Re: the Sixth Sense

[Guest guest]

> ,

> Why do you do the experiment with proximity to sleeping? Does mold

affect your sleep?

> I have terrible insomnia problem.

> If organism like mold has evolved to cause person problem where

host or victim will stick around for them to prey on depression would

be perfect since people do not want to do much or move when they are

depressed. Anxiety is the opposite. I don't know why they freq

appear together. I guess it is struggle in body of 'fight or

flight'/ fight or give in, etc. Interesting theory though.<

Paramedics and nurses are taught to recognize hypoxia

and " respiratory insufficiency " through such " emotional responses " .

The signs change as the emergency increases.

The nurses " complication finder " :

http://www.ed4nurses.com/compfinder.htm

Sleeping involves laying face down with the greatest potential for

inhaling spore accumulations on horizontal surfaces.

If people simply acted in accordance with their perceptions as an

animal might - instead of ascribing their " sudden onset " or " location

specific " symptoms to " emotional problems that lack correlation to

any emotional stimulus " , they would run like Hell and conduct what I

call " Unconscious Avoidance " .

Typically I find that people will not respond in accordance with

their perceptions and abandon jobs and houses until the need is

absolutely life threatening but they are already practicing minor

amounts of " UA " by staying out of certain rooms or moving to the

location in a house that bothers them least when the weather is

changing and the wind is from specific directions.

But knowing - as you do - how MAJOR mold slams knock you down,

imagine what life might be like if you had the opportunity to respond

to subtle exposures?

Perhaps you might have the same result that I did, going from

a " death sentence " from one of the more famous CFS doctors in the

world back to mountain climbing.

At the very least, it seemed that this phenomenon should induce

the " interest response " from CFS doctors who are ostensibly searching

for ways to help their patients.

Strangely enough - it has not.

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[Guest guest]

I would like to add that K. DeMeirleir is fully aware of the role of

Stachy in the inception of CFS in the Truckee Teacher Cluster during

the Incline Village Epidemic. -

Prediction of peak oxygen uptake in patients fulfilling the 1994 CDC

criteria

for chronic fatigue syndrome.

Nijs J, De Meirleir K.

Department of Human Physiology, Faculty of Physical Education and

Physical

Therapy and Chronic Fatigue Clinic, Vrije Universiteit Brussel,

Belgium.

Jo.Nijs@v...

PURPOSE: To establish an inexpensive, simple method of predicting

peak oxygen

uptake (VO2peak) in patients fulfilling the 1994 Centers for Disease

Control and

Prevention (CDC) criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). DESIGN:

A

retrospective observational study. SETTING: An outpatient tertiary

care chronic

fatigue clinic. SUBJECTS: Two hundred and forty consecutive patients

fulfilling

the 1994 CDC criteria for CFS. INTERVENTIONS: Heart rate, metabolic

and

ventilatory parameters were measured continuously during a maximal

exercise

stress test on a bicycle ergometer. Using the equation peak oxygen

uptake = 13.1

x peak workload +284 (used by Mullis et al., Br J Sports Med 1999;

33: 352-56),

VO2peak was predicted from the peak workload of a maximal exercise

capacity

test. Pearson correlation coefficient and linear regression analysis

were used

to establish the most accurate way to predict VO2peak. RESULTS:

Percentage error

encountered when comparing actual measured VO2peak with predicted

value was

17.3% (+/-10.0). A strong correlation between VO2peak and peak

workload was

observed (r= 0.89, p < 0.001). A regression analysis established the

relation as

VO2peak = 10.47 x peak workload +284.1, where VO2peak is given in

ml/min and

peak workload in W (error in prediction = 11.0+/-9.5%). CONCLUSIONS:

Monitoring

of the peak workload during a maximal, graded bicycle ergometric test

suffices

to predict the VO2peak. When predicting VO2peak the used operational

definition

for the diagnosis of CFS could be taken into account. Compared with

the equation

used by Mullis et al., peak workload is multiplied by 10.47 in order

to predict

peak oxygen uptake in CDC-defined CFS patients.

PMID: 15573835 [PubMed - in process]