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Diagnosing and treating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: its mitochondria, not hypochondria Paperback – February 15, 2014
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The clinical picture: symptoms; useful medical tests; tests not worth doing * Mitochondria and chronic fatigue syndrome * Treatment for mitochondrial metabolic dyslexia * Solid foundations for recovery and good health * Other important factors to look after * Toxic and viral causes of CFS * Practical details - where to start
Hammersmith Press is an independent publishing house producing books for the general public and health professionals that promote better health and well-being through a greater understanding of the human body and mind, with a particular emphasis on the importance of nutrition and diet.
Some of the areas we publish in include:
-Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP)
-Overcoming Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
-Natural Health & Weight Loss
-Holistic Medicine
-Thyroid Health
-Medical stories
-Healthy eating
-Traditional medicines
-Infertility
-Menopause
-Diabetes
- Print length120 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHammersmith Health Books
- Publication dateFebruary 15, 2014
- Dimensions5.43 x 0.87 x 8.46 inches
- ISBN-101781610347
- ISBN-13978-1781610343
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- Publisher : Hammersmith Health Books (February 15, 2014)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 120 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1781610347
- ISBN-13 : 978-1781610343
- Item Weight : 9.9 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.43 x 0.87 x 8.46 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,532,106 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #414 in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & Fibromyalgia
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The book covers a lot, including WHY you get the symptoms, what to do to reverse them, and what to expect as you slowly recover, in easy to understand language.
Her treatments are based on the late virologist Dr.Martin Lerners protocols for mitochondrial dysfunction (due to underlying old semi-dormant viruses and nutritional deficiencies weakening the immune system). This causes low ATP (cellular energy) in most of the cells of the body, including the muscles, brain, and heart. This causes the all-over fatigue.
Excercise makes CFS worse, since the body then shuts down the thyroid, too, to preserve itself. It also robs ATP for the heart and brain from the skin and muscles, causing painful Fibromyalgia, which is another common symptom of CFS. Rigor Mortis is also caused by lack of ATP in the muscles, which explains a lot of the FM pain! Lack of ATP in the brain affects the energy-hungry hypothalmus, which controls sleep; So deep restful sleep is impossible, no matter how many hours one sleeps or Ambiens they take. Lack of ATP in the heart can weaken the heart muscle, shown by low blood pressure & dizziness when standing up; EKG and blood flow is normal, but ejection rates are low.
Most tests MD's do come out 'normal', since they are not looking for the right things, such as the cause of mitochondrial malfunction or low levels of several common viruses (such as Epstein-Barr) causing low-grade inflammation, but no noticeably active infection (such as Mono).
The protocols to restore the Kreb Cycle, thus ATP cellular energy function, and to build up the immune system are also followed by Dr. Montoya's team at the top-rated Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., U.S., which gives Dr. Myhill (in far-off Wales, UK) good credibility.
The book can help you get your life back; especially if your [idiot] doctors and friends have been telling you the Fatigue is 'all in your head', or 'you are just depressed after your _____' (divorce, illness, surgery, or other stressor), or 'you are just lazy', when you know something is physically wrong, but not exactly what.
There is an "ATP Profile" blood test for CFS by (tiny) Acumen Labs in the UK, but it is not yet licensed in the U.S.A.
Improvement is usually seen in 1-3 months of taking the recommended OTC supplements, and perhaps an anti-viral such as generic Valtrex. Curing CFS is impossible, since there will always be viruses around, but people can get back to 95% after a year or so.
This book gives CFS/ME/FM sufferers answers, direction, and hope, which is hard to find in the current medical system.
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Also, speaking as a biochemist, I would question the use of D-ribose as a means adding material to the pentose phosphate shunt for ATP synthesis. It is unnecessarily expensive. Fructose (also known as Fruit sugar) also enters the phosphate shunt using the same transporter (Glut5) and is available in supermarkets for one twentieth of the price (Less than £1:00 in Tesco for 500g).
Another source of unnecessary expense is the need to have magnesium chloride injections. Admittedly inorganic magnesium salts such as magnesium chloride is not well absorbed orally but if you take it in a chelated organic form such as magnesium malate (also available from Amazon for about £12:00 for a 180 day supply) it is a lot cheaper than having to pay privately for regular injections. I bought some magnesium malate via Amazon and I felt remarkably better after just three days. Try It and see for yourself.
In short, I found Sarah Myhill's book very helpful but her lack of biochemical knowledge made her treatments unnecessarily expensive.
Having driven on for 18 months finally my body just gave up physically and mentally. The latter was the most disconcerting, (unable to think) this book has helped me to understand I am not alone. There is light at the end of the tunnel and I am not just lazy, malingering or suffering from early dementia. I now have a plan and most of all hope.
But lots of info an very good advice. Some of which i am now followin...like atoppin takin the contraceptive pill (made so much difference to my energy levels!!! An have started with alot of alternative meds that dr myhill recommends. All of which are available from her online.
One of the best books i have come across so even with the brain fog it is worth percisting.


