News and resources for neurological Lyme disease and co-infections.
Dr. William Fife, a pioneer in undersea medicine first for the Air Force and now at Texas A & M University, has published extensive research demonstrating profound improvements in Lyme disease patients treated with HBOT. These improvements include pain reduction, return of clarity of the mind, and reduction of depression.
For those of us who are eagerly waiting to see research breakthroughs that have immediate effect on the incredibly painful and medical “no-man’s-land” of chronic Lyme Disease, it is discouraging to see one of the most successful not-for-profit advocacy groups, “Time for Lyme” dole out $25,000 to better understand the ticks digestion system.
Results from this 3-yr trial indicate that the use of fipronil passively applied to reservoir animals by bait boxes is an environmentally acceptable means to control ticks, interrupt the natural disease transmission cycle, and reduce the risk of Lyme disease for residents of treated properties.
Robert Lane, PhD, uncovered a curious quirk about Lyme disease back in 1998 and the black-legged ticks that carry it there: the infection rates for young ticks, while low, was three to four times higher than the rate in adult ticks.
Early experiments ruled out the possibility that antibodies produced by the lizard’s immune system were able to neutralize the Lyme disease bacteria.
The puzzle continued to interest Lane who found later that when young nymphal ticks feed on the fence lizards, the mysterious protein not only protects the lizard from infection — it actually leaches into the tick’s gut and kills the bacteria there. Additional lab tests showed that when infected nymphs fed on the lizards, and then metamorphosed into adult ticks, they were no longer infected.
In the world of Lyme disease, there so many symptoms that may - and usually do - overlap with one or more co-infections, trying to keep you’re symptoms straight can be dizzying all on its own. With this in mind, what do you think of when you read the following symptoms?
Most people are aware of the dangers of drinking tap water - so much in fact that many go to extreme methods; buying large quantities of purified water, hiring a delivery service, buying bulk at specialty water stores…but most retail purified water is nothing more than tap run through a filter.
Spring water is better [...]
When the science of stem cell research was first announced, a battle was initiated that continues to rage on. On one side, the “right to life” organization fights for the embryos that are killed to obtain the stem cells. They are joined by humanitarians who argue about the possibility of cloning, and the potential theological [...]
So many blog posts and articles devoted to Lyme disease deal with treatment protocols, personal experience, political debate, medical debate, insurance disputes, and technical discoveries.
What we really want to read about is, “How are we going to be cured?” “How much will it cost?”, “How long will it take?”
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