Lyme Disease

[onawah]

This is one of the best articles about Lyme Disease I have read.
We probably need a thread devoted to Lyme Disease, it's that bad now.
I think some of what is being identified as Lyme has been deliberately engineered, and this article doesn't deal with that, but is otherwise very comprehensive.

Prevalence of Lyme Disease in the US Is 10-Times Higher Than Previously Reported
September 04, 2013 |
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/09/04/lyme-disease.aspx
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(There's another video at the link, which I wasn't able to embed.)

By Dr. Mercola

It’s now been fairly well-established that chronic inflammation is an underlying factor in most chronic illnesses. Diseases, such as Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, cardiomyopathy, gastritis, and chronic fatigue, are all turning out to be expressions of chronic infections.

Lyme disease appears to be a major, yet oftentimes hidden, player. This may sound shocking to you, but diagnosing Lyme is very difficult, so the actual number of cases is high relative to reporting.

According to preliminary statistics1, 2 just released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 300,000 new cases of Lyme disease are diagnosed in the US each year. This is about 10 times higher than the officially reported number of cases, indicating that the disease is being vastly underreported.

The data was presented by CDC officials at the 2013 International Conference on Lyme Borreliosis and Other Tick-Borne Diseases in Boston in the middle of August. As reported in the featured article by Medical News Today3:

“This agrees with studies reported in the 1990s that showed the actual number of Lyme diseases cases in the US was likely to be three to twelve times higher than reported... Lyme disease is the most commonly reported tick-borne illness in the US.”

What Is Lyme disease?

Lyme disease was named after the East Coast town of Lyme, Connecticut, where the disease was first identified in 1975.4 The disease was first referred to as "Lyme arthritis" due to the presentation of atypical arthritic symptoms in children that lived in that city. By 1977, the black-legged tick (Ixodes scapularis, also known as the deer tick) was linked to transmission of the infection.

Then in 1982, Willy Burgdorfer, PhD, discovered the bacterium responsible for the infection: the spirochete, named after him, Borrelia burgdorferi,5 is a cousin to the spirochete bacterium that causes syphilis.

In fact, the two look almost identical under a microscope. B. burgdorferi's corkscrew-shaped form allows it to burrow into and hide in a variety of your body's tissues, which is why it causes such wide-ranging multisystem involvement.

Borrelia burgdorferi does not just exist as a spirochete; it has the ability to live intracellularly (inside your cells) as an “L-form” and also encoated as a “cyst” form. These different morphologies explain why treatment is so difficult and recurrence of symptoms occurs after standard antibiotic protocols.

Adding to the difficulty in treating Lyme, the organisms may live in biofilm communities, which are basically a colony of germs surrounded by a slimy glue-like substance that is hard to unravel. For these reasons you will often see Lyme referred to as “stealth.”

No doubt about it, this clever maneuvering and the pleomorphism of the germ helps it hide and survive despite the most aggressive antibiotics of our time. Furthermore, as reported in the featured article:

“The Lyme disease bacterium has a quirky feature for survival. It can exist without iron, which most other living organisms require to make proteins and enzymes. Instead of iron, B. burgdorferi uses manganese, thus eluding immune system defenses that destroy pathogens by starving them of iron.”

You May Never See the Tick That Bites You

You can be host to the Lyme germ. The tick, which feeds off deer, birds, animals (including your pet), then gets on you. It numbs your skin so you won’t feel it. It prefers dark, crevices such as your armpit or behind your ear, or your scalp. Depending on the season, the tick may be a baby, termed a nymph.

It attaches to you (the host) and you may not see it since nymphs are no bigger than a poppy seed. Once it attaches itself to you it feeds on you (they are blood-suckers). At some point, and it may be an hour or a couple of days, it will ‘spit’ its bacterial load into you. The bacteria are released into your blood from the infected tick via saliva. We now know there are five subspecies of Borrelia burgdorferi, more than 100 strains in the U.S. and 300 worldwide, many of which have developed resistance to our various antibiotics.

It’s worth noting that while many still attribute Lyme transmission exclusively to ticks, Dr. Deitrich Klinghardt, one of the leading authorities on Lyme disease, warns that the bacteria can also be spread by other insects, including mosquitoes, spiders, fleas, and mites. This may be the reason so few Lyme sufferers recall being bitten by a tick. The other reason of course, is that you don’t feel the bite, and usually don’t see the tick!

In fact, fewer than half of Lyme patients recall ever getting a tick bite. Many Lyme patients don't remember such an event because the tick numbs your skin before biting so it is never felt. In some studies,this number is as low as 15 percent. So, if you don't recall seeing a tick on your body, that doesn't rule out the possibility of Lyme disease. There’s even some evidence pointing to Lyme disease being capable of sexual and congenital transmission...

To add confusion to the story of Lyme disease, ticks usually transmit more than the Borrelia organism. They could simultaneously infect you with Bartonella, Rickettsia, Ehrlichia and Babesia. Any or all of these organisms can travel with Borrelia burgdorferi (the causative agent of Lyme) and each causes a different set of symptoms. When a person has Lyme, they often have some co-infections. Simply put, you can have one tick bite, and wind up with five different infections. Each patient with “Lyme disease” presents differently based upon their co-infections, making a standard treatment plan impossible. Treatment is based upon presentation of symptoms.

Lyme Disease: 'The Great Imitator'

Many Lyme patients who battle this disease on a daily basis appear healthy, which is why Lyme disease has been called "the invisible illness." They often "look good," and their routine blood work appears normal, but their internal experience is a far different story. Several people close to me, including my girlfriend Erin and a loved one of Suzy Cohen, R. Ph, have struggled with Lyme disease for between 15 and 20 years. Both recently tested positive through the GeneX blood test discussed below. This is actually a common scenario for many Lyme patients.

The problem of misdiagnosis is typical for many Lyme patients because conventional labs are not good at detecting the causative agent (Borrelia burgdroferi) or it's co-infecting pathogens. Additionally, physicians have been told for years that Lyme does not occur in some states which is incorrect. Lyme is in every state, and in fact worldwide.

With Lyme, the most disabling symptoms are always invisible. You never feel completely well, there is always some issue to deal with, and as soon as one symptom retreats, another appears. The dial is spinning all the time. The constant and sometimes disabling symptoms leave you physically depleted and spiritually weakened. Complicating matters further, Lyme disease is also notoriously difficult to diagnose, and laboratory tests are known to be unreliable. It’s difficult to test for Lyme for a variety of reasons, but one of the main ones is that there are so many species of the germ, and only a handful of strains are detectable with current lab science technology.

It Can Happen to Anyone

Because Lyme and all of its co-infections cause so many constant symptoms, it easily mimics disorders, such as multiple sclerosis (MS), arthritis, Parkinson’s, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, ALS, ADHD and Alzheimer's disease. The only distinctive hallmark unique to Lyme disease is the "bull’s-eye" rash known as Erythema Migrans,6 a red rash with an expanding red ring around it and this occurs soon after the tick bite. After it clears up, this bull’s-eye rash is gone.

And for the record, it’s not even always in the shape of a bull’s eye. Perhaps now you understand why the cases reported to the CDC have been woefully low. But as just mentioned, less than half of all cases of Lyme can be traced to a tick bite, so this hallmark rash is absent in many of those infected.

So how do you know if you have Lyme disease? Besides the rash, some of the first symptoms of Lyme disease may include a flu-like condition with fever, chills, headache, stiff neck, achiness and fatigue. Treatment at this point is crucial because it may help you avoid chronic Lyme. If you don’t see the tick and remove it, it can progress to ailments like arthritis, facial palsy, nervous system and heart problems and a hundred other symptoms. For a more extensive list of symptoms, refer to the Tick-Borne Disease Alliance7 (TBDA), but some of the more frequent symptoms include the following:

Muscle and joint pain
Neurological problems
Heart involvement
Vision and hearing problems
Migraines

To give you an example, recently the College of Charleston President George Benson was hospitalized for Lyme disease according to an email he addressed to campus members. Prior to this, he had been hospitalized for severe back pain, but no one was sure of the exact cause. His possible successor, Republican Lt. Gov. Glenn McConnell was also ill from Lyme disease last year according to The Associated Press. Lyme is everywhere, I suspect that even the most recent numbers reported by the CDC (300,000 cases) is lower than the actual real-life cases. For more real-life examples, see the discussion below, featuring two Lyme patients, and this recent CNN Health article8 by Erik Nivison, producer for HLN's "In Session,” who was recently diagnosed with Lyme disease after 2 years of symptoms.

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Controversy Surrounding Lyme Disease

There’s a load of controversy around Lyme disease. In the past, sufferers were told their ailments were “all in their head,” and the disease was largely swept under the rug. Sadly, this still occurs today and this is frequently missed. The controversy for the most part today largely revolves around whether or not antibiotics are effective against chronic Lyme disease, and whether there even is such a thing as chronic Lyme.

According to Suzy Cohen, doctors that belong to the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) do not believe in chronic Lyme and typically will not treat a Lyme patient beyond four weeks. Some medical doctors and practitioners belong to the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society9 (ILADS) group, which does believe that Lyme can and often persists beyond a few weeks, and are willing to treat you beyond the four-week period.

I can tell you, chronic Lyme does exist, and no matter how long you’ve had it, there is always hope for a full recovery. It baffles me as to how physicians can deny infection when these organisms are stealth and evade detection and standard treatment protocols. As described by investigative journalist Beth Daley in the PBS interview10 above:

“It's a very controversial disease, in large part because there are so many questions about treatment and lingering symptoms of people with Lyme and if people actually have Lyme disease who are sick... [T]raditionally, you get bit by a tick, you might see a rash or feel a fever or you go to the doctor. They sort of diagnose you through tests or clinically. And you would probably get three to four weeks of oral antibiotics. And that is -- most people agree, is usually enough to knock the disease from your system completely. Sometimes, it goes a little bit longer if it's more involved, but short courses of antibiotics overall.

However, a large segment of people believe that their symptoms linger for years sometimes, and the only way to treat them is to use long-course antibiotics, often through intravenously or orally, for years on end to -- so they can live, so they can really get out of bed in the morning. And that is a controversy. The medical establishment says, listen, there's no proof this longer course of antibiotics work at all. And these Lyme patients say, yes, it does... And a lot of the debate centers on, a lot of insurance companies won't pay for those antibiotics. As a result, lots of people go bankrupt...”

According to Daley, there’s little discussion within the medical community to determine whether patients with lingering symptoms actually benefit from long-course antibiotics or not. However, some researchers are looking into the matter. Researchers at Yale, for example, are investigating whether the killed-off bacteria might be leaving protein residues behind, causing long-term symptoms. Other research being performed at Tufts suggests that the bacteria can indeed survive, at least in animal studies, and that this weakened bacteria might still contribute to problems. Daley also points out that these latest statistics really bring Lyme disease to the fore politically:

“If you just consider Massachusetts, which is -- where The Boston Globe is, we spend $10 million a year and more on mosquito control. We spend $60,000 on tick-borne diseases. The disparity is great. And as Lyme disease burden grows on public health, hopefully -- I think people are hoping that the political forces will come to bear, that they will start seeing money to eradicate ticks in the environment or help people learn more about them.”

I personally believe that long term antibiotic treatment is not a wise choice for most, and that every natural alternative should be considered prior to that strategy as there is a major danger for impairing your beneficial bacteria and developing a yeast or fungal co-infections, which are already common in the disease.

The use of antifungals like fluconazole and nystatin may certainly be appropriate and helpful when a secondary yeast infection is present, and it often is present in cases of Lyme disease. In an ideal world, you would boost your immune function with a healthy diet, antioxidants such as astaxanthin and even a compounded drug called low-dose naltrexone (LDN), known to help your body fight harder. A gentler solution to conventional antibiotics that can strip your body of needed probiotics and cause a myriad of symptoms is the Nutramedix line of herbal antimicrobials. This was developed by my friend Dr. Lee Cowden and is often termed the “Cowden Protocol.” It is not thought to cause resistance because this protocol cycles various herbal antimicrobials.

Is There Such a Thing as Chronic Lyme Disease?

Slate Magazine11 ran an article earlier this summer highlighting the controversy surrounding chronic Lyme disease, also referred to as “post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome” (PTLDS). According to some studies,12 PTLDS affects 0.5 to 13 percent of patients treated for Lyme:

“Doctors divide chronic Lyme disease into two categories, broadly speaking. The first involves patients who have a known history of infection by Borrelia burgdorferi, the spirochete responsible for Lyme disease. A small subgroup of patients treated for the disease experiences aches, fatigue, and other nonspecific symptoms more than a year after the infection clears. Whether these symptoms have anything to do with the initial infection or treatment is a subject of controversy among mainstream doctors, because we don’t have enough data to make a judgment.

Then there are patients with no proven history of actual infection, who represent the overwhelming majority of people claiming to suffer from chronic Lyme. This form of chronic Lyme is controversial in the same sense that rhinoceros horn therapy is controversial: There’s no reliable data to support it.”

While some patients do report success on long-term antibiotic treatments, there are clearly risks associated with such a strategy. For one, you raise your risk of developing antibiotic-resistant disease, and antibiotics kill off both good and bad bacteria, making it virtually impossible to maintain optimal gut health without rigorous reseeding of probiotics. By disrupting your gut flora, you then expose yourself to a whole host of other pathologies. This is an important point, and a major part of the overall controversy. So should you be treated with long-term antibiotics if you do not have a history of active Lyme infection? I believe the side effects of taking antibiotics long-term are detrimental enough to consider your alternatives. And remember, Lyme organisms can exist in three different forms (cyst, spirochete and L-form) so they are really very good at hiding from antibiotics anyway.

If you are one of those people that are sensitive to alcohol, medications, antibiotics or perfume, this is a sign that you likely have a methylation defect in your genetics. The methylation pathway is a detoxification pathway in your body that clears toxins. Lyme disease sufferers often have a methylation problem, especially those people with neurological symptoms that are unresponsive to conventional treatments. Suzy Cohen wrote a detailed article about methylation and explains how to naturally circumvent this problem if you have Lyme disease, and ease your symptoms. For that article click here.13

Tests and Treatment Protocols for Lyme Disease

One of the reasons blood tests are so unreliable as indicators of Lyme infection is that the spirochete has found a way to infect your white blood cells. Lab tests rely on the normal function of these cells to produce the antibodies they measure. If your white cells are infected, they don't respond to an infection appropriately. And the worse your Borrelia infection is, the less likely it will show up on a blood test. So, in order for Lyme tests to be useful, you have to be treated first. Once your immune system begins to respond normally, only then will the antibodies show up...

If your blood test comes back with positive IgM antibodies, take this as a positive confirmation of active Lyme in your body. I tell you this because many physicians will dismiss a positive IgM antibody and tell you that you do not have an active infection. They will tell you it is a false positive and not to worry, and not to treat. Nothing could be further from the truth. Because of a process called antigenic variation, the proteins on the outer surface of the Lyme germ move around, causing your body to see the germ as new and different, even if it's been living inside your body for decades. This is what causes the positive IgM years after the initial infection. It's also called "epitope switching." So I want you to know that if you have a blood test that shows positive IgM antibodies, I would consider this a positive test, and you are best served by getting treatment, especially if you have symptoms of Lyme.

Another reason is because a vaccine was developed years ago, and conventional testing does not identify the most popular surface proteins or “bands” as they are sometimes called because those were in the original vaccine (Lymerix) now removed from the market. So if you can’t test for the most common bands of Lyme, how will you find the infection in people? This is yet another reason Lyme is so underreported. If you take a standard “Western Blot” blood test for it, your test is likely to be negative even if you have full-blown Lyme disease.

For this reason, I recommend the specialized lab called Igenex because they test for more outer surface proteins (bands), and can often detect Lyme while standard blood tests cannot. Igenex also tests for a few strains of co-infections such as Babesia and Erhlichia. That said, a negative on the Igenex test for these co-infections doesn’t necessarily mean you are not infected, there are many more strains than they can test for.

Below are the five steps Dr. Klinghardt recommends to consider when treating Lyme Disease:

Evaluation of all external factors. External factors include electrosmog, EMF, microwave radiation from wireless technologies, and molds. For more information on mold, see Ritchie Shoemaker's website.
Remediation and mitigation of external factors. Once external factors have been assessed, they're remediated and mitigated. (Please refer to our previous article on mold remediation.) To mitigate microwave radiation, Dr. Klinghardt recommends shielding the outside of your home with a graphite paint called Y Shield. Inside, he uses a special silver-coated cloth for your curtains. Patients are instructed to remove all cordless telephones and turn off all the fuses at night, until they have recovered from Lyme disease.
Addressing emotional issues. Emotional components of the disease are addressed using Energy Psychology tools, including psychokinesiology (PK), which is similar to the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), but more refined and advanced.
Addressing parasitic, bacterial and viral infections. Dr. Klinghardt addresses the parasites first, followed by the bacteria and the viruses. The "Klinghardt antimicrobial cocktail," which includes wormwood (artemisinin), phospholipids, vitamin C, and various herbs, is an integral part of this treatment. He addresses viral infections with Viressence (by BioPure), which is a tincture of Native American herbs.
Addressing other lifestyle factors. Nutritional considerations and supplements are addressed.

Also, the following table lists a variety of different treatment strategies that have been found to be useful in Lyme disease by those embracing natural methods.
Probiotics to improve immunity and restore microflora during and after antibiotics Curcumin is helpful at reducing neurological toxins and brain swelling
Astaxanthin to neutralize toxins, improve vision & relieve joint pain, common in Lyme Whey protein concentrate may help with nutrition, often poor in Lyme patients who don’t feel well enough to eat properly
Grapefruit seed extract may treat the cyst form of Borrelia Krill oil to reduce inflammation
Cilantro as a natural chelator for heavy metals Serrapeptase helps to break biofilms
Resveratrol may treat Bartonella, a co-infection and also helps detoxification GABA and melatonin to help with insomnia
Artemisinin and Andrographis, two herbs that may treat Babesia, a common co-infection CoQ10 to support cardiac health and reduce muscle pain and brain fog
Quercetin reduces histamine (often high in Lyme) Transfer factors can help boost immune function

Tips for Preventing Lyme Disease

Clearly, preventing infection is your best strategy. To avoid tick and other insect bites, make sure to tuck your pants into socks and wear closed shoes and a hat—especially if venturing out into wooded areas. The CDC also recommends cutting down your risk of Lyme and other tickborne diseases by following these steps14:
Check for ticks daily, on yourself, your child and pets Bathe or shower soon after being outdoors (preferably within two hours) to wash off and more easily find any lingering ticks or tick bites If you’ve been in a tick-infested area, do a careful full body check. Use a mirror to view all parts of your body
Check for ticks in your child’s hair, under the arms, in and around the ears, the belly button, between the legs, around the waist, and behind the knees Inspect clothing for ticks. Tumble clothes on high heat for an hour to kill ticks you may have missed See a doctor if you develop a telltale “bull’s-eye” rash

Additional Resources

In Dr. Klinghardt's experience, the International Lyme and Associated Disease Society15 (ILADS) is by far the best and most responsible group. The following are some other resources you might find helpful:

"Under Our Skin" website16
Tick-Borne Disease Alliance17 (TBDA)
Lymedisease.org18 (formerly CALDA)

Another leading Lyme disease expert Richard Horowitz, MD and author of the new book, Why Can’t I Get Better? Solving the Mystery of Lyme and Chronic Disease, has stated:

“This condition is better termed Lyme MSIDS, short for Multiple Systemic Infectious Disease Syndrome. MSIDS is like Pandora’s Box because it includes many infections, co-infections and secondary infections. Treatment should be tailored to each patient individually.”

[Blue Orchid]

Quite shocking 300 000 thousand Americans each year diagnosed.If anyone suffers from this i will provide some details below

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lyme disease is treated as toxic fire. These fire toxins are treated with extreme heat clearing herbs. From the western point of view, fire toxins include aggressive entities such as bacterial and viral infections but are not limited to them. They can be amoebic parasites and even just toxins of chemical nature or metal particles. Likewise, from a western point of view, the heat clearing herbs have been proven to have a very effective anti-viral and antibacterial action as well as a "cleansing of the blood" effect on other small particles.Below is a TCM protocol for Lyme Disease grouped into three parts:

Clearing The Toxic Fire (Killing The Bacterium)

Based on the best of TCM protocols, here is a "clear toxic heat" formula for use as an anti-toxin or "fire quenching agent." These amazing herbs have been successfully used against fire toxins such as malaria, pneumonia, diphtheria, septic angina, typhoid fever and others.

The 6 herbs used in this formula to clear toxic heat are 5:1 extracts of:
Chuan xin lian - Andrographis paniculate (a very effective anti-toxin heat clearing herb with anti-spirochetal action in particular)
Huang Lian - Coptis chinensis (Anti-toxin heat clearing)
Jin Yin Hua - Flos Lonicerae japonicae (Anti-toxin heat clearing)
Da Qing Ye - Folium Isatidis (Anti-toxin heat clearing)
Ban Zhi Lian - Scutellaria barbata; Herba (Anti-toxin heat clearing)
Tu Fu Ling - Smilax glabra; Rhizoma (Anti-spirochetal action)

As part of this protocol it is also important to take 2 grams twice daily of Hu Zhang powder (Natural resveratrol from Knotweed in 5:1 extract). It is positive against Leptospirosis, Treponema denticola (spirochetes in oral flora), Bartonella (Buhner) and many gram neg and gram pos bacteria.

Continually Removing The Toxins From The Joints:

Xu Duan (ChineseTeasel Root) taken with a "Clear Toxic Heat" formula will help drive the spirochetes from the joints into the blood stream (where it can be killed by the heat clearing herbs). Xu Duan Teasel in tincture form is the best way your body can absorb it.

Maximizing Your Immune System With a Strong Defense:

There must also be an effective formula for the immune system that is suitable for long term use. Reishi mushroom and Chinese Astragalus 5:1 (Called Strong Defense) are perfect.

Together all these herbs become the building blocks of a true hard working lyme disease protocol that, although formulated from ancient herbs, becomes "cutting edge" in fighting this toxic fire we call Lyme Disease.

Since the early 1930's, the Rockefeller family privatized the US healthcare industry, and similar takeovers occurred in other Western countries. The result was a cartel controlling:

All medical textbooks,
All scientific research into the causes of disease,
All scientific research into the creation of medicines,
All published information about medical issues in popular and professional literature,
All national and international laws governing medicine and medicines

They are the world's most powerful lobby and they will not rest until every human being on the planet is their slave. Only when we are medicated from cradle to grave, only when we will be wholly dependent on their expensive pills, only when most of the money we make goes into their pockets will they be satisfied.

The pharmaceutical mafia is only interested in making a quick buck, and keeping us all sick enough to need symptom relievers - but not too sick that we are not able to pay our health insurance and taxes, which for a great part also disappears into their pockets.

There are just about cures for all known disease you just have to know where to look http://www.swaraj.org/shikshantar/NatureCureHandbook.pdf

[Sidney]

Onawah, Thank you so much for this thread, it is much needed. I know there are at least a few on the forum here that are infected myself included. There is also a tie to Morgellons. I believe Clifford Carnicom tested many subjects, and 85% of Morgellons sufferers also had a lyme infection. (that does not mean 85% of Lyme sufferers have Morgellons), but it would not surprise me, because many people have Morgellons, with no open sores, just all of the other symptoms. 100% of the people he tested for Morgellons, with the Red wind gargle, were positive. 100%

Lyme disease IS/WAS engineered, as a bioweapon, in a lab on Plum Island off the coast of Conneticut. (its no coincidence that the original outbreaks, happened on the East Coast, there in Lyme Conneticut)

Read the book "LAB 257, by Michael Christopher Carroll". This book is what "woke me up". Straight down the rabbit hole.
22648 Copies can be found inexpensively on amazon or ebay.

[enfoldedblue]

Thanks Onawah for letting me know that you started this thread. The Mercola article is indeed interesting. More and more people that I know of have Lyme disease, even though officially there is no Lyme in Australia. More and more doctors however, are beginning to acknowledge the reality.

Where we live we get ticks almost daily...and apparently this area is a hot spot :( . We are thinking of getting guineafowl, as they are meant to be really good at keeping ticks under control.

[toad]

Quite shocking 300 000 thousand Americans each year diagnosed.If anyone suffers from this i will provide some details below

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lyme disease is treated as toxic fire. These fire toxins are treated with extreme heat clearing herbs. From the western point of view, fire toxins include aggressive entities such as bacterial and viral infections but are not limited to them. They can be amoebic parasites and even just toxins of chemical nature or metal particles. Likewise, from a western point of view, the heat clearing herbs have been proven to have a very effective anti-viral and antibacterial action as well as a "cleansing of the blood" effect on other small particles.Below is a TCM protocol for Lyme Disease grouped into three parts:

Clearing The Toxic Fire (Killing The Bacterium)

Based on the best of TCM protocols, here is a "clear toxic heat" formula for use as an anti-toxin or "fire quenching agent." These amazing herbs have been successfully used against fire toxins such as malaria, pneumonia, diphtheria, septic angina, typhoid fever and others.

The 6 herbs used in this formula to clear toxic heat are 5:1 extracts of:
Chuan xin lian - Andrographis paniculate (a very effective anti-toxin heat clearing herb with anti-spirochetal action in particular)
Huang Lian - Coptis chinensis (Anti-toxin heat clearing)
Jin Yin Hua - Flos Lonicerae japonicae (Anti-toxin heat clearing)
Da Qing Ye - Folium Isatidis (Anti-toxin heat clearing)
Ban Zhi Lian - Scutellaria barbata; Herba (Anti-toxin heat clearing)
Tu Fu Ling - Smilax glabra; Rhizoma (Anti-spirochetal action)

As part of this protocol it is also important to take 2 grams twice daily of Hu Zhang powder (Natural resveratrol from Knotweed in 5:1 extract). It is positive against Leptospirosis, Treponema denticola (spirochetes in oral flora), Bartonella (Buhner) and many gram neg and gram pos bacteria.

Continually Removing The Toxins From The Joints:

Xu Duan (ChineseTeasel Root) taken with a "Clear Toxic Heat" formula will help drive the spirochetes from the joints into the blood stream (where it can be killed by the heat clearing herbs). Xu Duan Teasel in tincture form is the best way your body can absorb it.

Maximizing Your Immune System With a Strong Defense:

There must also be an effective formula for the immune system that is suitable for long term use. Reishi mushroom and Chinese Astragalus 5:1 (Called Strong Defense) are perfect.

Together all these herbs become the building blocks of a true hard working lyme disease protocol that, although formulated from ancient herbs, becomes "cutting edge" in fighting this toxic fire we call Lyme Disease.

Since the early 1930's, the Rockefeller family privatized the US healthcare industry, and similar takeovers occurred in other Western countries. The result was a cartel controlling:

All medical textbooks,
All scientific research into the causes of disease,
All scientific research into the creation of medicines,
All published information about medical issues in popular and professional literature,
All national and international laws governing medicine and medicines

They are the world's most powerful lobby and they will not rest until every human being on the planet is their slave. Only when we are medicated from cradle to grave, only when we will be wholly dependent on their expensive pills, only when most of the money we make goes into their pockets will they be satisfied.

The pharmaceutical mafia is only interested in making a quick buck, and keeping us all sick enough to need symptom relievers - but not too sick that we are not able to pay our health insurance and taxes, which for a great part also disappears into their pockets.

There are just about cures for all known disease you just have to know where to look http://www.swaraj.org/shikshantar/NatureCureHandbook.pdf

Lingzhi or Reishi mushrooms are a very potent medicine. I had a run in with possible lymes earlier this year. The tests came back negative, but after a course of antibiotics and increased reishi concentrates I felt great after a week or so.

[conk]

There is a protocol whereby large doses of enzymes are taken in order to break open the cyst protecting the bacterium. The enzymes are Amalayse, 27,500 USP; Protease, 26,500 USP; and Lipase, 5,700 USP. One hour after taking the enzymes your choice of germ killer can be ingested. Favorites are Cat's Claw, Lyme Nosode (homeopathic preparation), collodial silver, MMS. Cat's Claw is a must. Of course you could take anti-biotics after the enzymes, but we all know the issues with them.

Another enzyme likely to help is Serrapeptase. A favorite part of my routine is cursing the spirochetes. ;) Thanks so much for this thread and thanks Orchid for the herbal suggestions.

Conk, long time Lyme sufferer.

[onawah]

Another great article just came out today on Lyme Disease, this one from Alliance for Natural Health

Lyme Disease: Misdiagnosed, Underreported—and Epidemic
February 15, 2011
http://www.anh-usa.org/lymedisease/

This is yet another example of the US medical-industrial complex run amok. Lyme is one of the most serious epidemics of our time. Yet the opinions of 2% of the medical community are dominating the beliefs and practices of the mass majority of practicing Lyme physicians!

The number of Lyme disease cases in the United States has doubled since 1991. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that there are nearly 325,000 new cases each year—making Lyme disease an epidemic larger than AIDS, West Nile Virus, and Avian Flu combined. Yet, only a fraction of these cases are being treated, due to inaccurate tests and underreporting. Each year, hundreds of thousands go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, often told that their symptoms are all in their head.

You may well ask, “If it’s such a huge epidemic, why are we not hearing anything about it?” The media is silent because doctors and insurance companies alike dismiss it as being a hypochondriacal illness, just as they’ve done for years to sufferers of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. It can be expensive to treat—untold numbers have it, and there is no protocol that is completely effective for all patients, no sure-fire cure. And at the root of it all, one Lyme disease organization, in its desire for power and control, is pitting doctors against doctors, prompting health insurance companies to deny medical claims at an alarming rate, and leaving suffering patients stuck in the middle.

Lyme disease (named after the town of Lyme, Connecticut, where a number of cases were identified in 1975) is a seriously complex multi-system inflammatory disease that is triggered by the bacterial lipoproteins (BLPs) produced by spiral-shaped bacteria called Borrelia burgdorferi, also called Bb. Bb are difficult to isolate, grow, and study in the laboratory. Moreover, there are five subspecies of Bb, over 100 strains in the US, and 300 strains worldwide. This diversity is thought to contribute to its ability to evade the immune system and antibiotic therapy, leading to chronic infection.

Transmission of Bb occurs primarily through the bite of ticks, though fewer than 50% of patients with Lyme disease recall a tick bite. In some studies this number is as low as 15%. The disease may affect every tissue and every major organ system in the body. Clinically, it can appear as a chronic arthalgia (joint pain), fibromyalgia (fibrous connective tissue and muscle pain), chronic fatigue, brain fog, immune dysfunction, and neurological disease. Lyme disease may even be fatal in severe cases.

Standard medical treatment usually involves antibiotics. In some patients, Lyme disease can be fairly easy to treat, while in others, it can feel like a never-ending battle. One reason treatment is difficult is because Bb has an in vitro replication cycle of about seven days, one of the longest of any known bacteria. Antibiotics are most effective during bacterial replication, so the more cycles during a treatment, the better. Since the life cycle of Streptococcus pyogenes (the bacterium that causes strep throat) is about eight hours, antibiotic treatment for a standard ten days would cover thirty life cycles. To treat Lyme disease for a comparable number of life cycles, treatment would need to last thirty weeks.

In addition, there are frequently co-infections—other tick-transmitted diseases—that come along for the ride, most often Babesia, Anaplasma, Ehrlichia and Bartonella. If left untreated, their continued presence increases the length of the illness and prevents successful treatment of Lyme disease.

Chronic Lyme Disease (CLD) is a systemic, debilitating condition which persists despite antibiotic therapy. Nearly a decade ago, Irwin Vanderhoof, PhD, a professor at the New York University Stern School of Business, estimated that CLD cost society nearly $1 billion per year. That estimate has since skyrocketed to about $2 billion per year, including diagnosis, treatment, and lost wages, according to Contingencies, but this being an actuarial trade publication for the insurance industry, the real figure is probably much higher.

Four NIH trials have validated the severity of CLD. The well-documented studies looked at Lyme disease patients at various points from six months to nine years after antibiotic therapy was completed. As many as 62% of them were found to have arthritis or recurrent arthralgias, neurocognitive impairment (including objective memory impairment), neuropathy or myelopathy, persistent musculoskeletal pain, and dysesthesia (a condition caused by lesions of the nervous system that causes abnormal sensations such as prickling, itching, burning, or electrical shock), often with persistent, severe fatigue.

Despite these studies, many physicians continue to deny the existence of CLD, which can hinder efforts to find a solution—and without consensus from mainstream Western medicine, insurance companies will rarely provide treatment, and disability coverage is routinely denied.

As Raphael Stricker et al. noted in a 2005 article, the political battle over Lyme disease features two polarized medical camps. The dominant camp, represented by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (ISDA), adheres to the philosophy that the disease is “hard to catch and easy to cure,” and that chronic infection with Bb is extremely rare or nonexistent. The opposing camp, represented by the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS), views Lyme disease as an underreported and growing menace that often fails to respond to standard antibiotic therapy, resulting in a chronic debilitating infection that requires prolonged antibiotic treatment. This chart outlines the differences in their approaches to treatment.

This difference of opinion has resulted in frequent denial of treatment for patients with CLD and prosecution of healthcare providers who treat these patients, and over the past decade the “Lyme Wars” have become progressively more acrimonious.

ISDA is controversial not only because of its views, but because of serious conflicts of interest alleged against its leadership. In 2008, then Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, now a US Senator, conducted an antitrust investigation of ISDA which uncovered serious flaws in its 2006 Lyme disease guidelines. “My office uncovered undisclosed financial interests held by several of the most powerful IDSA panelists. The IDSA’s guideline panel improperly ignored or minimized consideration of alternative medical opinion and evidence regarding chronic Lyme disease, potentially raising serious questions about whether the recommendations reflected all relevant science.”

One big problem is that most doctors follow a standard (but arbitrary) two-tier diagnostic protocol, requiring both a positive ELISA and Western Blot test. But despite the fact that this approach fails to detect up to 90% of cases and does not distinguish between acute, chronic, or resolved infection, these criteria have been used as rigid diagnostic benchmarks that have prevented individuals with Lyme disease from obtaining treatment.

Moreover, physicians not familiar with the complex clinical presentation of Lyme disease frequently misdiagnose it as multiple sclerosis, lupus, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, rheumatoid arthritis, motor neuron disease (ALS, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis—Lou Gherig’s disease), Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome (MCS), or numerous other disorders such as depression and anxiety, that are misdiagnosed as “psychiatric” or “all in your head”.

According to ILADS, other tests for Lyme disease include antigen capture, urine antigen, and polymerase chain reaction. Each has advantages and disadvantages in terms of convenience, cost, assay standardization, availability, and reliability. One hopeful area of research looks at live cultures under a fluorescent microscope, and measures the live organisms in the bloodstream, so one can keep retesting to see which therapies are working and which aren’t.

This is a critical difference. An antibody test only shows whether you have been exposed to the illness. A live organism test shows whether you are recovering or have recovered. A very promising live test, the Bowen test, was severely attacked by critics of long-term Lyme treatment and is no longer available.

Many insurance companies consider alternative tests “experimental and investigational,” and won’t pay for them. If more accurate tests aren’t allowed, the determination of Lyme depends on fallible tests, which greatly limits insurance companies’ financial involvement. Moreover, the therapies allowed by insurance companies are the most conservative ones—intravenous antibiotics at most—and only for a limited time under limited circumstances. If they don’t fix you, that’s just too bad!

Comparatively few MDs in the country are knowledgeable about Lyme disease; they are often called Lyme-literate MDs. Most LLMDs know about Lyme disease because they have studied it independently. But they are often harassed by the medical community, health officials, state medical boards, and insurance companies for diagnosing and treating Lyme patients beyond the standards set by the establishment. Notable cases were filed against Joseph Burrascano in New York and Joseph Jemsek in North Carolina, forcing them into bankruptcy or leaving them no alternative but to close or relocate their practices. A few Lyme physicians have had their medical licenses revoked. Some LLMDs have discontinued treating Lyme patients due to the harassment. Finding one nearby or who will take new patients can be a real struggle for patients.

There are a great many alternative therapies being used to treat Lyme disease. One reason for this is that while many therapies show promise, none is a definitive cure. Besides antibiotics, many integrative physicians prescribe a program of vitamins, nutritional supplements, herbs, and antiviral and antibacterial neutraceuticals.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has offered significant alleviation of symptoms, and intravenous vitamin C is once again proving successful. Traditional Chinese Medicine protocols (Chinese herbs, acupuncture, etc.) frequently achieve positive results—they are generally the same for Lyme disease as for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and fibromyalgia, since their symptoms so frequently overlap. Other important research is being done by Dr. Rich Van Konynenburg, who also sees a link between Lyme and CFS. Warren M Levin, MD was the first to report on the high incidence of Lyme disease in Autistic children, which ultimately led to formation of the Lyme Induced Autism Foundation (LIAF). He is now trying to get similar activity for the Candida problem, a frequent “complication” of long term antibiotic therapy that usually is preventable.

What if you become disabled from Lyme disease? Currently, Lyme disease is not listed in the Social Security Administration’s impairment listing manual, so disability would be denied on the basis of an LD diagnosis alone. However, Lyme sufferers may apply for Social Security Disability or Supplemental Security Income benefits based on their resulting physical restrictions and functional limitations.

A documentary film, Under Our Skin, follows the stories of patients and physicians fighting for their lives and livelihoods, presenting a haunting picture of a healthcare system and a medical establishment all too willing to put profits ahead of patients.

In the months ahead, ANH-USA will work to educate public figures about the tragedy of long-term Lyme sufferers and how the medical system is failing them. This is a complicated problem, one that cannot be solved by a single bill in Congress or regulatory change. But as dominant as private insurance companies are in denying that long-term Lyme disease exists, the federal government pays for almost half of healthcare today in the US—that figure is higher, about 60.5%, if you figure in government subsidies for private insurance, and government purchases of private health insurance for public employees such as police officers and teachers—and could easily turn this situation around through its Medicare and other reimbursement policies.

[conk]

My wallet is $6,300 lighter from 40 treatments in a Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber. Nothing, no improvement.

[The Truth Is In There]

Another great article just came out today on Lyme Disease, this one from Alliance for Natural Health


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Transmission of Bb occurs primarily through the bite of ticks, though fewer than 50% of patients with Lyme disease recall a tick bite. In some studies this number is as low as 15%. The disease may affect every tissue and every major organ system in the body. Clinically, it can appear as a chronic arthalgia (joint pain), fibromyalgia (fibrous connective tissue and muscle pain), chronic fatigue, brain fog, immune dysfunction, and neurological disease. Lyme disease may even be fatal in severe cases.

Standard medical treatment usually involves antibiotics. In some patients, Lyme disease can be fairly easy to treat, while in others, it can feel like a never-ending battle.

Chronic Lyme Disease (CLD) is a systemic, debilitating condition which persists despite antibiotic therapy.


using common sense, it should become obvious that there are several inconsitencies in this whole "lyme disease theory".

- it's supposed to be transmitted by ticks, yet in some studies only 15% of people recall ever having been bitten by a tick?

- it's supposed to be caused by bacteria, yet they respond to antibiotics only in some cases, and not in others?

- it creates a plethora of different symptoms and all of them are called lyme disease, even though one person has this symptom and another person has that symptom and a third person has an entirely different symptom?

does that remind anybody of another invented disease? aids, perhaps?

here are some real facts:
- lyme disease is a name for a lot of different symptoms that have no common denominator
- the various symptoms and diseases are not caused by bacteria
- with the same treatment some people get well and others don't, which shows that it's the people who are the important factor, not any microbe
- all these different symptoms have different causes. all should be determined by finding out which tissue or organ is affected, when it was affected the first time, and under which conditions the symptoms change - get better or worse

[Sidney]

Lyme is the close cousin of Syphilis, dubbed The great "immitator", because it can mimic any disease on the planet. You can have one symptom, or 80. Lyme was "engineered using syphilis, "cocktailed" with many tens of other disease cells. If you have lyme, chances are you also have, herpes 6,micoplasma,erlichia,babasia, bartonella, and many other co-infections, depending on the various strains that were manufactured in the lab, and the mutations that have happened in nature over the decades since its release. Yes, I said RELEASE.

The reason some can get over it and some not, is because, it depends on these factors.

1. How soon you got diagnosed after exposure.

2. How strong your immune system is.

3. Did you doctor become educated on Lyme, if not the cyst stage of the bacterium (spirochete) will prevent the killing of the bug, and has to be dealt with during treatment.

4. Lifestyle, If you have a spouse and kids to take care of, you will most likely not be able to deal with the herxheimer (die off). Like cancer, during chemo, when you treat Lyme, you get MUCH sicker than you were before treatment. This is not acknowledged by the medical establishment, or society in general. When one has cancer, people come flooding in, to help and support the ill. When you have lyme, you are treated like you can "take a pill, and get better". NOBODY UNDERSTANDS.
If you do not get a proper diagnosis in the first few months after infection, most likely you will never get rid of it forever. Remission is possible however and that should be the goal, realistically.

5. It has been proven that Lyme can be transmitted sexually, and through saliva and in the birth canal. If you study the cases on the east coast of the states, entire families are sick. This is not because they were all bitten by a tick. Many many kids are born with Lyme already in their system. if you are born with it, and remain asymptomatic for say 20 years, the chances of getting rid of it are pretty slim.

6. There has been a deliberate black out of information through mainstream media about this devastating illness, because insurance companies don't want to pay for treatment, but big pharma can get BIG RICH on us by treating our symptoms, by making up fancy names Like Lupus, RA, Chronic fatigue syndrome, Fibromyalgia, MS.
If you dig deep, you will find that those diseases all have a common denominator. A pathogen, of one kind or another.

7. Money. If you are one of the lucky people that has much financial support, then you can afford to see a natural type of doctor, that will help you get well. Poor people, really are screwed IMO, if you have Lyme and Co. If you can afford to go to bed when you need to, and not have to remain in slavery, while being sick, your chances of getting better are increased hundred-fold.

8. Once the pathogen crosses the blood brain barrier, you have what is known as neurolyme. The spirochetes colonize around the hypothalamus gland. When you herx from treatment, with this condition, you have severe problems with any negative emotion that exists. Because, when the pathogen dies, it leaves in its wake a host of toxic material, along with a toxic amount of amonia. Without going into detail, I will just say that this can really **** you up emotionally. Hence, you are forced to stop treatment. It is a roller coaster of,detox, treatment,herx,total incapacitation, detox some more, have a couple good days, then try it again. There are quite a few youtube videos that have popped up over the years, of people documenting their illness, and progress(and there lack of).

9. What other medical problems to you have. Parasites, heavy metals, digestive blockages etc. All of those ideally need to be dealt with FIRST, before you treat the lyme (if it is past the 6 month mark of infection before diagnosis). If you do not clear your exit pathways, the toxic material just keep cycling through your system instead of exiting your body. Most doctors, even Lyme literate doctors, don't tell you that. It is a tiring and expensive process, depending on your personal condition.

10. Diet- like any other disease state, if you put crap in, then you will feel like crap, and if you have Lyme, then times that by 10.
Ultimately, this is not a made up illness. It is a MAJOR cover up. Bigger than the chemtrail cover up. At least millions of people know about the chemtrailing. But the truth about LYME getting out there, is still in its infancy. And the biggest reason is that the victims of this evil concoction are too damn tired and sick to get anything done about it. We are stuck in survival mode. Just get through today, is how we live our lives.


It has been proven, that Lyme disease was manufactured by the United States Government, in a Laboratory, on Plum Island, off the coast of Connecticut. Patents are the smoking gun. It is also a well known fact that the US military, experiments on the public. Just keep that in mind.
Also, they came out with the Lymrix vaccine, and it was found that many of the batches had LIVE lyme cells in them. Many people got sick FROM the vaccine. That is why they took it off the market, not because it was unproven for prevention, like was told in the media. Another major cover up there.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIDyYWZ_24U

The outrage I feel when I think about the 22 years of my life that have been devastated by this is unbelievable. Literally, millions of people are living with Lyme, and are not diagnosed. Chronic illness, are in epidemic proportions. We have international policies regarding nuclear weapons. What about Bio weapons. Huh? there are as many people sick with Lyme as there would be if a nuclear bomb went off.

Lyme is in every nation on the planet. But it is covered up.

Don't believe me? I don't want you to take my word for it. Do your own research. I have research this stuff for 13 years. The facts are all on the internet, and in books. You have to dig to find it all. But its there.

The one question that I really cannot even answer for myself is, was this disease pandemic planned, and deliberately unleashed? Who really is in control of the hundreds/thousands of BIOLABS that are scattered around the world. Who is enforcing safety regulation and security of these many many laboratories?

Lyme disease did not COME from a tick. It came from a test tube.

Read lab 257 to learn how Lyme was manufactured, in a test tube, and transferred to TRILLIONS of ticks........Unless you prefer to sleep at night. :)

[The Truth Is In There]

i guess it will be useless to point out that syphilis is caused by an entirely different mechanism, too, and that it's not some microbe that is responsible for it. maybe one day more people will realize that diseases are not something that happens to you but biological programs that you start, usually unconsciously, and stop when they're no longer needed. bacteria or fungi are our assistants in the process, and viruses aren't anything at all, except maybe harmless proteins.

if there's anything in vaccines people can get sick from (and there sure is) then that's toxins.

"a diseases that mimics other diseases" sounds like hollywood brainwashing. there's no such thing. lyme disease is a smokescreen, just like aids. if people realized the true causes for all of these symptoms big pharma could no longer sell treatments and lots of doctors would be out of work.

[luapskie]

Try Jim Humble's MMS for lyme disease, MMS can be very helpful with many disease and illness modern medicine has no proper treatments for, like aids, cancer, ms, malaria, Parkinson, Alzheimer, Lyme disease and many more....
MMS can also used for a complete body cleansing as it will kill all pathogens, it will neutralize poisons (perfect after snake bites) , it oxidizes almost all heavy metals (even mercury) use it for 3 weeks and you will be like new. Check out Jim's website at www.jimhumble.biz

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Thanx Onawah

I'm treating myself with Frequency therapy based on Royal Rifes discovery. Hulda Clark developed a machine that has been further enhanced by F-scan f.i. There's this book "The Top 10 Lymedisease treatments" and "Rife machines and Lymedisease". In "The Rife Handbook" one can read about how to treat all kinds of diseases.

Frequency therapy is prohibited in the US, at least to charge for treatments.
Also read "The Lymedisease Solution" by Kenneth Singleton.

I take a lot of supplements having scanned the deficits the Lyme is causing in the body. Also had monocromous lighttheapy. It's important to clean your body and colon before starting or your body may have a hard time getting rid of the toxins from dead bacteria, parasites, viruses and mold that thrive with Lymebacteria.

[Sidney]

Try Jim Humble's MMS for lyme disease, MMS can be very helpful with many disease and illness modern medicine has no proper treatments for, like aids, cancer, ms, malaria, Parkinson, Alzheimer, Lyme disease and many more....
MMS can also used for a complete body cleansing as it will kill all pathogens, it will neutralize poisons (perfect after snake bites) , it oxidizes almost all heavy metals (even mercury) use it for 3 weeks and you will be like new. Check out Jim's website at www.jimhumble.biz

luapski- It is careless, to say that anything taken for 3 weeks will make you good as new. It is not true. Maybe for some. But after decades of being infected with multiple pathogens, it is in every cell in the body. You have to shed it in layers. And you have to do it slowly. If you killed all of it at once you cold literally die from the herxheimer reaction. Not everything works for everyone.

The real problem with Lyme, is the die off. There ARE ways to kill the disease. But making sure it exits your body without harming or killing you is a whole different ball game. there are videos of people with lyme documenting their MMS / lyme experience. So far, I have seen not one that has any great results. I took MMS for a week, and was 100% incapacitated from herxing. (and that was on the lowest dose possible).. I have a child, and NO HELP. So I live with it.

That said, not everyone has been living with it for 20 some years. Not everyone has other responsibilities that come first. Not everyone has multiple other issues to deal with. For some, MMS may be a good choice. but I believe even if you use MMS, you need to take systemic enzymes to break open the cyst during treatment.

[conk]

Truth, you are way, way down the rabbit hole. Many can't get down there because the journey is fraught with lies, misinformation, and just total BS. Getting through the mass of info that places blame on pathogens is difficult. It may be that there are no diseases, only symptoms of the greater problem. Problems caused by thoughts, events, traumas, faulty assumptions. Many are on the edge of greater understanding of these causes. Epigenetics, the power of belief and intention. As many assert, we cause our problems. We're responsible for them. Energy and vibration, that's where to look!

[Sunny-side-up]

Try Jim Humble's MMS for lyme disease, MMS can be very helpful with many disease and illness modern medicine has no proper treatments for, like aids, cancer, ms, malaria, Parkinson, Alzheimer, Lyme disease and many more....
MMS can also used for a complete body cleansing as it will kill all pathogens, it will neutralize poisons (perfect after snake bites) , it oxidizes almost all heavy metals (even mercury) use it for 3 weeks and you will be like new. Check out Jim's website at www.jimhumble.biz

luapski- It is careless, to say that anything taken for 3 weeks will make you good as new. It is not true. Maybe for some. But after decades of being infected with multiple pathogens, it is in every cell in the body. You have to shed it in layers. And you have to do it slowly. If you killed all of it at once you cold literally die from the herxheimer reaction. Not everything works for everyone.

The real problem with Lyme, is the die off. There ARE ways to kill the disease. But making sure it exits your body without harming or killing you is a whole different ball game. there are videos of people with lyme documenting their MMS / lyme experience. So far, I have seen not one that has any great results. I took MMS for a week, and was 100% incapacitated from herxing. (and that was on the lowest dose possible).. I have a child, and NO HELP. So I live with it.

That said, not everyone has been living with it for 20 some years. Not everyone has other responsibilities that come first. Not everyone has multiple other issues to deal with. For some, MMS may be a good choice. but I believe even if you use MMS, you need to take systemic enzymes to break open the cyst during treatment.


So I live with it.

So I live with it.
Yes Sidney, with every bad/negative thing thrown at us, around us and in us, be it natural or man made the key is;

'So I live with it.'

So we all live best we can.

I think with all my physical problems (but not diagnosed) that I might have lyme disease, if so well i've had symptoms going back 30 years doh

We must all in the material realm, with all the above negatives make sure we do the best we can but! To me now the most important thing to always remember and practice and develop is the regaining of our true spiritual powerful selves..

Live Life best we can but remember Love and Light to all!

[Sidney]

Try Jim Humble's MMS for lyme disease, MMS can be very helpful with many disease and illness modern medicine has no proper treatments for, like aids, cancer, ms, malaria, Parkinson, Alzheimer, Lyme disease and many more....
MMS can also used for a complete body cleansing as it will kill all pathogens, it will neutralize poisons (perfect after snake bites) , it oxidizes almost all heavy metals (even mercury) use it for 3 weeks and you will be like new. Check out Jim's website at www.jimhumble.biz

luapski- It is careless, to say that anything taken for 3 weeks will make you good as new. It is not true. Maybe for some. But after decades of being infected with multiple pathogens, it is in every cell in the body. You have to shed it in layers. And you have to do it slowly. If you killed all of it at once you cold literally die from the herxheimer reaction. Not everything works for everyone.

The real problem with Lyme, is the die off. There ARE ways to kill the disease. But making sure it exits your body without harming or killing you is a whole different ball game. there are videos of people with lyme documenting their MMS / lyme experience. So far, I have seen not one that has any great results. I took MMS for a week, and was 100% incapacitated from herxing. (and that was on the lowest dose possible).. I have a child, and NO HELP. So I live with it.

That said, not everyone has been living with it for 20 some years. Not everyone has other responsibilities that come first. Not everyone has multiple other issues to deal with. For some, MMS may be a good choice. but I believe even if you use MMS, you need to take systemic enzymes to break open the cyst during treatment.


So I live with it.

So I live with it.
Yes Sidney, with every bad/negative thing thrown at us, around us and in us, be it natural or man made the key is;

'So I live with it.'

So we all live best we can.

I think with all my physical problems (but not diagnosed) that I might have lyme disease, if so well i've had symptoms going back 30 years doh

We must all in the material realm, with all the above negatives make sure we do the best we can but! To me now the most important thing to always remember and practice and develop is the regaining of our true spiritual powerful selves..

Live Life best we can but remember Love and Light to all!

Beautiffully said Sunnysideup!!!!

[The Truth Is In There]

Truth, you are way, way down the rabbit hole. Many can't get down there because the journey is fraught with lies, misinformation, and just total BS. Getting through the mass of info that places blame on pathogens is difficult. It may be that there are no diseases, only symptoms of the greater problem. Problems caused by thoughts, events, traumas, faulty assumptions. Many are on the edge of greater understanding of these causes. Epigenetics, the power of belief and intention. As many assert, we cause our problems. We're responsible for them. Energy and vibration, that's where to look!

i hear you. one of the main problems is that due to the massive amount of confusing information people can't decide what's the truth and what isn't...until they have the experience and understanding about what really caused their condition, which most never gain.

lyme disease, or aids, are perfect examples of false information being deliberately planted or released to the public in order to confuse. the whole virus meme is a lie. a virus is merely a protein compound that can become a trigger which the body saves in it's data base when a traumatic situation happens and a special biological program starts which then creates the "disease". this virus trigger would keep the condition active (phase one) or activate it again before the program can run through both phases (phase two is heal and/or improve) but the cause was the trauma and the body's instinctive reaction to it.

this causes all diseases, from the common cold to cancer, the only difference is the kind of event that caused it and the perception of the person at the time, and which unique triggers were there as well. this can be foreign proteins ("viruses") or pollen or a smell or whatever.

by releasing alleged "secrets" through "whistleblowers" people are kept in a state of ignorance of the true cause of their diseases and will continue to try to treat their symptoms, all the while spending lots of cash for nothing, without ever realizing that the true cause for their disease is a certain traumatic event in their past, or possibly more than one. if this event is revisited and the emotion released, the relay in the brain gets deactivated and the "disease" heals like magic. microbes help with this. there's no war going on in our bodies. nature works in beautiful and perfect ways if we allow it to do so and don't interfere.

[conk]

i hear you....

Here's an example. My 17 year old daughter has a classmate, another 17 year old girl. This child was raped by a large man at age 13. Now, at 17 she is suffering from LUNG cancer. Imagine, 17 years old and having lung cancer. Almost unheard of. My thought is that she had this terrible experience, pehaps feeling like she couldn't breath (large man on top of her, pressing down) or tell anyone about the rape. And she did hold it in for years before telling anyone. Not much of a stretch to get from suffocating rape to cancer of the breathing apparatus, the lungs! Many hold that should she learn to release the mental trauma, and perhaps forgive the man, she could heal.

[luapskie]

Try Jim Humble's MMS for lyme disease, MMS can be very helpful with many disease and illness modern medicine has no proper treatments for, like aids, cancer, ms, malaria, Parkinson, Alzheimer, Lyme disease and many more....
MMS can also used for a complete body cleansing as it will kill all pathogens, it will neutralize poisons (perfect after snake bites) , it oxidizes almost all heavy metals (even mercury) use it for 3 weeks and you will be like new. Check out Jim's website at www.jimhumble.biz

luapski- It is careless, to say that anything taken for 3 weeks will make you good as new. It is not true. Maybe for some. But after decades of being infected with multiple pathogens, it is in every cell in the body. You have to shed it in layers. And you have to do it slowly. If you killed all of it at once you cold literally die from the herxheimer reaction. Not everything works for everyone.

The real problem with Lyme, is the die off. There ARE ways to kill the disease. But making sure it exits your body without harming or killing you is a whole different ball game. there are videos of people with lyme documenting their MMS / lyme experience. So far, I have seen not one that has any great results. I took MMS for a week, and was 100% incapacitated from herxing. (and that was on the lowest dose possible).. I have a child, and NO HELP. So I live with it.

That said, not everyone has been living with it for 20 some years. Not everyone has other responsibilities that come first. Not everyone has multiple other issues to deal with. For some, MMS may be a good choice. but I believe even if you use MMS, you need to take systemic enzymes to break open the cyst during treatment.

OK, let me rephrase that, I meant off course healthy people will be like new again if they do a cleansing with MMS, people who have a health problem like Lyme disease would have to do an intense protocol 2000 with MMS, take as many drop as you can and for as many hours as you can every 24hours for as long as needed. Discipline seems to be a problem in taking MMS, taking it every hour, really means taking it consistently every hour, putting an alarm-clock in your pocket and take the MMS everywhere you go with you.

[luapskie]

i hear you....

Here's an example. My 17 year old daughter has a classmate, another 17 year old girl. This child was raped by a large man at age 13. Now, at 17 she is suffering from LUNG cancer. Imagine, 17 years old and having lung cancer. Almost unheard of. My thought is that she had this terrible experience, pehaps feeling like she couldn't breath (large man on top of her, pressing down) or tell anyone about the rape. And she did hold it in for years before telling anyone. Not much of a stretch to get from suffocating rape to cancer of the breathing apparatus, the lungs! Many hold that should she learn to release the mental trauma, and perhaps forgive the man, she could heal.

I'm sorry to hear about your daughter having lung cancer, I posted this before, maybe you didn't notice, so here it is again. I truly believe this can heal you daughter, so might using MMS, doing the protocol 2000 and inhaling the MMS.
I take apricot seeds to prevent cancer on a daily basis, about 10-14 a day. They have to be from a wild apricot tree, because those contain the highest Laetrile or vitamin B17 levels. People that already have cancer should take about 100 seeds spread out over the day.The taste is bitter, but not to unpleasant. Laetrile or vitamin B17, contains cyanide which will only be released in cancer cell's, this is because those cell's lack an enzyme secreted by the pancreas. Anyway, to tell the whole story here would take to long, just go on You tube and watch the documentary from G.Edward Griffin "World without cancer, or/and buy his book with the same title. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeYMduufa-E Apricot seeds are illegal in the US and Canada, but are fully legal in Mexico, that would be the place to buy them, many US and Canadian citizens who have cancer go to Mexico to do a cure with vitamin B17, witch basically means, they go in a hotel and take the seeds for as long is needed to cure them. When you buy the seeds, make sure you get the wild variety and they have to be air dried, not dried in the sun.

[Sidney]

i hear you....

Here's an example. My 17 year old daughter has a classmate, another 17 year old girl. This child was raped by a large man at age 13. Now, at 17 she is suffering from LUNG cancer. Imagine, 17 years old and having lung cancer. Almost unheard of. My thought is that she had this terrible experience, pehaps feeling like she couldn't breath (large man on top of her, pressing down) or tell anyone about the rape. And she did hold it in for years before telling anyone. Not much of a stretch to get from suffocating rape to cancer of the breathing apparatus, the lungs! Many hold that should she learn to release the mental trauma, and perhaps forgive the man, she could heal.

I'm sorry to hear about your daughter having lung cancer, I posted this before, maybe you didn't notice, so here it is again. I truly believe this can heal you daughter, so might using MMS, doing the protocol 2000 and inhaling the MMS.
I take apricot seeds to prevent cancer on a daily basis, about 10-14 a day. They have to be from a wild apricot tree, because those contain the highest Laetrile or vitamin B17 levels. People that already have cancer should take about 100 seeds spread out over the day.The taste is bitter, but not to unpleasant. Laetrile or vitamin B17, contains cyanide which will only be released in cancer cell's, this is because those cell's lack an enzyme secreted by the pancreas. Anyway, to tell the whole story here would take to long, just go on You tube and watch the documentary from G.Edward Griffin "World without cancer, or/and buy his book with the same title. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeYMduufa-E Apricot seeds are illegal in the US and Canada, but are fully legal in Mexico, that would be the place to buy them, many US and Canadian citizens who have cancer go to Mexico to do a cure with vitamin B17, witch basically means, they go in a hotel and take the seeds for as long is needed to cure them. When you buy the seeds, make sure you get the wild variety and they have to be air dried, not dried in the sun.

Hi, I believe conk stated that it is his daughters classmate that has the lung cancer, not his daughter. That said, I have always wondered about the benefits of B17 other than cancer. Also, its not surprise that the US would never allow a cure for anything to be legal here. Arggggg

[luapskie]

Yeah, I see what you mean. I think B17 could have many benefits. Just take a look at the average age of the Hunza's people, living in a small country in the Himalayas. They play football at the village court at age 90-100, many get to an age of 120 some even 150years!! There wealth is measured in the amount of wild apricot trees they own, they use the seeds which contain a high concentration of B17 in there daily meals. There was never a case of cancer reported under the Hunza's, not unless they move to a Western country, than they are even more likely to develop cancer than we do, so do the Eskimo's or other native people who live from what nature provides them with.

[The Truth Is In There]

Here's an example. My 17 year old daughter has a classmate, another 17 year old girl. This child was raped by a large man at age 13. Now, at 17 she is suffering from LUNG cancer. Imagine, 17 years old and having lung cancer. Almost unheard of. My thought is that she had this terrible experience, pehaps feeling like she couldn't breath (large man on top of her, pressing down) or tell anyone about the rape. And she did hold it in for years before telling anyone. Not much of a stretch to get from suffocating rape to cancer of the breathing apparatus, the lungs! Many hold that should she learn to release the mental trauma, and perhaps forgive the man, she could heal.

congrats, you got it exactly right!

lung cancer develops due to a perceived death threat. this can be figurative or, like in this case, literal. she was afraid she would die and so the body started to build additional lung tissue so she'd have more oxygen available to survive the death threat.

once she realizes that the threat has passed and she won't die (just talking with someone about it may do that) the body's little helpers will start to dismantle the additional tissue that's now no longer necessary - in this case tuberculosis mycobacteria. she'd get lung tuberculosis, have night sweats, slightly raised temperature, and cough up blood clots, which is just the now useless tissue being removed. after a few weeks the cancer and tuberculosis would be gone and she'd be fine again. this would be the biological healing.

if for some reason the tuberculosis bacteria are not present (because she was vaccinated or because she killed them with mms) the body would have to close off this extra tissue because it can't be removed. the "cancer" would still be there but no longer grow. this would be the unbiological healing.

[778 neighbour of some guy]

Anyone tried a 50/100 dollar zapper yet?

[onawah]

I wonder if cannabidiol will prove as effective in dealing with Lyme Disease as it is with cancer and other conditions.
Wouldn't that be nice?

[conk]

Anyone tried a 50/100 dollar zapper yet?

Not sure, but mine cost $350 and I forgot about it. I'm charging it up tonight! Yes, I over paid. (looks down humbly and shuffles feet).

I just ordered 6 Chinese herbs mentioned herein. Will let everyone know in a few months if it appears to help. I INTEND FOR IT TO WORK!

[transiten]

Quite shocking 300 000 thousand Americans each year diagnosed.If anyone suffers from this i will provide some details below

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lyme disease is treated as toxic fire. These fire toxins are treated with extreme heat clearing herbs. From the western point of view, fire toxins include aggressive entities such as bacterial and viral infections but are not limited to them. They can be amoebic parasites and even just toxins of chemical nature or metal particles. Likewise, from a western point of view, the heat clearing herbs have been proven to have a very effective anti-viral and antibacterial action as well as a "cleansing of the blood" effect on other small particles.Below is a TCM protocol for Lyme Disease grouped into three parts:

Clearing The Toxic Fire (Killing The Bacterium)

Based on the best of TCM protocols, here is a "clear toxic heat" formula for use as an anti-toxin or "fire quenching agent." These amazing herbs have been successfully used against fire toxins such as malaria, pneumonia, diphtheria, septic angina, typhoid fever and others.

The 6 herbs used in this formula to clear toxic heat are 5:1 extracts of:
Chuan xin lian - Andrographis paniculate (a very effective anti-toxin heat clearing herb with anti-spirochetal action in particular)
Huang Lian - Coptis chinensis (Anti-toxin heat clearing)
Jin Yin Hua - Flos Lonicerae japonicae (Anti-toxin heat clearing)
Da Qing Ye - Folium Isatidis (Anti-toxin heat clearing)
Ban Zhi Lian - Scutellaria barbata; Herba (Anti-toxin heat clearing)
Tu Fu Ling - Smilax glabra; Rhizoma (Anti-spirochetal action)

As part of this protocol it is also important to take 2 grams twice daily of Hu Zhang powder (Natural resveratrol from Knotweed in 5:1 extract). It is positive against Leptospirosis, Treponema denticola (spirochetes in oral flora), Bartonella (Buhner) and many gram neg and gram pos bacteria.

Continually Removing The Toxins From The Joints:

Xu Duan (ChineseTeasel Root) taken with a "Clear Toxic Heat" formula will help drive the spirochetes from the joints into the blood stream (where it can be killed by the heat clearing herbs). Xu Duan Teasel in tincture form is the best way your body can absorb it.

Maximizing Your Immune System With a Strong Defense:

There must also be an effective formula for the immune system that is suitable for long term use. Reishi mushroom and Chinese Astragalus 5:1 (Called Strong Defense) are perfect.

Together all these herbs become the building blocks of a true hard working lyme disease protocol that, although formulated from ancient herbs, becomes "cutting edge" in fighting this toxic fire we call Lyme Disease.

Since the early 1930's, the Rockefeller family privatized the US healthcare industry, and similar takeovers occurred in other Western countries. The result was a cartel controlling:

All medical textbooks,
All scientific research into the causes of disease,
All scientific research into the creation of medicines,
All published information about medical issues in popular and professional literature,
All national and international laws governing medicine and medicines

They are the world's most powerful lobby and they will not rest until every human being on the planet is their slave. Only when we are medicated from cradle to grave, only when we will be wholly dependent on their expensive pills, only when most of the money we make goes into their pockets will they be satisfied.

The pharmaceutical mafia is only interested in making a quick buck, and keeping us all sick enough to need symptom relievers - but not too sick that we are not able to pay our health insurance and taxes, which for a great part also disappears into their pockets.

There are just about cures for all known disease you just have to know where to look http://www.swaraj.org/shikshantar/NatureCureHandbook.pdf

Hi Blue Orhcid...if you're still there...or someone else who can explain how to take the herbs....

1 What does 5:1 mean?

2 Should the herbs be taken with water or....?

3 For how long should one continue?

Thankyou in advance

[Robin]

It's so great to see people on this forum have have had the unfortunate acquaintance with Lyme Disease.

I acquired it in the summer of 2012, and ironically, it was the catalyst for my spiritual awakening, which eventually led me to become awake and aware. Even though I still have it, it was actually a positive experience in that it guided me to think differently about life.

But that being said, it upsets me and adds one further thing to the list that the NWO are guilty of. At the age of 23 sometimes I wake up feeling like an old man because of sore joints and other problems.

After trying many different treatments, as you all have, I'm currently trying out Essiac Tea. But instead of in tea form, I'm taking two capsules a day recommended by a woman in Roswell who has her own alternative medicine shop. The capsules have been speculated to cure cancer and other illnesses:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essiac

I'll let you know how I feel after I'm done taking the pills (24 left!).

[anonymous]

I don't want to present my 'experience' or hypothesis…

Is there any 'public' opinion here regarding Lyme and similar 'diseases'?

[Sidney]

I don't want to present my 'experience' or hypothesis…

Is there any 'public' opinion here regarding Lyme and similar 'diseases'?

Hi David, there is a thread on Lyme. I will find it and post the link here. BTW, I am a lyme sufferer for almost 25 yrs, and know a thing or two about it. :)

Post edit: found it
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?62974-Lyme-Disease&highlight=Lyme

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?60653-Lyme-disease-bullseye-on-my-back&highlight=lyme

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10409-An-Alternative-Chronic-Lyme-Treatment&highlight=lyme

[ThePythonicCow]

I don't want to present my 'experience' or hypothesis…

Is there any 'public' opinion here regarding Lyme and similar 'diseases'?

Various members have various opinions and experiences.

Try the following:

Click on "Advanced Search" (right side, near top of page)
Choose "Show Results as" "Threads"
Enter "Keyword(s)" as "lyme"
Choose "Search Titles Only", rather than "Search Entire Posts"
Click on "Search Now"

This will provide you a list of several threads that have focused on Lyme disease.

[anonymous]

Thank you. Someone close to me suffers from Lyme Disease, and we suspect a couple other close people have it to, only have been misdiagnosed. She just got done watching 'Under our skin' which is HEAVY, but good, especially for someone without the disease who needs to be shocked into caring, because it is heavy! Almost too heavy for some people with Lyme. I am going to read through this with her. Thanks again!

[anonymous]

Wow, I am slow. Thanks! you can delete this thread if you would!

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I don't want to present my 'experience' or hypothesis…

Is there any 'public' opinion here regarding Lyme and similar 'diseases'?

Hi David, there is a thread on Lyme. I will find it and post the link here. BTW, I am a lyme sufferer for almost 25 yrs, and know a thing or two about it. :)

Post edit: found it
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?62974-Lyme-Disease&highlight=Lyme

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?60653-Lyme-disease-bullseye-on-my-back&highlight=lyme

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10409-An-Alternative-Chronic-Lyme-Treatment&highlight=lyme

Thanks so much, I will browse this with my concerned party =) (which obviously includes me!)

[Kryztian]

This is a worthwhile information on Lyme's and how it may have been developed at Plum Island by Operation Paper Clip scientist.

4ct5_5kzh_0

[conk]

Cat's Claw. Arteminisin. Chinese herbs. And a promising new technique, intravenous Silver Hydrosol. Carnivora. All touted as remedies to the incredibly difficult to eradicate Lyme pathogens.

[Tesseract]

I believe there was an effective vaccine that was once developed - but there were some concerns, apparently un-founded ones, and unfortunately the product was withdrawn.

[anonymous]

Yes sounds good. We got quality colloidal silver intook via nebulizer facemask to make the antibiotics more effective.... also modified diet... no gluten, no dairy... need to check on those herbs. Thank you so much. It has been very hard for her to find reliable help who doesn't want to follow the 'iffy' CDC guidelines which OBVIOUSLY didnt work. That ship sailed long ago... She finally found a decent alternative Dr. and he just retired!!! She does RIFE treatments once a week, too.

Yea I am privy to the paperclip aspect. They have tentacles...

Thanks so much guys. Sorry with everything going on sometimes I can't even search right, I get sidetracked!


Showing her this info NOW!

[anonymous]

I don't want to present my 'experience' or hypothesis…

Is there any 'public' opinion here regarding Lyme and similar 'diseases'?

Hi David, there is a thread on Lyme. I will find it and post the link here. BTW, I am a lyme sufferer for almost 25 yrs, and know a thing or two about it. :)

Post edit: found it
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?62974-Lyme-Disease&highlight=Lyme

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?60653-Lyme-disease-bullseye-on-my-back&highlight=lyme

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10409-An-Alternative-Chronic-Lyme-Treatment&highlight=lyme

Oh wow I am so sorry, but you must be strong! Do you aim to keep it in re-mission type of status or?... Tell you what, I need to catch up on the other threads and let her decide what to ask =P

Thank you so much for sharing.

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This is a worthwhile information on Lyme's and how it may have been developed at Plum Island by Operation Paper Clip scientist.

4ct5_5kzh_0

This is what I was fishing for with that first post, if it wasn't obvious... :-) Thanks!

[anonymous]

That video made us both cry. Jesse Ventura's voice and repitition almost did too! Lol. I do like his style though. Dramatized or not, these are serious issues!

Researching cat's claw and the silver hydrosol... she knew about Carnivora and some of the other stuff, but a lot was new info. Thanks a million, guys!

[Sidney]

That video made us both cry. Jesse Ventura's voice and repitition almost did too! Lol. I do like his style though. Dramatized or not, these are serious issues!

Researching cat's claw and the silver hydrosol... she knew about Carnivora and some of the other stuff, but a lot was new info. Thanks a million, guys!

You have got to read the book Lab 257. That book changed my life and triggered my true awakening process. It is proof, that lyme did not come from a tick, it came from a test tube. Patents and all.

http://www.amazon.com/Lab-257-Disturbing-Governments-Laboratory/dp/0060011416

In my opinion, a startlingly high percentage of most chronic illness, are Lyme related. there have been so much cover ups done by the us military and medical establishments to keep the truth quiet. The facts also include most physicians that truly can help people get well, have been jailed and/or had their medical license stripped from them. This is a full scale attack on society, with a bio weapon. It has worked very well to keep people sick, drugged, dumb with alzheimers symptoms, and impoverished.

Yes, my opinion is that there is a deliberate genocidal plan being carried out, and Lyme is a huge part of it. There, I said it out loud. Go ahead throw me in the loony bin, and get it over with. :)

[conk]

Also, don't underestimate the power of oxygen therapies. Get the best you can afford. Hyperbaric chamber sessions are healing for some patients. You can get intravenous hydrogen peroxide from a naturopath or some MDs, which floods the body with oxygen. Perhaps the best if UV radiation. The blood is drawn out and exposed to Ultra Violet rays. Kills ALL pathogens and is very safe. Cures most everything, cancers too. Not too many practitioners do this anymore, because of the intense scrutiny of the FDA (Fraud and Deception Administration or For a Drugged America). At home you can use an inexpensive ozone machine and drink the oxygen.

[anonymous]

That video made us both cry. Jesse Ventura's voice and repitition almost did too! Lol. I do like his style though. Dramatized or not, these are serious issues!

Researching cat's claw and the silver hydrosol... she knew about Carnivora and some of the other stuff, but a lot was new info. Thanks a million, guys!

You have got to read the book Lab 257. That book changed my life and triggered my true awakening process. It is proof, that lyme did not come from a tick, it came from a test tube. Patents and all.

http://www.amazon.com/Lab-257-Disturbing-Governments-Laboratory/dp/0060011416

In my opinion, a startlingly high percentage of most chronic illness, are Lyme related. there have been so much cover ups done by the us military and medical establishments to keep the truth quiet. The facts also include most physicians that truly can help people get well, have been jailed and/or had their medical license stripped from them. This is a full scale attack on society, with a bio weapon. It has worked very well to keep people sick, drugged, dumb with alzheimers symptoms, and impoverished.

Yes, my opinion is that there is a deliberate genocidal plan being carried out, and Lyme is a huge part of it. There, I said it out loud. Go ahead throw me in the loony bin, and get it over with. :)

I didn't want to share my opinion at first, to cloud judgement. I feel the same way and there is evidence to support...

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Also, don't underestimate the power of oxygen therapies. Get the best you can afford. Hyperbaric chamber sessions are healing for some patients. You can get intravenous hydrogen peroxide from a naturopath or some MDs, which floods the body with oxygen. Perhaps the best if UV radiation. The blood is drawn out and exposed to Ultra Violet rays. Kills ALL pathogens and is very safe. Cures most everything, cancers too. Not too many practitioners do this anymore, because of the intense scrutiny of the FDA (Fraud and Deception Administration or For a Drugged America). At home you can use an inexpensive ozone machine and drink the oxygen.

Ahh good info, thanks. I'm going to look into adding some oxygen treatments into the regime...

[gaiagirl]

Eastern medicine was the best approach for me. This is, of course after two+ years daily antibiotic treatment by a Western practitioner and Lyme specialist. The following is an abridged version of my story if you care to read it.

If not, I'll just say that it is an incredibly complicated disease that the medical system turns a ridiculous profit from while ruling out the potentially hundreds of other causes of their patients' symptoms; and with Lyme, how it presents can vary wildly. It's nickname in the medical world is "The Great Imposter" because of this. Intermittent spiking fevers is the only constantly presenting symptom among the infected.

Also, in the States, the medical world is very divided concerning many factors of this disease from how it is classified to how it should be treated to weather or not it even exists (the chronic form that is).

In my initial research the tidbit of info that helped me understand the disease best is that the organism is structured like and functions similarly to Syphilis in humans...learning the fact that Syphilis has three stages (the last one being chronic) and having had my own experience with this organism, IMHO that "chronic Lyme" is very real and will soon reach epidemic proportions in the US. The AMA, CDC, and big Pharma however will hide this fact for as long as they can, but I digress...

After suffering 23+ years from symptoms of chronic Lyme (misdiagnosed for 19 of those years), I had the good fortune to be guided to a "Dr. Quang" in Bennington, VT. He is a Vietnamese monk who practices Chinese/Vietnamese medicine and is also a licensed in acupuncture. He is a lovely, soft spoken man who radiates such beauty and light, it is difficult not to constantly smile while in his presence.

Anyway, after about 12 weeks of treatment (I would drive to see him every 4-6 weeks at which point he would simply ask me some questions, check my eyes, tongue and pulses) I noticed a profound difference in my symptoms: the brain-fog had lifted, the joint pain was almost completely gone, my memory was improving, and my need for sleep was decreasing. I still had good days and bad days (mostly weather dependent, I found) but there was a significant improvement.

I continued to go to him for another 3 months when I got reinfected, of all things (I landscape during the warmer months and wore shorts like a fool)! After the initial round of antibiotics (which do work well usually for acute cases) I lost my other job so money was tight and then things really fell apart...my point being that I never got back to him for financial reasons.

He convinced me that he believed that he could eliminate the spirochette from my system completely which makes me giddy right now just thinking about. . . I hope to get back to him someday soon (having a bought with cancer presently and again, or should I say, as always more financial difficulties) so I may eliminate this nuisance from my soul container.

One of the the things I had to do prior to treatment with him was sign a form to agree to a small number of things. One of them was to not inquire as to what he was giving me in these little brown bags of dried stems, roots, seeds, and leaves (among who knows what else). I would empty the contents into a glass container (pyrex) with five cups of water, simmer it down to 1/2 a cup, drink 1/2 of that one night and the other the next night prior to bedtime. On the 7th day I drank this powder substance mixed in warm water. Each bag appeared to have a different combination of dried organisms in it and they were numbered so as to be consumed in a specific order.

I realize you don't live near VT but maybe someone who has Lyme and reads this does and will want more information. They can send me an inquiry here and I would be happy to provide any more information concerning him or his treatment style. Also note, that though I can't afford him right now, I am REALLY, REALLY poor at the moment and his rates are really quite reasonable...again this is IMHO.

There is a book that has been written about him by his wife (who recently moved back to Vietnam from what I heard). It is called: Fourth Uncle in the Mountain: A Memoir of a Barefoot Doctor in Vietnam (http://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Uncle-Mountain-Barefoot-Vietnam/dp/0312314302)

I haven't read it yet but it got excellent reviews on Amazon.


Healing Lyme: Natural Healing and Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis and Its Coinfections by Stephen Harrod Buhner (http://www.amazon.com/Healing-Lyme-Prevention-Borreliosis-Coinfections/dp/0970869630/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389576423&sr=1-4&keywords=lyme+disease) is an exceptional book on the subject.

I hope this helps someone...infinite love to us all...gg :love:

[anonymous]

Eastern medicine was the best approach for me. This is, of course after two+ years daily antibiotic treatment by a Western practitioner and Lyme specialist. The following is an abridged version of my story if you care to read it.

If not, I'll just say that it is an incredibly complicated disease that the medical system turns a ridiculous profit from while ruling out the potentially hundreds of other causes of their patients' symptoms; and with Lyme, how it presents can vary wildly. It's nickname in the medical world is "The Great Imposter" because of this. Intermittent spiking fevers is the only constantly presenting symptom among the infected.

Also, in the States, the medical world is very divided concerning many factors of this disease from how it is classified to how it should be treated to weather or not it even exists (the chronic form that is).

In my initial research the tidbit of info that helped me understand the disease best is that the organism is structured like and functions similarly to Syphilis in humans...learning the fact that Syphilis has three stages (the last one being chronic) and having had my own experience with this organism, IMHO that "chronic Lyme" is very real and will soon reach epidemic proportions in the US. The AMA, CDC, and big Pharma however will hide this fact for as long as they can, but I digress...

After suffering 23+ years from symptoms of chronic Lyme (misdiagnosed for 19 of those years), I had the good fortune to be guided to a "Dr. Quang" in Bennington, VT. He is a Vietnamese monk who practices Chinese/Vietnamese medicine and is also a licensed in acupuncture. He is a lovely, soft spoken man who radiates such beauty and light, it is difficult not to constantly smile while in his presence.

Anyway, after about 12 weeks of treatment (I would drive to see him every 4-6 weeks at which point he would simply ask me some questions, check my eyes, tongue and pulses) I noticed a profound difference in my symptoms: the brain-fog had lifted, the joint pain was almost completely gone, my memory was improving, and my need for sleep was decreasing. I still had good days and bad days (mostly weather dependent, I found) but there was a significant improvement.

I continued to go to him for another 3 months when I got reinfected, of all things (I landscape during the warmer months and wore shorts like a fool)! After the initial round of antibiotics (which do work well usually for acute cases) I lost my other job so money was tight and then things really fell apart...my point being that I never got back to him for financial reasons.

He convinced me that he believed that he could eliminate the spirochette from my system completely which makes me giddy right now just thinking about. . . I hope to get back to him someday soon (having a bought with cancer presently and again, or should I say, as always more financial difficulties) so I may eliminate this nuisance from my soul container.

One of the the things I had to do prior to treatment with him was sign a form to agree to a small number of things. One of them was to not inquire as to what he was giving me in these little brown bags of dried stems, roots, seeds, and leaves (among who knows what else). I would empty the contents into a glass container (pyrex) with five cups of water, simmer it down to 1/2 a cup, drink 1/2 of that one night and the other the next night prior to bedtime. On the 7th day I drank this powder substance mixed in warm water. Each bag appeared to have a different combination of dried organisms in it and they were numbered so as to be consumed in a specific order.

I realize you don't live near VT but maybe someone who has Lyme and reads this does and will want more information. They can send me an inquiry here and I would be happy to provide any more information concerning him or his treatment style. Also note, that though I can't afford him right now, I am REALLY, REALLY poor at the moment and his rates are really quite reasonable...again this is IMHO.

There is a book that has been written about him by his wife (who recently moved back to Vietnam from what I heard). It is called: Fourth Uncle in the Mountain: A Memoir of a Barefoot Doctor in Vietnam (http://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Uncle-Mountain-Barefoot-Vietnam/dp/0312314302)

I haven't read it yet but it got excellent reviews on Amazon.


Healing Lyme: Natural Healing and Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis and Its Coinfections by Stephen Harrod Buhner (http://www.amazon.com/Healing-Lyme-Prevention-Borreliosis-Coinfections/dp/0970869630/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389576423&sr=1-4&keywords=lyme+disease) is an exceptional book on the subject.

I hope this helps someone...infinite love to us all...gg :love:

Of course I care to 'read it'. !!! Thank you so much for sharing. I travel and am open... I would have to look in the man's eyes myself, but I am all for 'alternative' (just a word) medicine. I would be interested in contacting him if you have his info...

It sounds like you have been through a lot! Never give up! There is something out here better for all of us, and it is coming. I truly beleive that. Life can be so hard sometimes... and it is sad how money, or the illusion thereof is such a driving, and limiting force in society. I hope you receive everything you need, and more, to aid you with your full recovery!

Thanks for your time, and help.

[blufire]

Below is a post I made on this thread: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10409-An-Alternative-Chronic-Lyme-Treatment&p=89837&highlight=lyme+arrowind#post89837



I had Lyme Disease . .. . . repeat had it. I suffered through years of misdiagnoses and more years of unsuccessful conventional treatment after I was finally diagnosed with Lyme. I finally had the sense to go back to my roots of herbal and homeopathic medicine and successfully treated a deeply embedded Lyme along with 3 other parasitical and/or tick borne bacteria and viruses.

The process was long and the protocol had to be adjusted as symptoms came and went but I have not relapsed in 10 years and so I feel I finally got rid of it completely.

I agree wholeheartedly with the enzymes and the herbs that conk mentioned. I feel the main success of my healing though was using a home brewed “Essiac Tea”. To the main four ingredients of this tea I always added Cat’s Claw and then other ingredients would be added to the brew as my symptoms either waned or intensified. Other herbs were used to manage other symptoms and to build the immune system in a very particular way.

Lyme will deeply embed in your liver and other vital organs and will “hide out” when other more conventional treatments are used and then will manifest even with more aggression when you are at your weakest. The trick is to keep an extremely detoxed system and keeping the “environment” unsuitable for the Lyme for an extended amount of time . . . . this varies with the person and with how deeply it has invaded your system.

The process is not complicated but it does require a persistent treatment over time. The more time between relapses means you’re winning until (like me) the illness is gone.

Arrowwind the information you have presented is solid but I have to feel I really need to caution on one aspect. Most (like me) who suffer with Lyme for many years have extremely weakened and delicate body systems. I would caution that products like mms and other heroic treatment be used with great care or not at all. This is where the Essiac Tea came in to my treatment. Yes, I know and have read all the literature and Jim Humble books but I will always stand solid that mms is not for everyone and you pretty much have to have a very strong constitution to use mms and some certain tinctures.

I hesitate to say this but I have helped others through the process. If there is enough interest I will post a more detailed explanation of the protocol I used. If anything I would like to give those who are suffering with Lyme hope and to say I am an example along with around 18 others I have seen defeat this very nasty illness.

Lyme is completely curable. I am walking proof, as well as others I helped through the process.

Essiac Tea was the main ingredient to this success. The tea was tweaked with other herbs during the healing process with Cats Claw and Japanese Knotweed being two of the main additions that are primary in curing Lyme.

I also feel my lifestyle had much to do with my healing. As a farmer/homesteader I had to force myself to get out of bed and endure the pain to take care of my animals and other daily tasks. The hard physical labor and more importantly the daily interaction with my animals never failed to lift my spirits. My German Shepherd dog (Oakley) never left my side and the horses, goats and even the chickens were also in tuned to whether I was having a good day or difficult day.

Essiac Tea is not expensive if you purchase just the herbs and brew yourself, I would suggest this company: https://www.mountainroseherbs.com/ For me, the tea is free because as an herbalist I know how to find those herbs in the wild and even grow some of them. Wild harvesting the herbs (I feel) also contributed to my healing, because getting out in the woods and spending the day harvesting what I needed was very soothing and grounding.

I also want to mention that it is also critical in curing Lyme that you do take a round of specific antibiotics upon first finding the ‘bull’s eye rash’ from a tick bite. Keeping the infection from ‘taking hold’ within your body systems will keep your healing process quicker. Don’t skip this step and/or try to use ‘natural antibiotics’ . . . . use the specific antibiotics prescribed by your doctor and for the length of time the doctor suggests.

Lyme is not some conspiracy human exterminating experiment . . . . it is only a specific bacterial, virus, parasitical that nature has brewed up and because of humans invading deeper into forested wild areas have we come in contact with it.

But rest be assured, that what is found and harmful in Mother Nature she also offers the cure. It is our responsibility to become knowledgeable and then apply the wisdom of that knowledge.

[Sidney]

Below is a post I made on this thread: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10409-An-Alternative-Chronic-Lyme-Treatment&p=89837&highlight=lyme+arrowind#post89837



I had Lyme Disease . .. . . repeat had it. I suffered through years of misdiagnoses and more years of unsuccessful conventional treatment after I was finally diagnosed with Lyme. I finally had the sense to go back to my roots of herbal and homeopathic medicine and successfully treated a deeply embedded Lyme along with 3 other parasitical and/or tick borne bacteria and viruses.

The process was long and the protocol had to be adjusted as symptoms came and went but I have not relapsed in 10 years and so I feel I finally got rid of it completely.

I agree wholeheartedly with the enzymes and the herbs that conk mentioned. I feel the main success of my healing though was using a home brewed “Essiac Tea”. To the main four ingredients of this tea I always added Cat’s Claw and then other ingredients would be added to the brew as my symptoms either waned or intensified. Other herbs were used to manage other symptoms and to build the immune system in a very particular way.

Lyme will deeply embed in your liver and other vital organs and will “hide out” when other more conventional treatments are used and then will manifest even with more aggression when you are at your weakest. The trick is to keep an extremely detoxed system and keeping the “environment” unsuitable for the Lyme for an extended amount of time . . . . this varies with the person and with how deeply it has invaded your system.

The process is not complicated but it does require a persistent treatment over time. The more time between relapses means you’re winning until (like me) the illness is gone.

Arrowwind the information you have presented is solid but I have to feel I really need to caution on one aspect. Most (like me) who suffer with Lyme for many years have extremely weakened and delicate body systems. I would caution that products like mms and other heroic treatment be used with great care or not at all. This is where the Essiac Tea came in to my treatment. Yes, I know and have read all the literature and Jim Humble books but I will always stand solid that mms is not for everyone and you pretty much have to have a very strong constitution to use mms and some certain tinctures.

I hesitate to say this but I have helped others through the process. If there is enough interest I will post a more detailed explanation of the protocol I used. If anything I would like to give those who are suffering with Lyme hope and to say I am an example along with around 18 others I have seen defeat this very nasty illness.

Lyme is completely curable. I am walking proof, as well as others I helped through the process.

Essiac Tea was the main ingredient to this success. The tea was tweaked with other herbs during the healing process with Cats Claw and Japanese Knotweed being two of the main additions that are primary in curing Lyme.

I also feel my lifestyle had much to do with my healing. As a farmer/homesteader I had to force myself to get out of bed and endure the pain to take care of my animals and other daily tasks. The hard physical labor and more importantly the daily interaction with my animals never failed to lift my spirits. My German Shepherd dog (Oakley) never left my side and the horses, goats and even the chickens were also in tuned to whether I was having a good day or difficult day.

Essiac Tea is not expensive if you purchase just the herbs and brew yourself, I would suggest this company: https://www.mountainroseherbs.com/ For me, the tea is free because as an herbalist I know how to find those herbs in the wild and even grow some of them. Wild harvesting the herbs (I feel) also contributed to my healing, because getting out in the woods and spending the day harvesting what I needed was very soothing and grounding.

I also want to mention that it is also critical in curing Lyme that you do take a round of specific antibiotics upon first finding the ‘bull’s eye rash’ from a tick bite. Keeping the infection from ‘taking hold’ within your body systems will keep your healing process quicker. Don’t skip this step and/or try to use ‘natural antibiotics’ . . . . use the specific antibiotics prescribed by your doctor and for the length of time the doctor suggests.

Lyme is not some conspiracy human exterminating experiment . . . . it is only a specific bacterial, virus, parasitical that nature has brewed up and because of humans invading deeper into forested wild areas have we come in contact with it.

But rest be assured, that what is found and harmful in Mother Nature she also offers the cure. It is our responsibility to become knowledgeable and then apply the wisdom of that knowledge.

You are dead wrong, saying nature brewed up Lyme disease. It is PATENTED

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gZ1mhwZt-Y

[blufire]

Sidney, I listened to the video specifically trying to see the dates of these patents and I didn’t hear any . . . although I could barely hear her on my tablet.

I did a quick search and the earliest patent I could find was in the early 90’s. Which makes sense.

Lyme has been around since the 70’s as a perfectly normal bacterial/viral infection from tick bites. I contracted Lyme in the early 80’s while living in Wisconsin. I am an avid backpacker and spend much of my time outdoors and so getting tick bites is a common occurrence for me. Wisconsin at that time was one of the primary areas for Lyme. I was not diagnosed correctly with Lyme until 1994 and by that time the spirochetes and viruses were deeply imbedded in my body systems.

I have no doubt that Plum Island scientists were doing biological weapon research with many natural born diseases. But every one of the spirochetes and viruses associated with Lyme is completely naturally occurring. As well as I have no doubt that the enhanced Lyme bacterial made it into the ‘outside’. But do I think it is some insidious conspiracy against humanity . . . No.

Of course Lyme is patented as is most diseases along with the synthetically altered forms of associated viruses and bacteria. Lots of money here in selling specific antibiotics and vaccines and in order to make those big bucks the ‘product’ has to be patented. . . . . as with MANY naturally occurring diseases and illnesses . .. hell, look at the billions made with the common cold virus. Is this a government plot against humanity too? We can’t cure the common cold and millions of people a year suffer through a bout of the common rhinovirus cold.

But the bottom line is Lyme is completely curable and without the expensive ‘recommended’ treatments. Although the specific antibiotic treatment upon first discovering the tick bite (I feel) is mandatory in eradicating the disease quickly. It took me a couple years (or more) to completely eliminate it from my body because it was so deeply imbedded.

One of the biggest elements to overcoming anything in your life is having a positive attitude and outlook and the belief that you are in control (within reason) and responsible for your life. If you have the belief you have an incurable disease and that you are a victim of some sort of insidious government plot then that is the scenario you will live out everyday of your life and this is what you bring into your life and those around you on a daily basis. .

[anonymous]

I think the important thing is to focus on the solution, NOW. There are 'remedies' if not 'cures' and no matter what happened in the past, the 'govt' (lets not get specific...) is making some serious no no's and they will be fixed, too.


Thank you so much for your input, everyone!

[Sidney]

Sidney, I listened to the video specifically trying to see the dates of these patents and I didn’t hear any . . . although I could barely hear her on my tablet.

I did a quick search and the earliest patent I could find was in the early 90’s. Which makes sense.

Lyme has been around since the 70’s as a perfectly normal bacterial/viral infection from tick bites. I contracted Lyme in the early 80’s while living in Wisconsin. I am an avid backpacker and spend much of my time outdoors and so getting tick bites is a common occurrence for me. Wisconsin at that time was one of the primary areas for Lyme. I was not diagnosed correctly with Lyme until 1994 and by that time the spirochetes and viruses were deeply imbedded in my body systems.

I have no doubt that Plum Island scientists were doing biological weapon research with many natural born diseases. But every one of the spirochetes and viruses associated with Lyme is completely naturally occurring. As well as I have no doubt that the enhanced Lyme bacterial made it into the ‘outside’. But do I think it is some insidious conspiracy against humanity . . . No.

Of course Lyme is patented as is most diseases along with the synthetically altered forms of associated viruses and bacteria. Lots of money here in selling specific antibiotics and vaccines and in order to make those big bucks the ‘product’ has to be patented. . . . . as with MANY naturally occurring diseases and illnesses . .. hell, look at the billions made with the common cold virus. Is this a government plot against humanity too? We can’t cure the common cold and millions of people a year suffer through a bout of the common rhinovirus cold.

But the bottom line is Lyme is completely curable and without the expensive ‘recommended’ treatments. Although the specific antibiotic treatment upon first discovering the tick bite (I feel) is mandatory in eradicating the disease quickly. It took me a couple years (or more) to completely eliminate it from my body because it was so deeply imbedded.

One of the biggest elements to overcoming anything in your life is having a positive attitude and outlook and the belief that you are in control (within reason) and responsible for your life. If you have the belief you have an incurable disease and that you are a victim of some sort of insidious government plot then that is the scenario you will live out everyday of your life and this is what you bring into your life and those around you on a daily basis. .

I really don't mean to argue, I really don't. We can agree to disagree. You cannot patent a naturally occurring substance. period. If it is patented, then it is man made.
Lyme CAN be cureable. It depends on the individual. It can be managed, if not cured. Some people have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on natural/alternative treatement trying to avoid harmful prescription meds, yes were far beyond the safe diagnosis period for a huge improvement. This disease is not black and white when it comes to treatments or cures. The system is set up in order to make it difficult or impossible to get a proper TEST, for a proper diagnosis. This is a DESIGNED plan, and people need to understand this to avoid wasting their time and money and energy with mainstream doctors. Because they are not lying to us, they have themselves been lied to by their educators (BIG PHARMA).

Lyme disease IS expensive to have, and treat, and live with. Special foods, special supplements, special doctors, LOTS of sleep. It is simply careless to lump it all into one opinion. I know, I have lived with it for over 25 years, and have been researching ever since, however I was not tested or diagnosed for the first 12 years, so all that time, my bacterial and viral load was multiplying like crazy. Long story short, it is not possible to have a positive attitude every day and I did not bring the disease into my life, it was GIVEN to me and millions of others. I find your "everything is peachy" attitude offensive. I will not post on this thread further, as my attitude it taking a plunge suddenly.

[vilcabamba]

Some of the basic lyme tests are not accurate b/c the nanotechnology that is sprayed in chemtrails can give someone a false "positive" reading due to the protein bands they both create. My doctor has been helping people cure lymes..she has great technology and is in alignment with the stuff on this website. Her radio show on blog talk Is 1cellonelight and she is also into the new age materials as well. I have spoken to people who have used her technologies and have cured lymes.

[Elainie]

http://www.lymediseaseresource.com/Dr_Lee_Cowden.html

[Hervé]

Amber discovery indicates Lyme disease is older than human race (http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2014/may/amber-discovery-indicates-lyme-disease-older-human-race)

SOURCE: George Poinar, Jr. (poinarg@science.oregonstate.edu)

(poinarg@science.oregonstate.edu)https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5117/14107314237_9e570c9341_t.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/photos/oregonstateuniversity/14107314237)
Tick carrying spirochetes

05/29/2014


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CORVALLIS, Ore. – Lyme disease is a stealthy, often misdiagnosed disease that was only recognized about 40 years ago, but new discoveries of ticks fossilized in amber (http://bit.ly/RCFVzp) show that the bacteria which cause it may have been lurking around for 15 million years – long before any humans walked on Earth.

The findings were made by researchers from Oregon State University, who studied 15-20 million-year-old amber from the Dominican Republic that offer the oldest fossil evidence ever found of Borrelia, a type of spirochete-like bacteria that to this day causes Lyme disease. They were published in the journal Historical Biology.

In a related study, published in Cretaceous Research, OSU scientists announced the first fossil record of Rickettsial-like cells (https://www.flickr.com/photos/oregonstateuniversity/14107318319/), a bacteria that can cause various types of spotted fever. Those fossils from Myanmar were found in ticks about 100 million years old (https://www.flickr.com/photos/oregonstateuniversity/14314151923/in/photostream/).

As summer arrives and millions of people head for the outdoors, it’s worth considering that these tick-borne diseases may be far more common than has been historically appreciated, and they’ve been around for a long, long time.

“Ticks and the bacteria they carry are very opportunistic,” said George Poinar, Jr., a professor emeritus in the Department of Integrative Biology of the OSU College of Science, and one of the world’s leading experts on plant and animal life forms found preserved in amber. “They are very efficient at maintaining populations of microbes in their tissues, and can infect mammals, birds, reptiles and other animals.

“In the United States, Europe and Asia, ticks are a more important insect vector of disease than mosquitos,” Poinar said. “They can carry bacteria that cause a wide range of diseases, affect many different animal species, and often are not even understood or recognized by doctors.

“It’s likely that many ailments in human history for which doctors had no explanation have been caused by tick-borne disease.”

Lyme disease is a perfect example. It can cause problems with joints, the heart and central nervous system, but researchers didn’t even know it existed until 1975. If recognized early and treated with antibiotics, it can be cured. But it’s often mistaken for other health conditions. And surging deer populations in many areas are causing a rapid increase in Lyme disease – the confirmed and probable cases of Lyme disease in Nova Scotia nearly tripled in 2013 over the previous year.

The new research shows these problems with tick-borne disease have been around for millions of years.

Bacteria are an ancient group that date back about 3.6 billion years, almost as old as the planet itself. As soft-bodied organisms they are rarely preserved in the fossil record, but an exception is amber, which begins as a free-flowing tree sap that traps and preserves material in exquisite detail as it slowly turns into a semi-precious mineral.

A series of four ticks from Dominican amber were analyzed in this study, revealing a large population of spirochete-like cells (http://bit.ly/1msuLHk) that most closely resemble those of the present-day Borrelia species. In a separate report, Poinar found cells that resemble Rickettsia bacteria, the cause of Rocky Mountain spotted fever and related illnesses. This is the oldest fossil evidence of ticks associated with such bacteria.

In 30 years of studying diseases revealed in the fossil record, Poinar has documented the ancient presence of such diseases as malaria, leishmania, and others. Evidence suggests that dinosaurs could have been infected with Rickettsial pathogens.

Humans have probably been getting diseases, including Lyme disease, from tick-borne bacteria as long as there have been humans, Poinar said. The oldest documented case is the Tyrolean iceman, a 5,300-year-old mummy found in a glacier in the Italian Alps.

“Before he was frozen in the glacier, the iceman was probably already in misery from Lyme disease,” Poinar said. “He had a lot of health problems and was really a mess.”

[Robin]

Thanks for posting the article, Amzer Zo. I read the article last week but I still remain skeptical of the confirmation of Lyme bacteria in the fossilized ticks. I may be biased because I have Lyme Disease, but it seems more likely that Lyme Disease was created as a weapon against humanity.

I have seen so many articles coming out lately that try to play off certain big phenomena on this planet as being because of simple evolution. If the PTB are trying everything they can to still make it seem like the pyramid of Giza was made by human slave labor and nothing more, then I cannot take this article as being anything less than the PTB spreading disinformation about Lyme being engineered...

[Hervé]

[...]

.... I may be biased because I have Lyme Disease, but it seems more likely that Lyme Disease was created as a weapon against humanity.

[...]

I must admit I had similar thoughts, however, that's disregarding Ötzi, the Iceman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi):


Iceman Mummy May Hold Earliest Evidence of Lyme Disease (http://www.livescience.com/18704-oldest-case-lyme-disease-spotted-iceman-mummy.html)

Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer | February 28, 2012 12:08pm ET

http://www.livescience.com/18704-oldest-case-lyme-disease-spotted-iceman-mummy.html

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Dr. Eduard Egarter-Vigl (left) and Dr. Albert Zink (right) taking a sample from the Iceman in November 2010.
Credit: Samadelli Marco/EURAC View full size image


The 5,300-year-old ice mummy dubbed Ötzi, discovered in the Eastern Alps about 20 years ago, appears to have had the oldest known case of Lyme disease, new genetic analysis has revealed.

As part of work on the Iceman's genome — his complete genetic blueprint — scientists found genetic material from the bacterium responsible for the disease, which is spread by ticks and causes a rash and flulike symptoms and can lead to joint, heart and nervous system problems.

The new analysis also indicates the Iceman was lactose intolerant, predisposed to cardiovascular disease, and most likely had brown eyes (http://www.livescience.com/13150-otzi-reconstruction-iceman-mummy-copper-age.html) and blood type O.

To sequence the Iceman's genome (http://www.livescience.com/8414-gene-map-give-insight-5-200-year-iceman.html), researchers took a sample from his hip bone. In it, they looked for not only human DNA — the chemical code that makes up genes — but also for that of other organisms. While they found evidence of other microbes, the Lyme disease bacterium (http://www.livescience.com/18340-lyme-disease-risk-map.html), called Borrelia burgdorferi, was the only one known to cause disease, said Albert Zink, a study researcher and head of the European Institute for Mummies and the Iceman at the European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC) in Italy.

"Our data point to the earliest documented case of a B. burg­dorferi infection in mankind. To our knowledge, no other case report about borreliosis [Lyme disease] is available for ancient or historic specimens," Zink and colleagues write in an article published on Tuesday (Feb. 28) in the journal Nature Communications.

Discovering evidence of Borrelia is an "intriguing investigative lead," said Dr. Steven Schutzer, an immunologist at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School.

Schutzer is a lead investigator on a National Institutes of Health-funded project that has sequenced at least 17 strains of the modern bacterium, and has published 13 of those so far.

The discovery of the traces of Borrelia within the sample taken from the Iceman still needs to be confirmed, he said. "Now we know what we want to look for, now that we know there is a possibility of that being here, we can do a very targeted approach that looks for Borrelia," Schutzer said.

Lyme disease is transmitted by ticks in North America and Eurasia. It was first found in the United States in Connecticut in the mid-1970s; a similar disorder had been identified in Europe earlier in the 20th century.

Schutzer said he is discussing follow-up studies with Zink.

Previous work had examined genetic material within the Iceman's mitochondria — the energy-producing centers in cells. His mitochondrial DNA,which is inherited through the maternal line, did not reveal any living relatives (http://www.livescience.com/5152-iceman-mummy-leaves-relatives.html).

In this new project, researchers decoded the DNA found within the nuclei of the Iceman's cells, which is inherited from both parents. They found the Iceman belonged to a lineage that is now rare,but still present in some places. [Photos of Iceman Mummy (http://www.livescience.com/13151-otzi-reconstruction-iceman-mummy-copper-age.html)]

"This means his ancestors came from Europe originally from the East and spread over most or part of Europe," Zink said. "This original population was somehow replaced by other populations, but they remained quite stable in remote areas like Sardinia and Corsica."

The analysis also indicates the Iceman was lactose intolerant. This isn't surprising, according to Zink. At the time the Iceman lived and died, people were beginning to settle down and become farmers, and the ability for adults to digest milk became an advantage.

The team also found he had a genetic predisposition for cardiovascular disease, supporting earlier scans showing the buildup of deposits within his arteries. In spite of the health problems from which the roughly 45-year-old Iceman suffered, he appears to have died a violent death (http://www.livescience.com/1578-cold-case-closed-iceman-mummy-bled-death.html). Researchers believe a flint arrowhead, shot into his left shoulder most likely killed him.



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... which would mean that blaming TPTB and/or Fort Dietrich for Lyme Disease is a Psy-Op (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?54217-Their-Mind-and-the-Emotional-Matrix-that-we-create-with-it.&p=652209&viewfull=1#post652209) granting them a power they don't have.

[Sidney]

I have seen the patent for Lyme disease. If this is an engineered weaponized bug, then this article regarding the mummy would indeed be disinformation with the motive to alleviate those who created this awful disease from taking responsibility. As always this is only my opinion. But something stinks about this.

[Hervé]

I have seen the patent for Lyme disease. If this is an engineered weaponized bug, then this article regarding the mummy would indeed be disinformation with the motive to alleviate those who created this awful disease from taking responsibility. As always this is only my opinion. But something stinks about this.

Do you have any link(s)/reference(s) to/for it?

I am asking because, first, it would be a good thing to have it referenced here in this thread for any readers and, second, if there is a natural spirochete and a human "enhanced" one, then both are true which confuses the issue even more with two Psy-Op (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?54217-Their-Mind-and-the-Emotional-Matrix-that-we-create-with-it.&p=652209&viewfull=1#post652209)s going on.

On the other hand, "they" are well aware that it couldn't work due to everyone fudging data:


[...]
The US Administration has been making many new germs and using the vaccines only for their own use. The HIV virus is a BioWarfare germ which was developed at Fort Detrick.

‘Over the past two decades there have been only a handful of other physicians and health professionals who have had the courage to alert the public to evidence that AIDS is man-made (namely Robert Strecker MD, William Campbell Douglass MD, Eva Snead MD, and Leonard G Horowitz DDS)’ and Dr. Alan Cantwell author of Queer Blood. http://dark-truth.blogspot.com/2007/06/more-evidence-hiv-was-man-made-bio.html (http://dark-truth.blogspot.com/2007/06/more-evidence-hiv-was-man-made-bio.html)

It was tested under the supervision of CIA officer Jim Jones on US blacks, hispanics, and Native Americans at Jonestown British Guiana. I met Jim Jones in the halls of the CIA after that. He did not die in that CIA mass murder atrocity that killed over 900 people. Most were not so well mind controlled as to ‘voluntarily commit suicide on cue’. Please read the book “Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment?" by Robert Meier for more information. HIV did not accidently escape from Fort Detrick; it was intentionally used to target populations, mainly blacks and Third World people. For example, HIV infected units of blood were sent to sickle cell clinics in Africa, put in vaccines used in Africa, India, Thailand, etc. But, infected blood was also wittingly sent by the Shadow govt. to Canada with the intention of infecting that population as well. The Robber Barons only consider the top 500 wealthiest families in the world to be “their own”. In their agenda, they want to allow each of those families to have a million relatives on the face of the earth and wipe out all the other people. That can be done by creating new germs and taking safe vaccines to them, while withholding those vaccines from everyone else. Thus, they have developed a vaccine against HIV which they have taken but hidden from the rest of the world. In my report to Tenet, I stated that this was a crime against humanity which was being perpetuated on a daily basis. After he read my report, I asked him what he was going to do about all those crimes against humanity, as each new germ represented one. He hemmed and hawed and then offered lamely that he was not the one making the decision. I asked him who was. He did not answer that question directly. He said, “Well, you can come with me to the next Presidential briefing in the morning and discuss it with Bush, if you think that it will do any good.”

I doubted it would do any good, but in the interests of thoroughness I did it anyway. I took with me a large stack of my report. My report was over 225 pages with a couple hundred pages of supporting documents. So, each report was almost a ream worth of paper. I put 10 of them in a box to take with me. Both Cheney and Bush were at that Presidential briefing that morning. And Rice was called into it when I started giving my briefing on the poor quality of the research done at the BioWarfare Labs. At the end of my almost 12 minutes, I concluded with my recommendation that all the labs be closed down.

Bush, Jr. said to me, “We wanted to know how to make the research more effective. What are your recommendations to do that?”

I asked him, “More effective in what way?” That was a loaded question because they did not want to come out and say in front of the many foreign bugs likely to be in the Oval Office, “At killing off most of the people in the world so we can have all the resources of the planet for just our own children.” So, there was a brief uncomfortable silence.

Then Cheney said, “You know what we want. What do we have to do to get the level of science up to be able to accomplish it?”

I started off on the tangent of how to make the research safe enough to even do and recommended tongue in cheek that it at least be moved off shore to join their investments. Rice laughed at that. The others did not. They wanted the BioWarfare Labs on US soil to be able to claim an accidental release when one was intentional. That suggested to me that Rice was not as close into the loop on the actual agenda as the others.

Cheney then said to me “Just get to the point and tell us what needs to be done to get the kill ratios up to usable to immobilize a whole population.”

I said, “Of healthy well fed soldiers or starving villagers?”

He said, “Assume a healthy population’.

Then Bush, Jr. added in “What does it take to kill everyone who isn’t vaccinated? Can’t we just use several germs at the same time?”

Cheney frowned at that because Bush had said more than was wise for plausible deniability. He tried to cover for Bush and added, “In the event of war.”

I said, “We are in a war now. It is likely that MiddleEasterners have different susceptibility rates than Westerners.”

Bush, Jr. said, “Well, we want to be able to cover all bases.”

Tenet rolled his eyes up to the ceiling at Bush’s continued faux pas.

Rice tried to rescue him this time and said, “This is just theoretical so that we understand all facets of the problem.”

Bush leapt back in and said, “No, I really need to know in case I decide to launch this globally.”

Cheney got up and left the room, apparently because Bush had said too much and he didn’t want to be implicated by what else Bush said. But that did not help Cheney because the next thing that Bush, Jr. said was ‘Cheney and I already discussed this before you came this morning and we are of the same mind on it. We want the capacity to wipe out all of the “lesser beings” on the planet.’

I played dumb and asked him how he defined that.

He said, “You know, all those who are not members of the CFR already”

“And their families?” I offered.

“Well, not all of them,” he said. “You know The List.”

I handed him a copy of it to make sure that we were talking about the same list. He nodded yes, and repeated “What do we have to do to get down to just those people?”

I told him that their current plans were not good because the science was so faulty that even if you used multiple germs that those people had already received the vaccines on, that the number of people left alive were likely to overwhelm all defenses and overrun and kill the perpetrators.

“That means us, doesn’t it?” he asked.

Rice was shifting uncomfortably in her chair--apparently she knew that that her family was not on that list.

I said, “Yes. And I don’t think that you can improve the research quality at the Labs without inspiring a culture of honesty in them first.”

“How do we do that?” he asked.

“Leadership” I replied. “Model the behavior that you want them to have by being honest.”

“What about incentives? Cash incentives?”, he asked.

“You already have such a system in place. The researchers know that they can get an extra $100,000 by creating a new germ. It is not improving the quality of the research, it is only making more germs.”

“But then we will succeed by having lots of them!” he asserted.

“No, lots of them are “me too” germs and they can cause the body to develop immunity to many of the other germs in the program.”

“Then we can imprison all those who don’t do good research, to improve the quality. How long should they be imprisoned for?”

“I really don’t think that will work either”, I said. “They will get more devious, but not more honest.

We went around in circles like this for a while. Finally, Tenet said it was getting late.

Bush ended by saying, “I don’t think my being more honest is a good idea. People would find out the truth. I think that you better explain this to Rockefeller as I sure don’t want to have to. He is going to be very disappointed in you. You are failing to make this work the way we want it to. I don’t think that will be good for your health, if you keep on resisting us in this.”

Cheney came back in as Tenet and I were about to leave. I gave him, Bush, and Rice copies of my report. I also left a copy for Rumsfeld, the Head of the JCS, and others until I had none left.

Cheney said, “You expect us to read this?” I said, “The first 5 pages are the executive summary. The rest is to prove what I said in those 5 pages.”

Bush said, “Oh, I can read that much” and picked his copy back up off the side table he had set it on. Then he said to me vehemently, “This better deliver what I want or you will be sorry when Rockefeller hears of it.”

Cheney said to Bush, “Don’t worry. We have others to replace her.”

The next month they had 3 other people review the BioWarfare Lab’s research without first giving them my report. Those 3 people said much the same that I did--the science at the BioWarfare Labs was seriously flawed and untrustworthy.

Since the Shadow Govt. intends to make new germs to kill off 11 out of every 12 people, without exempting Americans, please inform your friends and neighbors to mobilize to stop. Use non-violent protests like Martin Luther King, Jr. taught us to do. There is still enough time. The poor science at those BioWarfare Labs means that the Shadow Government cannot count on a single of their exclusive vaccines working well to protect them. All they have is Yes men saying they will work. They are poorly tested because they wanted to hide the fact that they have made those germs. What they have is a 3-Stooges type of genocide by germ warfare plan.

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[Sidney]

Read this page, http://rense.com/general63/lyme.htm
and also read Lab 257 by Michael Christopher Carrol. I saw a government page many many years ago, which had many disease patents listed for bio weaponry. It has since been taken down.

[blufire]

There have been several threads on PA regarding Lyme disease.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10409-An-Alternative-Chronic-Lyme-Treatment&p=89837&highlight=lyme+arrowind#post89837

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?67202-Lyme-Disease

The following is a post I have made on those Lyme related threads:


I had Lyme Disease . .. . . repeat had it. I suffered through years of misdiagnoses and more years of unsuccessful conventional treatment after I was finally diagnosed with Lyme. I finally had the sense to go back to my roots of herbal and homeopathic medicine and successfully treated a deeply embedded Lyme along with 3 other parasitical and/or tick borne bacteria and virus.

The process was long and the protocol had to be adjusted as symptoms came and went but I have not relapsed in 11 years and so I feel I finally got rid of it completely.

I agree wholeheartedly with the enzymes and the herbs that conk mentioned. I feel the main success of my healing though was using a home brewed “Essiac Tea”. To the main four ingredients of this tea I always added Cat’s Claw and then other ingredients would be added to the brew as my symptoms either waned or intensified. Other herbs were used to manage other symptoms and to build the immune system in a very particular way.

Lyme will deeply embed in your liver and other vital organs and will “hide out” when other more conventional treatments are used and then will manifest even with more aggression when you are at your weakest. The trick is to keep an extremely detoxed system and keeping the “environment” unsuitable for the Lyme for an extended amount of time . . . . this varies with the person and with how deeply it has invaded your system.

The process is not complicated but it does require a persistent treatment over time. The more time between relapses means you’re winning until (like me) the illness is gone.

Arrowwind the information you have presented is solid but I have to feel I really need to caution on one aspect. Most who suffer with Lyme for many years have extremely weakened and delicate body systems. I would caution that products like mms and other heroic treatment be used with great care or not at all. This is where the Essiac Tea came in to my treatment. Yes, I know and have read all the literature and Jim Humble books but I will always stand solid that mms is not for everyone and you pretty much have to have a very strong constitution to use mms and some certain tinctures and homeopathics.

I hesitate to say this but I have helped others through the process. If there is enough interest I will post a more detailed explanation of the protocol I used. If anything I would like to give those who are suffering with Lyme hope and to say I am an example along with others I have seen defeat this very nasty illness.


It is my personal belief that Lyme is a perfectly natural disease, just like many other natural diseases that are deadly and others that can incapacitate one for a lifetime.

I am living proof (as several others I personally know) that Lyme is curable.

Can Lyme be synthesized and messed with in a lab to become a biological weapon as many other bacteria and viruses?

There is no doubt. I still am not convinced Lyme has been weaponized . . . . messed with? Yes, but not released as a biological weapon.

It is a matter of a simple blood test to determine whether or not you have Lyme and further blood work to determine if it is natural or engineered. This blood work is not cheap and few labs equipped to perform the testing.
But again as far as I am concerned it does not matter which type one may have, Lyme is rarely, if ever fatal. But, unfortunately very few are determined to do what it takes for the length of time it may take to rid and heal themselves from Lyme (natural or engineered)

My heart goes out to those who suffer with Lyme but I want to be a voice of encouragement and hope that you can heal yourself from this dis-ease

The following is an excerpt from Louise L. Hay’s book ‘Heal Your Body’: Problem: Chronic Disease Probable Cause (or belief in one’s self): A refusal to change. Fear of the Future. Not feeling safe New Thought Pattern: I am willing to change and to grow. I now create a safe new future.

[Bill Ryan]

From Dr Mercola, today:


https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2019/05/04/under-our-skin-lyme-disease-2.aspx

Sequel to Award-Winning Film Reveals Hope for Lyme Sufferers


https://vimeo.com/100152202Story at-a-glance


An estimated 329,000 Americans are diagnosed with Lyme disease each year and the prevalence is rising across the world.
Lyme disease is becoming more widely recognized as a real disease, and one that can have chronic consequences, but sufferers still meet plenty of resistance from the medical community and insurers.
The film reveals medical collusion and conflicts of interest that keep Lyme patients suffering, but ends on a hopeful note, showing how patients in the prequel have managed to improve their health and reclaim their lives.

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According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an estimated 329,000 Americans are diagnosed with Lyme disease each year, although some data suggest it may actually be over 444,000. While exact numbers are difficult to ascertain, what is known is that the prevalence is rising.

Since Lyme disease became a nationally notifiable condition in 1991, the number of U.S. counties considered at high risk for Lyme disease has increased by more than 300%. The disease is also expanding rapidly all over the world, as new research presented in April 2019 shows that the outbreaks are creeping steadily into northern countries with less temperate climates.

Likewise, by the end of 2018 eight northern U.S. states had more Lyme disease cases than southern states like Florida or those with moderate climates like West Virginia and North Carolina. In fact, Pennsylvania was leading the pack with 119,000 cases, according to the CDC.

Today, Lyme disease is becoming more widely recognized as an actual disease, but sufferers still meet plenty of resistance from the medical community and insurers. In years past, Lyme sufferers were often told their problem was psychiatric; in essence, the symptoms were "all in their head."

Under Our Skin

"Under Our Skin 2: Emergence" is a sequel to the award-winning and Academy Award semifinalist documentary "Under Our Skin (https://underourskin.com/)," which exposed the hidden story of "medical and scientific malfeasance and neglect," as thousands of people with Lyme disease go undiagnosed, or get misdiagnosed each year.

"Under Our Skin" had a tremendous impact raising awareness among patients, doctors and health authorities alike. Since the film's release in 2014, the CDC has raised its estimated prevalence of Lyme more than 10 times, making it more prevalent than HIV and breast cancer combined in the U.S.

Even more importantly, scientific hypotheses presented in the film — such as the theory that Lyme organisms may thrive in biofilms, which helps explain why treatment is so difficult and recurrence so common — have now become widely accepted.

However, despite progress, Lyme patients still face an uphill battle. "Emergence" examines the deepening crisis, as prevalence is rising far faster than the evolution of diagnosis and treatment.

This article was originally published in 2016, and it's been updated in 2019 in preparation for Lyme Disease Awareness Month in May in the United States. I believe this is the perfect time to share this important film once again, in case you haven't seen it.

Around the world, controversy around Lyme disease continues to brew, and the film reveals medical collusion and conflicts of interest that keep Lyme patients suffering. The film ends on a hopeful note, however, by showing how patients in the original film have managed to improve their health and reclaim their lives.

The History of Lyme Disease

Lyme disease was named after the East Coast town of Lyme, Connecticut, where the disease was first identified in 1975. By 1977, the black-legged tick (Ixodes scapularis, also known as the deer tick) was linked to transmission of the disease.

In November 1981, Willy Burgdorfer, Ph.D., discovered the bacterium responsible for the infection: Borrelia burgdorferi (B. burgdorferi), a relative to the spirochete bacterium that causes syphilis . The bacteria are released into your blood from the infected tick.

We now know there are about two dozen species of B. burgdorferi with hundreds of strains worldwide, many of which show resistance to antibiotics, with the disease recurring when antibiotics are stopped. New research shows that one reason for this may be that B. burgdorferi form protective biofilms around themselves, enhancing antibiotic resistance.

While not all the species are human pathogens, part of what makes B. burgdorferi such a formidable foe is its ability to take different forms in your body, depending on the conditions. This clever maneuvering helps it to hide and survive and ultimately to form these biofilms.

Its corkscrew-shaped form also allows it to burrow into and hide in a variety of your body's tissues, which is why it causes such wide-ranging multisystem involvement.

Increasing the complexity further, some symptoms may also be due to coinfections triggered by other disease-causing organisms that like to travel with the B. burgdorferi bacterium. Many Lyme patients have one or more of these coinfections, which may or may not respond to any given treatment for B. burgdorferi.

To learn more about the symptoms and prevention of Lyme disease (https://articles.mercola.com/lyme-disease/prevention.aspx), make sure to check out the award-winning films "Under Our Skin" and "Under Our Skin 2: Emergence."

Urban Sprawl Has Contributed to Rising Lyme Prevalence

Since the late 1970s, the spread of Lyme disease has primarily been blamed on deer. However, more recent evidence suggests rodents like mice and rats are a far more serious threat and the rise in Lyme disease has been traced back to the elimination of natural predators.

Ticks are not born with the Lyme spirochetes. They pick up the bacteria when feeding on an infected host. Research indicates that white-footed mice infect 75 to 95 percent of larval ticks that feed on them, while deer only infect about 1 percent.

According to a 1996 study, rats are even more infectious than mice, noting that "the capacity of rats to serve as reservoir hosts for the Lyme disease spirochete, therefore, increases risk of infection among visitors to ... urban parks."

Another study published the following year also found that Norway rats and black rats were exceptionally effective hosts, infecting nearly all ticks that fed on them.

The main predators of small rodents like mice and rats are foxes, birds of prey, skunks and snakes. Agricultural and urban sprawl have decimated the habitats of these natural predators of mice and rats, allowing disease-carrying rodent populations to rise unabated.

Moreover, while snakes and birds of prey like hawks, falcons and owls are losing their natural habitats, the coyote population not only is thriving18 in most states, but is also killing off the only predators of rodents left, namely foxes and cats.

A study that looked at these factors found that increases in Lyme disease in the Northeast and Midwest U.S. in the past three decades consistently correlated to declines in red fox. It also found that as fox populations decrease and rodents increase, coyotes do not help control small rodent populations because they prefer much larger prey.

Other Contributing Factors

Besides mice and rats, and to a lesser degree deer, Lyme can also be spread by other insects besides ticks, including mosquitoes, lice, fleas and mites.

Complicating matters further, there's yet another tick-borne disease on the loose. Researchers have identified a tick-borne illness that is very similar to Lyme, caused by Borrelia miyamotoi (B. miyamotoi). The CDC describes B. miyamotoi as a distant relative to B. burgdorferi, being more closely related to bacteria that cause tick-borne relapsing fever. This disease is characterized by recurring episodes of fever, headache, nausea and muscle or joint aches.

This bacterium was first identified in Japanese ticks in 1995. Since then, it's been found in several rodent species (and the ticks that feed on them) in the U.S., as well as in ticks feeding on European red deer, domestic ruminants and white-tailed deer. According to the CDC:
"Given that B. miyamotoi uses the same vector ticks as B. burgdorferi and that the range of I. scapularis ticks continues to expand, it seems inevitable that the human population will be increasingly exposed to B. miyamotoi."
What Makes Lyme Disease Such a Challenging Disease?

Symptoms of Lyme disease (https://articles.mercola.com/lyme-disease/symptoms.aspx) typically start out with an expanding rash, which may be followed by fever, fatigue, chills, headaches and achy muscles or joints. According to the American Lyme Disease Foundation, these symptoms can be easy to overlook, so if you notice the rash, you should see your doctor right away.

The disease may then progress to muscle spasms, loss of motor coordination and even intermittent paralysis, meningitis or heart problems. For more information on identifying a Lyme disease rash, please see the ALDF website.

On an interesting side note, a 2014 paper published in the journal Frontiers in Zoology argues that ticks should be reclassified as venomous, as their salivary proteins are similar to those found in scorpion, spider, snake and bee venoms. An estimated 8% of tick species are in fact capable of causing paralysis with a single bite.

The simplest presentation of Lyme disease is in the orthopedic forms, which tend to affect the larger joints. When the microbes and the associated immune reactions are situated in the connective tissue, the infection presents as a "vague, dispersed pain," which is easily misdiagnosed as fibromyalgia.

A major challenge with Lyme disease is that its symptoms imitate so many other disorders, including multiple sclerosis (MS), arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and even Alzheimer's disease, making proper identification difficult and time consuming What's worse, many Lyme sufferers outwardly look quite healthy and their blood work often raises no cause for concern, which is why Lyme disease has also been called "the invisible illness."

Better Diagnostics for Lyme Are Sorely Needed

A big problem facing Lyme patients and their treating doctors is the difficulty of reaching a proper diagnosis. Conventional lab tests are unreliable, and one reason for this is because the spirochete has the ability to infect your white blood cells. Lab tests rely on the normal function of white blood cells to produce the antibodies they measure. If your white cells are infected, they don't respond to infection appropriately.

In order for blood tests to be truly useful, you need to be treated first. Once your immune system begins to respond normally, only then will the antibodies show up. This is called the "Lyme Paradox." You have to be treated before a proper diagnosis can be made.

That said, I recommend the specialized lab called IGeneX (http://www.igenex.com/Website/) because they offer highly sensitive tests for more outer surface proteins (bands), and can often detect Lyme while standard blood tests cannot. IGeneX also tests for a few strains of coinfections such as Babesia and Ehrlichia.

Patients and Doctors Fight for Recognition of Chronic Lyme

As if the difficulties of getting a proper diagnosis and treatment were not enough, Lyme sufferers face additional hurdles when they don't fully recuperate after the initial treatment. The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), which publishes guidelines for a number of infectious diseases, declared in 2012 that:
"We sympathize with these patients' suffering, but remain concerned that a diagnosis of so-called 'chronic Lyme disease,' suggesting that active infection is ongoing, is not supported by scientific evidence and, more alarmingly, the treatment of long-term antibiotic therapy will do patients more harm than good."
As of April 24, 2019, this statement remained on IDSA's official Lyme disease website. IDSA's 2006 clinical practice guidelines for Lyme disease claim that Lyme is easily cured with with 10 to 28 days of antibiotics. However, the references they base this on reflect a clear bias. Of the 400 references they cite, half are based on articles written by their own people.

After then-Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal opened an ethics investigation on them, an antitrust investigation into IDSA's panel members revealed rampant conflicts of interest. But, unfortunately, such discoveries did not result in positive change, as the IDSA followed up with its own "independent" panel review, which concluded that the IDSA's guidelines were "medically and scientifically" justified and that the authors "did not fail to consider or cite any relevant data."

As a result, chronic Lyme patients continue having to fight for their right to treatment, as IDSA's guidelines have sweeping impacts on Lyme disease medical care. Insurance companies frequently restrict coverage for long-term treatment based on IDSA's guidelines. Physicians' treatment decisions are also guided by its recommendations.

Opposing IDSA is the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society, the members of which argue that many patients suffer long-term consequences and require far longer treatment than recommended by IDSA.

Acknowledging that the two entities' guidelines conflict, the Institute of Medicine noted that "conflicting guidelines most often arise when evidence is weak, organizations use different assessment schemes or when guideline developers place different values on the benefits and harms of interventions."

Signs of Slow but Steady Progress

There are signs of progress though:


In 2015, a new Lyme research center attached to the rheumatology division at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center was created. Led by Lyme researcher Dr. John Aucott, the research center focuses on biologic disease mechanisms of Lyme and on improving the accuracy of diagnostic tests for it.



In February 2016, lymedisease.org (http://lymedisease.org) reported that the National Guidelines Clearinghouse, "a federal database that provides treatment information to health care professionals and insurance companies," had removed IDSA's treatment guidelines from its website, leaving only ILADS guidelines.

The IDSA guidelines are also due for revision, although major changes are probably unlikely. On the upside, IDSA reluctantly agreed to include a Lyme patient on its guideline's panel, after being pressured by Lyme disease advocate groups, patients and U.S. Congressmen. As of April 2019, the IDSA reports having three patients with confirmed Lyme disease and one parent of a child with confirmed Lyme disease on its panel.

However, until the IDSA guidelines are updated — for which there is no known deadline as of yet even though the agency sought public comments for it in 2015 — ILADS treatment guidelines are the only ones listed by National Guidelines Clearinghouse. Instead, the IDSA is choosing a wait-and-see position as they study the concerns brought up in the public commentaries.



At the end of June 2016, the Delaware Senate and House passed HB 291, which created an oversight board to educate health care professionals about Lyme disease. In April 2019, the Global Lyme Alliance joined Delaware's Lyme Disease Education Oversight Board to partner in launching an only Lyme disease course for physicians and other health care professionals.



On July 31, 2016, the Massachusetts Senate passed the Lyme disease insurance bill (H4491), joining the state's House in overriding their governor's veto of the bill. The new law took effect immediately, calling for mandatory insurance coverage for the long-term treatment of chronic Lyme, setting a precedent for other states to follow.



In August 2018 scientists announced that they'd found that two antibiotics, ceftriaxone and vancomycin, cleared the B. burgdorferi infection when the standard antibiotic, doxycycline, did not.

Take Prevention Seriously

Considering the difficulty of diagnosing and treating Lyme disease (https://articles.mercola.com/lyme-disease/treatment.aspx), taking preventive measures should be at the top of your list:


Avoid tick-infested areas, such as leaf piles around trees. Walk in the middle of trails and avoid brushing against long grasses path edgings. Don't sit on logs or wooden stumps.
Considering the high infection rate of rats, you'd be wise to take precautions if you're in an area where rats have been sighted.
Wear light-colored long pants and long sleeves, to make it easier to see the ticks.
Tuck your pants into socks, and wear closed shoes and a hat, especially if venturing out into wooded areas. Also tuck your shirt into your pants.
Ticks are very tiny. You want to find and remove them before they bite, so do a thorough tick check upon returning inside, and keep checking for several days following exposure. Also check your bedding for several days following exposure.

As for using chemical repellents, I do not recommend using them directly on your skin as this will introduce toxins directly into your body. If you use them, spray them on the outside of your clothes and avoid inhaling the spray fumes. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a list indicating the hourly protection limits for various repellents.

If you find that a tick has latched onto you, it's very important to remove it properly. For detailed instructions, please see lymedisease.org (http://lymedisease.org)'s tick removal page. Once removed, make sure you save the tick so that it can be tested for presence of pathogenic organisms.

[Franny]

When I Lived in New York and Connecticut I knew several people and their animals who were infected with Lyme Disease, including my cat. Most vets at the time did not 'believe' that cats could get it but we were lucky and she was treated for 6 weeks with antibiotics 3 times a day. Not fun. She lived on and passed just before her 24th birthday.

I doesn't mention if there is a method for Stevia to be used with cats or dogs but it looks like a promising treatment for humans.


Posted on: Friday, January 22nd 2016 at 10:15 am
Written By: Sayer Ji, Founder
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This article is copyrighted by GreenMedInfo LLC, 2016


Lyme disease is exceedingly difficult to treat, due to its well-known shape-shifting (pleomorphic) abilities, with conventional antibiotics often failing to produce a long-term cure. Could the commonly used natural plant Stevia provide a safer, and more effective means to combat this increasingly prevalent infection?

A promising new preclinical study has revealed that whole stevia leaf extract possesses exceptional antibiotic activity against the exceedingly difficult to treat pathogen Borrelia Burgdorferi known to cause Lyme disease. The study found,


Stevia whole leaf extract, as an individual agent, was effective against all known morphological forms of B. burgdorferi."

At present, the CDC acknowledges that at least 300,000 are infected with Lyme (https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2013/p0819-lyme-disease.html) disease, annually, with the conventional standard of care relying on antibiotics that are not only toxic but increasingly coming under scrutiny for addressing only surface aspects of the infection, often leaving antibiotic-resistance Lyme disease deep within the system to continue to cause harm.

B. burgdorferi has a complex life cycle, and can exist in radically different forms: spirochetes, spheroplast (or L-form which lacks a cell wall), round bodies or cyst form (which allows for dormancy and escaping PCR detection), and highly antibiotic-resistant biofilms. This pleomorphic property makes conventional treatment exceptionally difficult because while some conventional antibiotics are effective against forms with a cell wall such as spirochetes, they are ineffective against those without a cell wall. This enables B. burgdorferi to change form to evade eradication through conventional means. Also, biofilm formation creates a significant barrier against most conventional antibiotics, even when used in combination, and has been recently suggested to be the most effective mechanism of resistance.

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The new study was published in the European Journal of Microbiology & Immunology (https://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/stevia-leaf-extract-could-be-considered-effective-agent-against-b-burgdorferi) and titled, "Effectiveness of Stevia Rebaudiana Whole Leaf Extract Against the Various Morphological Forms of Borrelia Burgdorferi in Vitro," and conducted by researchers from the Department of Biology and Environmental Science, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT.

The researchers directly compared an alcohol extract of a whole stevia leaf product commonly found on the U.S. retail market to conventional antibiotics, and assessed their respective abilities to kill the various forms of Borrelia burgdorferi, including so called "persister" forms.

The study pointed out that, according to the CDC, about 10-20% of Lyme disease patients treated with antibiotics for the recommended 2-4 weeks experience adverse health effects, such as fatigue, pain, or joint and muscle aches. In some of these patients, the adverse effects last for more than 6 months. These patients are often labeled with "chronic Lyme disease," or "post treatment Lyme disease syndrome." While the adverse effects of antibiotics, including their destruction of beneficial microbes in the gut, may account for this syndrome, another possibility is that the drugs drive antibiotic-resistant forms of the disease deeper into the system, resulting in enhanced disease-associated malaise.

Given the well-known challenges of eradicating B. burgdorferi through conventional antibiotics, the researchers explored the potential for stevia as an antimicrobial.

Stevia is not normally considered an anti-microbial agent, but all plants possess in-built phytochemical defense systems which protect them against infection, and which by consuming them, we ourselves can sometimes harness and benefit from. The researchers elaborate on this point:


The leaf extract of Stevia possesses many phytochemicals, which include austroinullin, β-carotene, dulcoside, nilacin, rebaudi oxides, riboflavin, steviol, stevioside, and tiamin with known antimicrobial properties against many pathogens [40, 42, 43]. The role of these compounds is mainly to protect the plant from microbial infection and adverse environmental conditions [38–43]."

The researchers explored Stevia's potential effectiveness against B. burgdorferi cultures, comparing it to three common antibiotics sometimes used to treat Lyme's disease: doxycycline, cefoperazone, daptomycin, as well as their combination.

The study results were summarized as follows:


The susceptibility of the different forms was evaluated by various quantitative techniques in addition to different microscopy methods. The effectiveness of Stevia was compared to doxycycline, cefoperazone, daptomycin, and their combinations. Our results demonstrated that Stevia had significant effect in eliminating B. burgdorferi spirochetes and persisters. Sub-culture experiments with Stevia and antibiotics treated cells were established for 7 and 14 days yielding, no and 10% viable cells, respectively compared to the above-mentioned antibiotics and antibiotic combination. When Stevia and the three antibiotics were tested against attached biofilms, Stevia significantly reduced B. burgdorferi forms. Results from this study suggest that a natural product such as Stevia leaf extract could be considered as an effective agent against B. burgdorferi."

Notably, the study found that the most antibiotic resistant form of B. burgdorferi, the biofilm form, actually increased in mass when individual antibiotics were administered. Stevia, on the other hand, reduced the biofilm mass on both tested surfaces (plastic and collagen) by about 40%.

It is also interesting to note that the stevoside extract, by itself, was not found to be an effective antimicrobial agent against B. burgdorferi; nor did it have any effect on resistant cells. Mass market stevia products, including Coca-cola's Truvia (ironic branding, considering it does not have the truly therapeutic property of whole stevia), would not, therefore, have the medicinal property associated with the whole herb extract. This speaks, of course, to the well known principle in natural medicine that the activity of the whole can not be reproduced through a part, nor is the therapeutic activity of the whole identical to that of the sum of its parts.

While this is only a preliminary study and should not be interpreted to mean the consumption of whole stevia extract will result in clinical improvements comparable or superior to conventional antibiotics, it opens the door to future research on the topic. That said, anyone who is considering natural ways to prevent Lyme's disease infection, or to support as an adjunct therapy conventional treatments of the disease, could utilize this safe, food-based substance as a potential means of support and synergy. Certainly, there is little if any indication that stevia could cause harm, unlike conventional treatments. See our stevia research section here (https://www.greenmedinfo.com/substance/stevia) for more information.

For more research on natural interventions for Lyme's disease visit our research page on the topic: Lyme disease research. (https://www.greenmedinfo.com/disease/lyme-disease)

Sayer Ji is founder of Greenmedinfo.com, a reviewer at the International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Co-founder and CEO of Systome Biomed, Vice Chairman of the Board of the National Health Federation, Steering Committee Member of the Global Non-GMO Foundation.

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