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Re: Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified

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Nice curiosity gap there. Where did the mercury come from?

IMO he is clearly implying it came from a vaccine(s) but he is trying to do it without being seen as an anti-vaxxer.

Why would I be an anti-vaxxer? Mercury is not in any childhood vaccines.

Re: Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified

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I found out last year the root cause of my CFS is life-long mercury toxicity (a well understood neurotoxin). I am responding very positively to treatment. I rarely talk about it because people get very upset when I tell them about the evidence of where the mercury came from.

Do tell please, it would be educating for all of us. Hopefully you’ll find a less negative reception in this thread.

I'm already being down voted and I've said nothing but what has been rigorously verified as the root cause of my illness. It's impossible to discuss this intelligently on public forums.

Re: Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified

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I found out last year the root cause of my CFS is life-long mercury toxicity (a well understood neurotoxin). I am responding very positively to treatment. I rarely talk about it because people get very upset when I tell them about the evidence of where the mercury came from.

I don't get angry like some people about "anti-vaxxers", but the reason I am not one, is because I think that if low levels of mercury were a major health issue, then it would be apparent in large populations that consume a relatively large amount of mercury-containing seafood. e.g. Japan. And in Japan, there have also, as it happens, been incidents of acute mercury poisoning with significant numbers of people, so th…

There is a compelling theory that when a child is simultaneously exposed to injected mercury along with another stressor, the mercury is not excreted as it normally would be.

It's all kind of moot though because mercury is no longer in child-hood vaccines. I really don't see the point in bringing the discussion of vaccinations into this since almost no one can have a rational discussion about them.

Re: Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified

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Keep in mind that CFS is a currently a diagnosis of exclusion - many people labelled with CFS may in fact have another, undiagnosed illness. For example, it's been found that a lot of CFS (and fibromyalgia) patients turn out to have small fiber neuropathy (damage to he nerve fibers that signal pain), and neurotoxins have been shown to cause general fatigue (I'm in mobile, so no references for now I'm afraid). The ski…

I found out last year the root cause of my CFS is life-long mercury toxicity (a well understood neurotoxin). I am responding very positively to treatment. I rarely talk about it because people get very upset when I tell them about the evidence of where the mercury came from.

Just wanted to add that I made this post to throw life-lines out to those who are suffering with the same illness as I am. This was not meant to be an invitation to healthy people to debate the merits of my diagnosis. I don't think healthy people can really understand this illness. It takes an immense amount of research and dedication to wrap your head around what's really going on. I gave up everything in my life to focus on studying my illness for over a decade. I'm talking 80-100 hour weeks for years and years. It just doesn't make sense to argue with people who haven't put in a similar amount of time and effort.

Re: Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified

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AIDS, like CFS, was never considered a disease in the medical sense. They both are called “syndrome”, which is medical short-hand for “interesting enough to study further, but frankly, we don’t know shit about what’s causing this”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndrome : ”A syndrome is a set of medical signs and symptoms that are correlated with each other and, often, with a particular disease or disorder.” That’s w…

On the other hand, there are times when blaming people for their misfortune is appropriate, and serves a social purpose. The hard part is telling when it is appropriate. It does seem pretty clear though that we tend to both give ourselves too much credit for our successes, and too much blame for our failures, overall.

My impression is that people give themselves the credit for their successes, and blame somebody else for their failures.

My successes are due to my moral worth, and others' failures are due to their moral failings.

Re: Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified

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post #72

Can anyone explain the idea of salt as a cell stressor? > The idea is to stress the samples from both healthy and ill patients using salt, and then compare how each sample affects the flow of the electrical current. Is this an osmotic pressure change that stresses the cytoskeleton or something? Does a cell under a hypertonic solution change its cell membrane channel’s behavior?

While a cell is alive, it maintains differential concentration of ions across its membrane, so by definition changing the [Na+] is changing the membrane potential.

The stress on the cell is basically it needs to work extra hard moving ions around to maintain itself. This is typically pumping ions against a concentration gradient which takes energy.

Re: Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified

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post #134

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IMO he is clearly implying it came from a vaccine(s) but he is trying to do it without being seen as an anti-vaxxer.

Why would I be an anti-vaxxer? Mercury is not in any childhood vaccines.

Because mercury toxicity is a common claim of anti-vaxxers and because you implied the alleged source of the mercury which caused your CFS is something that upsets most people. Doesn't seem like that much of a stretch to think that you're referring to vaccines.

If you were less weirdly cryptic about it, we could just have a normal exchange and perhaps I'd learn something new. Perhaps you instead believe it's from seafood and people don't like hearing that they shouldn't be eating fish, IDK.

What exactly is the source of the mercury that you're referring to? You accuse others of not being able to have rational/intelligent conversation in this thread, yet you haven't even stated your basic premise, just trolled and then acted like a victim when people got annoyed with your coyness.

Re: Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified

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Do tell please, it would be educating for all of us. Hopefully you’ll find a less negative reception in this thread.

I'm already being down voted and I've said nothing but what has been rigorously verified as the root cause of my illness. It's impossible to discuss this intelligently on public forums.

just spit it out, please

Re: Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified

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Some evidence sure, not "the" evidence. Unfortunately I don't know any CFS patients that have recovered, or even gone into remission; for everyone I know, it's been a chronic condition.

>Some evidence sure, not "the" evidence. At least 4 studies that looked at it all found that it was triggered by stress or viral infection. If you're aware of any other contrary evidence, I'm interested. >Unfortunately I don't know any CFS patients that have recovered, or even gone into remission; for everyone I know, it's been a chronic condition. Here on HN there is myself and tomhoward for starters, and I know lot…

How did you recover? (Not an academic question. My wife has CFS.)
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