Recent research in the science of Celiac Disease, a potentially fatal inflammation of the colon by way of gluten in wheat, barley, ect. ("gluten intolerance") has influenced researchers to believe that because gluten intolerance is simple in general and can be turned on and off merely by gluten or no gluten, we may find how other autoimmune illnesses are caused and hopefully cured. The general outline of CD is believed to be of three essential components, a physical modus for the second component, the virus to cause the illness not found in others without the illness, combined with genes rendering the other two causes more common. All three have to be present. By the evidence this is believed to be the general outline of many autoimmune diseases, though they are more complex, the outline may be the same because of what CD and the other illnesses of this type share.
This new insight which may seem at first glance to be only about autoimmune illness, even so seems more of worth than just for autoimmune; it has the individual both in genes and physically distinct, and then the trigger that takes advantage of this. If there were just a simple physical cause in most autoimmune illness, the virus couldn't find more fertile ways to cause woes and certainly like free radicals bad complexity is a formula for woes, and genes causing CD or other illness could increase the complexity the virus or other "cause" could cause. Thus I ask, what if other illnesses have the same in common, physical and other general changes that make it so a trigger like a virus, then having influence? For example as I say on my main CFS page CFS seems to be caused by this general pattern of physical difference, the virus, and perhaps a susceptibility; the stomach muscles not being exercised causing orthostasis, which the virus would then multiply downward. Note that the "physical way in" in CFS would be not just the lack of stomach muscle belt of dieters, it could also be this in or out of combination with the more extreme changes in iron caused by eating food like junk food or the periods of women (they have higher incidence of CFS than men). As I say on my other CFS pages iron overload and rapid changes in iron may be important to CFS, because symptoms of too much and too little iron are much the same, fatigue. Thus the virus believed to cause CFS HHV6 might do best where there is either too much CO2 (an iron metabolite) or too much oxygen, or the acidic conditions associated with poor circulation. Thus poor circulation in general combined with rapid changes in iron or acidosis might make the HHV6 more powerful. And here's where we might try to fit other types of illness than autoimmune illness in with the idea that CFS might be of the same general paradigm, trigger, and both physical and other types of susceptability to it. (CFS seems in my explanation to only be the cause of its related immune problems, not vice versa. The low blood pressure combined with poor circulation as I say on my main CFS page might be the cause of both the cognitive problems and the immune woes by way of reduced oxygen to both the brain and the immune system itself.) If the physical causes are not simple like in CD, perhaps so too the virus may be more complex. Stress is believed to be one imajor cause of CFS. But in the helping professions there is actually not as much stress as in many other lines of work, for example farmers and postal corriers often have stress from weather and exhaustion. Teachers and nurses and others in the healing professions don't have much heavy lifting! Well, lift a baby Doctor Supermom! But so do the rich and they don't have more CFS (only 3% of the general population exercises.). But if the physical way in of CFS is perhaps more complex, if both iron and the stomach muscle belt are involved we might also conclude that the "cause" itself might be more complex. We all have the HHV6 virus, 99% of the population. So What may make those in the helping professions have CFS more often may therefore be another virus received from the people in those helping professions are they’re more in contact with or something that may increase the HHV6 that other non helping professionals may not be so often influenced by.
One possibility is that the stress of helping itself causes pro helpers to have more risk of CFS. If so since a teacher marm has less stress, than, say a nurse in the ER we might expect some difference in the incidence of CFS with the teachers at lower risk. If it’s another virus combined with HHV6 we might also expect the nurse to have higher risk here too. If a nurse worked 20 years in the ER and then took up teaching, we might expect a marm who worked for the same number of years to have lowered risk of CFS, and then if the teacher took up nursing in the ER, the risk would go up, etc.
It's been well known that viruses are common with CFS, with estimates of the number of viruses PWC's have being around 50, often dug into muscle in untreated CFS. PWC's can't feel most of the viruses, even so viral load is 20,000 times higher than others have. I believe it's possible if HHV6 can cause most of the CFS, yet most have HHV6. If so something else must be the trigger, not HHV6 or lack of exercise, rather perhaps one of the other viruses may be sent from people the teachers or nurses or are in contact with. The second cause or virus, whatever it might be, may act itself like a trigger, and allow HHV6 to cause the CFS symptoms. If so it's even more important to task antivirals with other CFS boosters like Activive, not just Activive alone. Antivirals show dramatic improvments for CFS.
Another possibility is that since most doctor’s offices and colleges I’ve seen have a machine with junk food (in the halls of IV!) nearby, they have more access to the bad iron (unproven yet if safe or unsafe in research, bad for CFS at any rate, as I say on main pg.) and this might be proven with the teachers and others who eat no chips over years to see if their incidence of CFS is lower, even if they‘re in the same helping business.
See my main CFS page for why I believe these ideas may be valuable to CFS science, and powerful new cheap ways to more easily control CFS.
