Linda’s comment:  LOL….that is all we need is alcohol laden bugs in our bodies.  Our livers are important to help us detox toxins and alcohol and and will destroy vital liver functions…

Why people with Lyme cannot drink alcohol | What is Lyme?

Linda comment:  We must all wake up and address the chronic infections…..I love the FIGHT protocol and have been on it for 3 years…..IT ROCKS….go to my file on Webinars and watch all six webinars on the FIGHT protocol…..

WE ALL HAVE SOME CHRONIC INFECTIONS; now there is another major breakthrough to prove this.

My Fight program clearly is meant to help us educate our patients that achieving optimal health is a lifetime challenge. With increasing sophistication of lab sciences, we will find many more challenges in every one of my FIGHT categories but with the epidemic of people with chronic fatigue, you now have even more reason to want to learn about Oxidative therapies like OZONE/UVB/SILVER.

However, a unifying approach to enhance our bodies ability to deal with the multifactorial nature of any chronic disease should increase our interest in learning more about Energy medicine. This broad topic includes Homeopathy, Accupunture, Prayer, Microelectric Current therapy, Magnetic Healing, Oxygen, Hyperthermia and much of what is now called Alternative Medicine.

The exerpt below is just one line from the great overview of viral infections and XMRV that is found in Autism and Prostate Cancer and Chronic Fatigue. This area of research is all new this year but we can expect that someone will soon find many more fungi issues or parasites issues. Of course tying impaired health to our toxin load is just beginning to be seriously considered. Do not fail to look for a moment at this article, as when you tell patients they need to deal with the chronic infection component of their current symptom complex, many feel you are off the wall.

Unless they have heard of Candida or Chlamydia, or CMV, or Herpes, or Lyme, they are not attuned to the need to lower their total body burden of pathogens. No one needs to spend the money to chase down which of these infections they have, as no one will test negative for one or more of these infections if adequately tested. So testing for most patients is impractical except to get their attention as to why they must do something about the infection component of my FIGHT program if they are to achieve optimal health.

“XMRV (xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus) is strongly associated with chronic fatigue syndrome/ME. The earlier study published in the journal Science was a joint study by the Cleveland Clinic, the National Cancer Institute, and the Whittemore-Peterson Institute of the University of Nevada with Drs. Vincent Lombardi and Judy Mikovits as lead authors. Here the lead author of the NIH/Harvard/FDA study, Dr. Harvey Alter, noted in a press conference that he considered his study a confirmation of the earlier WPI study, even though they had detected different MLV-related viruses (MRVs), rather than only XMRV. There does seem to be a greater variety of MRVs in chronic fatigue syndrome/ME patients than first understood. The WPI’s original study also showed some evidence of additional MRVs.”
Read more: http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/09/my-wife-my-daughter-and-xmrv.html

Sincerely,

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

During this time of year, I hear about way too many people dying from infections. I also see people suffering from chronic infections that don’t respond to any drug treatments. Both of these are very sad situations for me because there’s a very simple cure that inexpensive and almost 100% effective.

In the upcoming issue of Second Opinion, I tell you about how ultraviolet blood irradiation (UBI) works against any infection, including the antibiotic-resistant superbugs. These nasty bugs are killing more and more hospital patients. And now, they’re leaving the hospitals and attacking the public at large. You can read all about it in the January issue.

But today, I want to tell you about a case of infection I just treated with UBI. It illustrates just how well this treatment works on very powerful infections.

Linda’s comment:  This is an outstanding article on the success of the PEMF machine…OUTSTANDING results with our Autism kiddos too…..Some of the treatments are also FDA approved…..

MESSAGE FROM DR. GORDON:

Season’s Greetings!
I am pleased to bring to you an excellent report on PEMF entitled, “The Missing Link to Optimal Health: Recharge Your Life with Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy”, by Scott Forsgren. (see article here: http://gordonresearch.com/docs/PEMF_specialreport.pdf). Scott hosts an informative website and blog called BetterHealthGuy.com, and writes for the Public Health Alert and other publications on the topic of Lyme disease and related issues.
Magnetic therapy has been studied and documented throughout the centuries, from ancient times to the present. Magnets have long been believed to have healing powers associated with energy, muscle pain and stiffness. Today, scientific research in the U.S. and the world over is providing invaluable data on how magnetic fields can positively affect the nervous and circulatory systems, as well as every living cell – animal, human and plant.
PEMF therapy received FDA clearance in 1982 to promote the healing of bone fractures. It also has a proven track record in treating many of the conditions we encounter today, including incontinence, diabetic neuropathy, muscle weakness, impaired bone health and vascular issues including gangrene where scheduled amputations are no longer needed. The U.S. company that makes the PEMF device (PMT-100AT) that I treat with and use personally on a daily basis, has literally given me a new back! After more than 20 years of chronic back pain and problems, I can now move around and stand up straight without pain! (Go to www.pulse4life.com to view more amazing testimonials on Autism, Parkinson’s, MS, ALS, etc.).
I have experienced amazing results through the combination of my F.I.G.H.T. For Your Health program, and the latest developments in PEMF and other energy medicine modalities such as Tesla-based electro muscle stimulation, low level lasers, and correctly designed magnetic sleep pads. I invite you to read the report from Scott Forsgren and begin to learn how PEMF can help you recharge your life and achieve optimal health and longevity!
Sincerely,
Dr. Garry F. Gordon, MD, DO, MD(H)
Gordon Research Institute
Payson, Arizona USA

Linda’s comment:  Where will it all end…..Lyme has become a world-wide epidemic, yet the ISDA boys/girls say there is not such thing as chronic Lyme!!  I don’t know where they went to medical school but they need to ask for a refund from their medical school.  Many of the IDSA members have written published studies on Lyme and the co-infections, yet they deny treatment to suffering people….

Link: http://www.scielo.br/pdf/bjmbr/v40n4/6497.pdf 

Excerpt:

An emerging clinical entity that reproduces clinical manifestations
similar to those observed in Lyme disease (LD) has been recently
under discussion in Brazil. Due to etiological and laboratory particularities
it is named LD-like syndrome or LD imitator syndrome. The
condition is considered to be a zoonosis transmitted by ticks of the
genus Amblyomma, possibly caused by interaction of multiple fastidious
microorganisms originating a protean clinical picture, including
neurological, osteoarticular and erythema migrans-like lesions. 

We would like to invite you and the NY Metro Area/East Coast patients and practitioners to come to a talk given by Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD in NYC.  

Detailed information about the upcoming NYC seminar on Autonomic Response Testing and the special evening talk ,”Healing Long Term Lyme Disease and other Chronic Infections without Antibiotics” is located on our website:www.klinghardtacadaemy.com.   Dr. Klinghardt is known for his complementary work with chronic illness world wide and teaches practitioners how to individualize protocols for Lyme disease, MS, Autism, Cancer and other chronic conditions related to toxicity and pathogens.  

We hope you and local LLMD’s and  interested individuals will attend this unique evening. 

Dr. Klinghardt is rarely on the East Coast, but will be teaching in NYC on Feb 10-13, 2011 at the Holiday Inn Midtown.  We hope you will pass  this information to your colleagues so the NY area practitioners have an opportunity to come see and experience this world wide shift toward individualized health care.  Our goal at the Academy is to equip medical practitioners with the tools necessary to become true medical healers and learn how to combat the growing epidemic of chronic illness. We also want to empower patients with knowledge and optional healing protocols that are affordable. We understand that there is no cookie cutter approach to lyme disease, so all we can learn to add to our arsenal of protocols can only be beneficial to all. 

Please call me with any questions.
warm regards,

Debbie Floyd
Director, Klinghardt Academy
www.klinghardtacademy.com
debbieafloyd@gmail.com
908-899-1650

Link: http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&id=20929776&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks

Excerpt:

Most hosts, including humans, are simultaneously or sequentially
infected with several parasites. A key question is whether
patterns of coinfection arise because infection by one parasite
species affects susceptibility to others or because of inherent
differences between hosts. We used time-series data from
individual hosts in natural populations to analyze patterns of
infection risk for a microparasite community, detecting large
positive and negative effects of other infections. Patterns
remain once variations in host susceptibility and exposure are
accounted for. Indeed, effects are typically of greater
magnitude, and explain more variation in infection risk, than the
effects associated with host and environmental factors more
commonly considered in disease studies. We highlight the danger
of mistaken inference when considering parasite species in
isolation rather than parasite communities.

September 24, 2010
My Wife, My Daughter, and XMRV
By Kent Heckenlively, Esq.

My wife has tested positive for XMRV, otherwise known as the xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus. 
My daughter with autism has also tested positive for XMRV, a new human retrovirus that was recently found to be highly associated with patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME by the Whittemore-Peterson Institute.
What has been discovered and speculated about for chronic fatigue syndrome/ME and XMRV may also hold important information for autism. 
By now many of you are probably aware that in August of 2010 the National Institute of Health, Harvard University, and the Food and Drug Administration published an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences confirming an earlier study showing that XMRV (xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus) is strongly associated with chronic fatigue syndrome/ME.  
The earlier study published in the journal Science was a joint study by the Cleveland Clinic, the National Cancer Institute, and the Whittemore-Peterson Institute of the University of Nevada with Drs. Vincent Lombardi and Judy Mikovits as lead authors. HERE  The lead author of the NIH/Harvard/FDA study, Dr. Harvey Alter, noted in a press conference that he considered his study a confirmation of the earlier WPI study, even though they had detected different MLV-related viruses (MRVs), rather than only XMRV.  There does seem to be a greater variety of MRVs in chronic fatigue syndrome/ME patients than first understood.  The WPI’s original study also showed some evidence of additional MRVs.  Alter is one of the true giants in the field of virology, having been a co-discoverer of the hepatitis C virus, and winning the Lasker Award for medical research, which is often compared to the Nobel Prize in Medicine in terms of its prestige.

FOR THOSE INTERESTED in the Lyme communities well-being please join us in supporting the IOM Lyme Disease workshop.  WE MUST begin somewhere by coming forth as an objective working “team” who want help for those suffering with this horrific disease.  Will it work?  We don’t know, but it shows good faith that we are willing to work together to find the much needed answers.  Lymies need to UNITE and begin working together and stop the inter-bickering that has gone on for the 10 years I have been around.  The organizations and individual listed below are willing to give it a try and support our presenters.  Please share this message with all you know.

Regards,

Linda Heming      

CHOICE=Consumers of Healthcare Options with Independence Choice and Experience                       

LymeAngl@aol.com

September 23, 2010

Dear Lyme Community:

As you know, some Lyme advocates have chosen to pull out of the IOM Lyme Disease workshop http://www.iom.edu/Activities/Disease/TickBorne.aspx. They are legitimately concerned that the agenda is heavily biased against the patients’ interest.  We respect their concerns and their decision to pull out of the workshop.  However, upon careful consideration, we have decided to participate in the IOM workshop to represent the Lyme patient’s perspective and show support for our presenters.  While we have our own reservations, we are working hard to improve the agenda.

Here are some facts and thoughts to consider in making your own decision:

1)  The IOM Lyme workshop is not a forum to debate whose science is right or wrong.  It is, rather, an assessment of the state of the science as presented from all points of view, for the purpose of determining the science and research still needed.  This workshop is not designed to draw conclusions, but to determine where future research needs to go.

2)  If Lyme patients and Lyme doctors fail to participate, the only perspective presented will be that of the IDSA.  If our Lyme doctors and advocates don’t participate, the committee can’t include them in the record and it will appear in the report as if we don’t exist or care.

3)  The IOM committee will accept comments for the record up to 3 or 4 days after the workshop.  If you don’t know what was said at the workshop, you cannot draw intelligent comments.

4)  Clinicians will have a microphone reserved solely for their use, with extra time allocated to their questions or comments which will be included in the final report. Lyme doctor participation is critical or the IDSA clinicians will be the only ones at the microphone and on record.

5)  A Congressman worked hard for the appropriation to fund this project. Abandoning this workshop is abandoning him, and will compromise his future ability to argue successfully for Lyme patients in Congress. This Representative needs Lyme community support at this workshop. We cannot “burn our Congressional bridges” with the very people who are critical to our cause.

6)  When you withdraw from the Washington process, you won’t be asked back again. Each time this happens, we lose our ability to be taken seriously.  History shows that progress is made when we work within the system, not when we abandon it. Admittedly, it is by nature, a long and arduous process.

Bottom line: the workshop will proceed with or without our community; without representation we concede to the IDSA.  We can’t let that happen!  If the situation warrants it, there will be time to write a minority report.

Please attend this workshop and explain your views on the gaps in science and the research you think is needed.  For example, the gaps in diagnosis that caused your disease to go unrecognized; the lack of uniformity in approaches of the states; the problem of underreporting; the unreliability of testing and the other issues you believe should be addressed by the science.

Thank you,

Excerpt:

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS:: The purpose of this study is to critically evaluate the typical cost of asymmetrical sensorineural hearing loss (ASNHL) work-up, and to compare the positive predictive value from this common presenting symptom. STUDY DESIGN:: Retrospective chart review from two major otolaryngology centers. METHODS:: We reviewed charts from patients presenting to New York Eye and Ear Infirmary between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2006, and the University of Minnesota between December 1, 2002 and November 30, 2007 with ASNHL. Diagnostic information included magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and serum laboratory values (antinuclear antibodies, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, Lyme, rapid plasma reagin, and thyroid-stimulating hormone). We calculated positive rate according to each item of diagnosis. To estimate cost-benefit, we further calculated the average cost for identifying a patient with a positive result. 

CONCLUSIONS:: A comprehensive ASNHL work-up may not be applicable to all patients. Laboratory serologic tests are highly cost effective in diagnosing treatable causes of ASNHL, such as syphilis and Lyme. Although radiographic imaging with MRI is not as cost effective, its value in detecting for acoustic neuroma is undeniable. Laryngoscope, 2010.