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Marshall himself suffers from Sarcoidosis, an autoimmune disease which is often fatal within a decade or two. Sarcoidosis is characterized by boils on the lungs and failure of the lymph nodes. He came down with it in the 1970's. He began his current studies in an effort to understand his own disease.

From the Wiki page for Trevor Marshall:

Trevor G. Marshall, PhD (b. 1948, Adelaide, South Australia), is a biomedical researcher. Over the last few years, he has developed a medical treatment, called the 'Marshall Protocol', which uses low-dose antibiotics, an angiotensin II receptor antagonist (being used as a VDR agonist, and avoidance of Vitamin D, to treat a class of chronic diseases, which he argues are caused by L-form or cell wall deficient bacteria. His protocol is being used by physicians worldwide to treat a variety of chronic diseases. Waterhouse reported these include include Sarcoidosis, Fibromyalgia, and rheumatoid arthritis.

Marshall first began to suspect Vitamin D when he noticed that his condition got worse with more sunlight. Notice that his Marshall Protocol includes Vitamin D avoidance.

One of the finest friends of my life, a woman named Linda, died of Lupus, another autoimmune disease. She too reacted negatively to sunlight, as is typical with Lupus victims.

Thank-you, blam, for posting this. It has led to a better understanding than I ever expected to have of such autoimmune diseases.

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