Dr. Judy Mikovits met with Dr.Sarah Myhill in Knighton, Wales on Friday, September 27, 2013 to discuss their common interests in immunology, neuroimmune diseases, and mitochondrial issues. They enjoyed a productive meeting of the minds. Their discussions centered around this question: What are the underlying mechanisms which result in the clinical picture of ME/CFS? The answer to this question has obvious implications for clinical management. Fatigue is the symptom experienced when energy demand exceeds energy delivery. Dr. Myhills special interest is energy delivery. Dr. Mikovits area of expertise is immunological – the point being that inflammation in response to infection and environmental toxins such as mercury and organophosphates create damage due to oxidative stress and punches a large immunological hole in the energy bucket. While inflammation is an essential part of fighting infection, useless inflammation is a terrible waste of energy. Furthermore, it is damaging to tissues. The immune system is our standing army. Useless inflammation amounts to civil war within the human body...or autoimmune disease. A useful analogy is to think of the body as a car. If the body is a car, to get it to go you need the engine, which is mitochondria, fuel, which is nutrition and gut function, oxygen, which are the lungs, a gas pedal, which is the thyroid gland, a gearbox, which are the adrenals, service and repairs, which is sleep, cleaning and oil, which are antioxidants, a cooling system, which is detoxification, and a driver, which is the brain. These concepts are underscored in the exciting metabolome studies of the Robert K. Naviaux paper, Metabolic Features of the Cell Danger Response, ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23981537 . Dr. Mikovits was pleased to meet the lovely and brilliant Dr. Naviaux of the Mitochondrial and Metabolic Disease Center, Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Pathology, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, during her recent trip to San Diego, where she, Drs. Eric Gordon, Neil Nathan and Wayne Anderson discussed application of his exciting metabolome studies in autism and PTSD to ME/CFS. As Dr. Naviaux explained, in these diseases, the patients body does not get the message that the war is over. Drs. Myhill and Mikovits enjoyed a hike around the grounds of Dr. Myhills estate discussing philosophy and treatment approaches. Dr. Myhill was a gracious host and friend who provided several lovely meals in line with the Myhill Protocol to her guests, which included Judys husband David Nolde. David and Judy were invited to relax at the estate any time, an invitation they will delight in accepting in the very near future. Springtime would be incredibly beautiful there.
Posted on: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 18:25:42 +0000
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