I am very sorry to hear about your illnesses and your suffering. It’s very likely that different species of chronic bacteria could be causing many of the ailments you are dealing with. Our foundation runs a treatment called the Marshall Protocol, which aims to target these bacteria and we have seen patients with fibromyalgia and diabetic problems improve greatly.

In order to learn about the treatment, you could start with the following articles:
http://bacteriality.com/about-the-mp/
http://mpkb.org/doku.php/home:patients:protocol_overview
http://mpkb.org/doku.php/home:patients

Patients anywhere in the world can use the Marshall Protocol, but you will have to find a doctor who is willing to work with you while you do the treatment. This article gives tips about how to find a doctor in your area who might help you with the treatment.
http://mpkb.org/doku.php/home:starting:physician:finding

Best,
Amy

Congrats on starting the MP.

I can understand you’re scared, but I think your doctor has it right. The skin cells and sweat glands are notorious for being infected by bacteria. For example, a study by Fierer found a virtual zoo of bacteria on people’s hands:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19004758

Further, after statistical adjustment for possible confounders, another research team found a correlation between graying of the hair, facial wrinkling, and frontoparietal baldness and crown-top baldness and myocardial infarction in men:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7484729

The fact that these conditions are related suggests some common underlying disease process.

Which is all to say that we believe that baldness and hair quality is a function of bacterial load. If you give it enough time, it should return to its previous lustrousness. That’s certainly been the pattern for nearly every other symptom.

Hope this helps!

Best,
Paul

This spring I was finally diagnosed with Chronic Lyme Disease (along with a host of other opportunistic and co-infections). My suffering extends all the way back to childhood, and my doctor estimates I have been infected for the last 25+ years.

I am wondering if anyone else you know of also suffered hair loss and found a resolution of this particular symptom on the MP. And if so, how long did it take in treatment for this to happen? I am 3 1/2 months into the MP (yay!) and all my new growth from the last round of hair loss caused by my Th1-disease is falling out again. It’s very upsetting and scary. My doctor has assured me that this particular IP cycle will eventually end, but I just need a little extra encouragment by hearing some stories of hope.

Thanks!

I’m sorry not to write you back more quickly – I just got back from a trip to Chicago. I’m very sorry about your friend’s diagnosis. As far as our results show, all types of sarcoidosis appear to respond to the MP. If you look at the patient interviews on this site (they are on the lower part of the right sidebar), you can read about people who used the MP to recover from many different forms and manifestations of sarcoidosis.

The Marshall Pathogenesis also holds that most diseases like sarcoidosis (even if the patient isn’t given an official sarc diagnosis) are also likely caused by similar kinds of chronic bacteria that cause sarcoidosis. So despite what doctors decide to call your friend’s symptoms/disease, my guess is that no matter what he could still benefit from the MP.

The best way to find a doctor that administers the MP in the UK is to post at the following website:

http://www.curemyth1.org (Th1 refers to diseases caused by bacteria, hence the name). The patient advocates on the site, who are volunteers, will give you a list of doctors using the MP in the UK free of charge.

If none of the doctors on the list work out for your friend then I recommend that he look for an open-minded doctor in his area or even his current physician and show them the latest peer-reviewed papers and conference speeches given by Dr. Marshall’s research team. You can access them here:

http://mpkb.org/doku.php#publications_presentations

This article also offers more suggestions about how to find an MP doctor:

http://mpkb.org/doku.php/home:starting:physician:finding

I think it’s great that you are helping your friend find a solution to his health problems. I hope that he can start the MP ASAP!

Best,

Amy

My friend is in U.K and he has just diagnosed with Sarcoidosis last month. Is Marshall Protocoll work with any type of Sarcoid (i’m not quite sure whether he is pulmonary sarcoid or something else )? Can you recommend any doctor or GP in U,K who will give this prgram a try?

Thank you

I will check out your website. I also hope that you look into trying the MP yourself!

Take care,

Amy

Thank you for this site ! Barbara J. Gill

Sorry for the delayed reply. Myalgia is defined in this article:

http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=12008

As you can read, it refers to general muscle pain. Patients with fibromyalgia deal with the same or similiar muscle issues. However I think patients with fibromyalgia also have trouble sleeping, general fatigue, and maybe other chronic symptoms.

Still, in my opinion, there is little difference between the muscle pain experienced by people with both conditions. As you can read in other articles on this site, increasing evidence suggests that both myalgia and fibromyalgia are caused by persistent bacteria in the muscles that cannot be detected on regular blood tests. In my opinion, the pain in the side of your lungs in certainly due to infection with certain species of these chronic pathogens. No matter what your doctors decide to name your condition, your goal should be to kill these bacteria.

It’s possible to kill such bacteria and return to a state of health by doing a treatment that is described in greater detail in on this site – the Marshall Protocol (MP). The treatment uses a medication that activates the immune system and carefully chosen antibiotics to kill the bacteria.

Read more about the MP here:

http://bacteriality.com/about-the-mp/

http://bacteriality.com/2007/10/11/antibiotics/

I also highly recommend watching the following video which describes the treatment and the science that forms its backbone in simple terms:

http://bacteriality.com/2008/05/07/mpintro/

The treatment is run by a non profit organization and there is no charge for any services provided by the organization including the treatment guidelines. Here is a list of Dr. Marshall (the head of the Foundation and team’s peer-reviewed papers and conference abstracts that you may want to show to your doctor:

http://mpkb.org/doku.php/home#publications_presentations

The Phase 1 guidelines of the MP can be found here:

http://www.marshallprotocol.com/forum2/2275.html

You mother certainly sounds like she could be greatly helped by doing the MP as well. Generally when symptoms of pain are considered to be of “unknown cause” we are not realizing that they are actually caused by bacteria. She should definitely try the MP in order to see if it would target bacteria that might be causing her terrible pain.

If after reading as much about the MP on this site and on the study site itself – http://www.marshallprotocol.com, you still have questions about how to proceed, the best place to post them is at the following website where they will be answered free of charge by patient advocates:

http://www.curemyth1.org (Th1 refers to diseases caused by bacteria, hence the name).

Good luck and I hope you and your Mom try the MP!

Best,
Amy

This is Paul. I work closely with Amy and Autoimmunity Research Foundation. I actually don’t know the difference, so I looked it up. Apparently, myalgia means muscle pain and is a symptom of a number of diseases. Fibromyalgia is a disease, of which myalgia is invariably one of the symptoms.

If you read Bacteriality in a little more depth, you’ll see that we’re explaining a treatment called the Marshall Protocol. As you saw in the interview with Carole here, a number of patients with fibromyalgia (and myalgia) have had their symptoms drastically reduced or go away entirely after going on the Marshall Protocol. If you want to learn more about the MP, you’re welcome to read the Phase One Guidelines or watch Amy’s Overview of the MP. You can also go to CureMyTh1.org where volunteer patient advocates will answer your questions free of charge.

I hope this helps.

Best,
Paul