News and resources for neurological Lyme disease and co-infections.
A group of clever researchers from Cornell have studied the anti-neural antibody reactivity in the brain of patients who have “Post Lyme Disease Syndrome” as compared to healthy people who have recovered from Lyme disease (and a control group of healthy people who have not had Lyme disease) in an effort to analyze the immune [...]
On June 18, 2010, Dr. Cameron released a scientific paper that is sending shock waves through the medical community for the rigorous standard of testing and reporting, with explosive conclusions which at the very least will demand further testing, especially when you begin to evaluate medical records showing the terrible suffering of children that could have been avoided with more proactive and serious treatment at the initial exposure to Lyme infection.
In 2009, “Science Magazine” published a newly released paper from Whittemore Peterson Institute about the existence of XMRV, (which stands for xenotropic murine leukemia virus related virus,) which looked to be a causative agent in CFS, Fibromyalgia, Prostate Cancer and several other neuro-immune disorders.
The race was on.
All around the world there were doors opened for research scientists to apply this remarkable discovery and try to find better diagnostic tools, better treatment and of course – the great career maker – finding a cure.
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.
Gary Wormser, MD, lead author of the IDSA guidelines, attributes many chronic Lyme symptoms to “the aches and pains of daily living.”
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.
I will go on the record once more to say that it will be scientific researchers who will unlock the mystery of chronic Lyme disease (and in fact, if any of the IDSA panel had given even a cursory glance at the significant findings with respect to DNA/Lyme discoveries there would have to be some kind of change to the IDSA Guidelines.) I think it is appropriate to add the additional caveat: Politicians will become involved whether they want to or not.
The breakthrough began in 2002, when molecular biologist Bonnie Bassler, bearing her microscope on a microbe that lives in the gut of fish, isolated an elusive molecule called AI-2, and uncovered the mechanism behind mysterious behavior called quorum sensing — or bacterial communication.
This paper just published in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity highlights an important principal in clinical practice: even when an acute infection has been cleared by antimicrobial therapy, a chronic autoimmune disorder can develop due to immune dysregulation.
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.
