Lyme disease: A Look Beyond Antibiotics

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Lyme disease: A Look Beyond Antibiotics

_http://www.neuraltherapy.com/LymeALookBeyond6.pdf_

(http://www.neuraltherapy.com/LymeALookBeyond6.pdf)

 

 

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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 (6)

e) regular lab parameters affected by Lyme:

• Abnormal lipid profile (moderate cholesterol elevation with

significant LDL elevation)

• insulin resistance

• borderline low wbc, 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 which 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% 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 % of mosquitoes have been

shown to be infected. Also 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 “typicalâ€

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