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"Once you understand autoimmune disease the solution is obvious. Fix the underlying causative factors, strengthen the body by correcting the internal and external environment, and assist the immune system in expelling toxins and microbial overgrowth. "

HOW?

Consider this question in relation to someone with FMS and long covid and two excised stage 1 cancers, both that were not effectively removed.

I have no access to an integrative practitioner. I have a typically ignorant GP, but a helpful one, and so find myself battling to lead him in what to do. I am trying to direct him towards finding the cause of my dramatic health collapse in the last 2 years, but he cannot understand the concept of finding an underlying cause. Trouble is, I don't know what to do either - I am not a doctor. So can you tell me so I can tell him?

1. What tests he should run to identify an issue with Vitamin D (or whatever is underneath that - Vitamin A maybe?)

2. To convince himself of what? (All his actions must be justified to a central authority so he must be able to defend expensive tests and protect himself in case of litigation.)

3. What results from those tests trigger what responses - presuming there may be different treatments based on differing test results - simplified of course to the most common issues and treatments.

(Perhaps you could design this as you would design some kind of scientific trial, one designed to demonstrate your theories, and put them to the test. I would be happy to pass the instructions onto my doctor and volunteer as an informal, unofficial trial subject to see whether you are right or wrong. )

I have had enough of this incessant pain, stiffness and weakness that has rendered me unable to live life even to the most minimal degree. I want a resolution.

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Completely agree with you regarding stress.

As someone with a clinical diagnosis of HIV+ (Sep 2013) to have this show up then occurred on the heels of extreme stress. Reigniting financial earnings as a white male mid-life middle management (retail/showroom visual presentation) burned by sacrificing home and financial security by an altruistic streak (chronic self-sacrifice on steroids to transform the plight of LGBT experience c2000) produced a transformation just not the one anticipated.

Spinning my wheels to restore personal security merely set the downward groove to go deeper. From Retail Visual Presentation Manager homeowner with car in the metropolis to penniless, homeless, jobless on government unemployment of $625 / month. Live on that for 2.5yr qualifies for stress on steroids.

Culminating with HIV+ symptoms in January 2013 - medical incompetence delivering an HIV+ diagnosis nine months later.

The root - ever mysterious, powerful and tenacious - lodged in childhood emotional abuse, discovered through EFT Therapy (Emotional Focused Therapy) 2018. Solidly explained in the ACE Study of the 1990's.

Early childhood stress, sublimated, watered and tended to daily, grow deep deep tenacious roots with or without light.

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