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Lyme disease itself is not a parasite; it’s an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi. However, it is transmitted to humans through the bite of infected black-legged ticks, which are parasitic arachnids. The ticks act as vectors, carrying the bacteria from animal reservoirs like mice to humans.

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I tried the Buhner protocol for a few years and an anti-inflammatory diet helps.

It helped some. It was difficult to maintain and very costly. Especially as a single mom.

But now I am doing Ivermectin, Fenbendazole, Praziquantel, a few herbs, and binders

Yes, herbs are great for immune support. I also take some powerhouse probiotics for my gut and immune support. Are you familiar with Plexus Probio5?

I use a supplement called Ease for inflammation.

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I am finally feeling good after not feeling good since I was 12. It’s still a journey, nothing is an immediate fix, but I know what I am doing is helping each day. So, I’m sticking with what has been helping me for the last 3 years.

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The average person has around 40 trillion microbes in and on their body all the time. And about 400 trillion viral particles.

The average person will swallow 100 billion microbes in a 24-hour period.

“The bacterial population in the mouth alone is around six billion, which is comparable to the human population of planet Earth”

People come into contact with around 60,000 types of “germs” each day.

An average cell phone is covered in bacteria: 25,127 per square inch.

And people “trade” bacteria (and viruses) all the time, via all kinds of cell-cell contact, including body fluids.

I took 12 mg Ivermectin daily as part of my Lyme treatment.

Before I found my LLMD, I was self-medicating with Fenbendazole from Morgellons Disease groups pushing it. Fenbendazole did not help me improve at all and shot my liver panel up high. I would ditch the Fenbendazole and take the Ivermectin.

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Dr Cass Ingram has good information on it.

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Dana Bee i believe it is excellent also have used it with excellent effect. i do believe it is also a high polyphenol so would keep it at least an hour away from thiamine therapy probably best actually to take at night as thiamine works throughout hours so on, and only do the amount for it for therapeutic recommendations which you find in their studies some polyphenols rutin and quercetin berries red cabbage and red onion are high polyphenols and they want you to avoid these when on thiamine therapy or limit them . reference beriberi in emergency situations WHO green cabbage and white are all good

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highdosethiamine.org this is with vitamin b1 thiamine hcl proven safe and effective for disease of thiamine deficiency neurodegeneration this is neurologist Costantini’s work excellent patient video page this is with Pd and dystonia but would apply to all forms of neurodegeneration disease as these are the markers for beriberi which is the medical term for thiamine deficiency disease cerebral and drye

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treats methemoglobinemia (this is what it is approved to treat).

It crosses the blood brain barrier, helps decrease systemic and specifically neuro inflammation, and will hit bartonella infection as well as Borrelia. PLUS there is research that supports it if it is helpful for neurodegeneration and mitochondrial function.

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Here is my take on it (take it as my personal and not necessarily correct advice): if you buy a rife machine run 2-3 times per day mainly tick borne pathogen frequencies (Lyme aka Borrelia, Bartonella (one of main culprits for neuro symptoms, multiplies every 12 h, run twice per day!), Babesia, Ehrlichia plasma (and other rickettsia-type bacteria – very harsh and very underrated and many are infected!), toxoplasma, mycoplasma and some other tick borne pathogens like Yersinia, Tularemia, Brucella, plus EBV and other herpesviruses. Run Lyme, Bart every day twice plus alternate the others.

The physics behind it is that a rife machine emits radio frequencies that oscillate these pathogens at their mortal oscillatory rate to DEATH.

Run some parasite frequencies, but I’m personally not sure if these frequencies can oscillate these creatures to death, so take an antiparasitic.

Don’t waste your time in running rife frequencies for “als, parkinson, fibro, lupus, ms” that are NAMES. There is no physics behind it, a frequency cannot oscillate “ALS aka name” to death.

So concentrate on tick borne pathogens at least 2 times per day.

You can add “detox”, “immune support” etc frequencies later, although I’m not sure how it works from a physics point of view.

So concentrate on Lyme and Co in the first months or until you see results. This seems to work for my neuro Lyme symptoms (all body stiffness, dizziness plus all the jazz).

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I have a TrueRife machine that also has a day and night feature, so I can use it in my sleep. It also has foot bath with it.

It has a frequency for every possible thing imaginable, from a cold, to cancer, psoriasis, parasites, Lyme, bartonella, Parkinson’s, you name it!

go to TrueRife website and click on the day and night package, it shows everything it comes with. It’s the F122

I did a lot of research and I think it’s one of the top rife machines on the market.

The support team is also amazing and I can call anyone up to walk me through setting it up in the beginning, or any type of equation really.

It is expensive, but they offer financing, so I pay 100 a month until it’s paid off.

Also, I know it works well; I do a full moon protocol for parasites once a month and pass a bunch of parasites the next day!

But don’t take my word for it, do some research and you will find the top two rife machines out there for yourself!

I have a bioresonance machine with rife built into it – I’ve tried many machines. This one works for me.

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Like most functional medicine treatments, it would involve supplements. Many of the ones that most already are recommended to take. Magnesium, B vitamins, Omega 3, etc. We have one of those O2 shops by us too that is open to the public. Oxygen therapy, basically. And they have lyme disease on their list of things it helps. Anyway, here is a link for you https://www.healthline.com/health/lyme-disease-natural-treatment#hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy But would love to know what you are experiencing that makes you worry about lyme disease. Are you going to have a Western Blot

I would go with Vibrant Wellness the results for that were similar to igenex and igenex was $2600 vibrant was $650

Also I talked with someone from BodyScience in Miami Florida.

They are now using Vibrant labs for testing instead of Ingenex. He said the testing is very accurate and a lot cheaper than Ingenex. I personally have used Ingenex trust them… they are super expensive though, seeing a Lyme Literate Integrative Medicine (rydocs.com) would be best because they test you based on the symptoms you have.

I do not have als but I do have lyme and co-infections. My mom was diagnosed with als and is positive for Lyme and co infections. We went to the same llmd and these are the test numbers he ordered for us and said they were the most accurate in his opinion. He had us do single tests instead of the Panels.

Test # 325 and #335 the immunoblot for Borrelia Burgdorferi. This tests for an active infection as well as an old infection.

They now offer an immunoblot test for Bartonella since we have been there and I would go with that. The test numbers are #374 and #384. He also had us take #289.

Test #345 and #355 for Tick borne relapsing fever.

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A protein found in human sweat may protect against Lyme disease

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Functional analyses of SCGB1D2 protein and Borrelia burgdorferi.Lyme disease, a bacterial infection transmitted by ticks, affects nearly half a million people in the United States every year. In most cases, antibiotics effectively clear the infection, but for some patients, symptoms linger for months or years.
Researchers at MIT and the University of Helsinki have now discovered that human sweat contains a protein that can protect against Lyme disease. They also found that about one-third of the population carries a genetic variant of this protein that is associated with Lyme disease in genome-wide association studies.
Human sweat contains a protein that may protect against Lyme disease, according to a study from MIT and the University of Helsinki. About one-third of the population carries a genetic variant of this protein that is associated with Lyme disease in genome-wide association studies.

It’s unknown exactly how the protein inhibits the growth of the bacteria that cause Lyme disease, but the researchers hope to harness the protein’s protective abilities to create skin creams that could help prevent the disease, or to treat infections that don’t respond to antibiotics.
“This protein may provide some protection from Lyme disease, and we think there are real implications here for a preventative and possibly a therapeutic based on this protein,” says Michal Caspi Tal, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering and one of the senior authors of the new study.

Lyme disease is a serious bacterial infection that affects nearly half a million people in the United States every year. While antibiotics can usually clear the infection, some patients struggle with lingering symptoms for months or even years.

Researchers from MIT and the University of Helsinki have made an exciting discovery that could lead to new ways to prevent and treat Lyme disease. They found that human sweat contains a protein that can protect against the bacteria that cause Lyme disease.

About one-third of the population carries a genetic variant of this protein that is less effective at inhibiting the Lyme disease bacteria. “This protein may provide some protection from Lyme disease, and we think there are real implications here for a preventative and possibly a therapeutic based on this protein,” says Michal Caspi Tal, a principal research scientist at MIT.

The researchers aren’t sure yet exactly how the protein works to stop the bacteria’s growth, but they plan to investigate whether applying it to the skin could prevent Lyme disease infection. They also hope to explore using the protein as a treatment for infections that don’t respond to antibiotics.

“We have fantastic antibiotics that work for 90 percent of people, but in the 40 years we’ve known about Lyme disease, we have not budged that,” Tal says. “Ten percent of people don’t recover after having antibiotics, and there’s no treatment for them.”

Hanna Ollila, a senior researcher at the University of Helsinki, is also a senior author of the study, which was published in Nature Communications. The lead author is Satu Strausz, a postdoc at the University of Helsinki.

The researchers say that even people with the protective version of the protein can still develop Lyme disease, and they shouldn’t assume they’re immune. But this discovery offers hope for new ways to prevent and treat this persistent and debilitating illness.In vivo imaging system (IVIS) quantification of SCGB1D2 prophylactic effect on intradermal infection with Bb. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45983-9

Lyme disease is most often caused by a bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi. In the United States, this bacterium is spread by ticks that are carried by mice, deer, and other animals. Symptoms include fever, headache, fatigue, and a distinctive bulls-eye rash.
Most patients receive doxycycline, an antibiotic that usually clears up the infection. In some patients, however, symptoms such as fatigue, memory problems, sleep disruption, and body aches can persist for months or years.
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Tal and Ollila, who were postdocs together at Stanford University, began this study a few years ago in hopes of finding genetic markers of susceptibility to Lyme disease. To that end, they decided to run a genome-wide association study (GWAS) on a Finnish dataset that contains genome sequences for 410,000 people, along with detailed information on their medical histories.

This dataset includes about 7,000 people who had been diagnosed with Lyme disease, allowing the researchers to look for genetic variants that were more frequently found in people who had had Lyme disease, compared with those who hadn’t.
This analysis revealed three hits, including two found in immune molecules that had been previously linked with Lyme disease. However, their third hit was a complete surprise—a secretoglobin called SCGB1D2.
Secreto Globins are a family of proteins found in tissues that line the lungs and other organs, where they play a role in immune responses to infection. The researchers discovered that this particular secretoglobin is produced primarily by cells in the sweat glands.
To find out how this protein might influence Lyme disease, the researchers created normal and mutated versions of SCGB1D2 and exposed them to Borrelia burgdorferi grown in the lab. They found that the normal version of the protein significantly inhibited the growth of Borrelia burgdorferi. However, when they exposed bacteria to the mutated version, twice as much protein was required to suppress bacterial growth.
The researchers then exposed bacteria to either the normal or mutated variant of SCGB1D2 and injected them into mice. Mice injected with the bacteria exposed to the mutant protein became infected with Lyme disease, but mice injected with bacteria exposed to the normal version of SCGB1D2 did not.
“In the paper we show they stayed healthy until day 10, but we followed the mice for over a month, and they never got infected. This wasn’t a delay, this was a full stop. That was really exciting,” Tal says.

Preventing infection

After the MIT and University of Helsinki researchers posted their initial findings on a preprint server, researchers in Estonia replicated the results of the genome-wide association study, using data from the Estonian Biobank. These data, from about 210,000 people, including 18,000 with Lyme disease, were later added to the final Nature Communications study.
The researchers aren’t sure yet how SCGB1D2 inhibits bacterial growth, or why the variant is less effective. However, they did find that the variant causes a shift from the amino acid proline to leucine, which may interfere with the formation of a helix found in the normal version.
They now plan to investigate whether applying the protein to the skin of mice, which do not naturally produce SCGB1D2, could prevent them from being infected by Borrelia burgdorferi. They also plan to explore the protein’s potential as a treatment for infections that don’t respond to antibiotics.
“We have fantastic antibiotics that work for 90% of people, but in the 40 years we’ve known about Lyme disease, we have not budged that,” Tal says. “Ten percent of people don’t recover after having antibiotics, and there’s no treatment for them.”

“This finding opens the door to a completely new approach to preventing Lyme disease in the first place, and it will be interesting to see if it could be useful for preventing other types of skin infections too,” says Kara Spiller, a professor of biomedical innovation in the School of Biomedical Engineering at Drexel University, who was not involved in the study.
The researchers note that people who have the protective version of SCGB1D2 can still develop Lyme disease, and they should not assume that they won’t. One factor that may play a role is whether the person happens to be sweating when they’re bitten by a tick carrying Borrelia burgdorferi.
SCGB1D2 is just one of 11 secretoglobin proteins produced by the human body, and Tal also plans to study what some of those other secretoglobin may be doing in the body, especially in the lungs, where many of them are found.
“The thing I’m most excited about is this idea that secretoglobin might be a class of antimicrobial proteins that we haven’t thought about. As immunologists, we talk nonstop about immunoglobulins, but I had never heard of a secretoglobin before this popped up in our GWAS study. This is why it’s so fun for me now. I want to know what they all do,” she says.
More information: Satu Strausz et al, SCGB1D2 inhibits growth of Borrelia burgdorferi and affects susceptibility to Lyme disease, Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45983-9 – Search Videos (bing.com)

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UNDER OUR SKIN — Under Our Skin

I’m Not Crazy, I’m Sick is a powerful documentary that chronicles three families and a WNBA MVP who are fighting for survival against Lyme disease. The film highlights the physical, emotional, and financial toll the disease takes on their lives, as well as the urgent need for greater awareness, testing, and treatment options. Through their stories, I’m Not Crazy, I’m Sick is a call to action, to understand and support the millions of people worldwide who are living with this devastating illness.

This gripping documentary exposes the relentless fight of patients against Lyme disease and chronic illness.

When I first saw the Lyme disease documentary Under Our Skin in 2008, I had to leave the theater. Not only were my neurological symptoms of tick-borne illness overwhelmed by the audio-visual stimulation of a big-screen movie, but moreover, the stories of physical and emotional havoc of Lyme were too close to my own. I was too sick, too afraid that I would be stuck forever in the world portrayed in the film.

When I saw the new Lyme disease documentary I’m Not Crazy, I’m Sick—which touches on the same physical, emotional, and financial turmoil of Lyme depicted in Under Our Skin—I reacted very differently. I could relate to so much of what the patients in the film are going through, but from a distance, now that I am in remission.

What got me from point A to point B on the 15-year journey between the two documentary releases is exactly what I’m Not Crazy, I’m Sick makes a call to action for: adequate and appropriate support.

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Through the stories of the Mode family (pictured left),

Ash Baker, the Cleworth family, and WNBA MVP Elena Delle Donne, I’m Not Crazy, I’m Sick showcases exactly how devastating Lyme disease can be on people from all walks of life. Whether struggling to access treatment or able to secure the best care, patients from small-town Maine to the pro basketball court are equally frustrated when their illness is invalidated. As Delle Donne says, “We all just want to be heard. We all come from different walks of life. We all have our own struggles.”

Sadly, many tick-borne illness patients are not heard by physicians, family and friends, and insurance companies. As I’m Not Crazy, I’m Sick shows, the impact of this dismissal can lead to treatment delays, financial ruin, family strife, distrust in the medical system, and mental illness. Psychiatrist Robert Bransfield, MD says, “It’s tragic that we have all this suffering that could be prevented.”

“It’s just as much a human rights issue as it is a scientific issue.

To pretend it doesn’t exist is a crime.”

Physicians and researchers including Monica Embers, PhD, John Aucott, MD, Mark Soloski, PhD, Steven Phillips, MD, and Sean McCloy, MD, MPH, MA give credence to the science of tick-borne illness, especially in its chronic form, and also to the unnecessary suffering caused by ignorance of the facts. Dr. Phillips notes, “It’s just as much a human rights issue as it is a scientific issue. To pretend it doesn’t exist is a crime.”

I was told by countless people that my symptoms didn’t exist, and then, when diagnosed, that my illness didn’t exist. Like the patients in both Under Our Skin and I’m Not Crazy, I’m Sick, I fought for validation along with my health.

And I was lucky. Despite an eight-year battle for diagnosis, a multi-year convalescence including one complete relapse, and debilitating symptoms that derailed my life plan, I survived. I had the help of family and friends. I had access to medical care.

Though it took a while to get it, I had the support I needed to eventually move from surviving to thriving. From walking out of a movie theater to watching a documentary with gratitude for my own renewed health. But, as I’m Not Crazy, I’m Sick demonstrates, too many patients are not as lucky.

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Dr. Bransfield notes that people with chronic infections are more likely to be suicidal, explaining that with Lyme disease, there is a social-psychological component of mental illness but also a physiological part, due to neuroinflammation causing a shift in brain chemistry. Former GLA CEO Scott Santarella speaks poignantly about those lost to suicide during Lyme disease, and the patients in the film reveal their own dark thoughts.

I went to equally dark places during my lowest points of illness, and like Ash Baker, was able to use creative expression as a way to “bring me back to life.” In addition to coping mechanisms, patients need hope—even if they’re incremental flickers of light in a long, dark tunnel, as Santarella describes—and they need physical, emotional, and financial support. Perhaps most importantly, they just need to be believed.

I’m Not Crazy, I’m Sick helps show the real story of life with Lyme disease. It offers validation to patients, but moreover, it shows people who can help patients—doctors, insurers, friends, and family members—exactly how support or lack thereof can make or break a patient’s journey.

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Lyme Disease is wreaking havoc on millions of lives.

Over 476,000 new Lyme disease cases emerge each year, yet many medical professionals often dismiss or overlook this debilitating condition. Lyme patients frequently feel lonely and isolated, struggling to receive proper support. I’m Not Crazy, I’m Sick is a Lyme disease documentary that chronicles the daily lives of three families and WNBA MVP Elena Delle Donne, in their fight for survival against this insidious illness.

The Mode Family in Northern Maine survives on $150/month with limited access to treatment.

Ash Baker, an artist in Maryland, has a dedicated doctor helping her get treatment covered by insurance.

The Cleworth Family has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Atty’s treatment, accessing the world’s best doctors and care.

Elena Delle Donne has battled Lyme disease symptoms throughout her career, fighting not only the disease but for recognition and support.

This film highlights the physical, emotional, and financial struggles caused by Lyme, emphasizing the need for greater awareness, reliable testing methods, and accessible treatment options. Expert doctors, researchers, and advocates provide insights into the science and politics surrounding Lyme disease.Through these inspiring stories, I’m Not Crazy, I’m Sick serves as a call to action to understand and support the millions worldwide living with this devastating illness.

Produced by Sypher Studios and Fieldhouse Productions, the documentary is shot by Emmy award-winning cinematographer Clair Popkin (Free Solo) and directed by Elle Brooks-Tao.

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