{"id":13500,"date":"2017-06-26T06:39:36","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T06:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=13500"},"modified":"2017-06-26T06:39:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T06:39:36","slug":"mecfs-a-new-explanation-and-cure-from-dr-willy-eriksen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/mecfs-a-new-explanation-and-cure-from-dr-willy-eriksen\/","title":{"rendered":"ME\/CFS: A new explanation \u2013 and cure from Dr Willy Eriksen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tracy Duvall<\/strong> blog post, 10 June 2017: ME\/CFS: A new explanation \u2013 and cure?<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"In a recent paper<\/a>, Dr. Willy Eriksen proposes a complete explanation for the development, diversity, and persistence of myalgic encephalomyelitis, aka chronic fatigue syndrome (ME\/CFS). He also suggests a possible cure. Seeing that this potentially groundbreaking research was attracting little attention, I contacted Dr. Eriksen and interviewed him via email. This post contains a summary of his hypothesis, which I\u2019ve tried to present in everyday language.<\/p>\n

Other posts contain:<\/p>\n

1) the interview,<\/a> which contains considerable new information about his hypothesis, and 2) my understanding<\/a> of how Eriksen\u2019s model fits with other research\u2014and with my experience.<\/p>\n

Eriksen holds an MD and PhD and is a research professor at the\u00a0Norwegian Institute of Public Health.<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Ultra-short summary<\/strong>
\n…Clumps of immune cells form in one or more key spots along the nervous system. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infects the clump(s), and this causes inflammation in the area. This inflammation provokes a reaction in the nervous system, which directly and indirectly accounts for the symptoms of ME\/CFS. Extracting a patient\u2019s immune cells, priming them to fight EBV, and returning them to his or her body might cure the disease.<\/p>\n

Read the full blog post for more information<\/a><\/p>\n

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Tracy Duvall blog post, 10 June 2017: ME\/CFS: A new explanation \u2013 and cure? In a recent paper, Dr. Willy Eriksen proposes a complete explanation for the development, diversity, and persistence of myalgic encephalomyelitis, aka chronic fatigue syndrome (ME\/CFS). He … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3846,221,224,447,3847],"class_list":["post-13500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-dr-willy-b-eriksen","tag-ebv","tag-epstein-barr-virus","tag-inflammation","tag-tracy-duvall"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-3vK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13523,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13500\/revisions\/13523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}