What causes fibromyalgia?

What causes fibromyalgia?

Fibromyalgia is the symptoms and signs of too little thyroid hormone regulation of tissues, due either to hypothyroidism or thyroid hormone resistance, complicated in most cases by a health-impairing diet, nutritional deficiencies, and physical deconditioning.

As Dr Lowe recently announced in France, in most cases, fibromyalgia is caused by inadequate thyroid hormone regulation of cell function. The inadequate regulation results from thyroid hormone deficiency and/or partial cellular resistance to thyroid hormone.

Rigorous logical analyses of the available scientific evidence make it clear that this is the most plausible explanation of the cause of fibromyalgia.

In ‘The Metabolic Treatment of Fibromyalgia‘, Dr. John C. Lowe demonstrated that other proposed explanations of the cause of fibromyalgia (such as the serotonin deficiency hypothesis) are false.

Other metabolism-impairing factors may also induce and sustain symptoms that lead to a diagnosis of fibromyalgia. All that is necessary is that these other factors impede the metabolism of the tissues from which fibromyalgia symptoms and signs arise.

Such factors include a diet that contributes to impaired carbohydrate metabolism, B complex vitamin deficiencies, the use of beta-blocking drugs, and physical deconditioning.

One such factor may not be enough to induce fibromyalgia symptoms. However, combinations of the factors may be sufficient. The fibromyalgia symptoms of most patients are caused by a combination of such factors combined with inadequate thyroid hormone regulation of their tissues.

According to Dr Lowe, no ‘hypothesis’ of fibromyalgia other than the inadequate thyroid hormone regulation hypothesis stands the test of logical analysis. Most physicians who brush aside this hypothesis probably prescribe antidepressant medications for their fibromyalgia patients.

In Dr Lowe’s experience, little do these physicians realize: The “serotonin deficiency hypothesis,” upon which their use of antidepressant medication is based, promptly withers under rigorous logical analysis (demonstrated in his book ‘The Metabolic Treatment of Fibromyalgia’).

Once these physicians come to understand this, they must ? if they are to claim they are scientific thinkers ? reject the serotonin deficiency hypothesis. Simultaneously, they should stop prescribing antidepressant medications as a treatment for fibromyalgia.

They should stop for two reasons: (1) these medications are useless in the long term as a fibromyalgia treatment, and (2) they are also potentially dangerous to fibromyalgia patients.

Leon Chaitow, ND, DO., Senior Lecturer, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom, and author of Fibromyalgia and Muscle Pain makes the following comments: “Evidence is growing that a combination of genetic and environmental factors can cause hypothyroidism and/or cellular resistance to thyroid hormone. The metabolic crisis that follows, often in people with apparently normal thyroid function tests, appears to be a key element in the etiology of a wide range of chronic health problems. The existence of cellular resistance to insulin is now generally accepted as an etiological feature of some people’s diabetes mellitus, and Dr. John Lowe has detailed compelling scientific evidence for a similar process in a significant percentage of cases of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.”