Chronic fatigue is not understood by science or medicine. There is certainly a visible condition, but no known cause. That's nothing new. The same is true of Alzheimer's disease, most diabetes, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, cancers, and many more.

As an evolution biologist, I see an important fact about such diseases that is not adequately considered. Evolution does not allow diseases to evolve in the host DNA. This means a disease is either caused by a microorganism, which has its own DNA, or it is a genetic disease, which cannot go beyond one mutation without being eliminated through natural selection. Of course, various toxicities can look similar to diseases.

The stealth diseases are way too complex to result from a single mutation. Therefore, if they are significantly developed diseases, they must have a microbial cause. Chronic fatigue syndrome appears to fall into this category.

Scientists have not found a microbial cause for the stealth diseases such as those listed above or chronic fatigue syndrome. But there is a very large group of microbes which are often associated with the stealth diseases but have not been significantly studied. That group originally consisted of the mycoplasmas, and now it is known to be a large and diverse group which is placed under the umbrella label of nanobacteria.

Those type of bacteria are typically one tenth the size of other bacteria. They lack the usual cell walls of bacteria and instead use a thin membrane similar to that of animal cells. This gives them a degree of invisibility to the immune system and allows them to move into and out of other cells more easily and to change their shapes easily.

Medical scientists have not studied the nanobacteria significantly, because the bugs are difficult to grow or study; and they are nearly invisible to microscopic observation, which causes them to be trivialized.

Gradually, researchers are finding correlations between the nanobacteria and the stealth diseases. Considering this increasing evidence and the evolutionary principle described above, the circumstances indicate that nanobacteria are the major cause of the stealth diseases, and this group of pathogens is probably larger and more destructive than all other disease-causing microbes combined. In other word, modern science and medicine has not yet significantly begun to study the largest and most serious group of pathogens.

Considering how serious chronic fatigue can become, it too is probably caused by mycoplasmas or other nanobacteria in many cases. Evidence of this has been found in the study of "Gulf War Illness" by Garth Nicholson. A summary of his results was written up by Donald McAlvaney. I reproduced his noncopyrighted article is on this web page: