I just saw this thread in the index...

As luck would have it, this article in a very recent Science News discusses mitochondrial damage as a source of chronic illness.

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feat...ndria_Gone_Bad
This makes more sense to me because what is coming out of the new research is that ANTIBIOTICS and other drugs (like statins), can damage mitochondria. The autism community has some interesting new studies showing vaccines may do this and antibiotic treatment for ear infections or other things that happen to little kids, often precede the appearance of autism.
The mitochondria in our cells are basically similar and actually derived FROM bacteria. So agents that KILL bacteria, may kill our mitochondria too.

example:
http://www.autism.com/medical/resear...ntibiotics.htm

There already is a supplement made by Dr. Bruce Ames who studies mito deterioration as a cause of aging:
Juvenon
http://www.bruceames.org/

I think it is more likely that RSD is closer to mito damage than is to sarcoidosis. The treatment the Marshall Protocol uses is a angiotensin receptor antagonist like Benicar (also used to lower blood pressure). This protocol also requires very low intake of Vit D...and that alarms me since Vit D is showing anticancer, and antidepressant and many other positive effects for people. I have seen many fibro patients on this and another forum improve when Vit D levels were normalized from very low. This implies to me that using the Marshall Protocol for fibro would not be a good idea. This protocol remains very controversial among doctors still.

Please read the mito article at the beginning of this post, and look at the diagram included. It makes it easier to visualize how this chemistry works.