David Leggett used to love the outdoors. He was a healthy, active, family man who enjoyed camping trips with his wife and two daughters. His job as a high school principal came with a long summer vacation — the perfect time to enjoy Canada’s vast stretches of wilderness.

That all changed in July 2004, after camping in a provincial park near Sudbury, Ont. “We were out hiking and then one day I couldn’t hike anymore and my knee ballooned up. I felt really, really strange. I had no energy,” Leggett recalled.

By October, Leggett was too ill to work. After doing some research on his own he suspected he might have Lyme disease — but his doctors told him that was impossible because it was too rare in Ontario and it didn’t exist where he had been camping. They were wrong.

These days Leggett spends his time lying in bed, unable to get up to eat or even bathe himself. Most of his Canadian doctors continue to insist he is not suffering from Lyme disease, even though a blood test from an American lab came back positive for Lyme.

The chameleon disease

Lyme disease is often called “the great imitator” because it presents like a variety of different diseases or neurological disorders. As a result, Lyme patients are commonly misdiagnosed with a number of other conditions, everything from multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease to autism and even schizophrenia.

Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne disease in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s transmitted to humans by the bite of a tick infected with the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi.

Early symptoms may include fever, headache, fatigue, muscle and joint pains as well as a characteristic ‘bulls eye’ rash. Generally, if the illness is treated early the infection and its symptoms can be eliminated by antibiotics. If left untreated, however, the bacteria can move through the bloodstream and more serious symptoms can develop, which can be disabling and increasingly difficult to treat.

Professor George Chaconas a University of Calgary researcher, has spent the last 10 years studying the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria that causes Lyme disease. According to Chaconas, it’s the bacteria’s ability to change the proteins on its coat that makes it so elusive to the immune system.

“The organism is like a strange visitor from another planet,” Chaconas told W5 reporters. “It’s in a perpetual masquerade party and each time you start recognizing it, it puts on a new disguise and escapes your immune system,” he said.

This may be one of the reasons why Canadian doctors often misdiagnose the disease, or simply don’t test for it.

Medical ignorance

Jim Wilson, who founded the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation after contracting the disease himself, insists Canadian doctors need to do a better job educating themselves. “The enemy here is ignorance, it’s arrogance and it’s the lack of impetus of our present system to get off its heiny and go do the research that we need to do,” said Wilson.

He maintains that the medical establishment’s ignorance about Lyme disease is forcing many Canadians to seek expensive treatment outside the country. “We know families in just about every province now who’ve lost their homes trying to get treatment,” said Wilson.

In 2007, only 109 patients were officially diagnosed with Lyme disease in Canada. During that same year, there were nearly 13,000 confirmed Lyme cases in the American states bordering Canada.

“Ticks don’t carry passports. They don’t stop at the border, so to think that we don’t have Lyme disease in Canada, I think is not realistic,” Chaconas said.

Ontario has the highest number of reported cases in the country, with 411 documented cases since 2000, when the province first started tracking them.

In an interview with W5, Dr. David Williams, Associate Chief Medical Officer of Health for Ontario, acknowledges that his fellow physicians have been slow to realize that Lyme is a serious problem.

“Some were saying a few years back it doesn’t exist in Canada, it’s a Northeast State thing. Now we said it is in Ontario. We’ve been pushing our Canadian partners saying this is something in Canada we have to be aware of,” said Williams.

For David Leggett, any greater awareness of the danger of Lyme disease comes too late. His disease has progressed so far, he worries it may no longer be curable. “I do want to get well. Do I think I’m going to get there? I don’t know. To be honest, it doesn’t appear that way,” he said.

For more info watch (check links on the right side of page:

Chronic Lyme Disease in Canada Part One

Chronic Lyme Disease in Canada Part Two

Hi everyone. My name is David Rodgers, and it is my pleasure to be posting in Jenna’s Lyme Disease blog, as she has done a great job keeping everyone updated on a regular basis about many different types of Lyme protocols, including diet, supplements, drugs, IV treatment, and more. She has truly been a great help to many in the community and I want to thank her for that.

Jenna has allowed me to let you know about an upcoming event I have planned, which I think will be of great benefit to many of you. For background information, I have had Lyme Disease for at least 10 years (although diagnosed about 4.5 years ago). Over these 10 years, I kept my head in the books, so to speak, and researched everything I could about all-natural ways to treat Lyme and similar conditions.

During these 10 years of research, I have also completed a Masters of Science in Nutrition at the University of Bridgeport, and I now practice as a nutritionist in the Detroit suburbs, as well as via phone or online video conferencing for anyone throughout the world.

As Jenna mentioned in one of her posts not too long ago, it seems like the Lyme patients who are disciplined regarding diet and lifestyle do the best with their treatments. The problem I’ve found is that people have differing views on what foods are healthy or not, and they are also unclear about which supplements are truly the best for optimizing health and avoiding deficiencies.

For these reasons, I am putting on a webinar called “Chronic Lyme Disease: 7 Natural, Proven Steps to Reduce Symptoms.” This will take place on Tuesday, July 26, 2011 at 8:30EST (5:30PST). All that you need to view it is an Internet connection and speakers. This webinar is thoroughly backed by the latest research and by my clinical experience.

Sometimes webinars are mainly a way to sell people some product. This is not the case here. I will be briefly letting folks know that I am open for new clients, but otherwise, I have nothing to sell – it is simply meant to help as many people as possible know about the latest research for diet, supplements, and lifestyle, and their connection to Lyme Disease. I don’t even sell supplements, but I’ll let you know which ones are worth your money.

You may want a little more background about my health protocols, so I also have a free e-report that I have made available called “Diet Soda Makes You Fatter Than Regular and 10 More Shocking Health Truths.” This is available at my website – http://www.nutrientbalance.com – and more information is available there as well.

To sign up for the free webinar, click this link.

Thanks, and if anyone has a question, you may email me at david@nutrientbalance.com – you may also send me questions via this email to be answered at the webinar. Also, please share this via Facebook, etc. or email the info to people you know with Lyme or similar conditions (chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia). Looking forward to seeing everyone there…

This post was submitted by Dr, Schaller at http://www.personalconsult.com and relates the growing attention to Bartonella thanks to brilliant veterinary researchers like Dr. Edward Breitschwerdt, DVM, DACVIM.

Bartonella species, their animal hosts, potential vectors, and sequelae of infection are being identified at a snowballing rate. From a handful of recognized species to more than forty identified, and many more suspected, a new diagnostic test may help DVMs and MDs come together to better understand these infections in their patients and the way they interact with chronic Lyme disease and other co-infections.

FOUR QUOTES OF INTEREST:

*Antibody testing for Bartonella species is proving to be very insensitive.

*The genus Bartonella is also unusual because it appears that no other infectious agent is transmitted by more vectors.

*Patient response to treatment is frequently incomplete.

*Clearly some of us now are much more concerned about the genus Bartonella than anyone is at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Veterinarians and physicians should talk to each other more frequently than we have in the past. Of all known organisms, 61% are zoonotic, 1, 2 and of the emerging pathogens, the vast majority is zoonotic organisms… In recent years, the genus Bartonella has been the major focus of our vector-borne research efforts.

BARTONELLA SPECIES COMPLEXITIES

The organism that causes cat scratch disease in people was identified as a Bartonella species in 1992.

As researchers have continued to study these bacteria, we’ve learned that the intraerythrocytic component of the infection with a Bartonella species has been somewhat overemphasized… Bartonella species are endotheliotropic bacteria that use a specialized invasion process to enter endothelial cells and can move about the body by infecting macrophages, with localization in a variety of tissues…3 Researchers have learned that Bartonella species are the first bacteria identified to have an ability to invade CD34+ progenitor cells in bone marrow.5 This may be why we find Bartonella organisms in cats in only a low percentage (3%) of their erythrocytes.

The genus Bartonella is also unusual because it appears that no other infectious agent is transmitted by more vectors. We now know that sand flies, human body lice, cat fleas, rodent fleas, and probably many other flea species are capable of transmitting certain Bartonella species. And cattle, deer, elk, and sheep all have their own Bartonella species that appear to be transmitted by biting flies or keds (wingless flies)…6 AN UNDER-RECOGNIZED ZOONOSIS In my opinion, physicians and veterinarians need to come together regarding bartonellosis, because it appears to be an important and under-recognized zoonosis… diagnostic test sensitivity for documenting infection with this genus of bacteria is extremely poor, and based upon recent experience in our laboratory, patient response to treatment is frequently incomplete.

…what’s important for physicians and veterinarians to recognize is that some of these Bartonella species are found in cats, dogs, rats, ground squirrels, and rabbits. In 1992, two Bartonella species were known to exist, and in 2009, over 26 named or candidate’s species exist. [RECENTLY A GENE RESEARCHER AND MD SAID OVER 40 SPECIES OF BARTONELLA, AND ALSO BABESIA, EXIST IN PUBLIC GENETIC DATA BASES IF ONE ACTUALLY KNOWS HOW TO LOOK].

ANIMAL RESERVOIR HOSTS

Bartonella species are present in a multitude of animal species. One of the most recently identified Bartonella species, Bartonella australis, was found in kangaroos.13 Unexpectedly, 82% of beef cattle in North Carolina have Bartonella bovis in their blood.14 My laboratory can isolate a Bartonella species from one or two out of three feral cats in North Carolina, 15 and other laboratories around the world have documented similar levels of bacteremia in flea-infested cats.

Another important point for physicians and veterinarians to consider is that many of their patients and clients have pocket pets, some of which tend to scratch and bite. Unfortunately, numerous Bartonella species have been identified in the blood of various rodent species. For example, the overall prevalence was 26% in the population of wild and captive animals brought to Japan to be sold as pocket pets.16 The human medical literature in the United States reveals case reports of previously healthy people with no evidence of louse exposure and a history of cat exposure who presented to their physicians for evaluation of lymphadenopathy or seizures and were found to be infected with Bartonella quintana.

[QUINTANA IS BRUTAL AND IS ONE REASON NAPOLEAN’S ARMY WAS DESTROYED RETURNING FROM RUSSIA BASED ON DNA IN DENTAL PULP IN MASS SOLDIER GRAVES. ONE BELIEF MANY PHYSICIANS HOLD IS THAT THE USA AND ALL OF N. AMERICA HAS NO QUINTANA]. 

More recently, our laboratory isolated B. quintana from cats and from a woman who was bitten by one of those cats.

In reviewing the human literature, as it relates to B. quintana, it told me, as a veterinary internist, what I should be looking for in my canine patients if I suspect that this organism is causing disease. And vice versa: I would suggest that physicians review data and observations that veterinarians are generating in regard to this genus of bacteria, because clearly some of us now are much more concerned about the genus Bartonella than anyone is at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

SIMILARITIES OF DISEASE EXPRESSION IN PEOPLE AND ANIMALS

Bartonella species can induce a number of what I think are fairly well established pathologies in either dogs or people.18 …So we’re seeing that what’s occurring in people is also occurring in dogs—for example, about 80% of people and about 80% of dogs have endocarditis selectively involving the aortic valve. And based on the veterinary literature, physicians may want to put bartonellosis on their differential lists for children with unexplained nose bleeding. 19, 22, and 23 [ AFTER READING MUCH OF THE WORLD LITERATURE I WOULD SAY BARTONELLA DOES NOT CAUSE THREE MEDICIAL TROUBLES, BUT TOP PAPERS REPORT 20 PROBLEMS WITH EVERY ORGAN, AND PERHAPS 40 WITH THE BRAIN.

We need better detection of bartonella species infections.

After the first isolation of B. vinsonii ssp. berkhoffii, we had difficulty isolating Bartonella species in other dogs by using culture or by detecting Bartonella DNA in patient samples by PCR testing, even though we could detect antibodies by using an immunofluorescent antibody assay. In our laboratory, we had discussed that these bacteria seem to be happier in insects than they do in dogs, so we decided to develop an optimized insect cell culture media to enhance the growth of Bartonella species.24,25

My laboratory has found that 50% of dogs and people infected with B. henselae or B. vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii do not have detectable antibodies to any of the six different Bartonella species antigens used in our testing [PERHAPS BECAUSE AS OUR BOOK EXPLAINS THE IMMUNE SYSTEM MAKING ANTIBODIES IS REDUCED BY BARTONELLA] .18,26,27

So antibody testing for Bartonella species is proving to be very insensitive. [MEANING 99.9% OF PHYSICIAN TESTING IS WORTHLESS].

We now know that some people and some dogs can be coinfected with more than one Bartonella species, [I HAVE SEEN NO ONE DISCUSS THIS SERIOUSLY BEFORE] as is the case in cats that may be simultaneously infected with three Mycoplasma species. Our special testing allowed us detect B. quintana from a woman who bitten by a cat.

Our new lab approach shows the first DNA evidence of human infection with candidatus Bartonella melophagi, 28 and CDC investigators used this approach to make the first isolates of Bartonella tamiae from febrile human patients.3340 [THIS VETERANIAN RESEARCHER GETS INVOLVED VERY SERIOUSLY WITH TWO PEOPLE AND IN PERHAPS 18 MONTHS FINDS NEW SPECIES IN HUMANS FOR WHICH NO TEST IS AVAILABLE].

BARTONELLA SPECIES INFECTION AND ONE MEDICINE

There are several more examples in the literature that describe people with unexplained and chronic illnesses, who are identified as having positive Bartonella species test results. What I have described today doesn’t prove causation of illness, but I think we have justification to worry about disease causation. Bartonella species infection is truly a problem in comparative medicine and a place where One Medicine applies.

Veterinarians and physicians need to work closely to find solutions for the benefit of our respective patients. Although we still have much to learn about these bacteria, we now have a better way of detecting them in patient samples; therefore, we need to find out what they’re doing in our patients and how often they’re doing it.

MY FATHER’S ILLNESS AND BARTONELLA SPECIES

About two years ago, my 86-year-old father, who lived in a rural farm community and had developed gradual, progressive joint pain, was tested for Lyme disease, and the results were negative. He subsequently developed memory loss that was thought to be possible Alzheimer’s disease. He then fell twice a few weeks apart, and a third time he fell, his hip fractured. He had many postoperative complications, and during his stay in a rehabilitation hospital he developed seizures.

At this point I became intimately involved in his medical evaluations, and because I direct the Intracellular Pathogens Research Laboratory at NCSU, I was given his aseptically obtained blood and CSF samples for testing. The results of PCR tests for Anaplasma, Ehrlichia, and Rickettsia species were negative. We ultimately identified what appears to be a new Bartonella species, most closely related to “Candidatus Bartonella volans,” in his blood, as well as B. henselae and B. vinsonii ssp. berkhoffii.

Most of this post was taken from information published by Edward B. Breitschwerdt, DVM, DACVIM.  For more information and sources:

http://veterinarymedicine.dvm360.com/vetmed/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=660519&pageID=1&sk=&date=

http://www.bayeranimalhealthsymposium.com/cutting_edge_breitschwerdt.shtml

The Bartonella Checklist by JAMES SCHALLER, MD, MAR

Increasing Suspicion of This Emerging Stealth Infection

1. Insomnia [If profound fatigue this might not apply].
2. Current anxiety that was not present at age ten.
3. Current anxiety or depression not present at twenty years old.
4. Knee-jerk emotional responses worse than past decades and worsening.
5. Unusual discomfort on the soles of your feet
6. A temperature under 98.3 in a sick person. A temperature under 99.0 if Lyme disease or Babesia is present
7. Puffy tissue on insole or any part of ankles
8. Depression
9. Depression that is not fully controlled. [Improvement of mood is not successful in depression treatment].

10.  Gingivitis or bleeding during flossing

11.  Anxiety is poorly controlled with average dosing

12.  Depression is poorly controlled by reasonable medication trials

13.  Sleep medicines work poorly at routine dosing

14.  Rage worse with time

15.  Irritability worse with time

16.  IL-6 is very low

17.  IL-1B is very low

18.  TNF-a is in lower 10% of normal range

19.  Any skin markings or growths greater than most people

20.  Blood vessels or color on skin greater than most people

21.  Impatience > in personality when compared to ten years ago. [in a child, any can be any irritability]

22.  Cursing or hostile speech that is worse over time.

23.  One or more medical problems with unclear cause(s) and “idiopathic.”

24.  Red papules of any size.

25.  Skin tags including ones removed by dermatologist or shaved off.

26.  Unusual blood vessels of any kind including inside organs such as bladder or intestinal walls

27.  Any skin finding in excess of 95% of most humans

28.  Skin findings showing increased blood vessels of any size

29.  Skin findings showing increased tissue formation that is increased over the flatness of surface skin.

30.  Skin showing blood vessels that are too large or too many for the location of the blood vessels, e.g., surface thigh and calf skin with very thick surface blood vessels. Or legs, upper arms or shoulders have explosions of many fine blood vessels.

31.  Increased addictions that are more resistant to recovery than average.

32.  Increased impulsivity in contrast to past years or past decades.

33.  Burning skin sensations [this may have many causes].

34.  Itching without a clear cause and which is hard to control and remove

35.  Skin erosion without a clear cause such as a fire or chemical burn.

36.  Minor cuts or scratches which heal slowly.

37.  After a surgery, you heal very slowly.

38.  You have two tick or flea infections with two positive tick or flea borne viruses, bacteria or protozoa. [Bartonella has >30 published species in public genetic databases and has more vectors than possibly any infection in the world. Therefore, the presence of other infections such as tick borne viruses, bacteria or protozoa, should raise suspicion.

39.  Exposure to cats and dogs in excess of very incidental rare contact.

40.  The patient’s mother is suspicious for Bartonella based on newer direct and indirect testing.

41.  A sibling, father, spouse of child with any tick or flea-borne infection who shared a residence or vacation with proximity to brush.

42.  Exposure to outdoor environments with brush, wild grasses, wild streams, golf courses or woods.

43.  Outdoor expose in locations such as brush, wild grasses, wild streams or woods which happened without the use of DEET or without very high off- gassing essential oils on exposed skin areas.

44.  The outdoor exposures such as brush, wild grasses, wild streams or woods which occurred without permethrin on shoes, socks and all clothing.

45.  Clear exposure to lice, fleas or ticks. [Bartonella is carried by a huge number of carriers, but for now, the % that carry Bartonella is not known. Further, the capacity to detect all new species in the vectors or in humans infected, does not exist or is not routinely available in direct testing of all human infectious Bartonella organisms in both large or specialty labs].

46.  Stretch marks in eccentric locations, e.g., arms, upper side under armpit, around armpit or on the back.

47.  Stretch marks filled with red, pink, purple or dark blue color.

Certainty claims or criticism about Bartonella positions without reading at least parts of 1,000 articles is confusing. How this is this possible with new Bartonella findings and understandings each month? There are also new species genetically sequences to show uniqueness almost every month in public databases. In this spirit, this scale is meant to merely increase suspicion of Bartonella, which is a super stealth infection that takes perhaps fifty days to grow out on some bacteria growth plates, and floats in the blood as it lowers fevers. It also clearly suppresses some key immune system fighting chemicals. Cure claims are made without the use of indirect testing markedly documented in superior journals, but which are not used by immensely busy clinicians working full-time.

Dr. Schaller is the author of 29 books and 27 top journal articles.  His publications address issues in at least twelve fields of medicine. He has the most recent textbooks on Bartonella.  He has published on Bartonella under the supervision of the former editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), and his entries on multiple tick and flea borne infections, including Bartonella [along with Babesia and Lyme disease] were published in a respected infection textbook endorsed by the NIH Director of Infectious Disease. He has approximately six texts on tick and flea-borne infections based on his markedly unique full-time reading and study practice, which is not limited to either finite traditional or integrative progressive medicine. Since he has a medical license he has been able to sort through many truth claims by ordering lab testing. He does not follow truth claims without indirect testing laboratory proof. He has read full-time on these emerging problems for many years.

C COPYRIGHTED 2011   JAMES SCHALLER, MD version 11.

This form cannot be altered if it is printed or posted in any manner without written permission. Posting in a critical negative evaluation is forbidden. Printing to assist in diagnostic reflections is encouraged, as long as no line is redacted or altered including these final paragraphs. Dr. Schaller does not claim this is a flawless or final form, and defers all diagnostic decisions to your licensed health professional.

Our average patient has been to 10-50 smart, sincere and concerned physicians, but they have not returned to their baseline level of functioning. We also inherit many treatment failures, which allow us to see by indirect and direct diverse types of testing what worked or failed before they came to us.

1. The notion of “Lyme Disease” is a 1990′s notion. If a clinician uses advanced, direct and highly important indirect testing to look for the increasing number of infections carried by deer ticks, it is clear that organisms besides Lyme are present routinely in deer ticks. The idea that deer ticks only carry one infection is a disaster. Deer ticks carry multiple bacteria, parasites, and viruses. For example, Bartonella is far more common than Lyme disease.
2. There is no correct starting dose for virtually any medication. I was asked years ago by two top editors to write an article on “sensitive and careful dosing in clinical practice.” They noticed within my various papers we were pointing out the need for tailored dosing instead of chemical battery. For example, all medications should begin with a first dose that is below a full tablet or capsule, because sometimes it is 20x more effective than normal. Always start with a fraction of the lowest dose pill and this can be increased over a mere 24 hours.Further, one never should increase or start two treatments at once. This is chaos, and causes confusion over the reason for a side effect or a good benefit. Also, if a patient develops uncomfortable feelings, either from the die off of an organism or from medication side effects, they become demoralized, and the cause is unclear with many treatments. Simply, no two people have even been treated by me the same from start to finish, and this is why a cure book on all major tick-borne infections cannot be published.M

3. Is the new explosion of so-called “Lyme Literate” or LL-MD experts really trained to do more than basic screening? Generally when I am trying to pursue an expertise in any aspect of tick and flea borne infections, I spend years engaged in full-time reading on the topic and try to talk with the leaders around the world who know the most on the topic. Unfortunately, as of 2010, “Lyme Literate” really means that you have gone to a couple conferences, learn the basics from the last five to ten years, and some also shadow one or two physicians for days to a week while they see patients—both are good experiences. Both are a good starting place, but does not make one “tick-infection literate” in any serious manner. Finding someone that knows how to use a wide range of labs which will check for a direct and indirect presence of the infections from tick, who has read thousands of articles, and consults with physicians and scientists regularly for success and failures along with finding new solutions is extremely rare in the world. Yet we do need every screening healer we can get!
4. Routine speed IV treatment of most new patients is an error. Some individuals treating Lyme disease do a fairly rapid assessment and quickly put all of their patients on an I.V. like they are running a mill. It is almost as if they say “It is nice to meet you, let’s get you started on your I.V. quickly.” There are many problems with this approach and far too many to discuss here, but the first problem is that the volume of spirochetes that can die with an invasive I.V. could be too many, due to the release of Lyme debris and/or Lyme biotoxins, such as Botox I can increase inflammation. It also ignores the fact that Bartonella, with increasing numbers of human species found yearly suppresses immunity. IV treatment will never be as effective as it could be when used alone without the use of new 2010 selected Bartonella treatments that are clearly proven to work when used alone or in combination. Meaning, IV and all other types of Lyme treatment work profoundly better if one or more new Bartonella treatments are used. We find new such treatments every few seasons. As previously stated in my first Townsend article on the Reasons for Lyme Treatment Failure, the most common treatments for Bartonella come from a mere 25 basic Bartonella treatment articles or infection handbooks. They lead to relapse even when they appear to work for a variable periods of time.I.V. gall bladder emergencies are too frequent. One reason some insurance companies do not want to do prolonged I.V. treatment is because of gallbladder emergencies. I am fairly stunned that the only thing given to protect the gallbladder and liver with the use of I.V. medications is Actigall, and some do not prescribe anything when giving I.V. treatment. Many have little knowledge of advanced ways to protect the liver, and yet use liver stressing treatments. For example, any dose of azithromycin, Mepron, Malarone, Diflucan or IV or injected muscle antibiotics can stress the liver, and low doses that do not stress the liver may lead to residual infections.

5. Following the guidelines of practitioners with famous names, university titles or organization leadership positions is an error in judgment. If you are famous or have a title or “chair” or are high in an organization, the more brutally busy the healer can be, sometimes working 12hours virtually every day. So this healer can never read high volumes of new material published this season. Therefore, no organization, government agency, web site or person has the definitive, updated information on tick-infection medicine in the USA or the world. No single organization or group of organizations can provide people with authoritative instruction in how to treat an individual profoundly unique patient.
6. All guidelines for medicine are flawed and outdated within one month of publication. The explosion of new published material and non-published discoveries by hundreds of international healers make guidelines mere suggestions.Hundreds of thousands of articles are published every few months. In our practice, we have only published five percent of what we have found. Similarly, many fellow researchers I know also have limited time to publish their discoveries.

   Further, the great philosopher of science, Kuhn, has shown that there are so many variables that impact all scientists that the notion that any group of physicians can give unbiased pure scientific recommendations is impossible. Obvious guideline errors are present in all current tick and flea-borne infection guidelines.

   Different guidelines have outrageously specific treatment plans which are not even appropriate for cars, which in this current age have different types of oil and different amounts of recommended oil. The human body when it is infected with a cluster of tick infections is a billion times more complex than any automobile. Some guidelines use highly dated doses from studies that are fifteen years old. Other guidelines do not even mention infections such as persistent human atypical Bartonella, which has vastly more vectors than Lyme disease, or Babesia and based on years of full-time reading, suppresses the immune system in highly specific ways that some guideline agencies and groups seem to totally ignore.

7. A complete lack of meaningful knowledge of the immense magnitude and danger of Bartonella. This stealth bacteria has over ten different ways to infect you, and not merely a few types of ticks. It kills and harms every organ and decreases fevers and immune defenses, and does not fully respond to the top ten “published” traditional or alternative treatments. In one case report it appears that Bartonella turned off all the antibodies to five tick-borne infections, including its own antibody titer levels. In this medical family they self treated with a new Bartonella agent and this resulted in an explosion of western blot Lyme disease bands and all major deer tick infection antibody titers suddenly rose to profound levels because the immune system was no longer suppressed against them by Bartonella. Therefore, merely by the use of this newly uncovered Bartonella treatment, all of these patients negative labs at a large national lab, turned positive after being repeatedly negative.
8. The use of fetish, “favorite” medications, herbs or new “discovered” causes of prolonged illness. Of course, any healer studying traditional or progressive medications is serving all. My appeal in this criticism is not to reject the fine work done by at least two hundred people internationally on traditional antibiotics, protozoa medications, anti-virals, herbs used for a wide range of infections, essential oils, and at least fifty progressive alternative treatments.However, like the experience of falling in love, when one love becomes all you think about, this is not optimal medicine when you fall in love with a few treatments.

   For example, minocycline, tetracycline, clarithromycin, rifampin, azithromycin, HBOT, Rife, special saunas, ozone, IV nutrients to “boost immunity,” chelation, confused detox formulas, Artemisia derivatives, essential oil combinations, IV medications, various weak alcohol based herbal programs, various energy machines, and a hundred other options found in chat rooms and Lyme disease “information” sites, are not meant to be the sole or primary style of all patient treatment. Carpenters use select tools at select times for select needs. Nevertheless, with my thanks for the above passion of those that promote these and hundreds of others of treatments, they have to pass blind rigorous simple direct and indirect testing to show they work, and very few know how to do such testing. I feel it is an error to only use an antibiotic which has limited mechanisms for killing bacteria.

   I have published the most current textbook on Artemisia derivatives, including Artemisinin (qinghaosu) and many other toxic forms that should be avoided. And yet, despite being the most recent practical clinical book on the topic, based on a year of full-time study with Chinese consultants and WHO consultants, it has been ignored by some who have little herbal training or reading. Why? The final approach that is worthy of mention is the “I only do natural treatments” approach. Unfortunately when I interview some of these individuals many of whom are quite smart and well read, they are aware of allopathic medication side effects, but not the toxic components of the herbs they are using. Individuals using essential oils, including those that prescribe them, usually have never read a book on the various toxicities and safety concerns of essential oils. Some of them have excellent effects and others can provide help, but also have side effect risks and others should never be used internally at all in anything more than a minimal dose.

9. The “new” yearly or bi-yearly cause of Lyme disease treatment failures is possibly wrong. I was appreciative that a few brilliant researchers found that the Bb Lyme spirochete had a biofilm in recent years–useful. But I was actually stunned this was felt to be new, since spirochetes routinely have biofilms, and dental spirochetes have immense research going back many years on biofilm promoting dental disease. A review of the major world literature shows about 25 treatment options to handle biofilms. No one has offered more than a small number of basic options to beat this problem. Perhaps it increases treatment relapses and failures, but that is not what I usually see.
10. Rejection of top thought leaders because of cost. When I think back over the hundreds of physician’s, PhD’s, herbal experts, nurses, alternative healing practitioners and even poorly educated addicts who I treated decades ago, it is clear to me, that while none of them was perfect, all have helped me immeasurably. Currently at least 50 physicians are defamed for their fees when treating tick borne infections which can end their entire career. The same applies to bonding with a healer. I often seek the wisdom of people that may be annoying, irritable, tired, simplistic, insulting, or confusing. But the fact of the matter is virtually every healer I have known, regardless of specialty, philosophy and ideology, has taught me a lesson that helps patients. I have literally seen patients decide to go with physicians who have virtually no knowledge of tick-borne disease, because they were “caring and friendly.”Further some want a “local” physician, as if geography is the same as expertise and knowledge.

    The appeal of many smart patients is to tell you this: it takes many appointments to get better, and there is no better use of any income than on your health and the health of your loved ones, instead of wasting it on healer after healer who is sincere, but does not have a complete passion to master these illnesses, and a good track record of improving lives, including very ill patients. A mere few sessions usually will not cure all your tick-borne infections.

11. The use of herbal treatments without solid follow-up by direct and indirect means. Currently, one finds herbs that are mixed in grain alcohol with 1/50th the potency of a capsule, that are supposedly cures to tick-borne disease. In our examination of these inherited treatment failures, we have not found these low potency alcohol based herbs cure. Others offer high priced herbs and “know” they are successful, and often recommend one size for all adults living on the earth. Often their understanding of advanced herbal processing, standardization and the multiple chemicals in any herb is limited. In any event, in our outcome studies we have found that these herbs at best may limit body infection volume slightly. It is profoundly important to use effective herbs with a tailored specialized dosage for each individual or you are merely experiencing “mill medicine.” If you are self treating with herbs or by a healer, if they promote “one size fits all” you are accepting health care inferior to dog medicine.
12. Advice from Web sites and chat rooms usually does not apply to you. No two people are ever to be treated the same. To seek advice on the Internet is a concern of most physicians and healers. Sometimes you can find mature balanced support from those who are healthy, but not new advanced and solid credible information for your medical care. Many leaders in tick-infection medicine report they are quoted incorrectly, and that the information is often wrong, sometimes dangerous and wastes time and money.

James Schaller, MD has been elected by his physician peers a “Best Doctor in America.”

He has published more books on tick infections than probably any physician in history. Perhaps this is why he treats patients from all over the world. He is the author of 26 books and 27 papers published in highly respected peer-reviewed medical journals on topics covering ten areas of medicine.

He is the author of:

• Babesia Update 2009: A Cause of Excess Weight, Migraines and Fatigue? A Common Reason for Failed Lyme Disease Treatment
• The Health Care Professional’s Guide to the Treatment and Diagnosis of Human Babesiosis: An Extensive Review of New Human Babesia Species and Advanced Treatments
• Artemisinin, Artesunate, Artemisinic Acid and Other Derivatives of Artemisia Used for Malaria, Babesia and Cancer
• The Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Bartonella: Atypical Bartonella Treatment Failures and 40 Hypothetical Physical Exam Findings; A Laboratory Guide to Human Babesia Hematology Forms.
• Mold Illness and Mold Remediation Made Simple: Removing Mold Toxins from Bodies and Sick Buildings
• When Traditional Medicine Fails, Your Guide to Mold Toxins
• A.D.D., Irritability and Oppositional Disorders: Cutting Edge Solutions Sincere Therapists and Doctors Miss
• Suboxone: Take Back Your Life From Pain Medications

SEE:  http://www.personalconsult.com/

My average patient has been to 10 to 50 physicians before me.

Below are some sample reasons for treatment failure.

1. Many patients and health-care workers are profoundly ignorant about how to read a western blot. If a person has one “fingerprint band,” he/she has Lyme disease. These specific bands are the 18, 23, 25, 31, 34, 39, 83, or 93 bands. The lab can be a junk lab that invests nothing to optimize its kit; but if one of these is positive, even once – Lyme is present. IGeneX has the best western blot in the world. No other lab has invested so much for so long to create the best test. If your clinician wants to first use an ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay), simply run. The ELISA as a screen test is utter junk, and misses profoundly PCR-positive patients.

2. Ten years of Lyme treatment is not acceptable. The use of IV treatment year after year means that the practitioner has a 1990s treatment approach. “Cure” treatments often merely lower body loads or decrease symptoms without fully killing all the infectious agents.

3. Some treatments simply are useless. For example, hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) for tick infection treatment fails. Its use in mice is not applicable. I self-funded a study examining HBOT results on Lyme, Babesia, Ehrlichia, and Bartonella. After 120 treatments at 2.4 atmospheres for 90 minutes each, all participants still had clear positive findings for all four infections. So advertising that HBOT “kills” Lyme disease has no validity. I have talked to the late Dr. William Fife in detail and carefully evaluated the HBOT research of Dr. Robert Lombard. I love this treatment for many medical problems, but it is not a tick infection cure.

4. Ignoring new data leads to treatment failures. For example, I have published many new books on advanced tick-borne infections. Some “Lyme-literate” MDs only buy them after years have passed and educated patients are throwing copies at them. They all show new critical information.

5. Some health-care workers believe in a pope or president of Lyme literacy. But no perfect expert exists. Some offer useful information from past investigations. No one has mastered all of tick-borne medicine and all the newest coinfection information.

6. I have been asked by a number of physicians to share my new findings. Most ask because they are ill themselves. I have told them to stop treating themselves and to do an hour consultation with very extensive labs. Most have refused. What they could have learned by fixing themselves would have translated into real help for their patients.

7. Current treatment recommendations are often profoundly flawed. IV treatments are often used without a herbal or synthetic antibiotic cyst buster. The most common treatment for Babesia is 750 mg/teaspoon of Mepron taken twice a day. The most commonly used Babesia herbal cures are artemisinin, or artesunate (Zhang Artemisiae from Hepapro.com), one capsule three times a day. All four of these approaches listed above fail even after long trials.

8. The flaw in all Bartonella treatment is the lack of one-year follow-up studies. I have found that Levaquin, rifampin, Zithromax, doxycycline, Mycobutin, Cumunda, Banderol, and Rife machines at various frequencies and power may lower body load and lead to initial feelings of improvement. None of these treatments lead to Bartonella cure.

9. The current testing for Babesia, Bartonella, and Ehrlichia is markedly flawed. Some DNA or PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests processed by an East Coast lab often miss a positive infection ten times. If you need to do ten urine or blood samples to show a positive, this is not functional. Some labs are only fair at tissue PCR testing, when the tissue has clear Lyme, Babesia, and Bartonella that can be visualized microscopically. This is a diagnostic disaster. Amazingly, some use large national labs to do manual examination of red blood cells to look for Babesia and Bartonella. I have never seen a large national lab detect Babesia or Bartonella in over 1,000 manual smears.In patients with certain Babesia and Bartonella, no large national lab captured these infections even once. I repeatedly offered to assist them in improving their technology by linking them with hematology experts in tick infections. They were not interested.

10. The knowledge base about both Bartonella testing and treatment borders on the disastrous. Bartonella is one of the most common infections in the world. Calling it a “coinfection” is nonsense; if anything, Lyme is the “coinfection.” It is found in vast numbers of common vectors, including dust mites, fleas, flea feces, pet saliva, and ticks. Amazingly, it can turn off or lower antibodies to Lyme disease, Babesia, Ehrlichia, Anaplasma, and even itself. Bartonella floats in blood and also enters all blood vessel walls without causing a fatal fever, and indeed actually lowers fevers. It is the ultimate stealth infection. It turns off antibodies, fevers, and immune function defense chemicals as it damages organs in 20 to 60 ways.

11. The use of fixed “protocols” or “procedures” in the treatment of tick infections is sadistic medicine. Why? It treats each ill human person as a machine that is built the same and has the exact same problems. This is making a patient into an object and has hints of the sociopathic. A serious criminal makes people into things to fit his perceptions of the world. To force an immensely unique human body, with a unique infection cluster, and a unique biochemical response, into a protocol is objectification of the patient. It is junk “mill medicine.”

12. Since Bartonella turns off the production of antibodies to infections like Babesia microti or Babesia duncani and Lyme disease, I suggest that this infection must be considered in all initial consults. I would encourage learning the 40 skin patterns from  Bartonella or Bartonella/Lyme mixed infections that are made by increased tissue and blood vessels. It is also useful to know the indirect labs associated with Bartonella alone, or Bartonella with Babesia, such as IL-6, IL-1B, TNF-a, ECP, and VEGF. I discuss clinical patterns from lab results of thee infections in my book Babesia Update 2009.

13. Some patients have very few Babesia protozoa parasites, but they cause serious trouble in the body. Their small numbers cause them to be missed in a visual FISH (fluorescent in-situ hybridization) exam or a PCR test.

14. If your lab does not test for new species such as Babesia duncani or the many other documented species of Babesia or Bartonella that infect humans, you cannot rule out these infections with a “negative result.” One way to decrease treatment failures is to use a new medical trick to detect stealth Babesia, whose presence can cause ongoing fatigue, headaches, weight gain, and Lyme treatment failure.

The “trick” is simple. A patient is given at least two Babesia-killing medications such as Mepron, artesunate at a high useful dose, or Malarone (for the proguanil). These medications are used for ten days at a dose you and your physician think is worth the risk, and usually at least one will kill a few Babesia parasites. Approximately 10 to 14 days later, a second ECP (eosinophil cationic protein) level is taken to compare with baseline. If the ECP pops up significantly, it is usually a sign of Babesia die-off. Eosinophils are releasing ECP, possibly injecting Babesia debris.  ECP is meant to kill parasites.

An alternative or added option is to wait five weeks and have the patient tested for antibodies to B. microti or duncani. One young patient with profound illness was finally diagnosed in this manner, and after three weeks of triple Babesia treatment, had significant clinical improvement for the first time in six years. Stealthy low-volume Babesia is a common problem in tick and flea infection treatment. Talented health-care workers commonly miss these red blood cell parasites, but this trick usually causes them to show up and can save someone from years of failed treatment.

15. The Bartonella testing of most national labs is useless. It is stunning to read of “sages” reporting that a patient does not have Bartonella because a large lab has found negative antibodies. First, they do not understand that Bartonella turns off its own antibodies; these large labs only check for one (or two) species that infect humans, and their cut-off titers are unrealistically high. Thankfully, IGeneX Bartonella FISH testing is expected to be available this month to everyone but citizens of New York State.

16. Infections and inflammation decrease insight. Tick-borne infections routinely lead to a personality change and/or rigid resistance to testing. This is largely due to an impaired frontal lobe that is the part of the brain involved in self-awareness. Examples of decreased insight are shown in the following situations:

a. Some think they are cured when they are only improved.
b. Others intentionally go to practitioners using inferior labs.
c. Some refuse to be tested with eccentric resistance.
d. Positive results are amazingly dismissed with a wave of the hand.

17. Some patients think that their trouble is not tick-borne infections but mold. They cannot believe that both are important, and either could be “the last straw.” Some patients get ill after a flood, large leak, or other water-intrusion problem. They think that they are ill only because of mold mycotoxins that form 36 to 48 hours after water intrusion into drywall, insulation, carpeting, and other dust- or cellulose-filled materials. The Environmental Protection Agency reports that 30% of US structures have indoor mold. Some of these indoor molds have war-grade chemicals on their surfaces. When the mold-filled tomb room of the last king of Poland, Casimir IV, was opened in Paris in 1973, 10 of the 12  scientists present died. One survivor had expertise in mold and subsequently found three toxic mold species.

Given the average of 40,000 to 120,000 inhalations per week by those residing in a moldy location, it is no wonder that some are not easily cured of tick and flea infections. This is why I have written two mold remediation books.

We have also known since the 1880s that dust and high humidity lead to mold and bacteria growth indoors. Their presence makes Lyme disease much more difficult to cure.

18. Lyme has at least one surface biotoxin, the patented BbTox1. Patients with 15/16–6/5–51 HLA patterns probably are unable to remove Lyme biotoxins and require a binder, like cholestyramine, which has been used to bind biotoxins since the 1970s.

19. Many patients who have had tick-borne infections have very high inflammation levels. Therefore, all starting doses of medications or herbs should be very low and then raised to high levels with liver-protecting substances. Starting at full dosing in a “medically sensitive” patient is chemical battery. Massive die-offs can be confused with allergic reactions and can cause panic attacks, shortness of breath, chest pain, and severe migraines. This sloppy, one-size-fits-all approach, is common in large practices in which a few major “protocols” are routine.

20. Medical “Band-Aids” are often required to save a job or a marriage and to care for children. They are often a normal part of care. Pain, fatigue, severe insomnia, depression, and anxiety often are increased with the die-off of any of the infections carried in deer ticks. Band-Aid treatments are often useful and helpful. I treat people who run companies, schools, very large families, and professional teams. They want to sleep 13 hours per day. They need stimulants for a period of time. The use of natural or synthetic stimulant options is discussed in my book The Diagnosis and Treatment of Babesia. Patients do not benefit from sleep in excess of 8½ hours. It may just serve to get them fired!

21. If you have health-care workers who are uncomfortable being aggressive with treatment and diagnosis of all the top tick and flea infections, you are at the wrong place. If your health-care provider has not spent 1,000 hours learning this complex emerging area of medicine requiring a great deal of study, find someone who is serious about it, not someone “doing you a favor” by simply running a few tests.

22. Some relapse due to treatment fatigue. Meaning, you have been treated for many years. You have done IV antibiotics or IV nutrients, you have taken 40 pills per day, you have tried a wide range of specialized treatments, and now you are fed up with it all. You can now function at 80% of your baseline. You are at the end of your treatment rope. This is what happens when someone does not treat you fully and effectively at the beginning of your treatment. You can get treatment fatigue. Consider a short treatment break, and discuss this frankly with your health-care provider. Do not confuse cure with improvement.

23. The treatment approach that leads to cure is not the same dose that leads to stunning organisms. Cure does not does not equal a reduction in bacteria load. For example, using Bicillin once a week with no cyst buster will never cure you of Lyme disease because it does not remove cysts. So years after receiving this treatment, your cancer-fighting cells, marked by some as the CD57 level, may be under 90. This is one good test that is possibly specific for Lyme disease or at least tick-borne infections. (The C3a and C4a test is definitely not specific for Lyme).

24. Cynical relatives, friends, or other health-care workers may defame Lyme experts and persuade patients to drop providers who are helping. They usually use the “money” or “speed of your recovery” argument to cut you off from someone sincerely trying to help you. If you have been infected years with multiple infections, you cannot be cured in six months.

25. In 2008 a Lyme biofilm appeared to have been discovered. Organizations with millions in grants and research money have never addressed this issue. We know that many spirochetes have biofilms. Indeed, many spirochetes in your mouth are known to cause biofilms, and they are believed to limit antibiotic effectiveness.

I am currently working on a textbook that addresses the many options for attacking biofilms. No article nor book yet exists that explores the 20-plus ways I would propose to beat a Lyme biofilm. It is believed by some professionals that highly specific enzymes (or one mineral) can undermine a Lyme biofilm. Yet enzymes are like keys, and no single enzyme is a proven “key” to undermining a Lyme biofilm.

26. Self-treatment is easy to pursue. Many experts are expensive, and you are uncertain of their level of knowledge. The Internet seems to offer many effective options. Some health-care providers seem too narrow. Others are open to virtually everything. So you get in a medical boat and push yourself out to sea. You read like crazy. You try A, B, and C. You read testimonies of hundreds of patients. You try a wide range of nonprescription options. Some days, weeks, or months you feel better; other weeks, you are not so good. You are upset. You ask yourself, why do I have to do all the work and learning? This is not a good place. There are people who have already explored virtually all the things you are going to explore in the next ten years. You need a mentor. Many practitioners will do nonpatient consults with you to save you time.

27. In many of my books and many Internet sites, you can read about preventing flea and tick bites. You do not need to be reinfected with Bartonella, Lyme, Babesia or any other infection. So learn the basic steps to protection in about 30 minutes of reading.

28. Tick and flea-borne infections cause isolation. They ruin relationships due to resulting fogginess, poor insight, depression, various addictions, rage, extreme hostility – even violence – and refusal to get treatment. Bartonella is likely the worst offender, but Lyme and Babesia and their die-offs can also increase these problems. Isolation leads to decreased treatment options. It can ultimately lead to divorce and the loss of family relationships and friendships. This, in turn, leads to decreased resources and support while ill. Isolated humans, as Mother Teresa often said, are the poorest beings on earth.

This article has also been published in the July 2009 issue of The Townsend Letter by: James Schaller, MD; 239-263-0133; www.personalconsult.com

James Schaller, MD, has been elected by his physician peers a “Best Doctor in America.” He has published more books on tick infections than probably any physician in history. He is the author of 26 books and 27 papers published in highly respected medical journals on topics covering 10 areas of medicine. He is the author of Babesia Update 2009: A Cause of Excess Weight, Migraines and Fatigue? A Common Reason for Failed Lyme Disease Treatment; The Health Care Professional’s Guide to the Treatment and Diagnosis of Human Babesiosis: An Extensive Review of New Human Babesia Species and Advanced Treatments; Artemisinin, Artesunate, Artemisinic Acid and Other Derivatives of Artemisia Used for Malaria, Babesia and Cancer; The Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Bartonella: Atypical Bartonella Treatment Failures and 40 Hypothetical Physical Exam Findings; A Laboratory Guide to Human Babesia Hematology Forms; Mold Illness and Mold Remediation Made Simple: Removing Mold Toxins from Bodies and Sick Buildings; When Traditional Medicine Fails, Your Guide to Mold Toxins; A.D.D., Irritability and Oppositional Disorders: Cutting Edge Solutions Sincere Therapists and Doctors Miss; and Suboxone: Take Back Your Life From Pain Medications.

Lyme Disease sufferers need to be aware that having mercury poisoning and Lyme Disease at the same time can be a confusing, frustrating,scary experience.

We have ample evidence of the many ways in which we contract Lyme disease – and many ways which seem obvious but are very controversial.

Mercury poisoning is a different type of infection, and the methods for contracting mercury poisoning are incredibly varied.

Perhaps the top ways in which we are poisoned by mercury is from dental fillings.

With dental amalgams, mercury in vapor form is released when the teeth are ground together while chewing. This mercury is absorbed into blood and tissue–including the pituitary and hypothalamus glands. These two glands seem to play a part in FMS symptoms.

Many researchers believe that the brain dysfunction which causes fibromyalgia is a direct result of mercury toxicity. For this reason, some people with FMS have had their amalgam dental fillings replaced with other materials.

Some (not all) have reported improvement in their symptoms. However, removing silver fillings alone doesn’t completely solve the problem, since mercury has also become lodged in the body’s tissues.

However, there are also sources of mercury such as seafood, auto exhaust, pesticides, fertilizers, drinking water (tap and well), certain foods, fabric softeners, fish, talc, body powder, paint pigments and solvents, laxatives, cosmetics, mascara, floor waxes and polishes, wood preservatives, plumbing, adhesives, batteries and air conditioner filters.

As mentioned before, there is evidence that the Lyme Disease organism intentionally stores and sequesters mercury. This activity results in increased mercury concentrations in and near Lyme Disease colonies in the body—mercury and Lyme Disease are together in close quarters. For anyone afflicted with both mercury toxicity and Lyme Disease, the experience can be a frightening roller coaster ride.

Similarities between Chronic Lyme disease and Mercury poisoning are primarily focused on the painful and recurring symptoms of each illness.

Mercury poisoning often occurs with prolonged inhalation of its vapors and/or when mercury is ingested through the skin or internally through the gastrointestinal tract.

Acute poisoning occurs rarely, with large concentrations of mercury vapor in the air. There are headache, weakness, nausea, vomiting, fever. When you delete a poisoned atmosphere, and taking the necessary measures, all phenomena will quickly disappear within four to five days. In a few cases developed marked autonomic instability, asthenic feeling, sleep problems, shaking of hands and head.

In chronic poisoning, which occurs during long-term inhalation of even very small concentrations of mercury vapor, there is a general weakness, drowsiness, headache, depression, sweating, and recurrent muscle cramps.

While survey, reveals fine fingers’, eyelids, tongue tremor; persistent red dermographism (known as skin writing), the revival of tendon reflexes. Very often occur an increase in thyroid, dysfunction of sexual glands, dyspeptic disorders, stomach disorders and gum disease.

In more severe poisoning against a growing background of these poisoning symptoms, develop significant psyche changes: depression, obsessive feelings, visual and auditory hallucinations. An organic neurological symptom is increased.

There appears coarse tremor, which becomes more intention and extends to the muscles of the limbs, head and torso (mercury labeled tremor). Bells Palsy conditions ares are not uncommon.

Because the Lyme Disease bacteria and mercury typically occupy the same places in the body, the symptoms of each are very difficult to distinguish. Someone with Lyme Disease may not be aware that they have mercury poisoning and thus assume that all of their symptoms are Lyme Disease-related, when in reality, some are mercury symptoms.

A person who knows they have both mercury toxicity and Lyme Disease finds that the next challenge is to separate the symptoms and determine which are caused by which problem.

The presence of mercury in the living environment of the bacteria is advantageous to the bacteria. As the mercury-rich environment is altered, the infection responds with self-protective activities.

To make matters even more complicated, when Lyme Disease organisms are being killed or attacked, mercury symptoms may be altered as well.

As you manipulate the Lyme bacteria’s living environment and kill Lyme Disease organisms, mercury is mobilized and released which can cause symptoms to flare up unbearably.

Sometimes mercury is actually stored inside a spirochete or bacterial colony itself.  When that colony is disrupted or eradicated (with antibiotics or rife machines or some other anti-Lyme treatment), mercury is released. This results in an outbreak of both herx reaction symptoms and mercury mobilization symptoms.

In fact, many herx symptoms commonly experienced by Lyme Disease sufferers are actually symptoms of mercury mobilization. Because dying Lyme Disease organisms can release mercury, it is important to use a mercury detoxification protocol while undertaking anti-Lyme therapy to sop up the mercury that is released during the killing of Lyme Disease bacteria.

Mercury is a very strong immunosuppressant, and its presence in the body may mask inflammatory Lyme Disease symptoms. Lyme Disease patients may actually feel that their Lyme Disease symptoms are better when they are mercury-poisoned because the inflammatory response to Lyme Disease is reduced. When mercury is removed from the body, an individual may experience increased Lyme Disease symptoms and herx reactions because the immune system may begin to function properly again.

Another confusing similarity is that mercury chelators are not able to reach mercury stored inside Lyme Disease organisms until the organisms are killed and the mercury is released into circulation. Therefore, as long as there continues to be an active Lyme Disease infection, it is also likely that additional mercury is sequestered throughout the body. For this reason, mercury detoxification should not be considered to be finished until all Lyme Disease bacteria are completely eradicated. A mercury removal program is often needed for quite a long time, sometimes even years.

Lyme sufferers should consider carefully the possibility of mercury poisoning and that any stagnation in their healing progress may be, at least partially, a result of the presence of mercury in the body. It is essential first to find out if mercury is a problem, and then decide how to get rid of it.

Mercury chelation can help rid the body of toxicity, but can also cause unpleasant symptoms. Perhaps the most effective, the most thorough and healthy method for ridding your body of mercury poisoning or any kind of heavy metal is with Far Infared Saunas. LuxSpas Infared Saunas are made with Canadian spruce and cedar cabinetry with ionization, light therapy and music therapy.

Most cases of Lyme Disease will not show satisfactory improvement (regardless of which anti-Lyme therapies are used) unless mercury toxicity is addressed. Lyme Disease and Rife Machines includes a helpful chart that provides additional mercury detoxification resources, including contact information for a health-care practitioner who is willing to work with Lyme Disease sufferers toward the task of mercury detoxification.

On the other hand, a sauna may be used safely in the privacy of your own home every day for 20 minutes or 2 hours depending upon what your body feels comfortable with.  Not only will the poisonous metals be eradicated from your body, but all kinds of healthy detoxification can occur simultaneously, building strength, energy, and initiating healing on many levels of your body.

With the mass worship of thin and fit bodies (quite often impossible to attain) the craze for “fat free” and “diet” products have never been so desirable. Even toothpaste claims to be sugar free along with every other kind of food you can buy.

What is now quite horrifying is that these diet products often claim to be – and are accepted – as a “healthy” way to live – sweet without sugar.

Aspartame (Nutrasweet) is the chemical that has allowed every food and beverage manufacturer to make this claim, (and most people believe that if the FDA allows it, it can’t possibly be harmful, especially if it is plastered all over the package.)

Well, the bad news is out, and there is no surprise that the media is not covering the story, after all, the advertisers are paying their bills – you should never bite the hand that feeds you!

The truth is making itself heard nonetheless, and according to Dr. Eric Herman from “Liberty Chiropractic and Holistic Medicine”,  and www.sweetpoison.com, the following symptoms may occur from aspartame poisoning:

Eye
blindness in one or both eyes
decreased vision and/or other eye problems such as: blurring, bright flashes, squiggly lines, tunnel vision, decreased night vision
pain in one or both eyes
decreased tears
trouble with contact lenses
bulging eyes

Ear
tinnitus – ringing or buzzing sound
severe intolerance of noise
marked hearing impairment

Neurologic
epileptic seizures
headaches, migraines and some severe
dizziness, unsteadiness, both
confusion, memory loss, both
severe drowsiness and sleepiness
paralysis or numbness of the limbs
severe slurring of speech
severe hyperactivity and restless legs
atypical facial pain
severe tremors

Psychological/Psychiatric
severe depression
irritability
aggression
anxiety
personality changes
insomnia
phobias

Chest
palpitations, tachycardia
shortness of breath
recent high blood pressure

Gastrointestinal
nausea
diarrhea, sometimes with blood in stools
abdominal pain
pain when swallowing

Skin and Allergies
itching without a rash
lip and mouth reactions
hives
aggravated respiratory allergies such as asthma

Endocrine and Metabolic
loss of control of diabetes
menstrual changes
marked thinning or loss of hair
marked weight loss
gradual weight gain
aggravated low blood sugar (hypoglycemia)
severe PMS

Other
frequency of voiding and burning during urination
excessive thirst, fluid retention, leg swelling, and bloating
increased susceptibility to infection

Additional Symptoms of Aspartame Toxicity include the most critical symptoms of all:
death
irreversible brain damage
birth defects, including mental retardation
peptic ulcers
aspartame addiction and increased craving for sweets
hyperactivity in children
severe depression
aggressive behavior
suicidal tendencies

Does any of this sound familiar? Additionally Aspartame may trigger, mimic, or cause the following illnesses:

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Epstein-Barr
Post-Polio Syndrome
Chronic and/or Neurological Lyme Disease
Grave’s Disease
Meniere’s Disease
Alzheimer’s Disease
ALS
Epilepsy
Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
EMS
Hypothyroidism
Mercury sensitivity from Amalgam fillings
Fibromyalgia
Autism
CPN
Lupus
non-Hodgkins Lymphoma
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)

The Lyme Community is blessed to have some of the great minds of science investigating Lyme disease from diagnosis to treatment.  One of these brilliant scientists is Dr. Deitrich Klinghardt.

The following article was written by Dr. Mercola about the studies and findings regarding Lyme disease from Dr. Klinghardt’s vast experience.  His professional practice and reputation reaches between continents – and is presented through workshops and lectures around the world.

Dr. Klinghardt’s Treatment of Lyme Disease

Posted by: Dr. Mercola August 04 2009  Excerpted From the Writings of Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, Ph.D., edited by Eve Greenberg, LPC, CN, Explore Staff Reporter and Director of the Klinghardt Academy of Neurobiology

In the last decade the majority of outcome-oriented physicians observed a major shift: we realized that it was neither the lack of vitamins or growth hormone that made our patients ill. We discovered that toxicity and chronic infections were most often at the core of the client’s suffering.

We watched the discussion, which infection may be the primary one: mycoplasma, stealth viruses, HHV-6, trichomonas, Chlamydia pneumoniae, leptospirosis, mutated strep, or what else?

The new kid on the block is Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) and some of us have looked at it for a long time as possibly being the bug that opens the door for all the other infections to enter the system. Another one is Lyme disease, which has become a buzzword in the alternative medical field.

Since none of the recommended treatments are specific to either one of the microbes, we can never assume that we really know what we treated once a patient has recovered.

Microbiologist Gitte Jensen, PhD, had shown that the older you get, the more foreign DNA is attached to your own DNA. Somewhere along the line, pathogenic microbes invade the host’s DNA and become a permanent part of it. Since you use only 2 percent of your DNA, it may not be a problem. In fact, it may make you who you finally become. It may also cause a number of symptoms and chronic illness.

Genius Guenther Enderlein’s discoveries take us off the hook: if one microbe can change into another given the right environment, why bother to find out who we are infected with? The book “Lab 257″ suggests that Bb is an escaped man-made US military bio-warfare organism (just like myoplasma incognitus and HHV 6).

Other authors suggest that different subtypes of Borrelia, which cause illness in humans, such as B. afzelii and B.garinii have probably existed longer than B.burgdorferi and occur naturally and have been with us for a long time, maybe centuries or much longer than that.

Making the Diagnosis

It appears that many patients with MS, ALS, Parkinson’s disease, autism, joint arthritis, chronic fatigue, sarcoidosis, and even cancer, are infected with Borrelia burgdorferi. But is the infection causing the illness or is it an opportunistic infection simply occurring in people weakened by other illnesses?

My experience is based on:

a) Using direct microscopic proof of the presence of Borrelia burgdoferi (Bb) and other spirochetes (4, 5)

b) The information many affected clients have brought to me

c) My own clinical training and experience (30 years in Medical practice, 15 years Bb cognizant)

d) ART testing (autonomic response testing), which is the most advanced and scientifically validated method of muscle testing

e) Regular lab parameters affected by Lyme:

* Abnormal lipid profile (moderate cholesterol elevation with significant LDL elevation)
* Insulin resistance
* Borderline low white blood cells, normal SED rate and CRP
* Normal thyroid hormone tests but positive Barnes test and excellent response to giving T3
* Type 2 (high cortisol, low DHEA) or type 3 adrenal failure (low cortisol and DHEA)
* Low testosterone and DHEA
* Decreased urine concentration (low specific gravity)
* Complex changes in cytokines, interferones, NK cells, white blood cell indicators, etc.

Bb tends to infect the B-lymphocytes and other components of the immune system that are responsible for creating the antibodies, which are then measured by an ELISA test or Western Blot test. Since antibody production is greatly compromised in infected individuals, it makes no sense to use these tests as the gold standard or benchmark for the presence of Bb (7).

We also are aware that in endemic areas in the US up to 22 percent of stinging flies and mosquitoes (2, 8, 9, and 10) are carriers of Bb and co-infections. In South East Germany and Eastern Europe 12 percent of mosquitoes have been shown to be infected. In addition, many spiders, flees, lice and other stinging insects carry spirochetes and co-infections. Making the history of a tick bite a condition for a physician to be willing to even consider the possibility of a Bb infection seems cynical and cruel.

To use conventional diagnostic tests such as the Western Blot, one has to think in paradoxes: the patient has to be treated with an effective treatment modality first before the patient recovers enough to produce the antibodies, which then are looked for in the test. A positive Western Blot proves that the treatment given worked to some degree. A negative Western Blot does not and cannot prove the absence of the infection.

Having taken another route altogether, we have recognized that today many if not most Americans are carriers of the infection. Most infected people are symptomatic, but the severity and type of the symptoms varies greatly.

The microbes often invade tissues that had been injured: your chronic neck pain or sciatica really may be a Bb infection. The same may be true for your chronic TMJ problem, your adrenal fatigue, your thyroid dysfunction, your GERD and many other seemingly unrelated symptoms.

Many Bb symptoms are mistaken for problems of natural or premature aging.

In most places the diagnosis of an active Bb infection is made only if the symptoms are severe, persistent, obvious, and many non-specific and fruitless avenues of treatment have been exhausted. Acute new “typical” cases of Bb infection are rare in my practice.

Symptoms tend to get stranger and more obscure every year.

Frequently, if the patient is fortunate enough to see a practitioner who is “Lyme cognizant”, the diagnosis of a supposedly fresh case of symptomatic Lyme disease is made when a significant tissue toxin level has been reached (threshold phenomenon) or when a new co-infection has occurred recently.

The symptoms can mimic any other existing medical, psychological or psychiatric condition.

Common Co-Infections

The list of significant co-infections is limited: roundworms, tapeworms, threadworms, toxoplasmosis, giardia and amoebas, clostridia, the herpes virus family, parvovirus B 19, active measles (in the small intestine), leptospirosis, chronic strep infections and their mutations, Babesia, Brucella, Ehrlichiosis, Bartonella, mycoplasma, Rickettsia, Bartonella and a few others.

Molds and fungi are always part of the picture.

The pattern of co-infections and the other preexisting conditions such as mercury toxicity determine the symptom-picture but not the severity.

What Influences the Severity of Your Symptoms?

The severity of symptoms correlates most closely with the overall summation or body burden of coexisting conditions and with the genetically determined ability to excrete neurotoxins.

The genes coding for the glutathione S-transferase and for the different alleles of apolipoprotein E (E2, E3 and E4) play a major role. E2 can carry twice as much sulfhydryl-affinitive toxins (such as mercury and lead) out of the cell as the E3 subtype, E4 carries out none.

Trouble in the methylation, acetylation and sulfation pathways is also common. Other factors, such as diet and food allergies, past toxic and electromagnetic exposures, emotional factors and unhealed ancestral trauma, scar interference fields and occlusal jaw and bite problems are also important (6).

The severity of symptoms is not related to the number of spirochetes in your system but rather to your individual immune response.

Taking all of the above into account, we do not distinguish between people who have the Bb infection and those who don’t. Instead, we distinguish between people who have Lyme disease and those who do not.

a) Patients who are infected with any type of Borrelia and are symptomatic have “Lyme” disease

b) Healthy people who are not symptomatic often already have a spirochete infection as well. They may or may not be disasters waiting to happen. But they do not (yet) have Lyme “disease”.

Most often several of the “co-infections” are already present prior to the infection with Bb or other spirochetes.

In treatment we focus on exploring the difference between symptomatic and asymptomatic carriers. We treat what the symptomatic person is missing (such as enough magnesium in the diet) or has extra (such as mercury) compared to the asymptomatic one.

The group suffering most is newborn babies and young children, who rarely are diagnosed correctly and therefore are not treated appropriately. They often carry the labels ADHD, autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), seizure disorder and others. Detoxifying these kids with transdermal DMPS and treating the chronic infections is often curative.

The Three Components of Lyme disease

Lyme disease has three components, which should be recognized and addressed with treatment:

Component #1: The presence of spirochete infection and co-infections

The co-infections are bacterial, viral, fungal and parasitic. Since the spirochetes paralyze multiple aspects of your immune system, the organism is without defenses against many microbes. Many — if not most — of the co-infections are really a consequence of the spirochete infection and not truly a simultaneously occurring “co-infection”.

For treatment options, see below.

Component #2: the illness producing effect of microbial exo- and endotoxins and toxins produced by the host in response to microbial trigger

Most of these are neurotoxins.Some appear to be carcinogenic as well; others block the T3 receptor on the cell wall, etc. Decreased hormonal output of the gonads and adrenals is a commonly observed toxin mediated problem in Lyme patients.

Central inhibition of the pineal gland, hypothalamus and pituitary gland is almost always an issue that has to be resolved somewhat independently from treating the infection.

Furthermore, biotoxins from the infectious agents have a synergistic effect with heavy metals, xenobiotics and thioethers from cavitations and NICO lesions in the jaw and from root filled teeth.

My published neurotoxin elimination protocol can be downloaded for free here.

We use toxin binding agents such as fiber-rich ground up raw vegetables, chlorella (14), cholestyramine (13), beta-Sitosterol, propolis powder, apple pectin and Mucuna bean powder (14).

A solid heavy metal detoxification program should be used simultaneously with the first phases of the Lyme treatment. Safe toxic metal elimination is an art unto itself. However, the information is widely available now (15).

The more difficult objective is to choose agents and methods to trigger the release of neurotoxins from their respective binding sites. Only then can they be transported to your liver, be processed, and enter your small intestine from where they can be carried out by the binding agents.

The toxins occupying the T3 receptor are competitively displaced by oral T3 — cycled with the Wilson protocol (available at most compounding pharmacies). The toxins blocking the cortisol receptor are mobilized with the herb forskolin. CGF chlorella — a sophisticated mix of chlorella and chlorella growth factor — and cilantro given together with a non-irradiated Mucuna bean powder mobilize most everything else.

I also use alternate-day dosing of an energetically enhanced phospholipid/EDTA/Alpha-Lipoic acid mix (“PhosphoLipid Exchange”) which is currently the most tolerated and effective form of phospholipids for the Lyme patient. [Jenna's Note: Phoschol is an excellent option as well and can be purchased here.]

The KMT microcurrent frequencies dramatically increase the speed of toxin mobilization and access body compartments the biochemical compounds cannot .

Psychotherapeutic intervention to uncover and treat old trauma is most profoundly effective in triggering a neurotoxin release when none of the other methods appear to work anymore.

After each APN session we pre-medicate the patient with CGF-chlorella. Sometimes the extraction of a devitalized tooth or the injection of one of the facial/cervical ganglia with glutathione or another detox agent can trigger a major neurotoxin release.

Lymph drainage in combination with colon hydrotherapy accesses toxins stored in the lymphatic body-compartment. German practitioners have pioneered the combination of oral cilantro and the “Toxaway” microcurrent footbath.

Component #3: The immune reactions provoked by the presence of both toxins and microbes (there are three sub-possibilities, which have to be recognized and addressed).

Your immune reactions are largely depending on factors such as genetics, prior illnesses, mental-emotional baggage, early childhood traumatization, current exposure to electromagnetic fields (sleeping location, use of cell phones, poor wiring in car or home, etc), food allergies and diet, socio-economic background, marital stress etc.

A multitude of biochemical serum markers is used today to determine the status of the infection (see below). A subset of NK killer cells, CD 57+ is emerging as a valid marker for activity of the illness (lower counts indicate worsening).

1: Anergy — the absence of reaction due to the successful evasion of the host-defenses.

One of the more known mechanisms the microbes use to create anergy is hyper coagulation. The microbes tend to live in your endothelium where the food is most abundant. There they trigger the coagulation mechanism to lay down a layer of fibrin on top of them to evade recognition by your immune system, etc. For this aspect we use three techniques:

a) The KMT-microcurrent technology and homeopathics to wake up and entrain the immune system

b) Rechtsregulat (“right rotatory fluid”) which is an enzyme-rich extract of fermented fruits and vegetables (14). It has outperformed the s.c. injection of heparin in our own trials and frequently leads to rapid subjective improvement.

Lumbrokinase is far more effective than Nattokinase,but both appear weak when compared to Rechtsregulat.

We also work on recognizing and eliminating those factors that block the client’s system (geopathic stress, EM stress, food allergies, emotional factors, interference fields such as scars and disturbed ganglia and we substitute vitamins and minerals based on ART testing).

c) The Enderlein remedies (especially the haptens) from Pleomorphic-Sanum

2: Allergy — appropriate or exaggerated immune reactions (both cellular TH1-reaction and TH2-cytokine activation).

In Lyme disease oftentimes (but not always), TH-1 is overly active early in the illness and can easily be downregulated by fluconazole. Later TH2 becomes overly active.

Nothing works better then the APN-desensitization procedure (15): while the patient is exposed to the allergen (we use a glass-carrier fixated culture of the offending microbes) the ANS is kept in a state of equilibrium using tapping of acupuncture-points, hypnotherapeutic trauma-recall and intervention techniques, and our proprietary psycho kinesiology (muscle-biofeedback psychotherapy).

A very effective and yet simple technique to re-regulate TH1 and TH2 back is auto-urine therapy. The patient’s urine concentrates the antigens (disposed cell walls and cell fragments of offending microbes which the immune system has successfully eliminated). By passing the client’s urine through a micro pore filter and injecting it intra-muscularly, the lymphocytes on patrol in the connective tissue are brought in contact with the antigen and quickly mount a specific and appropriate immune response.

We use 2 ml of filtered urine once weekly for 12 weeks. All other similar approaches (autohemotherapy, homeopathic autonosodes, manipulating the immune system with supplements) are far less effective.

3: Autoimmunity — the toxins and microbes often act as haptens — marking the cell, cell wall or tissue in which they are hiding as foreign and therefore for destruction. This happens especially against a backdrop of pre existing heavy metal toxicity, which has to be addressed aggressively and prior to treating the microbes themselves.

We use the MELISA test (memory lymphocyte immune-stimulation assay) to establish which metals the patient is reactive to. The same lab in Bremen, Germany also offers the most sensitive Bb test.

The KMT microcurrent technology is very effective in recognition entrainment, helping your immune cells to mount a specific and targeted attack on the invaders, sparing your body’s own tissues. It breaks through one of the prime mechanisms the offending germs are using: molecular mimicry (the pathogens present antigens on their surface that are indistinguishable from a normal body tissue).

The technique also breaks another trick the spirochetes have developed: the molecular interaction that occurs between a specific Lyme virulence factor (OspE) and a host protein fH (factor H). Some surface antigens in the spirochete are identical to myelin. This explains why anti-myelin antibodies are often present.

The novice in the field tends to treat component #1 only. We have only rarely observed lasting improvement when course after course of antibiotics was given. Because of the defense mechanisms inherent in the Bb and co-infections, current wisdom suggests that 18 months of antibiotics would be curative in many cases (25). But instead we have observed severe, lasting and unacceptable side effects from this approach,such as tinnitus, kidney failure, intractable immune system breakdown and others.

By using the synergistic effect between treatment-modalities that simultaneously address the three issues outlined above, lasting improvements are the norm rather than the exception.

By using the synergy principle and abandoning the arrogant idea of being able to eradicate all of the microbes in the system “for good”, chronic Lyme patients can often live a normal healthy life again. The use of herbs alone or in combination with antibiotics has emerged as the most important core strategy.

The Importance of Minerals

To feed, fuel and perk up the cells of the immune system (especially NK cells and macrophages) numerous interventions have been attempted, mostly based on orthomolecular and herbal medicine principles. We found that amongst those approaches, abundant mineral substitution based on the red cell mineral analysis is most rewarding.

Rarely should medical drugs be used.

Amazingly, the most depleted minerals in our Lyme patients are often copper, magnesium, manganese (in Lyme) and iron (in Babesiosis).

Bb and Bartonella need magnesium to duplicate and deplete the host’s body rapidly. Copper and iron have all but disappeared from most of our supplements based on faulty interpretation of hair analysis. Your immune system uses those two metals in the process of phagocytosis. They are the main constituent of the enzymes (or “bullets”) your immune cells use in the battle against the invaders.

Oxidized used-up iron and copper get displaced into the extracellular compartment and body fluids, and appears in your hair and skin as that’s your body’s most efficient way of excreting toxins without damaging your kidneys.

This has led to the dangerous, and in its consequence, catastrophic assumption that these metals are the enemy and need to be restricted.

It is true that oxidized metals pose a danger and have to be reduced (=substitution of electrons) or eliminated. However, when copper and iron are needed and substituted appropriately, major improvements have been observed. Appropriate antioxidant treatment can reduce these metals.

Homeopathic copper and iron leads to beneficial redistribution of these metals and makes them bio-available again.

Lithium-orotate or aspartate in low doses (15 mg/day) has been shown to protect your CNS structures from neurotoxin damage.

Patients also almost always benefit clinically from frequent treatment with parenteral magnesium. It is most meaningfully given in a modified Meyer’s cocktail. We also use a 5:2 ratio of folic acid (not folinic) and hydroxycobolamine (not methyl- or cyano-) sublingually several times/day.

In addition methyl-cobolamine is givenintra-muscularly twice weekly and is important in the methylation/restoration of reduced glutathione. Hydroxy-B12 protects your brain from nitric oxide induced damage.

Many Lyme patients suffer from Pyrroluria, a metabolic illness where abnormal porphyrins carry out significant amounts of needed zinc and vitamin B6. Diagnosis is made with the appropriate test at Vitamin Diagnostics in New Jersey. Even though it is assumed that this illness is hereditary, I have my doubts, since most Lyme sufferers have a degree of it. I suspect that the appearance of kryptopyrroles in the urine is induced by the illness.

However, I am careful with excessive substitution of zinc. Zinc has a synergistic effect with mercury in the brain and also promotes the growth of the herpes viruses.

If clients show abnormal high losses of sex steroid hormones in the urine, the patient may be cobalt deficient. The urine hormone test and cobalt drops are available at the Tahoma Clinic Renton, WA. For a while selenium should be given in high doses to suppress viral replication and render bioavailable mercury non-reactive.

The most critical element in the Lyme patient, however, is iodine. A two inch square of Lugol’s iodine is painted on the patient’s skin and should remain visible for 24 hours. The sooner it is absorbed the more deficient the patient. An oral form of Lugol’s is available under the name Iodoral (Optimox, Torrance, Ca).

Filling up your body’s mineral reserves has always been the most essential part of our heavy metal detox program. It is also the most essential part of our Lyme treatment.

Sequencing of Effective Treatment

There is an inherent order in which the microbes should be treated. If the order is correct, gentle methods work.

Treatment should always combine electromagnetic interventions, using specific microbial inhibition frequencies (KMT technology) with the appropriate herb, antibiotic or other antimicrobial strategy.

It should also always be combined with a toxin elimination program, good psychotherapy, and general life style hygiene.

Most clients will need some support for several years before they have found and adapted to a new life style in which the symptoms are absent.

Lyme disease is marked by cyclic rhythms and unexpected returns of the symptom from time to time. Once a patient has figured out what works best, most of my patients learn how to manage their illness with very little help.

Klinghardt Lyme Disease Protocol

Biological treatment of Lyme disease and chronic infections: (based on over 900 successful treatment cases)

The treatment of Lyme disease requires 4 distinctive steps:

1. Decreasing toxic body burden/unloading the system
2. Improving disturbed physiology
3. Decreasing microbial count
4. Immune modulation

Decreasing toxic body burden/unloading the system

* Proper sleep
* Low EMF (turn off all fuses, sleep sanctuary, turquoise light/photon wave to increase melatonin and non-rem Delta sleep)
* Non-toxic/allergenic bedding material (cave: flame retardants/PBDEs)
* Avoid light/noise pollution at night

1. Short form of toxin elimination and antimicrobial treatment: “Le Cocktail”

Freeze dried garlic (against microbes, toxins, sulfur), chlorella (viruses, bacteria, toxins, nutrients), cilantro (bacteria, viruses, toxins) and fish oil (for microcirculation and cell wall flexibility)

The Long Form of Healing

Toxin elimination:

* Remove intestinal biofilm: 1 tsp clay followed by 1 tbsp fiber laxative for 6 weeks, prior to do anything else
* Address genetic glitches (methylation, sulfation, acetylation – B12, B2, Folic acid, SAM-e, Methionine, Taurine, MSM)
* Mercury and metal detox — Phospholipid Exchange (EDTA, phospholipids, alpha lipoic, magnesium, energy), Matrix Metals, CVE and CGF, DMEP(ORS), sound cracked chlorella, nanonized chlorella and cilantro, EDTA, DMSA, DMPS
* Solvent and carbon based detox: glycine, laser-or homeopathy aided detox
* Consider the UNDA remedies (243 is best)

Self Help:

* Colon hydrotherapy and lymphatic drainage, rhythmic cranial and liver compression
* Dry skin brushing and warm/cold showers
* Swedish sauna and Toxaway ionic foot bath

Detect and resolve interference fields:

* Scars
* Jaw infections and devitalized teeth
* Chronic localized infections (tonsils, appendix, sinuses, etc)
* Dysfunctional autonomic ganglia (superior cervical, sphenopalatine, pelvic ganglia, etc.)

Remove “allergenic triggers” from your environment

* Food allergies
* Volatile organic compounds from carpets, furniture and paints
* New car smell (phthalates)
* Newspaper and office printing ink
* Work/profession related compounds

Removing psychological toxins

* 20 minute writing exercise to overcome past trauma
* Family constellation work to resolve trans-generational issues
* Applied Psycho-Neurobiology to resolve conflicts and severe trauma
* Regular time spent in healthy nature
* Regular massage
* Qi Gong, Tai Chi or Meditation

Removing structural blockages

* Optimize the dental occlusion to restore cranial lymphatic pump
* Craniosacral therapy to improve fluid dynamics in CNS
* Visceral manipulation to improve organ function

2. Improving disturbed physiology and biochemistry (vitality, detox, immune responses, tissue repair)

Biochemistry

* Always start with KPU urine test and address it!
* Assessment via lab work or ART — correct what is missing and what is too much (hormones, minerals and electrolytes, glutathione, sulfur, etc.)
* Genetic testing: find minimal bypass nutrition to correct for SNPs or gene deletions/mutations
* Diet: gluten and casein free diet, Specific carbohydrate diet, Metabolic typing, blood group diet or ART based diet
* Common deficiencies in Lyme: magnesium: has to be given transdermal or via injection. Oral Magnesium feeds spirochetes
* Copper, zinc and iron are spent by macrophages and appear in oxidized form in hair and serum, giving the wrong appearance of excess

Improving disturbed biochemistry and physiology: KPU/HPU

* Over 80 percent of our Lyme patients have developed HPU (hemo-pyrrol-lactam-uria). The term falsely used in most US literature is KPU (krypto-pyrrol-uria)
* HPU disarms the immune system by catastrophic depletion of zinc, manganese, arachidonic acid, histamin, taurine.
* These losses are hard to detect with any current technology (only bone and CNS biopsies are reliable.
* Labs to consider:

KPU urine test (Vitamin Diagnostics)

* alkaline phosphatase low normal
* copper: zinc ration greater than 1 in hair and urine
* low Omega 6 in red cell membrane fatty acid test
* white blood cell zinc, red cell copper level

If KPU is treated first and the system is restored to normal levels (4-8 months), Borrelia, Bartonella-like organisms and Babesia respond to much milder interventions without significant Herxes or problems

Neurophysiology

* Gives your brain healthy rhythms: KMT technology
* Listen to Lyme entrainment CDs
* Spend time in nature
* Avoid EMF’s (cordless phones, cell phones, wireless technology, home near airport (radar), computer

Exercise

* Stretching
* Weight lifting
* Movement (dance, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, etc.)
* Aerobic exercise — avoid post exercise fatigue and pain

3. Rizols (ozonated castor oil treated with high voltage electrolysis) decrease microbial count. Rizols have strong and specific anti-microbial properties, no known adverse long term effects, are relatively inexpensive and are pleasant to take.

They have been used successfully since 1905. (You’ll find the recipes below.)

1: treat parasites, mold and anaerobes

Rizol Gamma (effective dose: 15-20 drops tid)

2: treat both RNA (Borna, etc.) and DNA (HHV-6, EBV, etc.) viruses: Rizol Zeta (20 drops tid)

3: when on full dose of Gamma and Zeta, treat Babesia:

After 2 months on full treatment: stop or reduce Rizol Gamma and treat Bartonella: Rizol My (20 drops tid).

After 2 months reduce dose of rizols Zeta and My to 10 drops tid and treat spirochetes: add Rizol Epsilon and Jota, 10 drops tid each.

Always follow rizol with adsorbent (biosorption): chlorella (20 tbl), chitosan (1-2 caps), zeolite (1 tsp) or charcoal (2 caps)

Rizol-Gamma

70 percent Rizol-raw material (ozonated castor oil treated with high voltage electrolysis)

10 percent clove oil

10 percent oil of artemesia

10 percent black walnut oil

Rizol-Zeta

69.3 percent Rizol-raw material

10.0 percent oil of artemesia annua

10.0 percent clove oil

5.0 percent black cumin oil

3.0 percent moxa oil

1.8 percent walnut oil

0.9 percent oil of majoram

Biological effects, according to the Steidl/Carstens studies:

* The ozonides transfer oxygen and change the environment in which anaerobic pathogenic germs live, making it aerobic
* This prevents anaerobic germs, such as Clostridia, from multiplying
* The oil is surface-active and, with its active substances, moistens your intestinal mucous membrane where nests of fungi and bacteria and parasites might be located
* Rizol constituents have been found intracellularly and in the matrix (indicating anti-microbial activity both intra-and extracellularly)

Cell toxicology studies:

* Mitochondria are not damaged,
* OECD test for mutagenicity produced the result: not mutagenic.
* Normal human cells are guided into apoptosis (beneficial and genetically pre-programmed cell death)
* Previously damaged and tumor cells are destroyed
* No adverse pharmacological effects were found in numerous cell culture tests

4. Immune modulation

* Use the CD 57 test (Labcorp – Stricker panel) to monitor immune status
* Enderlein remedies: treat immune responses to mold: Pleo Nig, Not, Muc, Fort, Pef, Ut and UT-S, Lat
* Auto-hemotherapy or auto-urine therapy (2 ml biw)
* Buhner herbs (Quintessence from BioPure) 8-10 dropperfull in 1 liter water
* Adjunctive physics based immune modulation tools:

1. KMT frequency-based biofield treatment
2. Health Light super LED treatment of focal areas
3. Valkion: singlet oxygen energy delivery via inhaled air or drinking water
4. Photon Wave or Jae Laser immune modulation

Medical drugs: Occasionally the use of medical antimicrobials is beneficial in addition to this program (ILADS recommendations). Top of the list:

* anti-virals (Valtrex and Valcyte)
* anti-fungals (itra- and voriconazole)
* anti-parasitics (Alinia and Biltricide)
* antibiotics (with above program, minocycline, and anti-Malarials work again!)

Lyme Disease as a Messenger

In the course of conquering this illness there has been a lot of personal growth and a lot of learning.

There has been much speculation as to why Lyme disease seems to be increasingly common. The book “Lab 257″ is an investigative report on the issues involved.

The insects which are the vectors for these microbes thrive in warmer climates. I have no doubt that to a large degree the greenhouse effect is responsible and will be confronting us with the onslaught of more and more aggressive microbes.

The partial pressure of oxygen on the earth at sea level has decreased from 30 percent 150 years ago to 19 percent today. The oxygen producing algae in the oceans are dying…

The response of the public health system so far has been denial and anger towards those who try to uncover the puzzle and help the afflicted patients. This will certainly change in the near future.

I expect that by the time the institutions discover Lyme disease as a far more important factor in chronic illness than is currently acknowledged, we will be confronted with new, far more dangerous microbes.

Antibiotics have disappointed in the treatment of Lyme disease as a single modality. Antibiotics alone will not help us to cope with the coming plagues.

All of us as practitioners have to start looking beyond antibiotics for help and for hope. The microbes have always been with us. They are not the enemy. It is us who have altered the environment so severely and in a way that facilitates the growth of lower evolved species like cell wall deficient microbes and viruses — and ends the life for many more evolved species. Extinction may be forever.

Lyme disease is a messenger. If we don’t change, we may be on the endangered species list someday not too far from now.

For further information about Dr. Klinghardt go to http://www.lymediseaseresource.com/Dr._Klinghardt.html.

For a look at some of the scientific research papers by Dr. Mercola go to his blog at http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/default.aspx.

As you may or may not know, the Lyme spirochete is a cousin of Syphilis, the dreaded sexually transmitted disease that has been around for centuries, and is still active today amongst sexually active people who neglect – or don’t know how – to protect themselves from sexually transmitted diseases.

Although the date of origin (of both diseases) is hotly disputed amongst scholars, there is no doubt that the symptoms of the syphilis are very similar to Lyme disease.

Like Lyme, the symptoms of Syphilis are many, and diverse.  It has also been called “The Great Imitator” due to the difficulty medical practitioners have had through time in accurately diagnosing the disease and for many centuries, difficulties treating the disease.

Like Lyme, Syphilis can be contracted and lie dormant for weeks, months and even years before showing symptoms.

Like Lyme, Syphilis can be actively growing in major organs, soft tissue, eye fluids, brain and bones before revealing itself causing blindness, pain and fatalities.

Like Lyme, Syphilis can result in depression and/or manic behavior.

Like Lyme, Syphilis causes many suicides due to the difficulties of diagnosis, treatment and cure.

Like Lyme, Syphilis can be transferred through the umbilical cord to unborn children causing death in the womb, SID (sudden infant death), deformities and disease in the resulting child.

Like Lyme, Syphilis is known to cause “General paresis,” otherwise known as general term for the insane when not one particular cause can be identified – a severe manifestation of the disease in advanced condition.

Like Lyme, Syphilis can cause insanity and/or psychotic breaks.  Unfortunately, these severe and chronic manifestations are harder to cure.

Like Lyme, Syphilis is known to cause chronic or degenerative dementia which ultimately resulted in death in as little as 2-3 years.  This statistic can’t be compared to Lyme due to the problems with accurate diagnosis and the absence of medical investigation at this time with neurological Lyme.

Like Lyme, Syphilis shows progressive personality changes, memory loss, and poor judgment.  

At one time early-Alzheimer’s was believed to be brought on by Syphilis, and now, thanks to the brilliant research by Dr. Alan MacDonald in New York, Alzheimer’s Disease has been recently confirmed as a causative infection and in some cases the true infection causing identical symptoms.  For more information read Genetic Frankenstein: A Link between Chronic Lyme Disease and Alzheimer’s?

Mood swings, anxiety, confusion and uncharacteristic rage are also symptoms of both diseases.

Like Lyme, Syphilis is treated with antibiotics.

So how was Syphilis treated before antibiotics?

There are historical references to many bizarre and horrific treatments in the distant (and not so distant) past, one of the more outrageous treatments that is apparently still being used by those who are desperately ill with Lyme, (at least in my opinion,) is the deliberate infection of malaria to kill the spirochetes with the extremely high heat caused by malaria fever.  The patient was then treated for the malaria with quinine which was preferable to the tortures of chronic and deeply rooted Syphilis – and chronic Lyme disease.

It is true, there are people today that follow the same path to treat their disease with deliberate malaria infection, and do so without regret.  When I first read of this treatment for Lyme disease I was horrified and could not understand.  Now, years later, I completely understand!

Another treatment that was showing great promise as a possible cure for Syphilis before the advent of the discovery and mass production of penicillin was Betaine HCL.

It has apparently been successful with many patients, and yet the FDA has not cleared its use as a cure, and have ordered the pioneering doctor (name withheld to protect the innocent) to “cease and desist.” .  Perhaps over time with more evidence HCL treatments will be approved.  Meanwhile, those who are ill are able to try the treatment at their own risk. See Lyme Combat Ebook V – HCL Protocol.

If you have had Lyme for more than a few months it is very likely that you do.  There is a gaping hole in scientific reporting about the dangers, symptoms and treatment for neurological Lyme which is why it is so refreshing to see the year end with a hard-hitting honest report on neurological Lyme disease.

Part I of “Neurological Lyme Disease Can Be The Shadowland of the Mind” published yesterday by Psychology Today and written by Pamela Weintraub covers some history, some real-life stories and a very helpful update on research regarding the crazy things it can do to our bodies, and the diseases it can mimic.

One item Ms. Weintraub mentions that we must be very vigilant about.  She writes:

The German neurologist Rudolph Ackermann found that the sickest of these neuroborreliosis patients suffered an inflammation of the brain and spinal cord called encephalomyelitis, also seen in syphilis.

When the condition involved the spine it resembled multiple sclerosis and when it involved the brain, particularly the cerebral cortex, it could produce psychoses or seizures.

The condition was progressive and degenerative without treatment, but even after antibiotic therapy, most of the patients retained the symptoms, though to a lesser degree.”

How often do we meet people who have been told they have MS but the way they describe their symptoms you just KNOW in your gut it is Lyme?  But how do we lovingly tell someone that it could be a much more henious disease, also with no cure.

Why aren’t the doctors testing for this?

Read all of Part One here.

We shall all look forward to Part Two…

Thank-you Ms. Weintraub!