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OK, a brief look around Wilson's site gives me:
He is claiming independent invention, and he never once mentions Barnes or Lowe.
I didn't see any obvious pseudoscience. (no crystals, no magic electricity thought reading machines)
He doesn't seem to have any obvious explanatory theory.
What I've read of what he has to say makes considerable sense to me in the light of the above.
He doesn't seem to be claiming that there's been a PCRT of his protocol, without which I don't believe it works.
He is absolutely claiming that the condition can be cured. Not alleviated. Cured.
I think conventional medicine concluded that T3 monotherapy was a disaster when they tried it for thyroid problems. They're currently involved in a twenty year catfight about whether adding a bit of T3 to the usual T4 is a good idea. They've tentatively concluded no, but I think (and Lowe thought) that their reasoning is wrong. And Kenneth Blanchard, who's unconventional, but a proper endocrinologist, thinks it works a treat. On the other hand, I spotted a couple of mistakes in his book, so I don't trust him either.
Has he (Wilson) published anything? If not, why not?
It all looks a bit too good to be true, to me.
And a bit too easy.... If it was this easy we should already know.
On the other hand, how the hell did I miss this?
I found it by googling:
Low Body Temperature chronic fatigue syndromIndeed, in fact I think I might have seen it before and ignored it.
Very early on, when I was trying to work out what the hell was wrong with me, I read about 'adrenal fatigue', and thought it looked very plausible (amongst a very large number of other plausible possibilities), but Wiki said it wasn't a thing, and my doctor agreed, so I forgot about it. Maybe since then I've had filters on.
There's even a chapter of Durrant-Peatfield's book, which I read cover to cover not three days ago, which mentions Wilson's Syndrome in exactly the sort of way that you'd expect an English non-conformist to mention a man who'd named someone else's ideas after himself.
But maybe that's not true. Maybe Wilson really did come up with it on his own many years ago, before the internet would have enabled him to find Barnes or Lowe. Sure looks like it's going a bit nuclear now.
And still endocrinology isn't interested? What on earth is going on?