A story with legs....

[Maxmars]

A brief story, 

Exhausted Cell Batteries, Not Dead Neurons, May Drive Gulf War Illness

...used advanced brain imaging to show that veterans with Gulf War illness have mitochondria stuck in a state of chronic dysfunction. The finding matters because it shifts the condition from something permanent to something potentially treatable...

 

...More than 175,000 of the roughly 700,000 troops deployed to the 1991 Persian Gulf War came home with a constellation of symptoms—fatigue, pain, brain fog, balance problems, exercise intolerance, digestive issues, and depression.
...

 

Past work has linked the illness to low-level sarin exposure when coalition forces bombed Iraqi chemical weapons facilities.

Points to note: It's been a very long time treating veterans for an 'assumption' about 'exposure.' At what cost...is a valid question considering it has been a decade old problem at the turn of the millennium over 20 years ago.

How - exactly - have they been normalizing "treatment" of afflicted veterans for this almost 40-years of suffering by hundreds of thousands of veterans?

For those reporting Science... this article contains an excellent explanation about how the brain seems to use energy and and how to "frame" the condition they are talking about.

This article is a wealth of subtopics lumped into a social quagmire of government inaction, and "convenient" support for veterans.

While the fact that soldiers work under risk is a given... risking life-long injury should relate to mission goals... not bad equipment, poor safety controls, and 'expedient' practices...

[Solvedit]

There's something in the water and air in places where people use "natural" fertilizer a lot.

The wet rice farmers of the world often like a bit of curry.  

Turmeric may clear whatever the toxin is.

Turmeric is barely absorbed and quickly thrown back out by the body, and only if some of it makes it past the stomach acid, which destroys the active antioxidant.  It may only work if yellow curry is eaten all the time. 

Mixing it with a bit of alcohol can help absorb it.  Yellow curry powder from the spice aisle may be a better choice than straight turmeric because the taste of turmeric by itself is not so good and because the other spices, specifically black pepper, work synergistically with the turmeric.

[Maxmars]

However... the "story" has become the remedy proposed...
It is not improper to frame it as a story about that.

It is up to you to frame the story as you like...
But expressing a valid and interesting point is not
what 'DI reporting' actually should be.

No fault on you... this is journalism today...
hell.. it's all they publish, and all you can find.

Try not to make it sound like an advertisement...
that's just.... please don't.

[DontTreadOnMe]

A brief story, 

Exhausted Cell Batteries, Not Dead Neurons, May Drive Gulf War Illness
 
 

Points to note: It's been a very long time treating veterans for an 'assumption' about 'exposure.' At what cost...is a valid question considering it has been a decade old problem at the turn of the millennium over 20 years ago.

How - exactly - have they been normalizing "treatment" of afflicted veterans for this almost 40-years of suffering by hundreds of thousands of veterans?

From the symptoms, it sounds like ME/CFS.  
Except for the balance issue.

ME/CFS also features mitochondrial issues.
And right now, ME/CFS has no treatment or cure.
Only pacing to manage energy.

If they are related, I hope they are successful in treatment, if not a cure.

[Maxmars]

Clearly, there is a robust response to the illness and its' symptoms.

And in that vein ...this story can serve as an example of potential treatments for
a specific set of ailments...

But it hardly stands alone, there is much 'health-wise' to which this story could apply.

Y'all kind of went your  own way.... I love that!

[Moon68]

A brief story, 

Exhausted Cell Batteries, Not Dead Neurons, May Drive Gulf War Illness
 
 

Points to note: It's been a very long time treating veterans for an 'assumption' about 'exposure.' At what cost...is a valid question considering it has been a decade old problem at the turn of the millennium over 20 years ago.

How - exactly - have they been normalizing "treatment" of afflicted veterans for this almost 40-years of suffering by hundreds of thousands of veterans?

For those reporting Science... this article contains an excellent explanation about how the brain seems to use energy and and how to "frame" the condition they are talking about.

This article is a wealth of subtopics lumped into a social quagmire of government inaction, and "convenient" support for veterans.

While the fact that soldiers work under risk is a given... risking life-long injury should relate to mission goals... not bad equipment, poor safety controls, and 'expedient' practices...

It took 35 years to finally even recognize the legitimacy of the condition.

Prior it was always "Not Service Related" bureaucratic bullshit.

[chr0naut]

There's something in the water and air in places where people use "natural" fertilizer a lot.

The wet rice farmers of the world often like a bit of curry.  

Turmeric may clear whatever the toxin is.

Turmeric is barely absorbed and quickly thrown back out by the body, and only if some of it makes it past the stomach acid, which destroys the active antioxidant.  It may only work if yellow curry is eaten all the time. 

Mixing it with a bit of alcohol can help absorb it.  Yellow curry powder from the spice aisle may be a better choice than straight turmeric because the taste of turmeric by itself is not so good and because the other spices, specifically black pepper, work synergistically with the turmeric.

Turmeric is alleged to have anti-cancer properties.

But alcohol is a carcinogen.

If you want to absorb more Turmeric, just use more of it - don't mix it with alcohol.

[Maxmars]

It took 35 years to finally even recognize the legitimacy of the condition.

Prior it was always "Not Service Related" bureaucratic bullshit.

My friend, there are even more ways to deny service to veterans...
and there is a lot stuff that's 'just not their problem,'  a whole lot.

I suspect the ever-present specter of 'shameful exposure' makes them allies with Public Relations...
it's there in the utter disaster that passes for veteran services... let alone healthcare generally.