Just want to throw some support behind Syl. His posts (always thought you were female until this post) are enlightening and the studies are incredibly important. I know my body, sure, but diet, stress releif, exercise, and every holistic treatment du jour didn't help me at all, while 30mg of Desipramine allow me to work every day without fear. That's not to say I don't follow the EFI diet, I do, religiously, it's just that had I left it at that and not taken to pharmaceuticals I'd still be fully miserable today instead of like 30-40% miserable .
The studies energize me because I WANT to know how the watch is made, because you can't really fully understand the watch until you do so. I think our culture is the worse off for relying on all this great science and technology but not really being able to explain how it works, just that it does.
Also, it gives me hope for a cure knowing that really smart people are out there trying to figure it out.
I may be one of those "brainy males" who apparently dominate and create conflict in forums as was mentioned earlier on this topic, but if I want a problem solved, then I'm going to attack that problem from every angle, leave no stone unturned, and never settle for good enough.