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 this method of detoxification results in reduction of the symptoms of GWI. Because of delays in obtaining human subjects approval, this project has only recently begun. All final IRB and DOD approvals were received in late 2013. However we have not yet received funding for the second and third years, and all funds from year 1 have been expended while waiting for DOD approvals. In anticipation of the funding coming soon, we have begun and have recruited a total of eight Gulf War Illness veterans.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2014
- Accession Number
- ADA613181
Entities
People
- David O. Carpenter
Organizations
- State University of New York at Albany