Is the "Marshall Protocol" a hoax?

It's an antibiotic and low vitamin D regimen meant to "cure" several autoimmune diseases, including Sarcoidosis. It's not mainstream, but seems to almost sort of make sense (to me -- not a doctor). Are there any health professionals out there who have tried this with patients and found success, or failure? Googling this seems to turn up only super (unbelievable?) positive feedback about it.

Hello: I am not a doctor, however I have been on the MP for a little over a year now and have had amazing results. I was horribly ill for around 5 years, constantly getting worse and deteriorating to the point where I no longer could work or even have a social live. I have sarcoid and crohns. At first the MP made me feel even more ill, but the support staff (who are first rate) told me to bear it as it would get better. And it did. This year for the first time in five years I am now taking walks, took a trip to the Oregon Coast, can do my own grocery shopping etc. My doctor has told me that out of 15 patients, he's had good positive results with around 9 of them. Hope this is helpful to you.

Maybe not (a hoax).
There are a few recent articles in the literature that are supportive.
It may not work on all the conditions they suggest, but at least they're approaching it scientifically.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query...

Fair question, but hundreds like me that are recovering from very serious chronic illness will tell you "no" and as a general rule, we're a hard bunch of well-educated and Internet-savvy folks with a long paper trail showing that we have been quite ill for a long time and we're now getting better. When we answer questions like yours and tell of our recovery, we say it with deep feeling of respect for the genius that did the math so we could get well, and it is we who call it the Marshall Protocol.

The science based on Molecular Genomics is probably what gets a lot of both old-school medical folks and the public confused. But Molecular Genomics -- a respected branch of medical science -- is how Marshall et al. effectively described key nuclear receptors that when triggered with prescription medications, enable and assist the innate immune system to overcome antibiotic-resistant cell-wall-deficient (CWD) pathogens responsible for a class of chronic Th1 disease conditions.

Those who wonder about Molecular Genomcs should know even at the recent 2006 NORD conference in Bethesda MD, Dr von Eschenbach, acting director of the FDA, described this science as what will change the history of medicine. (You've no doubt heard about the human genome). He was speaking specifically to those who had come to hear if their incurable disease had any hope yet. He was telling them where to look.

Others can look at medical history books and see how the microscope changed medicine as we know it. The next step is to "do the math" to see what understanding molecule receptors will do for medicine.

Side note: the FDA has recently assigned orphan drug status to 2 generics from evidenced-based published research for the "poster child" Th1 disease that killed Reggie White (Sarcoidosis). So, no this is't a hoax, and it isn't going to go away, and it --is-- the future of medicine, today.

I am living what many have only been predicting.