Autopsy

[Lyon]

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[gwa]

I don't think you'd get an argument from anyone in that regard, but after all this time I think most researchers have given up on trying to determine the cause.
Bob

I don't believe this statement. There are researchers trying to find the cause right now. Dr Steinman at Stanford is looking and has zeroed in on proteins. The scientists at The Myelin Repair Foundation are looking. The last time I read some of their updates, they described finding a cure would be at least 20/30 years away. To me that means that finding the cause is a very difficult project, not that people aren't looking. All kinds of scientists are looking, if for no other reason than they will be well known and quite wealthy when the answer is found.

As far as drug companies trying to find meds that make the lesions disappear for a while, that has bugged me all the time because it has been shown for ages that lesions and symptoms have no relationship thus far. A MRI showing reduction of lesions makes a good sales pitch though.

gwa

[Lyon]

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[gwa]

Hi gwa,


I guess my point was, considering the places they are looking, there isn't much worry that researchers are going to stumble on the cause of MS anytime soon.

That said, everyone knows that my "obsession" is the "loss of evolutionary normal conditions among the developed populations as the cause of immune dysfunction" and slowly but surely researchers continue to make headway in that regard and for that reason alone I can't say that NO ONE is looking in for the cause in the right places

Bob

You and your damn worms! I am sure that much research is going on that we have no clue about until it is published, but some very smart scientists are looking for the causes and I hope to know what has screwed my life before I die. Many people didn't get that wish and I may not either.

gwa