Garth Nicolson

Garth L. Nicolson, PhD, (b.1943), is an American biochemist. He's the Founder, President, and Chief Scientific Officer of The Institute for Molecular Medicine, Huntington Beach, California. His career has covered many scientific and medical areas, but he is best known professionally for advancing the understanding of cell membranes. Nicolson coauthored with S.J. Singer, a classic paper in cell biology, titled "The fluid mosaic model of the structure of cell membranes" in 1972.

Dr. Nicolson has researched the role of chronic infections in a variety of chronic illnesses, including myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, Gulf War Illness, and other autoimmune diseases. His extensive work on Gulf War Illness earned him the prestigious awards of an Honorary title of Colonel of the US Army Special Forces and an Honorary title of U.S. Navy SEAL.

Notable studies

 * 1998, Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Mycoplasmal Infections in Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndromes: Relationship to Gulf War Illness
 * 2002, High prevalence of Mycoplasma infections among European chronic fatigue syndrome patients. Examination of four Mycoplasma species in blood of chronic fatigue syndrome patients (Full Text)
 * 2003, Nutritional Supplement (NT Factor™) Restores Mitochondrial Function and Reduces Moderately Severe Fatigue in Aged Subjects (Abstract)
 * 2003, Evidence for Bacterial (Mycoplasma, Chlamydia) and Viral (HHV-6) Co-Infections in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients (Abstract)
 * 2003, High Prevalence of Mycoplasma Infections in Symptomatic (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) Family Members of Mycoplasma-Positive Gulf War Illness Patients (Full Text)
 * 2003, Deregulation of the 2,5A Synthetase RNase L Antiviral Pathway by Mycoplasma spp. in Subsets of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Full Text)
 * 2004, Review - Gulf War Veterans: Evidence for Chromosome Alterations and Their Significance (Abstract)
 * 2006, Lipid Replacement and Antioxidant Nutritional Therapy for Restoring Mitochondrial Function and Reducing Fatigue in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Other Fatiguing Illnesses (Abstract)
 * 2007, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients Subsequently Diagnosed with Lyme Disease Borrelia burgdorferi: Evidence for Mycoplasma Species Coinfections (Abstract)
 * 2014, Lipid Replacement Therapy: a natural medicine approach to replacing damaged lipids in cellular membranes and organelles and restoring function. (Full Text)
 * 2014, Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Chronic Disease: Treatment With Natural Supplements. (Full Text)
 * 2017, Membrane Lipid Replacement for chronic illnesses, aging and cancer using oral glycerolphospholipid formulations with fructooligosaccharides to restore phospholipid function in cellular membranes, organelles, cells and tissues (Full text)

Book chapters and other publications

 * 2018, Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Chronic Disease: Treatment with Membrane Lipid Replacement and Other Natural Supplements - (Full text)

Research Institute location

 * Institute Headquarters - Office of the President - 31677 Virginia Way P.O. Box 9355, South Laguna Beach, CA 92652
 * Department of Immunology - 16371 Gothard St., H Huntington Beach, CA, 92647

Talks and interviews

 * Dr. Garth Nicolson speaks about NT Factor
 * 2009, 4th Invest in ME International ME Conference 2009; Speech title: Similar Infections Found in ME/CFS and Neurodegenerative and Neurobehavioral Diseases - (Video)

Online presence

 * PubMed
 * Website
 * YouTube

Learn more

 * Wikipedia - Garth Nicolson
 * 2016, Is chronic fatigue syndrome finally being taken seriously?