Ampligen 4 ME on “The Year of the Gym Rat”
January 6, 2012
The ME/CFS patient (nicknamed “City Changer”) who wrote the blog Ampligen 4 ME discussed the benefits of anaerobic exercise in an article called “The Ascent.”
(The blog name is used because this individual originally was planning to combine Ampligen with mold avoidance, but then experienced enough improvements just from avoidance that he decided not to bother.)
From the article:
I did some thinking the last few days about the people I know that have recovered from illness. In a previous post, I touched upon the issue of testosterone in men and the role it plays in pace of recovery. I wonder if this also plays a role in the things we should do to achieve recovery. Erik largely used exercise to get where he is today. Lisa did not but is no less functional. Exercise was a large part of Mike Dessin’s recovery. First anaerobic, and then aerobic to the tune of playing pickup basketball 2 hours a day. Sergio made his first big leap on LDN and becoming a gym rat. You could see from his before/after pictures how much of a commitment he made to resistance training. Now he is in medical school, living in a dorm, studying medical textbooks at the tune of 10 hours a day. A female friend of mine that recovered from ME (a similar presentation as Mike’s including scary weight loss) and is working a full-time job in the finance industry now, never exercised much as part of her recovery. She simply felt better after stem cells.
This isn’t meant as some sort of official survey, but just jogging some examples in my head. In any case, I think there is something to be said for the hormonal strengths and weakness between men and women being something that should be part of one’s recovery. For example, women have more hormonal surges (especially during pregnancy) that tend to have a dampening effect on inflammation to the point they often go into remission; ironically they also suffer from more autoimmune illnesses. On the other hand, I’ve heard from ampligen patients that Peterson typically gives half the normal dosage of ampligen to women, whereas many men remain on the normal dosage. Whether this is due to men demanding the higher dosage or women have an easier time lowering inflammation, I’m not sure.
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