Archive for October, 2009

The Perfect Storm

Guest Post:

This is not word wrapped and pretty, but it’s my working hypothesis.  Please contribute and or correct anything you deem correctible.  Never mind the mispells, that will be dealt with.  Just need your input?  Forward on to friends or someone just learning they have an autistic child.  I claim no intervention/idea/thought here is scientific, or tested or proven, but I do claim that this is what mothers gave me as their running hypothesis.  Many researchers also helped me find some interesting tidbits. 
 
Thanks 
 
THE PERFECT STORM
by KATHY BLANCO

A “perfect storm” is an expression that describes an event where a rare combination of circumstances will aggravate a situation drastically. 
The situation of the state of our nations health is eroding rapidly.  When we study a toxin, is it never studied in context of the numerous toxins
with it, and it’s synergistic effect?  Just as we know that mecury and aluminum combine to make their neurotoxins more potent, so is the perfect storm
which gathers upon us, with every breath we take, every food we ingest, ever infection we get, and every faith and hope, that the “authorities” that regulate our
health and well being, are asleep at the switch.  This article may take you down a rabbit hole, that you may not want to read. 

Continued

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October 24, 2009
An Open Letter to the Lyme Disease Community Stakeholders

Re: Clarifying the goals of the NeuroEndocrineImmune (NEI) Center™ and the Inclusion of Lyme Disease

Dear Friend in the Lyme disease Advocacy Community: Continued

Marshall Protocol – For real?

In my book, The Top 10 Lyme Disease Treatments, there is a chapter on the Marshall Protocol, which helped me tremendously in my recovery. Since the book was published, many people have said they feel the Marshall Protocol is not a valid treatment. So, I like to see other success stories similar to mine and I like to post them, to add validity and credibility to the Marshall Protocol. Here’s one that appeared today on a discussion group:

I just wanted to put out to the group that I have been using the Martial
Protocol now for 6 months. I don’t post much on here but if anyone wants to know
more I would be willing to answer, and I will try and keep and update on how I
am doing.

I like others have tried many things, spent alot of money. I came across the MP
about 2 yrs ago and wasn’t willing to try it. Due to nothing else working was
willing to give it a try with not much trust in it, but it is cheaper and I
needed to do something more. But to my surprise it is working.

I want to say I also rife on a regular basis and have great herxes from this. I
purchased the Doug Coil Machine not quiet a year ago. I herx for Mycoplasm,
Bartonella, and Lyme, I have played with times and how often I treat. I do one
every week for 30 min a time and rotate the 3, and this seems to be working. If
I do too much, my nervous system gets way out of wack.

The MP consists of taking a blood pressure pill called Olmetec every 6 hrs, and
a low dose of Minocycline and a diet consisting of no VIt D, you never get above
the dose of 100mg, you are on this for about a year, called phase one. Then
another small dose of ABX is introduced along with the above. This is called
phase 2.

I am amazed at where I am at today, I almost gave up in believing anything
worked for us lymies. I am able to have many more good days than bad, I still
have the bad, but they pass and are tolerable, I have had symtpoms that have
left that I look back on and say to myself, was it really that bad. I sleep now,
I may have the odd bad night. My headaches have cleared, I get the odd one, but
mainly stress brings them on. I actually have the energy to endulge in things I
enjoy. My depression use to be so dark at times, now I can handle it much better
before I spiral down and can’t see the light.

I have an amazing, passionate doctor who also has lyme and his wife. He was an
MD and saw his wife suffer, untill one day, he said enough. He is now an
Integretive Doctor and he and his wife are well. He has a very busy practice
and takes time on his own at home to answer patient emails. He makes very little
money on treating lyme patients in his practice, and this to me speaks huge
volumes about his passion for helping people.

Be Well, Keri

Sample Chapter for Connie’s New Book – FREE!

We’ve put a sample chapter from Connie Strasheim’s new book online – access it for free!

Access as a PDF: http://www.lymebook.com/insights-into-lyme-treatment-SAMPLE-CHAPTER.pdf

Access as a web page: http://www.lymebook.com/steven-harris

Learn more about the book: http://www.lymebook.com/insights-lyme-treatment-strasheim-book

Dr. Cowden discusses Nutramedix Products on Video

You can now watch Dr. Lee Cowden discuss Nutramedix products on video. There is a separate video for each product. Click the links below to watch the videos: 

ADRENAL SUPPORT
ALGAS METAL DETOX
AMANTILLA RELAX / SLEEP
AVEA MOOD
BABUNA SLEEP
BANDEROL MICROBIAL DEFENSE
BARBERRY MICROBIAL DEFENSE
BURBUR DETOX
CUMANDA MICROBIAL DEFENSE
ENULA MICROBIAL DEFENSE
EZOV EMOTIONAL BALANCE

GINSENG ENERGY

HOUTTUYNIA MICROBIAL DEFENSE

LAKATO MICROBIAL DEFENSE

MACA HORMONAL BALANCE

MAGNESIUM MALATE CELLULAR SUPPORT

MAPALO NEURO SUPPORT

MELATONIN SLEEP
MORA MICROBIAL DEFENSE
NONI MICROBIAL DEFENSE
PARSLEY DETOX
PINELLA BRAIN / NERVE CLEANSE
QUINA MICROBIAL DEFENSE
SAMENTO (LIQUID) MICROBIAL DEFENSE

SAMENTO (CAPSULES) MICROBIAL DEFENSE

SERRAPEPTASE PROTEOLYTIC ENZYME
SPARGA SULPHUR DETOX

STEVIA SWEET HERB

TAKUNA MICROBIAL DEFENSE
TRACE MINERALS RELAX
ZEOLITE METAL DETOX

ZEOLITE HP METAL DETOX

 

 

My experience with the Marshall Protocol

Many people have asked why I believe in the Marshall Protocol. I’ve made a section in my book which answers this question free for public viewing for the first time. Feel free to read about my Marshall Protocol experience here:

http://www.lymebook.com/personal-marshall-protocol-experience-testimonial-success

To learn more about the book in which this section appears, visit http://www.defeatlyme.com, or add the book to your cart right now. You may also purchase just the Marshall Protocol chapter from the book, which contains the above section as well as other information on the Marshall Protocol:

  • Marshall Protocol Components

  • Correcting Vitamin D Levels

  • Reducing Exposure to Sunlight and Bright Lights

  • Avoiding Vitamin D Sources in Food and Supplements

  • Benicar Lowers Vitamin D Levels and Weakens the Bacteria

  • Antibiotics used in the Marshall Protocol

  • My experience with and commentary on the Modified Marshall Protocol

  • Trial and error vs. laboratory testing 

  • Rife machines vs. the Marshall Protocol

  • A Final Word

Caffeine Consumption

Coffee is bad for you, right? Or at least, the caffeine is…….right? Not quite. In fact, this year, research has shown that coffee prevents parkinson’s disease, protects the liver, and boosts mental clarity. Furthermore, it is hypothesized that it isn’t just the caffeine in coffee that does this – decaf coffee has similar health effects. Some experts say that the coffee bean is the most nutritious and anti-oxidant packed food most americans eat on an average day.

I avoided coffee for years due to the stigma that it is “bad for me” but recently began drinking decaf coffee. On the last 10% of my Lyme recovery, I found that consuming decaf coffee has actually had tremendous benefit for me, and that is what inspired this blog post. I will probably avoid caffeinated coffee due to the potential health effects of caffeine, but if you are a Lyme sufferer who has been avoiding coffee, you might discuss with your doctor the possibility of giving some decaf coffee a try.

It has long been known that coffee enemas aid in detoxification. I don’t do enemas; or colonics; I simply can’t handle the thought of such procedures. However, perhaps drinking coffee has a similar detoxification effect? Having shoved massive quantities of antimicrobial herbs and drugs down my throat over the years, I can say with certainty that the effects of coffee (benefits) for me are not antimicrobial but are instead related to detoxification, especially of the liver. As a complement, I’m also beginning to take Milk thistle again starting today, perhaps my liver needs more help than I guessed it did.

In any case, maybe its time for us Lyme sufferers to give Coffee a second look!

But this is just my opinion. If you happen to be wondering how Lyme physicians are treating Lyme disease in their practices, now you can find out in our most recently published book, Insights Into Lyme Disease Treatment. You can learn more here.

Biofilms and Lyme Disease?

Every year, there is a new buzzword in the Lyme disease community. For a year or two, everyone focuses on the buzzword, and researchers and physicians are in a frenzy to find new treatments for the buzzword. Supplement companies go banannas making money on the buzzword.

In 2009, the buzzword is “biofilms.” I’m not exactly sure how much biofilms really have to do with Lyme disease, and how much of it is just “the word of the year buzz.” I’ll leave that to the experts to decide. But, one of the interesting factors when it comes to biofilms, and the reason I’m even writing about it, is that this buzzword may be a clue as to why rife machines may work to treat Lyme disease. (What is a rife machine?) Continued