[vwat]

The idea that people are imagining this, as other commenters have put forward, is nonsense. The idea that people are just getting old and drink too much soda isn’t right either although it’s close.

The reason why people report similar or overlapping symptoms is because they all have a problem with their immune systems. Overactive immune systems tend to cause a certain set of symptoms.

The immune system is very complicated, very broad in its jurisdiction and very poorly understood. It is scientifically proven that certain chemicals (common food additives for example) cause no immune (allergic) response at all whatsoever, but cause an immune response to other chemicals. So the immune system is not just complex as a monolith but also has inputs that interact with one another, leading to a combinatoric level of complexity. When you also consider that immune function and mediation (as seen with some food additives, for example) is observed in emotional stress — something that is as close to being unquantifiable as anything could be — one can see that it might be the case that this is a disease that has evaded medical science until now.

Chronic fatigue syndrome was observed in gulf war vets and was so common among them that it was coined “gulf war syndrome.” One researcher has hypothesized that this is due to an immune response which takes the form of cell deactivation via ATP signaling which he has named “cell danger response.”

Meanwhile, it is widely appreciated that autism is not caused by destroyed neural circuits but by deactivated neural circuits. And people with autism can experience remission under certain circumstances, like having parts of their brain electrically shocked, most commonly via TMS. Cell danger response could also explain this.

This researcher, whose name is too complicated to bother spelling it, used this hypothesis to design a study in which an obscure drug that blocks ATP receptors was given to autistic children. All of the children who received this drug experienced immediate and unprecedented improvement in their symptoms, unprecedented both in the context of these patients and in the context of medical science. That was just months ago. Further studies are coming.

https://naviauxlab.ucsd.edu/

The gulf war vets were all exposed to chemicals, stress and a heavy regimen of crazy vaccines designed to make them immune to biological warfare agents, if I remember correctly.

As I have pointed out, immune inputs influence one another. The combination of stress, chemicals and vaccines likely caused gulf war syndrome, even though politically this begins to ruffle feathers.

There has been no study so far that has looked for a connection between this wholistic idea of immune dysfunction and autism. That is to say, there are no studies looking at the combination of stress, chemicals and vaccines and autism. There have been no studies looking for a connection between the former and a collection of disorders that might include autism. Further, there have been no purely randomized studies looking for a connection between vaccines and autism. But as I have shown, even if there were, it might still miss the connection because the connection is not between vaccines and autism, it is between many immune system inputs and many possible adverse outcomes. And that is not even to consider the fact that autism might have multiple, totally separate and distinct causes besides immune dysfunction, which again none of the current studies look for. The issue is not settled and people who bark at me when I bring this up are stymying science...

Obviously, even if what I claim is true then it would still be in the best interest of society to administer vaccines. Please do not lose your composure.

Until very recently I had absolutely no inclination to believe that chronic fatigue was real or that there might be some sliver of truth to the vaccine thing. But then I was stricken by an immune problem myself, which is a huge story, but coincidentally I found that the ketogenic diet completely cured me which, because my illness fell into an established and unambiguous field of medicine, was totally inexplicable. So I went down the rabbit hole which led me to see that the ketogenic diet is extremely potent anti inflammatory, is useful for curing many other things, and that there is a medical revolution in the pipes regarding inflammation and metabolics, the implications of which I am not sure anyone is ready to reconcile with.

https://youtu.be/06e-PwhmSq8

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Mast cells are immune cells that contain many different kinds of molecules, one of which is the famous “histamine.” These cells release these molecules in response to immune signals. Their chemicals are not understood. It is scientifically proven that (in mice I think) wounds cannot heal without mast cells present. This shows you how broad their function is, and opens even wider the possibility of very complicated and unintuitive problems resulting from their dysfunction. Mast cells are present in the heart, the emotional centers of the brain and many other places. You will notice that many long haulers report tachycardia, depression and anxiety.

[vwat]

So a single person decides they don’t like my comment and now it’s faded out where nobody will bother reading it. I think it’s important so I am asking for the upvotes to not dip below zero because I would like as many people to read it as possible whether they upvote or not... it was a similar comment that literally saved my life.

[robocat]

> So a single person decides they don’t like my comment

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Note that many people read downvoted comments, and upvote them to counteract “unfair” downvotes. If you regularly get downvoted by more than -1, I would read it as a strong signal that you need to be more critical in how you present your thoughts.

I think that your comment deserves the downvotes (despite how factual it may be), because you are bringing in contentious subjects without sufficient nuance, and without tying them into the topic very well.

Don’t give up!

[lymeeducator]

There is a lot of data that we could study from everyone given the unique expressions of our immune systems. And with many variables that exist, we measure a miniscule few and therefore cannot often get a good picture of chronic health issues. As to your comment downvote, it may rise again. Sometimes trolls and/or people who don't like new ideas will readily dismiss things (here and elsewhere).

[y-c-o-m-b]

I think you knew what you were getting into when you brought up the autism issue. It's an extremely controversial topic. FWIW even with the down-votes, I read your comment.