CFIDS is a disease with almost as many names as it has symptoms. Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, CFS, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, ME, Gulf War Syndrome, Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome, Icelandic disease, Royal Free Disease, Yuppie Flu, "It's all in your head", and so on and on they go.

A Google on Chronic Brucellosis (Infection) is very informative. Brucellosis is an age old bacterial disease, various kinds of which have been carried back and forth between various livestock (Bangs Disease, Brucella Abortus or Brucella Melitensis in cattle, Brucella Suis in pigs etc.) and humans for thousands of years. The many symptoms of Brucellosis are very much like the many symptoms of Mononucleosis. No energy, everything hurts, that wonderful brain dead feeling, etc., etc..

New and Improved! This New Varient (of) Brucellosis that Don Scott talks about is a new germ made up of part of one kind of an old germ, Brucellosis. Put inside of another kind of an old germ, Mycoplasma. It actually consists of just the damaging parts of a normal Brucellosis bacteria's DNA code, separated out, that is now contained within another type of intracellular organism called a Mycoplasma. The important parts of one bacteria germ carried inside of another kind of germ.

Mycoplasma is a type of very tiny (virus size) nearly shapeless (pleomorphic) slime bacteria that does not have it's own cell walls. It acts like a bacteria and it also acts like a fungus too. Myco- for fungus like. Tuberculosis and Leprosy are some examples of other pathogenic (disease causing) mycoplasma. Here is link to a patent for a certain pathogenic mycoplasma Mycoplasma Fermentans Incognitus by a Dr. Shyh-Ching Lo, implicated in Gulf War Syndrome by the eminent microbiologist Professor Garth Nicholson.

So the DNA code of the Brucellosis germ is carried by a Mycoplasma germ and is then injected into your cells by the Mycoplasma. What happens then is that you end up with all the symptoms of Brucellosis without actually having a detectable Brucellosis infection. (Brucellosis all by itself is already difficult enough to find. Without having only part of it been carried in by another type stealth infection) What you end up with is a Mycoplasma infection that contains the disease causing DNA from Brucellosis bacteria.

Thankfully this evil mish-mash of an infection is still suceptible to the same standard treatments that work for a regular garden variety Brucellosis infection. Antibiotics like good old cheap doxycycline work great. The trouble is that it takes a very long time for treatment. The longer you have been sick, the longer the treatment. 1-2 years of six weeks on, two weeks off, is what Professor Nicholson recommends. It's been over a year now for me. It took me months to be able to work up to a full dose of doxycycline and now I am still working on being able to be off of it for a whole two weeks at a time.

This infection can penetrate nearly every cell in your body and robs them all of the energy they need to function, live themselves and keep you alive. Among other things, it interferes with the primary ATP cellular metabolic energy production in your cells mitochondria. Those are what Professor Nicholson calls the "batteries" inside your cells. The Mycoplasma punches little holes in the cell walls and mitochondria membranes made out of Phospholipids or Essential Fatty Acids. All the tiny holes in the electrical insulation of your cell walls literally short circuit them out. Like a dead battery full of holes that can no longer hold a charge. Replacing your Essential Fatty Acids helps repair the insulation on the cells batteries and thereby helps restore your normal cells functions.

The infection in all of your cells adversely affects every organ in your body and especially the functions that take the most energy; like your brain, liver, heart, lungs, kidneys, pancreas, and most importantly in the long run, your immune system itself. It is important to feed your immune system and also feed whatever organs are the weakest at the moment, (the ones showing symptoms) with the particular vitamins, minerals, oils, herbs, enzymes, foods that they thrive on to help repair the organ damage.

This is my current regemin that I am experimenting with for Lipid Replacement Therapy as a very important part of my own recovery from CFIDS.

I. Essential Fatty Acids

Omega 3 Fish Oil
PhosphatidylSerine
Cod Liver Oil
CLA  (Conjugated Linolenic Acid)

II. (Advanced) Antioxidants

CoQ10  (CoEnzyme Q10)
SAM-e  (S-adenosylmethionine)
TMG  (TriMethylGlycine, similar to Betain Hydrochloride)
R-ALA  (R-Alpha Lipoic Acid)
Methyl B12  (Methylcobalamin)

Once I have begun to halt the disease process of CFIDS with Doxycycline antibiotic, I then begin to reverse the damage left behind from the Mycoplasma Infection that causes the CFIDS with advanced nutritional strategies like Lipid Replacement Therapy. This is an important part of my own personal version of implementing the the recommendations of Professor Garth Nicholson for the treatment of CFIDS.

Grace!

S