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Massachusetts Governor Patrick signed a law which became effective on July 1, 2010 that protects doctors from law suits who prescribe long-term antibiotics for the treatment of Lyme disease. This makes Massachusetts the fourth state with Connecticut, Rhode Island, and California. Sphere: Related ContentThanks for visiting again – Please comment on the posts you read [...]
It is one thing to lump a couple hundred of sufferers into a group of psychosomatic patients…but how do medical doctors respond to the hundreds of thousands of Lyme sufferers from all 50 states who are becoming more ill and increasingly fragile?
It is time for medical doctors to take their heads out of the sand and re-commit their allegiance to the Hippocratic Oath
I repeatedly try to reassure those who have failed on one or many protocols that it may just be the unique mixture of diseases and immune response, and/or immune strength. It is devastating as this reader will tell you after her most recent commitment to Marshall Protocol. Meet Mindy who has suffered unbearably. Sphere: Related [...]
The reason Vitamin C was chosen for such an important Lyme fighting role is that Vitamin C is truly a nutrient extraordinaire. Research abounds to show that vitamin C is a key vital substance required for many fundamental processes in the body, including the biosynthesis of collagen, the activation of the fat-transporting molecule, carnitine; it assists in the manufacture of the hormones adrenaline and cortisone; it acts as an electron transporter in many enzymatic reactions; it helps protect the integrity of blood vessels; it is a promoter of healthy gums, an important factor in radiation protection, a regulator of cholesterol levels, a free radical detoxifier and an immune-specific, boosting agent.
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.
Bee venom contains a number of potent peptides which are responsible for its healing effect, in fact recent research proved that one of the peptides in bee venom, melittin, seems to be the hero in this story.
Melittin has a strong inhibitory effect on the Lyme spirochete at very low doses (“Bee Stings as Lyme Inhibitor” by L. L. Lubke and C. F. Garon, J. Clin. Infect. Diseases, July 1997, 25 Suppl. 1, pp. 48-51).
When the spirochete is inhibited it does not multiply and is vulnerable to the host’s own immune system and to medication. (Melittin Effective Against Infections Organism. By Drs. L Lubke & C. Garon)
The anti microbial agent melittin exhibits powerful in vitro inhibitory effects on the Lyme disease spirochete.
Even though Lyme has demonstrated a capacity to resist the in virto effects of powerful eukaryotic and prokaryotic metabolic inhibitors. However, treatment of laboratory cultures on Barbour-Stoenner-Kelly medium with melittin, a 26 amino acid peptide contained in honeybee venom, showed immediate and profound inhibitory effects when they were monitor by dark field microscopy, field emission scanning electron microscopy, and optical density measurements.
Furthermore, at melittin concentrations as low as 100 mcg/ml, virtually all spirochete motility ceased within seconds of inhibitor addition.
It is true that today’s most celebrated salads frequently borrow the flavor of oils, honey and vinegar. But not the type of health foods we are talking about here.
Thus for about 30 min the deep tissue niches of borrelia such as brain stem, ligaments, and joints are assisted in fighting borrelia with increased temperatures. For this time and some time afterward as the body returns to its baseline temperature, the borrelia are exposed theoretically to 16 to 160 times as much antibiotic.
“My blood boils when I think about all the desperate people who have taken this stuff on,” said Hudson Freeze, a professor of glycobiology at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research in La Jolla, Calif.”"There are authentic, scientific studies that have looked at people drinking these kinds of materials, and it doesn’t really do anything except increase flatulence.”
Beta carotene is a precursor the body can convert to vitamin A. Unfortunately, as a supplement, synthetic beta carotene is usually “stabilized” in refined vegetable oils. In this trans fatty acid form, oxidation occurs and the chemically “pure” beta carotene can no longer act as a nutrient, because it was changed. Almost all synthetic beta carotene is produced by the Swiss drug giant Hoffman-LaRoche.
This form can no longer be converted to vitamin A. The best it can be is worthless, and at the worst is toxic.
