I have neither time nor health nor self-obsession to continue.
an adventure towards understanding complex illness not by label but in the context of healthy human systems.
We aren't there yet...
“If we look back 150 years, to the paradigms and practices of that time, we are likely to smile indulgently. Many of us can see clearly that the belief systems then operating were inadequate to explain events, and have been overtaken. But too many of us lack a capacity to learn from that observation about our current paradigms. If we go forward 150 years in our imagination and then look back it seems likely that practitioners of that day will smile again at our belief systems. There is nothing wrong with this - we are using the best paradigms we have. They are not perfect and they will be overtaken. We need to be relaxed and ready - and not be prisoners of the paradigms of today."
Peter Baume, The Tasks of Medicine, 1998
AND HERE IS THE CHART OF EVERYTHING, THINGS OUR MITOCHONDRIA DO. The horizontal process is mitochondrial respiration, the efficient production of energy and the great antioxidant carbon dioxide. The vertical process is steroidogenesis, the making of steroidal hormones from cholesterol, the so called 'bad cholesterol'. Popular dogma holds that elevated cholesterol needs to be removed from the blood stream (from where usually to put fat in the liver) but it ought to be seen as a failure of the processes in this chart. These processes are only 1.3 billion years old and still argued about in the cell.
cholesterol
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plus thyroid T3
and vitamins A and E
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/ \
sugar + oxygen ---> | MITOCHONDRION | --> ATP + CO2
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pregnenolone
/ \
DHEA progesterone
/ | \
androgens testosterone cortisol
/ / \
estrogen estrogen aldosterone
AND HERE IS A LINK TO THE SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE IN MARCH 2019 WHERE APPEARED EVIDENCE OF DEFICITS OF MITOCHONDRIAL PERFORMANCE IN CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME, FOR WHICH I HAVE ARGUED FOR TWO DECADES AND ON WHICH MY REGIME IS BASED.
