Event, Newry, N. Ireland: Dr. Jonathan Kerr: ME/CFS Subtypes & Targeted Effective Treatments

Andy H said:
Either way, please would you explain how you would suggest treating reactivated herpes viruses if not with the recommend drugs designed to treat herpes viruses or if you saying that viral reactivation should not be treated at all, why not?
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I am basing what I say on the assumption that we do not know that viruses are reactivated in ME. All the research I have seen in the last five years suggests that viral reactivation is not a significant factor. I am not impressed that there is any older evidence that is convincing either. There have also been trials with anti-vitals in ME and my memory is that initially there was an apparent response that on formal testing turned out to be a placebo response.

Certainly anti-vitals should be used where reactivation is established with viruses such as varicella-zoster or Herpes simplex.
 
I have not been able to watch the talk, but on the basis of the comments here it does not sound as if this talk advanced things.

I must admit that I am desperately discouraged these days that the research has not yet yielded what’s required to give folks an acceptable life. I had hoped the metabolic trap would yield something and things are now quiet on that front. However, who knows what is going on behind the scene. And Dr Kerr who is balm to the soul has not, it seems, been able to come close to cracking this either.

Any good news out there?
 
There was an interesting sounding section on genes but the detail was beyond me and I couldn't see the graphs properly, so I didn't comment on it!
Maybe someone who understood it better could explain it. I think it was based on his own research, which is presumably amongst the papers listed in MEpedia. https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Kerr
 
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