Jenna’s Lyme Blog

Bee venom contains a number of potent peptides which are responsible for its healing effect, in fact recent research proved that one of the peptides in bee venom, melittin, seems to be the hero in this story.

Melittin has a strong inhibitory effect on the Lyme spirochete at very low doses (“Bee Stings as Lyme Inhibitor” by L. L. Lubke and C. F. Garon, J. Clin. Infect. Diseases, July 1997, 25 Suppl. 1, pp. 48-51).

When the spirochete is inhibited it does not multiply and is vulnerable to the host’s own immune system and to medication. (Melittin Effective Against Infections Organism. By Drs. L Lubke & C. Garon)

The anti microbial agent melittin exhibits powerful in vitro inhibitory effects on the Lyme disease spirochete.

Even though Lyme has demonstrated a capacity to resist the in virto effects of powerful eukaryotic and prokaryotic metabolic inhibitors. However, treatment of laboratory cultures on Barbour-Stoenner-Kelly medium with melittin, a 26 amino acid peptide contained in honeybee venom, showed immediate and profound inhibitory effects when they were monitor by dark field microscopy, field emission scanning electron microscopy, and optical density measurements.

Furthermore, at melittin concentrations as low as 100 mcg/ml, virtually all spirochete motility ceased within seconds of inhibitor addition.

Posted on April 30th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Lyme News, Treatment Protocols. Tags: bee venom for Lyme disease, Dr. Klinghardt. Comments: 3

It is true that today’s most celebrated salads frequently borrow the flavor of oils, honey and vinegar. But not the type of health foods we are talking about here.

Posted on April 28th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Lyme News, Treatment Protocols. Tags: chronic lyme, Honey, vinegar. Comments: 3

Salt & Apples has been updated due to the incredible popularity (and my numerous mistakes) – not to mention a new source for salt capsules that will save you money each month.

I tried to update Gold 360 by condensing the information, but after going over every word…I had to struggle from adding more information. I believe that every person suffering with any kind of illness should be on a regular dose of Gold 360, and I recommend reading the ebook several times to understand the remarkable synergy that has been reliable for over five thousand years!

Posted on April 27th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Coping with Lyme Disease. Tags: Fighting Chronic Lyme Disease. Comments: 2

I will go on the record once more to say that it will be scientific researchers who will unlock the mystery of chronic Lyme disease (and in fact, if any of the IDSA panel had given even a cursory glance at the significant findings with respect to DNA/Lyme discoveries there would have to be some kind of change to the IDSA Guidelines.) I think it is appropriate to add the additional caveat: Politicians will become involved whether they want to or not.

Posted on April 26th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Discussion, Lyme News. Tags: Chronic Lyme disease, IDSA Treatment Guidelines, Immunoglobulin treatment for neurological Lyme disease. Comments: 2

The breakthrough began in 2002, when molecular biologist Bonnie Bassler, bearing her microscope on a microbe that lives in the gut of fish, isolated an elusive molecule called AI-2, and uncovered the mechanism behind mysterious behavior called quorum sensing — or bacterial communication.

Posted on April 20th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Lyme News, Research and Development. Tags: Bacteria, Bonnie Bassler, Chronic Lyme disease. Comments: 2

This paper just published in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity highlights an important principal in clinical practice: even when an acute infection has been cleared by antimicrobial therapy, a chronic autoimmune disorder can develop due to immune dysregulation.

Posted on April 19th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Lyme News. Tags: Auto Immune Disorder, Chronic Lyme disease. Comments: 3

Thus for about 30 min the deep tissue niches of borrelia such as brain stem, ligaments, and joints are assisted in fighting borrelia with increased temperatures. For this time and some time afterward as the body returns to its baseline temperature, the borrelia are exposed theoretically to 16 to 160 times as much antibiotic.

Posted on April 16th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Coping with Lyme Disease, Lyme News, Treatment Protocols. Tags: Chronic Lyme disease, Hot bath for chronic Lyme disease, hot bath therapy for Lyme disease, Neurological Lyme disease. Comments: 7

Even though the Washington Post insists that Triclosan safety is currently under review by the FDA. With financial stakes so high, I don’t think this issue will be resolved any time soon. In fact, I think it is critically important that we take the health and safety of our family in our own hands – especially if you or a member in your family is struggling with chronic Lyme disease.

Posted on April 15th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Coping with Lyme Disease. Tags: Chronic Lyme disease, Stay Strong, Triclosan. Comments: 2

“My blood boils when I think about all the desperate people who have taken this stuff on,” said Hudson Freeze, a professor of glycobiology at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research in La Jolla, Calif.”"There are authentic, scientific studies that have looked at people drinking these kinds of materials, and it doesn’t really do anything except increase flatulence.”

Posted on April 15th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Coping with Lyme Disease, Discussion, Product Reviews, Treatment Protocols. Tags: Ambrotose, Chronic Lyme disease, Glyconutrients, Lyme protocol, MLM, Product Scam. Comments: 3