A short YouTube Q&A where Ashok Gupta addresses whether people with viral-induced ME/CFS still have viruses in their bodies when symptomatic. He says viral presence varies (dormant, hidden, or absent), but symptoms are generally driven by an imbalanced or over-responding immune system; he reports patients both with high viral titres and with none have recovered under his approach.
Does your hypothesis say that a person with viral induced ME CFS no longer has any virus in their body when they experience symptoms? So, Claire, it could be different for each person. So generally, when they've done the research, they found that there's not necessarily any virus in the body. Could it be dormant? Maybe. Could there be some hidden virus somewhere in the body? Perhaps. But whether there is or there isn't, generally the symptoms are being caused by an immune system which is either imbalanced or over responding. So the solution, in our view, is still the same. And we've had patients with ME CFS who've had a confirmed diagnosis that they have very high viral titus with lots of opportunistic viruses in their bodies and bacterial infections, and we've had some who have none of that, and yet both have been able to come onto a recovery. Okay.
