Ian Lipkin thinks the gut holds the key to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (and who are we to disagree with him? ).
Five dollars to help the best viral hunter on the plan gut it out for ME/CFS
His study will identify microbes that are associated with immune activation in ME/CFS, then find ways to knock them down using probiotics, antibiotics followed by probiotics, restriction diets and/or perhaps even fecal transplants. Proof of concept clinical trials are envisioned. They want to move fast…
Like many others he’s had trouble at times raising the dough he needs to fund his ME/CFS research. He’s gotten help, though, from “The Microbe Discovery Project” – a group of ME/CFS patients who built a beautiful website to help get Lipkin as deep into the guts of ME/CFS patients as he can.
Thus far 750 donors have sent an amazing $140,000 Lipkin’s way.
Now The Microbe Discovery Project is engaged in a five dollar challenge to keep the research moving. Check that out and more on this study as well as Dr. Lipkin’s upcoming talks on ME/CFS here.
Thanks, Cort! Really appreciated
And please, to anyone reading this, give $5 if you can, or whatever you can afford, to the great team Dr Lipkin has at Columbia University
http://www.microbediscovery.org/blog/2014/10/28/five-dollar-challenge-send-100-messages-support-dr-lipkin-microbiome-team-9-nov/
To clarify something in the post that has been removed. The CFI funded Lipkin’s small microbiome study in ME/CFS, but the big study – the one the Microbe Discovery project is raising funds for – has not begun.
I bet if this was on kickstarter or have started something similar to the als icebucket challenge , which has raised over 115 million dollars, we would get much more donations and coverage for cfs/me.
Yep…the ice bucket challenge was fantastic….we need to come up with something as good…scratching my befuddled heap….needs to be safe, easy, newsworthy…..there must be something????
I think a lot of your dollars could be saved if Mr Lipkin and his team would take the time to have a chat with Mr Kenny de Meirleir! He’s way ahead of them all about the connection between the gut and ME if you ask me!
I would love to participate in this project.