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Natural Living 4 U - Lyme Disease

"The Hidden Epidemic"

Katherine Glenn, PhD

(This is written as if I were the Bacteria)

I am a Spirochete! My name is Borrelia Bergdorferi

I am one of the oldest creatures on earth, which has given me time to become very cleaver.

There are 8 types of me and 200 species. I have an extra 24 chromosomes in my DNA and I have 37 different changes to my outer membrane to avoid your immune system. More than that, I can hide anywhere in your body so well that you may not discover me for 30 years or more. (In the mean time you have gone through Hell)

When I enter your body, you will not feel me because the creature that bit you is able to secrete a substance that will numb your skin and will keep your blood from clotting. Your blood is not my favorite spot to be. I prefer to cruse through your connective tissue. I can be transported by any infected biting insect, mosquito, fly, flea, tick or spider. Even baby ticks are just as dangerous or perhaps more so, because they are so small, no bigger than a pin head.

If you take a blood test to find me, I feel threatened, I can group into a cyst or hide in bio-film or B cells, or pull the mylaen sheath off of your nerves. I have already crippled your immune system for antibodies to show up on the test. Beyond that, I am so elusive that most doctors, for the lack of training, don’t usually think to test for me and will not even recognize any positive marker on the test results. Thanks to the insurance companies, doctors fear of loosing their license to practice medicine if they try to eliminate me.

With that, I’m off and running with free reign to cause you great pain and inflammation especially in your joints, the fluid part of the eye, ménages of the brain, skin and heart. I live deeper in tissues than other bacteria. I can upset your entire G I tract, cause your memory to fail, twitching, tremors, or paralysis, blindness, restless leg, deafness, disorientation, I cause rashes, holes in blood vessel walls and other tissues. I can give you unexplained fevers and chills, weight gain or loss, including hair loss. I even mess with your sex life, and bladder, I will cause major sleep disturbance. I can mimic any disease. I can cause little things to make you go crazy known as sensory hyperacuity: like light or Sounds, orders become overly intense, abnormal tastes, super sensitive to touch, your emotions can become sudden outbursts, tears, violence, panic attacks, unable to concentrate, details lost, memory, hallucinations, fears, headaches, chest pain, You take copious notes, confusion on RT and Left. Weather- air pressure will have an affects you, your energy changes from day to day; wondering pains throughout the body that can last only hours or days
Key marker: Suddenness of the change of symptoms.

I am really hard to live with and make you hard to live with too.

If your doctor doesn’t know what’s wrong with you, maybe I am under your skin.

You might be diagnosed or shall we say misdiagnosed with LGD, MS, Parkinson’s, Chronic Fatigue, Crohns, Seizure disorders, IBS, Alzheimer’s (7 out of 10), Bells Palsy, Lupus, Neuropathy, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Brain Tumors, psychosomatic problems and Fibromyalgia - 95% of fibro. actually have this hidden epidemic. After you get diagnosed with one of these conditions, they give you medicine to suppress your immune system which absolutely is the worst thing to do; if you still have problems, well” it must all be in your head”. You run the gambit of head shrinks and that’s a lost cause too. What is sad is that once you’ve had me, and get rid of me; that will not give you immunity of ever having me again and there is no vaccine against me. (It was tried but failed)
20,000 new cases are reported the CDC each year, in reality the CDC says there are probably 200,000 new cases each year. The few doctors that do actually try to eliminate me say that the number is even much higher than that.

Even more scary is the fact that I, Borrelia, can be passed on to another person by bodily fluids, even through the birth cannel , mothers milk while nursing, tears, semen, and urine. This is how a lady from Germany got me this way. 17% of the entire population in Germany has me. That is almost one out of every five people.
My enemies are O2, and heat; my food is sugar and fat.

Your best defense against me, is raw garlic and Astralgalus; to help in keeping your immune system in top condition.

Now that you’ve been given some of the facts of this Epidemic, it is time to revel my true identity, you know me as: LYME DISEASE.

Comments by Dr. LeAnne

"In my experience, Thieves [see Essential Oils] kills Lymes Disease on contact with the bite. I had a client come in with the typical bulls ring around the bite. It was 6 inches big. She didn't want to go to the ER because it was late Saturday night and she would rather go to the Doctor on Monday. I told her to put Thieves all over it several times a day. By Monday the ring was gone and so was any swelling. She never did get Lymes disease. I had a client with Lymes disease for 4 years. We gave her capsules full of Thieves and also a Tablespoon of Silver a day. Within 4 months she was back to normal.

I had a child come in with a Funnel Bite spider bite. Her symptoms were just like Lymes disease.She hadn't been able to get out of bed for a year. She had achy joints and was very weak. I put Purification Oil [see Essential Oils] in her mouth every minute for 15 minutes and gave directions to her mother to continue on hourly the rest the of the day. By the next day, she was a normal child and got up and played with her friends for the first time in a year. "

Lyme symptoms - the short list

Lyme can mimic any disease, so the symptoms can
literally be anything.

Unexplained fevers, sweats, chills, or flushing
Unexplained weight change--loss or gain
Fatigue, tiredness, poor stamina
Unexplained hair loss
Swollen glands
Sore throat
Testicular pain/pelvic pain
Unexplained menstrual irregularity
Unexplained milk production: breast pain
Irritable bladder or bladder dysfunction
Sexual dysfunction or loss of libido
Upset stomach
Change in bowel function-constipation, diarrhea
Chest pain or rib soreness
Shortness of breath, cough
Heart palpitations, pulse skips, heart block
Any history of a heart murmur or valve prolapse?
Joint pain or swelling
Stiffness of the joints, neck, or back
Muscle pain or cramps
Twitching of the face or other muscles
Headache
Neck creeks and cracks, neck stiffness, neck pain
Tingling, numbness, burning or stabbing sensations, shooting pains
Facial paralysis (Bell's Palsy)
Eyes/Vision: double, blurry, increased floaters, light sensitivity
Ears/Hearing: buzzing, ringing, ear pain, sound sensitivity
lncreased motion sickness, vertigo, poor balance
Lightheadedness, wooziness
Tremor
Confusion, difficulty in thinking
Difficulty with concentration, reading
Forgetfulness, poor short term memory
Disorientation: getting lost, going to wrong places
Difficulty with speech or writing
Mood swings, irritability, depression
Disturbed sleep-too much, too little, early awakening
Exaggerated symptoms or worse hangover from alcohol

Proof that Chronic Lyme Disease exists.
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ipid/2010/876450.html

About Lyme Tests...

A negative Lyme test result does not rule out Lyme for a number of reasons:

1. Tests for Lyme in the US are very poor and not very accurate. This is partly due to the complexity of the Lyme bacteria, partly due to political motivations around how the test was designed and which of certain details of the results most labs are able/allowed to report, and the fact that the human body does not make sufficient quantities of Lyme antibodies within the first 4-6 weeks of initial infection to be detected on the typical Lyme blood test.

2. There are many strains of Lyme (over 300), but the test is based on only 1 or 2 strains. There is little research on how the different strains of Lyme compare as far as which proteins they can expose on their outer surface (antibodies generated specifically for these proteins on the outer surface of the bacteria are what the Lyme tests look for, typically).

3. Lyme bacteria are able to trick or fool the immune system into thinking they are not there, thus the body will not make antibodies against the bacteria and thus the tests will not reflect accurately whether there is an active infection or not.

4. Lyme bacteria also are able to change their form into L-form or cystic forms, which do not expose the usual surface proteins and thus the body does not make the antibodies that the test looks for.

5. Lyme bacteria also like to mass together into communities called Biofilm communities. Then they produce a thick covering to surround the community and protect the bacteria inside the biofilm from antibiotics and the immune system's attempts at killing the bacteria. The protective covering does not have the same proteins on it that the bacteria themselves do, thus the body won't make the type of antibodies that the test is looking for.

6. When the body is under chronic attack, sometimes antibodies are recycled and converted into other antibodies. This has the effect of reducing total circulating antibodies targeted toward specific proteins...thus this may be another mechanism that prevents or reduces detection of the right antibodies on the test.

7. The antibodies the body makes may also all be bound up to Lyme bacteria, thus not leaving sufficient numbers of them available to be detectable on the test.

There could be other reasons for the poor accuracy of the Lyme tests.

... From http://healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=30&m=1905049