Chloe Hadjimotheou

Well, it's likely to be more complicated than that.

Those doctor's letters published by Raina Wynne on her blog had the name of the neurologist blacked out, but I had my suspicions about who it might be.

I managed to track him down and talk to him, and he just so happens to be from Porthely, the Welsh town where Raina and Moth lived before they lost their house.

I don't know if and how well he knew the couple before Moth arrived in his clinic.

We spoke in general terms because he's bound by doctor-patient confidentiality, but it's important to say he's not a specialist in corticobasal degeneration.

He told me he hasn't read all of Rainer Wynne's books.

And when I explained the details of Moth's recoveries, he said that wasn't something he could endorse.

he was pretty clear that he had never come across anyone who has reversed the symptoms of CBD or even halted the disease's progress.

In the end, I can't definitively say whether Moth has CBD or not, because I haven't seen his medical records.

They're private, and for good reason.

It's a very uncomfortable and intrusive thing, picking apart someone's health like this.

And I wouldn't be doing it if Moth and Rainer hadn't already made the details of his illness public, and if I didn't feel that there was an important public interest reason for setting the record straight.

All I can say is that his symptoms, the passage of his illness and the length of time he's had it, as well as the claims that he's reversed it, do not tally with what the CBD specialists in the UK that I've spoken to tell me they've witnessed among their patients.

One thing suggested to me by several neurologists is that moth might have functional neurological disorder.

That's essentially a catch-all phrase for the fact that some neurological symptoms don't have a physical cause.

They might be brought on by stress or other issues in a person's life, but they can't be attributed to the brain.

Some estimates say that up to a third of outpatients that turn up in clinics are diagnosed with this.

So has his doctor given Moth a proper diagnosis of CBD?

Not in the letters that Rainer's published, but it's difficult to know what a doctor says to a patient in private, so it's possible that at some point Moth may have believed he had CBD.

Was he told he didn't have long to live, as Rainer tells us in her books?