In a pair of new studies, one unexpected drug eliminated Lyme bacteria at doses 100x lower than standard antibiotics — without wrecking the gut microbiome.
The problem with antibiotics is they ease the symptoms but don't eradicate the spirochetes.
The attached article explains how Lyme's works. Non-TOA Samento was the only thing that has worked in the past unless there are new things now. I've used it and it works. You have to take it for a full month of dosage. All the spirochetes are killed, but they leave behind eggs. So you take a month off till the eggs hatch, and do another month of samento, which should finish them off. Taking Banderol along with the Samento can enhance the results.
It's kinda sloppy to just print the page. What I do is highlight and copy the text and then paste it into Word. Then I can format it how I want to. BTW, most of the articles by Dr. Howenstein are exceptional. Unfortunately he died a while back, but the articles are so good, the website keeps them archived.
Over 20 years ago, I was exposed over several months to the worst of the toxic molds that I finally found in my condo due to water damage. I was so sick (lungs, brain fog, vision problems) I doubted I’d ever recover. Then I found Dr. Richie Shoemaker in a small town in southern Maryland. It was nearly three hours from my home so I drove and stayed at a B&B. By the way, I could barely stay awake to finish the drive. There, I met the B&B owners whose daughter had been treated by the same doctor for Lyme Disease. They were huge doubters but trusted him because she was pretty sick and he (their family doctor) had never let them down. It turns out we were both prescribed the same drug and she completely recovered, as did I. She had no lasting or residual effects from the Lyme. The drug was Cholestyramine, an old cholesterol reducing medication. In my case, he prescribed that I take it 4 times daily for a month, I think. This med works by getting the biotoxins out of your system and then sending it straight to the gut — no filtering by the liver, which for many people is ineffective for certain toxins. When I returned a month later, having left my condo while they remediated the mold as well as following his orders to a T (that med is nasty tasting!), everything was better. Substantially! No more brain fog, my coughing was almost gone, and the vision problems were much better.
I know it sounds crazy to many reading this, but I hope you’ll look into this further. Antibiotics don’t kill biotoxins, do they? I am guessing the sooner you get the toxins out, the less damage you will have neurologically. Cholestyramine was an accidental discovery by Dr. Shoemaker, but it’s been a lifesaver for many. I should add that his focus has been on mold, but Lyme Disease is a biotoxin too, and I know his protocol works for many (most?) patients he’s treated for Lyme. There’s so much I’ve left unsaid; I hope you’ll check out his website. It says it better than I ever could.
Get the Gaia capsules or there are other companies that sell really inexpensive organic oil of oregano capsules. The only side effect is burping/indigestion like ate too much strong Italian food. Apparently this oil is a strong antibiotic so if taken too long can affect the good gut bacteria. It is also REALLY good for stopping a bad cough.
we also use oregano oil, I put couple drop under my tongue when start to feel a head cough (upper respiratory tract thing) coming on. we got it through a naturopath.
i don;t know if it is diluted or not (the strength of it). but it seems to work. yes it has a strong flavor, kind of like a bad whiskey. there is definitely a second helping of the flavor when you burp or cough inevitably, just like what you taste after eating a bunch of garlic.
Taking antibiotics for Lyme disease the first time and for too long gave me the worst case of relfux and an eventual silent reflux. The antibiotics ruined my gut. It took five years to get my voice back from the ravages of reflux on my vocal chords from the antibiotic caused reflux.
Thanks for this information. As outdoors enthusiasts in Lyme country, we pay a lot of attention to this. Rule #1 is never go into deer tick country unless you are wearing permithrin-treated clothing and shoes, which keeps them off like magic. No DEET required at all. An obvious question left unanswered is - while it sounds like the new treatment is a good idea, the hope of avoiding doxy isn't real. All the coinfections listed are so common that wouldn't doxy or similar broad-spectrum antibiotic still be indicated to avoid contracting them? The low-dose treatment of this alternative would likely do nothing to prevent them.
permithrin clothing may make sense of people who do not sweat. but i think it is toxic expecially if you sweat in that clothing. i suspect they will outlaw it soon. it is crazy what people will do / allow for "safety reasons".
The ticks around here must not do much of that. Since wearing permethrin-treated clothing we don't get ticks on our heads. Which tells me that since I got ticks on my head before, the ticks around here must hop on below, and crawl up. Not saying it never happens anywhere, but we go into tick-infested woods and never come out with ticks on our heads. Our only protection is permethrin-treated shoes, socks, pants, and shirt. We don't wear hats unless it's raining.
Appropriate clothing and tick checks is what you need to do. When i know i'm in a ticky areas I spray deet on my cloths and hat. i never wear permethrin clothing, almost never put bug dope on my body. i live in maine and spend copious amounts of time in the woods. no issues. i also do not go where ticks are plentiful, just like i don't walk in poison ivy.
if its really bad i put a bug net on. physical barriers work better than chemicals.
I'm a health enthusiast, eat mostly paleo, prioritize exercise, and avoid toxins. I don't like deet on my body, use pure soap w/o chemicals, cook with iron and ceramic, not teflon. You get the idea. I am also pragmatic and believe my own experience more than what I read or am told. I worked with an exterminator friend for a few years in my twenties between jobs. In those days we used chemicals like chlordane and dieldrin that are banned today. We'd go in crawl spaces, spray that stuff at high pressure to soak everything down - no masks. Breathing the thick mist for hours. I did it a few years, I knew guys who did it for decades. They lived normal lifespans, the guy I worked for who did it for decades is 81 and doing OK for his age (he's no health nut). So to me, the idea that I spray permethrin on my clothes, let it dry completely, just wear it in the woods, then remove it, and do that maybe 15 days a year is dangerous does not comport with my experience, remotely. I've had the lyme rash, doxy knocked it out in one day. That was from an October deer hunt when I thought tick season was over, so I had no protection. I have a better feel than most for the real danger, and I'm not staying out of the woods, doing what I love, for what miniscule danger that might come from treated but thoroughly dried clothing. The idea of picking off deer ticks manually is not realistic, before I discovered permethrin I had hundreds of them a few times about 45 years ago. Nothing works better on deer ticks than permethrin, you just don't get any ticks. Physical barriers don't keep ticks away. They crawl across them to your neck or hands, or remain on them until you remove the barrier clothing at home, then they're in your house. To each his own though.
Yah. I get it. I used to get into nests of ticks back 15-20 years ago when I was doing a lot of wetland and natural resources delineation work. My wife did too when she was doing bird surveys in coastal marshes. I worked closely with many land surveyors that also had the same problem. I got Lyme twice, no bulls eye, but had some other symptoms and did the 3 day antibiotics - I had to tell the doctor I’m not leaving without the antibiotics back then as they were just finding out how big a problem Lyme was back then and didn’t have good diagnostic tests for it. I was on the front lines with risk thru the roof compared to everyone else plus I had so many real first hand stories to work with. In the end I just changed career path because of the 2008 recession and never looked back at it the same after that. I am also wicked allergic to poison ivy so I always had a system for that too. Back when I did verbal pool surveys for windmill projects in the heart of bug season they said we couldn’t use deet cause it disrupts the biology of the system. With all of these things combined I just learned to not use it unless it was crazy bad - hence the reliance of physical barriers and “good housekeeping practices”. Not everyone has that option for sure. If I was a hunter, rather than a hiker, I would have likely used more deet and permethrin a lot more. Cheers
Yeah, life is full of trade-offs. To me, given the choice between careful use of permethrin, or dealing with a lot of ticks on my body and inevitably missing some and almost surely getting Lyme and co-infections sooner or later, or never going mushroom hunting or October deer hunting, choosing option #1 is as easy as the choice to avoid the jabs. IOW, a no-brainer. We only use permethrin for off-trail activities. Hiking on trails, so long as no overgrown areas, we skip it and seldom get a tick. Also what seems weird is I do a lot of stream fishing on Lake Michigan tribs, which is Lyme country. Never use permethrin, never get ticks. Maybe periodic flooding keeps those areas clear? I'm not always in areas that flood though, seems very weird to me but I like it. Never use it in the TN, GA, and NC mountains either. Never get ticks there. But here in southern Indiana woods, they're thick.
I’ve always wanted to spend time in the TN, GA, NC forests. I think I would aim for magnolia blooming season. Southen Indiana woods and the woods of New England where I spend most of my time get super thick and are most passable in winter, best during good snow conditions. Cheers
We were in western NC in the Nantahala a few years ago at the beginning of June around the Cradle of Forestry, and the mountain laurel was really something. Gotta get back there and see that again. Might've been a good year for it, not sure if it's always like that. I didn't know the magnolias are a thing there, I'll check it out. Thick woods in New England sounds like grouse country!
while everyone is commenting on lyme which is super cool, i would also add that useful material from Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica) would be a game changer too. this stuff is super invasive in the USA and anything that could support the economics for dealing with it would be a huge win for all especially native species in riparian and floodplain areas.
The co-infections are crucial to have resolved. Many are *parasites* and antibiotics don’t address those. This is ONE of the reasons for continued symptoms. Second is that antibiotics will help destroy borrelia burgdorferi (actual Lyme), however antibiotics don’t cross the blood brain barrier…but Lyme does. Therefore, antibiotics can help eradicate what’s freely available in the body but not what’s in the brain. What’s untouched in the brain can then recirculate in the body, starting the cycle over again. Hence long term Lyme. (Plus unaddressed co-infections)
Had 4 family members with Lyme so have first hand experience and learned a lot. We saw Dr Nader Soliman in Rockville MD. He uses alternative medicine to treat. We have all since recovered from Lyme and the co-infections. Praise the Lord! This was almost 20 years ago.
Antibiotics wipe out all bacteria...unhealthy and healthy. It is not easy re-constituting healthy bacteria. Taking antibiotics can wipe out one's natural immune system for years leaving the body vulnerable to other microbes. The Medical Industry is into killing disease. It is not wise. The terrain is most important, as Pasteur finally admitted.on his deathbed. A healthy immune system, built up by getting the nutrients the body needs through natural pesticide-free unprocessed food ...and a healthy lifestyle. These are the greatest protective measures; along with prayer. It has worked for me for almost 92 years... and I don't worry about germs, bacteria or viruses that I can't see. This is the Hippocratic Method, which is not taught in Med School.
““The question is: does the benefit of potentially preventing Lyme disease outweigh the risk to that person’s microbiome and the collective antibiotic resistance concern that we collectively face?”
I would say a small dose of Piperacillin as described in the article upon exposure would not damage the microbiome like a full course of Doxycycline. Obviously, the individual needs to be aware of ways to keep the microbiome strong and when it is compromised, ways to rebalance it.
Read up on the history of Plum Island off the coast of Lyme Connecticut.
There are 2 HUGE problems with LD.
1) There is no absolutely reliable test. It is often a diagnosis of symptoms and exclusion of other disease processes.
2) What ever treatment regimen works for one person will fail for the next nine. It is truly a journey of trial and error until you find what works for You. NEVER GIVE UP!
Our journey started 28 yrs ago. It took over 6 years to figure out that it was LD. It rooted primarily in my spouses connective tissues. She could literally feel her fascia tearing when she did anything causing slight stress on the tissues like opening a jar or standing too long. She has been in a wheelchair for over 22 years. Through all the highs and lows we ultimately got rid of the LD & Coinfections and this past year she is getting out of the wheelchair for short periods of time.
I had lyme disease not cured only more deeply embedded with doxy, then symptoms proliferated, could no longer read, could not walk up the stairs, very weak...fortunately I discovered Dr. Lee Cowden, did his 9+ month herbal tinctures protocol and was finally well and stayed well. The antibiotics simply convince the spirocytes to hide out until the coast is clear then they really go to work. Two dear friends died on "the latest greatest antibiotic protocols," indeed it was those heavy drugs that killed them.
Ivermectin helped me get rid of Lyme disese the second time I got it. Also, I've never felt better as a result of taking it both for Lyme disease and for preventing COVID and and using it when I had stopped taking Ivermectin and did get COVID. I was over COVID in three days. I'm 81 years old and in excellent health. I don't take vaccines after being hurt by them as a child.
If a drug works at a greatly reduced dose level compared with its established, primary mechanism of action, the most reasonable conclusion is that the drug is now operating on some other mechanism. I’m no longer convinced that bacterial overgrowth is the cause of diseases. Potentially a consequence. This matters because if the latter is true, antibiotics could not resolve a symptomatic episode.
It’s not widely known that several antibiotic chemical templates have multiple actions on living tissues, not only bacteria, such as to resolve inflammation. Here, I am not aware of any mechanism of action having been identified.
I will suggest one correction, and that is to the math. Even though the phrase is used often, it's incorrect: It's not 100X lower, it's 1/100'th the amount.
The problem with antibiotics is they ease the symptoms but don't eradicate the spirochetes.
The attached article explains how Lyme's works. Non-TOA Samento was the only thing that has worked in the past unless there are new things now. I've used it and it works. You have to take it for a full month of dosage. All the spirochetes are killed, but they leave behind eggs. So you take a month off till the eggs hatch, and do another month of samento, which should finish them off. Taking Banderol along with the Samento can enhance the results.
https://www.newswithviews.com/Howenstine/james26.htm
Thank you
Thank you for sharing .
Thank you very much!
Eggs?
Thanks. Hard to print, so I hope to remember non-TAO Samento. Can you describe it? I’m familiar with most herbs. Never mind. Printed it.
Here's some links to get it:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JHIEVNS/?coliid=IV1BZOY21UWJA&colid=XUDVXGJAOCC6&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it&th=1
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JHIEVNS/?coliid=IV1BZOY21UWJA&colid=XUDVXGJAOCC6&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it&th=1
It's kinda sloppy to just print the page. What I do is highlight and copy the text and then paste it into Word. Then I can format it how I want to. BTW, most of the articles by Dr. Howenstein are exceptional. Unfortunately he died a while back, but the articles are so good, the website keeps them archived.
Good! Turns out it’s Cat’s Claw, one of the herbs I used to heal from Lyme.
I’ll use that highlighter trick!
Over 20 years ago, I was exposed over several months to the worst of the toxic molds that I finally found in my condo due to water damage. I was so sick (lungs, brain fog, vision problems) I doubted I’d ever recover. Then I found Dr. Richie Shoemaker in a small town in southern Maryland. It was nearly three hours from my home so I drove and stayed at a B&B. By the way, I could barely stay awake to finish the drive. There, I met the B&B owners whose daughter had been treated by the same doctor for Lyme Disease. They were huge doubters but trusted him because she was pretty sick and he (their family doctor) had never let them down. It turns out we were both prescribed the same drug and she completely recovered, as did I. She had no lasting or residual effects from the Lyme. The drug was Cholestyramine, an old cholesterol reducing medication. In my case, he prescribed that I take it 4 times daily for a month, I think. This med works by getting the biotoxins out of your system and then sending it straight to the gut — no filtering by the liver, which for many people is ineffective for certain toxins. When I returned a month later, having left my condo while they remediated the mold as well as following his orders to a T (that med is nasty tasting!), everything was better. Substantially! No more brain fog, my coughing was almost gone, and the vision problems were much better.
I know it sounds crazy to many reading this, but I hope you’ll look into this further. Antibiotics don’t kill biotoxins, do they? I am guessing the sooner you get the toxins out, the less damage you will have neurologically. Cholestyramine was an accidental discovery by Dr. Shoemaker, but it’s been a lifesaver for many. I should add that his focus has been on mold, but Lyme Disease is a biotoxin too, and I know his protocol works for many (most?) patients he’s treated for Lyme. There’s so much I’ve left unsaid; I hope you’ll check out his website. It says it better than I ever could.
https://www.survivingmold.com/about/ritchie-shoemaker-m-d
@Marie, thanks for sharing this important information. My husband has been diagnosed with Lyme disease.
Thank you
I take oil of oregano 3x a day for 3 days if I think bacteria may have gotten in my blood stream,,,,and I give it to my kids too.
sound great, how much and how?
Get the Gaia capsules or there are other companies that sell really inexpensive organic oil of oregano capsules. The only side effect is burping/indigestion like ate too much strong Italian food. Apparently this oil is a strong antibiotic so if taken too long can affect the good gut bacteria. It is also REALLY good for stopping a bad cough.
thank you!
we also use oregano oil, I put couple drop under my tongue when start to feel a head cough (upper respiratory tract thing) coming on. we got it through a naturopath.
OUCH! UNdiluted? you must have a tough spot under your tongue! oregano oil is STRONG.
i don;t know if it is diluted or not (the strength of it). but it seems to work. yes it has a strong flavor, kind of like a bad whiskey. there is definitely a second helping of the flavor when you burp or cough inevitably, just like what you taste after eating a bunch of garlic.
Taking antibiotics for Lyme disease the first time and for too long gave me the worst case of relfux and an eventual silent reflux. The antibiotics ruined my gut. It took five years to get my voice back from the ravages of reflux on my vocal chords from the antibiotic caused reflux.
Also look into chlorine dioxide and Lyme disease. Another treatment that makes attempting to develop a vaccine for Lyme pointless.
Thanks for this information. As outdoors enthusiasts in Lyme country, we pay a lot of attention to this. Rule #1 is never go into deer tick country unless you are wearing permithrin-treated clothing and shoes, which keeps them off like magic. No DEET required at all. An obvious question left unanswered is - while it sounds like the new treatment is a good idea, the hope of avoiding doxy isn't real. All the coinfections listed are so common that wouldn't doxy or similar broad-spectrum antibiotic still be indicated to avoid contracting them? The low-dose treatment of this alternative would likely do nothing to prevent them.
WATCH OUT, that permithrin-treated clothing seeps into the body and made me quite ill as i tried to avoid malaria-carrying mosquitoes in Delhi India
permithrin clothing may make sense of people who do not sweat. but i think it is toxic expecially if you sweat in that clothing. i suspect they will outlaw it soon. it is crazy what people will do / allow for "safety reasons".
Protecting the feet aren't enough, protect the head also. They fall from bushes and trees.
The ticks around here must not do much of that. Since wearing permethrin-treated clothing we don't get ticks on our heads. Which tells me that since I got ticks on my head before, the ticks around here must hop on below, and crawl up. Not saying it never happens anywhere, but we go into tick-infested woods and never come out with ticks on our heads. Our only protection is permethrin-treated shoes, socks, pants, and shirt. We don't wear hats unless it's raining.
Appropriate clothing and tick checks is what you need to do. When i know i'm in a ticky areas I spray deet on my cloths and hat. i never wear permethrin clothing, almost never put bug dope on my body. i live in maine and spend copious amounts of time in the woods. no issues. i also do not go where ticks are plentiful, just like i don't walk in poison ivy.
if its really bad i put a bug net on. physical barriers work better than chemicals.
i do not believe permethrin is safe.
I'm a health enthusiast, eat mostly paleo, prioritize exercise, and avoid toxins. I don't like deet on my body, use pure soap w/o chemicals, cook with iron and ceramic, not teflon. You get the idea. I am also pragmatic and believe my own experience more than what I read or am told. I worked with an exterminator friend for a few years in my twenties between jobs. In those days we used chemicals like chlordane and dieldrin that are banned today. We'd go in crawl spaces, spray that stuff at high pressure to soak everything down - no masks. Breathing the thick mist for hours. I did it a few years, I knew guys who did it for decades. They lived normal lifespans, the guy I worked for who did it for decades is 81 and doing OK for his age (he's no health nut). So to me, the idea that I spray permethrin on my clothes, let it dry completely, just wear it in the woods, then remove it, and do that maybe 15 days a year is dangerous does not comport with my experience, remotely. I've had the lyme rash, doxy knocked it out in one day. That was from an October deer hunt when I thought tick season was over, so I had no protection. I have a better feel than most for the real danger, and I'm not staying out of the woods, doing what I love, for what miniscule danger that might come from treated but thoroughly dried clothing. The idea of picking off deer ticks manually is not realistic, before I discovered permethrin I had hundreds of them a few times about 45 years ago. Nothing works better on deer ticks than permethrin, you just don't get any ticks. Physical barriers don't keep ticks away. They crawl across them to your neck or hands, or remain on them until you remove the barrier clothing at home, then they're in your house. To each his own though.
Yah. I get it. I used to get into nests of ticks back 15-20 years ago when I was doing a lot of wetland and natural resources delineation work. My wife did too when she was doing bird surveys in coastal marshes. I worked closely with many land surveyors that also had the same problem. I got Lyme twice, no bulls eye, but had some other symptoms and did the 3 day antibiotics - I had to tell the doctor I’m not leaving without the antibiotics back then as they were just finding out how big a problem Lyme was back then and didn’t have good diagnostic tests for it. I was on the front lines with risk thru the roof compared to everyone else plus I had so many real first hand stories to work with. In the end I just changed career path because of the 2008 recession and never looked back at it the same after that. I am also wicked allergic to poison ivy so I always had a system for that too. Back when I did verbal pool surveys for windmill projects in the heart of bug season they said we couldn’t use deet cause it disrupts the biology of the system. With all of these things combined I just learned to not use it unless it was crazy bad - hence the reliance of physical barriers and “good housekeeping practices”. Not everyone has that option for sure. If I was a hunter, rather than a hiker, I would have likely used more deet and permethrin a lot more. Cheers
Yeah, life is full of trade-offs. To me, given the choice between careful use of permethrin, or dealing with a lot of ticks on my body and inevitably missing some and almost surely getting Lyme and co-infections sooner or later, or never going mushroom hunting or October deer hunting, choosing option #1 is as easy as the choice to avoid the jabs. IOW, a no-brainer. We only use permethrin for off-trail activities. Hiking on trails, so long as no overgrown areas, we skip it and seldom get a tick. Also what seems weird is I do a lot of stream fishing on Lake Michigan tribs, which is Lyme country. Never use permethrin, never get ticks. Maybe periodic flooding keeps those areas clear? I'm not always in areas that flood though, seems very weird to me but I like it. Never use it in the TN, GA, and NC mountains either. Never get ticks there. But here in southern Indiana woods, they're thick.
I’ve always wanted to spend time in the TN, GA, NC forests. I think I would aim for magnolia blooming season. Southen Indiana woods and the woods of New England where I spend most of my time get super thick and are most passable in winter, best during good snow conditions. Cheers
We were in western NC in the Nantahala a few years ago at the beginning of June around the Cradle of Forestry, and the mountain laurel was really something. Gotta get back there and see that again. Might've been a good year for it, not sure if it's always like that. I didn't know the magnolias are a thing there, I'll check it out. Thick woods in New England sounds like grouse country!
while everyone is commenting on lyme which is super cool, i would also add that useful material from Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica) would be a game changer too. this stuff is super invasive in the USA and anything that could support the economics for dealing with it would be a huge win for all especially native species in riparian and floodplain areas.
It has helped me tremendously.
glad to hear it. Lyme is a big problem in Maine where I live. so is knotweed :-)
The co-infections are crucial to have resolved. Many are *parasites* and antibiotics don’t address those. This is ONE of the reasons for continued symptoms. Second is that antibiotics will help destroy borrelia burgdorferi (actual Lyme), however antibiotics don’t cross the blood brain barrier…but Lyme does. Therefore, antibiotics can help eradicate what’s freely available in the body but not what’s in the brain. What’s untouched in the brain can then recirculate in the body, starting the cycle over again. Hence long term Lyme. (Plus unaddressed co-infections)
Had 4 family members with Lyme so have first hand experience and learned a lot. We saw Dr Nader Soliman in Rockville MD. He uses alternative medicine to treat. We have all since recovered from Lyme and the co-infections. Praise the Lord! This was almost 20 years ago.
Antibiotics wipe out all bacteria...unhealthy and healthy. It is not easy re-constituting healthy bacteria. Taking antibiotics can wipe out one's natural immune system for years leaving the body vulnerable to other microbes. The Medical Industry is into killing disease. It is not wise. The terrain is most important, as Pasteur finally admitted.on his deathbed. A healthy immune system, built up by getting the nutrients the body needs through natural pesticide-free unprocessed food ...and a healthy lifestyle. These are the greatest protective measures; along with prayer. It has worked for me for almost 92 years... and I don't worry about germs, bacteria or viruses that I can't see. This is the Hippocratic Method, which is not taught in Med School.
““The question is: does the benefit of potentially preventing Lyme disease outweigh the risk to that person’s microbiome and the collective antibiotic resistance concern that we collectively face?”
I wish they asked these questions about vaccines.
I would say a small dose of Piperacillin as described in the article upon exposure would not damage the microbiome like a full course of Doxycycline. Obviously, the individual needs to be aware of ways to keep the microbiome strong and when it is compromised, ways to rebalance it.
Read up on the history of Plum Island off the coast of Lyme Connecticut.
There are 2 HUGE problems with LD.
1) There is no absolutely reliable test. It is often a diagnosis of symptoms and exclusion of other disease processes.
2) What ever treatment regimen works for one person will fail for the next nine. It is truly a journey of trial and error until you find what works for You. NEVER GIVE UP!
Our journey started 28 yrs ago. It took over 6 years to figure out that it was LD. It rooted primarily in my spouses connective tissues. She could literally feel her fascia tearing when she did anything causing slight stress on the tissues like opening a jar or standing too long. She has been in a wheelchair for over 22 years. Through all the highs and lows we ultimately got rid of the LD & Coinfections and this past year she is getting out of the wheelchair for short periods of time.
NEVER GIVE UP!
FORGET ABOUT ALL THESE ANTIBIOTICS,
I had lyme disease not cured only more deeply embedded with doxy, then symptoms proliferated, could no longer read, could not walk up the stairs, very weak...fortunately I discovered Dr. Lee Cowden, did his 9+ month herbal tinctures protocol and was finally well and stayed well. The antibiotics simply convince the spirocytes to hide out until the coast is clear then they really go to work. Two dear friends died on "the latest greatest antibiotic protocols," indeed it was those heavy drugs that killed them.
Ivermectin helped me get rid of Lyme disese the second time I got it. Also, I've never felt better as a result of taking it both for Lyme disease and for preventing COVID and and using it when I had stopped taking Ivermectin and did get COVID. I was over COVID in three days. I'm 81 years old and in excellent health. I don't take vaccines after being hurt by them as a child.
If a drug works at a greatly reduced dose level compared with its established, primary mechanism of action, the most reasonable conclusion is that the drug is now operating on some other mechanism. I’m no longer convinced that bacterial overgrowth is the cause of diseases. Potentially a consequence. This matters because if the latter is true, antibiotics could not resolve a symptomatic episode.
It’s not widely known that several antibiotic chemical templates have multiple actions on living tissues, not only bacteria, such as to resolve inflammation. Here, I am not aware of any mechanism of action having been identified.
I will suggest one correction, and that is to the math. Even though the phrase is used often, it's incorrect: It's not 100X lower, it's 1/100'th the amount.
Some were never taught fractions.
I don't know if this is true but apparently Osha Root Extract may help against Lyme disease.
Herbal Relief of Lyme Disease 15:26 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqeaRXFgY7s