement Therapy - most of you will know a
bit about.
It is thyroid and adrenal failure that we need to talk about. Let me
make it clear that in using the word failure, we mean partial failure;
deficiency of 10% or 20% or 30%. Total failure means death - weeks or
months in the case of the thyroid; a few days in the case of the
adrenals.
So what happens when these vital glands start to run down? In the case
of the thyroid, in adults, the symptoms may be numerous and likely to
be overlooked unless the whole picture is put together. Tiredness and
lack of drive, sensitivity to cold and heat, increasing weight gain,
poor digestion, constipation, depression, mood swings, loss of memory
and concentration, skin and hair problems, menstrual disorders, and
worsening PMT, increasing vulnerability to infection, to name most
symptoms but not all.
Adrenal failure comes next. Confusingly, loss of adrenal function (or
poor adrenal reserve) may be similar to thyroid deficiency (or
hypothyroidism). Loss of energy, cold sensitivity are characteristics,
episodes of Hypoglycemia are common, with fainting and dizziness when
hungry, and low blood pressure. Marked failure to cope with stress is
notable; a feeling of total exhaustion after a stressful event. Most
particularly, a failure to throw off infections, or an unreasonably
severe response to mild illness. Rheumatic or arthralgic symptoms may
be obvious - the sufferer seems to ache in the joints without obvious
cause. Weight loss due to poor appetite and poor digestion may be a
feature.
If both the thyroid and the adrenal are not working properly, many of
the symptoms mentioned may be a constant feature, and, if the
deficiencies are not very bad, one might simply think that one was
getting old and not actually want to bore one's doctor.
In the clinic we are now most familiar with this clinical picture, and
the story, together with some simple tests, is enough to make the
diagnosis. Treatment is easy and extraordinarily rewarding.
A number of patients may be diagnosed in this way and respond
to treatment, but an equal number have had an unresolved virus
infection present as the post viral syndrome, or simply as having M.E.
All the tests may suggest viral infections of the M.E. type, and
thyroid and adrenal tests may come back within the normal range.
What has happened is that the initial infection targets the
hypothalamus and/or pituitary, (Cox-Sackie, or Epstein Barr virus are
often implicated), and have done more damage than is apparent, or
sought for. If so, both the thyroid and the adrenals will lose their
efficiency with the loss of their control or trophic hormones.
On the degree of involvement of thyroid and adrenals will depend the
emphasis of the clinical picture. With the pituitary, thyroid/adrenal
axis damaged, the body's immune system cannot recover, and the sufferer
is frequently ill with apparent relapses of vim's (viral) illness,
other general illnesses, and indeed low grade parasitic infections like
candidiasis. Eventually with rest, nutritional care, vigorous treatment
of camp-follower infections (with electromedicine), the
endocrine axis may finally recoup. But it may take years.
I hope I have said enough to raise your index of suspicion. Could it be
that your M.E. is part of, at least, an endocrine axis deficiency? So
how can we check it out?
Actually it is not very easy to provide convincing blood and other
tests - because, so often they appear to be normal. But this may be the
fault of undue reliance on the tests. There is no substitute, and I do
emphasize this most strongly, for careful consideration of the history,
a proper clinical examination and a high index of suspicion.
There is one home test, which may be convincing. The Bames Basal
Temperature test is sensitive to small deficiencies not revealed by
normal pathological testing. Described by Dr. Bames early in his
medical career, it always provides a strong indication.
In thyroid and/or adrenal failure your resting temperature is
abnormally low. If you take your temperature when at rest, i.e. first
thing in the morning, it should be somewhere between 98F and 98.4F. If
it is not, and is below 97.6F, it is considered a positive indication.
Frequently it is really very low, even below 96F, if there is an
adrenal/thyroid deficiency.
To do it really well, you should place the thermometer for ten minutes
under the axilla (armpit) immediately upon awakening. (If time presses,
three minutes in the mouth). Glass thermometers are better than the
electronic ones for this.
TREATMENT
The increased understanding of the mechanisms of M.E. in the U.S.A.,
and in this country, has meant that treatment is greatly more
effective; and the Foxley Lane Clinic has now many years' experience in
reversing the cause of the illness. The key to success lies in
realizing that all the different symptoms, all the problems, need to be
treated simultaneously. This may not always be possible all at once;
but we will work with you to find the best combinations and balance of
treatment to restore you to what you were. In the ideal world there is
a battery of tests that one would like to check up on.
These include:
1) Full thyroid profile (T4, T3 and TSH)
2) Adrenal profile- Cortisol - DHEA
3) Full haematology
4) Blood Chemistry
5) Ferritin (iron)
6) Hormone Levels - Estrogen (for women), Progesterone + Testosterone
(for men),
F.S.H. (Follicle Stimulating Hormone), L.H.
(Leutinising Hormone)
Helpful as their investigations may be, they may leave some questions
unanswered. Also they involve some very considerable expense which may
not be practical or possible. It is usually possible to pick and choose
those most relevant and, where appropriate, make a judgement on
clinical appraisal alone. Thyroid and/or adrenal deficiency may be
usefully and safely be inferred from the basal temperature test, noted
earlier.
Treatment consists in correcting the hormonal and other deficiencies.
Initially, the most important consideration is the correction of the
adrenal insufficiency. For this physiological amounts of Cortisol are
required and experience has shown the use of 5mg of Hydrocortone, or
1O.lmg of Fludrocortone to be the most effective. These amounts may be
slowly increased to restore blood levels to normal. Poor adrenal
function will mean low DHEA, and this too is given to restore
normality. Thyroid levels must also be restored, and the use of thyroid
supplementation is required. The use of Thyroxine may prove unhelpful
due to poor receptor uptake, or poor conversion to the active hormone
T3 (Triodothyronine); and natural thyroid or Tertroxin is usually more
beneficial.
Deficiency in female hormones estrogen and progesterone must call for
attention; and equivalent deficiency in the male hormone Testosterone
will require attention similarly.
Since poor absorption of many minerals and vitamins is to be found in
M.E., restoration of possible deficiencies must be attended to.
Magnesium 10 supplementation is almost invariably required, since it
has shown to be essential in a great many enzyme processes. The B group
vitamins, essential for the healthy nervous tissue, are also required;
many have found Vit B12 to be unexpectedly valuable. This is given by
injection as often as convenient for several weeks. Iron deficiency
should also be actively treated. High doses of Vitamin C, 2000mg a day,
should also be used. Co-enzyme Q1O, 30mgs three times a day may also be
employed.
Sleep disturbance may often be a feature of M.E., and the use of simple
relaxants at night can be most beneficial. Selective Seratonin
inhibitors (SSRI's) are widely used for depression; and may be of
benefit even if the patient is not actually depressed; since there is
considerable evidence to show that the complex mechanisms of
neurotransmitters, damaged in M.E., may benefit. (electromedicine
Brain Tuners are extremely helpful for sleep and anti-depression)
Other aspects of nutrition also require attention and careful attention
to a wholesome diet has to be recommended. Environmental toxins, which
include tobacco, caffeine and alcohol, have to be excluded.
Many M.E. sufferers, with their damaged immune systems, suffer from Candidiasis. The avoidance of refined
carbohydrates and yeast-containing products is obvious. And the use of
fungicides may in these cases be important. Nystatin for several months
will be helpful in these cases.
SUMMARY
1. Nutrition
Remove coffee/alcohol/tobacco
Vit B, C, B12
Magnesium Chloride
Proper healthy diet
2. Hormones
Treat adrenal deficiency
Treat hypothyroidism
Treat male/female hormone deficiencies
Consider Oxytocin supplementation Vasopressin
3. Candida
Avoid antibiotics where possible
Treat yeast with Nystatin
Removal of bowel parasites
4. Treat food allergies but don't overdo it.
Foxley Lane Clinic Limited
86 Foxley Lane
Purley
Surrey CR8 3EE
U.K.
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