[christopher-t]

Hello.

I posted something about this on another article about Emerald Health, but for some reason it was removed.

Unfortunately this happens more these days with the ubiquity of the internet.  I did extensive research on this, and even though the research paper is valid it isn’t related to the company whatsoever, and the company, Emerald Health Pharmaceuticals, is a complete farce.  I would say ‘fraud’ but they are a real company, but only on paper.

There are a few other companies that have done the same thing in duping people, and it’s truly reprehensible.  It’s all related to stock trading schemes.  I have plenty of proof I can provide you with if you want.  I’m really sorry this is the case, as hope for us with MS is a very important commodity that should not be treated so carelessly.

[christopher-t]

Unfortunately MS is multifactorial and highly complex.  Even though EBV antibodies may be in higher concentrations in the CNS of people with multiple sclerosis, so are other viruses due to the breakdown of the epithelial junctions (the BBB) in many places.  There are complex interactions going on that cause the development of MS, which may actually be related to certain types of metabolic dysfunction–one example which may be related to thyroid dysfunction, which can lead to blood brain barrier breakdown without causing hyper or hypo thyroidism.  Even though viruses have been implicated in the etiology of multiple sclerosis, they are more then likely only a tiny player in MS pathology, and probably not the original cause of MS.  It seems that immunosuppression is good in slowing the immune system from causing further damage from inflammatory response, and that’s why many of the disease modifying drugs seem to be good at delaying progression.  But I wonder that MS might not be a strictly autoimmune disease, and that we may just be stopping the immune system from doing its job without actually getting to the root cause.

I believe MS comes from small genetic mutations (either congenital or evolutionarily over our lives currently), and from environmental insults which add to damage in conjunction with genetic ‘chinks in the armor.’  Those environmental insults could be from outside of ourselves, like pollution or toxins or radioactivity, or the envioronment inside ourselves, like gut flora and/or neurochemical excitotoxicity, etc.  It will still take time to suss it all out as researchers are still mainly focused on the immunological aspects of neurodegeneration.

[christopher-t]

I apologize for my bad grammar–I was half asleep when I typed the above posted reply.  It should read, more ‘than’ likely only a tiny player….