It sounds like the Wilson in question has taken a tradition of medicine that has existed since 1940, misunderstood it, and then named it after himself.
One of the problems with trusting anyone in this mess is that medical types are in business to make a profit. I don’t hold that against them, and it doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re not trying to help people, but it may in this case have led to a certain carelessness. I would not personally choose to trust my health to this man, but it is perhaps a measure of how desperate people are that some people have done.
It doesn’t seem that Wilson has added anything new, but at least according to Wiki, he was claiming that it’s not hypothyroidism, it’s caused by ‘stress’, which sounds like some weird compromise between Barnes/Lowe and conventional medicine’s approach.
The Wiki article says ‘caused by low temperature’, so definitely not what I’m claiming theoretically, that would be a symptom from my point of view.
But they also accuse poor T4->T3 conversion, which would do the trick as well as Lowe’s ‘peripheral resistance’, but which would show up on blood tests, unless they’re talking about conversion inside the cells themselves, in which case err? I think T4->T3 conversion is generally believed to happen mainly in the liver, so failure of that would definitely show up on blood tests.
In short, I think, assuming Wikipedia is correct and not just getting the wrong end of Wilson’s stick, that:
Wilson was trying to sell Barnes/Lowe’s ideas to people. He has either misunderstood them or disagrees. He is however seeing exactly the polymorphous syndrome I predict, with the associated low temperature that Barnes thought was the best diagnostic for hypothyroidism, and he seems to think he can actually cure the problem with high doses of T3.
Neither Barnes nor Lowe claimed that they could cure it, as far as I know, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there were occasional spontaneous recoveries. Especially if the problem is an immune reaction of some sort. In fact I’d expect that to be self-reversing once the infectious agent is gone, since there’d be strong selective pressure for that. And of course, sometimes CFS does get better on its own.
It also appears that Wilson killed someone by giving them a T3 overdose. Which doesn’t surprise me in the slightest.
I hadn’t seen this before, but I have now read the book: ‘Type 2 Hypothyroidism’, by Dr Mark Starr, whom I strongly suspect of being a homeopath. How low I am fallen.
Again I wearily report that I can see exactly where he’s coming from, but I find his book full of insane pseudoscience, and if I hadn’t deduced the existence of the problems he’s talking about before I’d seen the book I wouldn’t have given it the time of day.
Nevertheless, good on him. He believes the evidence of his own eyes, he tries the obvious things. They work. He notices. If I’m right he’s outperformed medical science all on his own. If I’m wrong he’s a dreadful quack.
And I should also say:
It sounds like the Wilson in question has taken a tradition of medicine that has existed since 1940, misunderstood it, and then named it after himself.
One of the problems with trusting anyone in this mess is that medical types are in business to make a profit. I don’t hold that against them, and it doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re not trying to help people, but it may in this case have led to a certain carelessness. I would not personally choose to trust my health to this man, but it is perhaps a measure of how desperate people are that some people have done.
It doesn’t seem that Wilson has added anything new, but at least according to Wiki, he was claiming that it’s not hypothyroidism, it’s caused by ‘stress’, which sounds like some weird compromise between Barnes/Lowe and conventional medicine’s approach.
The Wiki article says ‘caused by low temperature’, so definitely not what I’m claiming theoretically, that would be a symptom from my point of view.
But they also accuse poor T4->T3 conversion, which would do the trick as well as Lowe’s ‘peripheral resistance’, but which would show up on blood tests, unless they’re talking about conversion inside the cells themselves, in which case err? I think T4->T3 conversion is generally believed to happen mainly in the liver, so failure of that would definitely show up on blood tests.
In short, I think, assuming Wikipedia is correct and not just getting the wrong end of Wilson’s stick, that:
Wilson was trying to sell Barnes/Lowe’s ideas to people. He has either misunderstood them or disagrees. He is however seeing exactly the polymorphous syndrome I predict, with the associated low temperature that Barnes thought was the best diagnostic for hypothyroidism, and he seems to think he can actually cure the problem with high doses of T3.
Neither Barnes nor Lowe claimed that they could cure it, as far as I know, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there were occasional spontaneous recoveries. Especially if the problem is an immune reaction of some sort. In fact I’d expect that to be self-reversing once the infectious agent is gone, since there’d be strong selective pressure for that. And of course, sometimes CFS does get better on its own.
It also appears that Wilson killed someone by giving them a T3 overdose. Which doesn’t surprise me in the slightest.
I hadn’t seen this before, but I have now read the book: ‘Type 2 Hypothyroidism’, by Dr Mark Starr, whom I strongly suspect of being a homeopath. How low I am fallen.
Again I wearily report that I can see exactly where he’s coming from, but I find his book full of insane pseudoscience, and if I hadn’t deduced the existence of the problems he’s talking about before I’d seen the book I wouldn’t have given it the time of day.
Nevertheless, good on him. He believes the evidence of his own eyes, he tries the obvious things. They work. He notices. If I’m right he’s outperformed medical science all on his own. If I’m wrong he’s a dreadful quack.