Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome
(CFIDS)
Alternative
Treatment
CFIDS is 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 CFIDS. This viral disease
was beating me to death for 16 years until I tried this alternative treatment.
The Epstein Barr virus is a common
cause of this disease, and when it (or any other causative virus)
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 blood and lymph electrification devices (the DC Electrifier and Magnetic Pulser)
that BioElectric and other
companies sell 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.
chronic fatigue alternative treatment testimony:
Michael Forrest showed all the classical symptoms of CFIDS since
1980 when he 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 he 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 he noticed a sudden
marked improvement in how he 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 him then would comment on
how he looked so much improved even though he hadn't told them
about the treatment he just completed. Click
here to read the details of his usage of these electromedicine
devices.
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).
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 furtherr. 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 centre 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 unravelling of two inadequately
understood and often little recognised 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 thyroiid; 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 Hypoglycaemia 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 vims
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 emphasise 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 oestrogen 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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