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On the other hand, the subject of certain chronic illnesses seems to be characterized by very real suffering followed by frustration at modern medicine for insisting on psychosomaticism as a leading hypothesis.



Imagine suffering from fibromyalgia, CFS or a similar condition for 15 years and then just once taking 2000mg of vitamin B1 and having all symptoms relieved immediately. One wonders if medicine is not led astray by the insistence on bleeding-edge research.




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