Gulf War Illness: Evaluation of an Innovative Detoxification Program

Abstract

This project is to determine whether a widely used detoxification protocol that utilizes exercise, sauna therapy and crystalline niacin with supplements will reduce the symptoms of Gulf War Illness (GWI). The program will study 50 GWI veterans, with 25 serving as an initial control but then provided the detoxification program after a delay. All subjects will answer a questionnaire, be given a series of psychological and neurobehavioral tests, and provide blood samples for clinical chemistry analysis before and after undergoing the detoxification program. The GWI veterans will be studied at several time points, before the detoxification, immediately after and three months after completing the program. The goal of the study is to determine whether t his method of detoxification results in reduction of the symptoms of GWI. Because of delays in obtaining human subjects approval this project has not yet begun. However all IRB approvals are in place, and now we await only the final DOD review and approval for beginning the study.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA568141

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  • David M. Carpenter

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  • State University of New York at Albany

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