Teitelbaum Study - Some Observations

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I read Teitelbaum's study of his protocol. A couple observations.

1. It is not a Chronic Fatigue Syndrome study, despite what he says. It's a

Fibromyalgia study. What he says in the study is that the Fibromyalgia patients

also had some CFS symptoms. That means nothing. It is the nature of Fibromyalgia

to overlap symptoms with CFS. But that doesn't mean these patients would have

qualified in the strictest sense.

2. A major part of the protocol is improving sleep. He has quite a list of

pharmaceutical sleep aids and suggestions for how to use them. The protocol even

goes so far as requiring that the sleep be fixed.

So why do I mention the sleep thing. I believe that anyone who goes from

shattered sleep to fairly decent sleep will say they feel much better. So for

all we know, this study could have been done using only sleep-fixing part of the

protocol and the outcome would have been the same. Because the basis by which

they determine success is whether the person says he/she feels much better.