At he IACFS/ME meetings in Ottawa, Canada in September, 2011, three studies on GcMAF therapy in CFS cases were presented by Kenny DeMeirleir MD, PhD out of Belgium and by Paul R. Cheney MD, PhD out of NC.   GcMAF is a partially deglycosylated vitamin-D binding protein also know as Gc protein.  The functional change in the Gc protein caused by serial deglycosylation is known as GcMAF or Gc Macrophage Activating Factor. GcMAF is made naturely in the body under certain conditions of immune activation but can also be made outside the body by chemical or laboratory means and by the use of certain probiotics in a Yogurt-like mixture in your own kitchen.   GcMAF is extremely potent and will at very low concentrations activate, regulate and expand macrophages which are the central processing unit of the immune system and capable of modulating and controling both the innate and cognate immune systems.

Three GcMAF studies presented in Ottawa showed improvement in CFS symptoms using a similar patient-centered assessment instrument.  Dr. DeMeirleir, using an injectable (IV or SQ) chemically derived GcMAF given at 100 ng on a weekly basis, showed at 63% response rate (68/108) over 5-40 weeks of therapy.  Dr. Cheney used a similarly manufactured chemical GcMAF in 19 patients treated at 100 ng every 5 days over 8 weeks by SL route but he also used, in a separate study, a novel probiotic-based GcMAF given by oral daily route (MAF 314) developed by Prof’s Ruggiero and Pacini out of Florence, Italy.  The SL chemical GcMAF demonstrated a response rate of 79% (15/19) over at least 8 weeks while the probiotic-based oral GcMAF (MAF 314) demonstrated a 76% (16/21) response rate over only 28 days.  Given the lower numbers and shorter time frames in Dr. Cheney’s two studies, there was likely no significant difference between the three studies in terms of overall response rate in CFS patients.  However, there appeared to be differences in the chemical GcMAF response rate that depended on the patient’s vitamin-D VDR polymorphisms that was not seen in the probiotic GcMAF (MAF 314) and positive response rates were generally seen much quicker in the probiotic GcMAF (MAF 314).  There were mild to moderate side effects seen in all three studies and generally responded to dose reduction as well as other measures.  GcMAF, given by a number of different routes, appears to be an effective therapy for well defined CFS patients.

What grabbed our attention was what some of the scientists involved with the paper did after its publication in 2009. The lead researcher, Judy Mikovits, began making sweeping unsupported statements about the finding, including tying XMRV to autism without publishing any data to support that statement. Some CFS patients began taking potent antiretroviral drugs meant to treat HIV.

The problem with all of this was that in science, findings don’t mean much until they are replicated. Scientists are often wrong, even when they publish in prestigious journals. And in this case, soon after the Science paper came out, independent teams were unable to replicate the findings. They could not find evidence of XMRV in the blood of CFS patients – or anyone else for that matter. Talk of contamination – a not-unheard-of problem in virology labs – arose.

Mikovits adamantly denied contamination had anything to do with her results.

[Trine has written about this back-and-forth on Trib Nation before, and you may have joined her for a livechat on the topic in December 2010. We covered a lot of ground in that discussion. -- Eds.]

Recently, we reported that the journal Science had launched an investigation into whether a figure in Mikovits’ 2009 paper had been manipulated. Soon after, Mikovits was fired from the Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Diseases, the Reno, Nev., non-profit created by the parents of a daughter with CFS. Last week, WPI filed a civil lawsuit against Mikovits, accusing her of taking lab notebooks and a computer that belonged to WPI.

On Nov. 18, Mikovits was arrested in Ventura, Calif., as a fugitive.

The University of Nevada, Reno police issued an arrest warrant listing two felony charges: possession of stolen property and unlawful taking of computer data, equipment, supplies or other computer related property. Mikovits will be arraigned Tuesday afternoon in California.

The mysterious human illness known as Morgellons disease resembles a well-known infectious disease found in cattle, according to a new research report published Nov. 14 in the prestigious online journal Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology.This news is announced by the Charles E. Holman Foundation, a grassroots activist organization that supports research, education, diagnosis and treatment of Morgellons disease.

Studied since the 1970s, the veterinary disease known as bovine digital dermatitis, or hairy heel warts, can cause lameness, decreased milk production, weight loss and skin lesions just above the hooves of affected animals. Examination of these lesions by researchers has revealed fibers of varying colors found to be very similar to those seen on the skin of people worldwide who suffer from Morgellons disease.

A link to the free report, entitled “Filament formation associated with spirochetal infection: a comparative approach to Morgellons disease,” can be found on the home page of the Charles E. Holman Foundation website (http://www.thecehf.org).

Often labeled “delusional” by their medical care providers, Morgellons patients may soon be vindicated by this groundbreaking discovery.

“Morgellons disease and hairy heel warts both appear to be evolving illnesses characterized by the appearance of unusual filaments in skin lesions,” said co-author Dr. Raphael Stricker, a renowned Morgellons expert who has treated hundreds of people with this disease at his San Francisco, CA-based practice. “The similarity between the two diseases provides new evidence that Morgellons is an infectious illness–not a delusional disorder. Further comparison of these conditions may help shed light on the mystery of what Morgellons is, and eventually how to cure it.”

Principal author Marianne Middelveen, a veterinary microbiologist from Calgary, Alberta, is credited with finding the connection between the two diseases. She had heard about hairy heel warts from veterinarians, farmers and scientists, and knew they had looked for a cure by examining microorganisms in the afflicted cattle. Middelveen took a different approach by focusing her research on the fibers seen on the animals’ skin. After discovering that these unusual filaments showed striking similarities to those found in Morgellons patients, she contacted Dr. Stricker. Their joint research identified many common features in the composition and infectious associations of the fibers affecting both cattle and humans.

“We are getting closer to sorting out the mystery of Morgellons disease,” said Dr. Stricker. “Sometimes it takes a detective with a new perspective to solve a mystery.”

For more information or to schedule an interview, please contact Cindy Casey, R.N., by calling her at (415) 720-8752 or e-mailing her at info(at)thecehf(dot)org

By Kent Heckenlively, Esq.

Although my daughter is not a patient of Dr. Jeff Bradstreet I’ve always had an enormous amount of respect for the good doctor.  I’ll usually go on his website once or twice a month to find out what has most recently attracted his interest.  Often it seems we’re looking at similar questions; which either means great minds think alike, or we suffer from some of the same delusions.

I was intrigued by his October 11, 2011 entry, “An Update on Viral Issue in Autism” since it dovetailed with some of my own recent investigations.

In the past months Dr. Bradstreet has become interested in nagalese, which he describes as an enzyme “produced by cancer cells and viruses.”  He thinks it unlikely that children with autism have undiagnosed cancers, and thus suspicion falls on a viral etiology.  Dr. Bradstreet writes, “Viruses make the nagalese enzyme as part of their attachment proteins.  It serves to get the virus into the cell and also decreases the body’s immune reaction to the virus-thereby increasing the odds of viral survival.”

Further on Dr. Bradstreet writes, “It is reasonable and likely that the nature of the immune dysfunction and the frequently observed autoimmune problems in autism are mediated by persistent, unresolved viral infections.”  He claims to have tested approximately 400 children with autism for the viral marker, nagalese, and found that nearly 80% have significantly elevated levels.  He hopes to publish soon on this study and believes this information “is one of the most important developments in the clinical treatment of children on the spectrum that I have experienced in the last 15 years.”

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The controversial finding, published in a 2009 Science paper, excited patients and researchers who have long been searching for a cause for chronic fatigue syndrome, which has an array of debilitating symptoms that include cognitive difficulties, severe pain, and overwhelming fatigue. On Sept. 22, the authors of the paper, including Mikovits, published a partial retraction of the findings in Science, after two of the 13 study authors found contamination in blood samples from patients.

A week later, Mikovits was fired, she told Health Blog.

In a letter from Whittemore Peterson President Annette Whittemore to Mikovits, which was reviewed by Health Blog, Mikovits was terminated after refusing Whittemore’s direct request that cell lines be turned over to another scientist at the institute who wanted to do research on them.

In a letter of response, Mikovits said that the cells were for use in a specific NIH-funded project and that it would be inappropriate to use them for another purpose without her knowledge and consent.

Whittemore told the Health Blog that she and Mikovits were “not seeing eye-to-eye” on who controlled the cells. Research on retroviruses and their possible connection to CFS as well as other diseases continues, she said. “We will keep going down that path as long as it continues to show promise,” Whittemore says.

Mikovits is a principal investigator on an ongoing NIH-funded study that will test CFS patients and healthy controls for XMRV or related viruses, and she said that she plans to take her grant with her to a new institution where she wants to continue her work on CFS.

But like many things in the long-running XMRV saga, this may not be simple. Whittemore says that the institute wants to continue to participate in the NIH study and has “the research capacity, the lab and the researchers” to follow through on the work. In terms of the fate of that grant, “‘it is an NIH call,” Whittemore says.

1. One of the benefits of magnesium is that it protects against cardiovascular diseases. Certain dietary surveys and some studies have suggested that adequate magnesium intake is associated with a decreased risk of coronary heart disease and a lowered risk of having a stroke. There is also evidence that insufficient magnesium in the body increases the risk of abnormal heart rhythms, raising the risk of complications after heart attack. The benefits of magnesium in this respect can be attributed to the fact that magnesium plays a central role in muscle relaxation, and lack in magnesium can cause the heart muscle to develop spasms and abnormal rhythms.
2. Another of the benefits of magnesium is that it plays an important role in natural blood pressure regulation. The DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) study suggested that a diet emphasizing vegetables, fruits and low fat dairy food—the kind of diet high in magnesium, calcium, and potassium—can significantly lower or prevent high blood pressure.
3. What’s more, included among the benefits of magnesium is that it lowers the risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes and the complications of diabetes such as retinopathies. Magnesium does so by playing a role in carbohydrate metabolism and influencing the activity of insulin, a hormone responsible for blood glucose regulation.
4. Also note that one of the benefits of magnesium is that it can help alleviate muscle aches, spasms and cramps. While calcium is the one responsible for contracting muscles, magnesium is in charge of relaxing them. Magnesium deficiency, therefore, can tense up the muscles and give rise to muscle pains and discomforts.
5. Furthermore, because of magnesium’s effect on muscle relaxation, prevention of asthma attacks is also among the benefits of magnesium. Asthma attacks manifest when the bronchial airways narrow, and magnesium can come to the rescue by relaxing the bronchial muscles, therefore widening the airway and improving breathing.
6. Among all the benefits of magnesium, one of the most important is its ability to lower the risk of osteoporosis, a bone condition marked by severely reduced bone density. Magnesium affects the way calcium is preserved and utilized in the body, and multiple research studies have already proven that calcium supplemented with magnesium can improve bone mineral density.

The benefits of magnesium mentioned here are just some the most important ones, but the list can go on. Add in prevention of constipation, treatment of insomnia and migraines, preservation of a healthy immune system, and maintenance of normal nerve function as among the benefits of magnesium. Indeed, adequate intake of magnesium is the secret to optimum health, a key to achieving that inner balance everybody should have.

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These so called experts research it with federal funds, then start private firms and patents. They write guidelines for insurance companies and HMOs so that the disease doesn’t exist (yet) or require coverage. Not only do Lyme victims spend hundreds of thousands for medical treatment, but they can’t be covered for Lyme!

The Biggest Blow In The Lyme Cover Up

The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), made up of a board of doctors, created within themselves an authority to write the rule book on all things Lyme. It is the absolute bane of both the Lyme community and conscientious doctors everywhere.

They are the ones who decided that there is no chronic Lyme, that it’s easy to treat and cure, and will be cured within two weeks of oral antibiotics or else the patient has another infirmity. Doctors must follow their diagnosis and treatment guidelines or face punishment from state medical boards. Patients’ proof of cure never sways the boards – doctors broke the rules.

Out of the 400 references listed in the back of the guidelines, over half of them are directed at articles that they and their teams wrote. They have closed the door on outside contrary research.

These are the very guidelines insurance companies consult to deny medical treatment coverage. The majority of complaints that lead to doctors’ suspensions come from insurance companies, not patients or other physicians. The insurance companies wish to rid doctors who cost them the most.

The trio of insurance companies, Lyme guidelines, and Big Pharma restrict consumer choice in medical care and extort these patients.

While the IDSA acknowledges post-Lyme syndrome, they audaciously attribute it to the “aches and pains of daily living” and that poor treatment results are due to prior traumatic stress. Are they really that dumb?

No, but they are cold blooded and know exactly the nature of the disease and its destruction.

They should know…after all, they have a lot invested in it…

Busted On The Money Trail!

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal investigated the ISDA panel members for possible violation of antitrust laws and conflicts of interest.

Of the 14 panel authors of the first edition guidelines: 6 of them or their universities held patents on Lyme or its co-infections, 4 received funding from Lyme or co-infection test kit manufacturers, 4 were paid by insurance companies to write Lyme policy guidelines or consult in Lyme legal cases, and 9 received money from Lyme disease vaccine manufacturers. Some of the authors were involved in more than one conflict of interest.

So why are guideline authorities taking money from companies who have a direct interest in specific outcomes? When will doctors speak up?

So How Does This Cover Up Saga Continue?

The media keeps trumpeting the lies. CBS News recently published a story called “Lyme Disease Lies – And Truths.” Each segment features a FACT OR FICTION tidbit which is really a confusing mash up rife with deception. They pull their information from the IDSA and Dr. John Halperin who wrote a book better used for toilet paper called Lyme Disease: An Evidence-based Approach.

The article calls the following liars: people who claim to have “chronic” Lyme disease, those who believe they still have Lyme because they test positive for antibodies after treatment, those who believe their brain fog results from Lyme, the Lyme “advocacy groups” that claim anyone actually died from it, anyone who claims this syphilis like disease is spread sexually, and those that believe lengthier care is needed.

Dr. Halperin states that Lyme is benign, easy to treat, no one has died from it, are rarely hospitalized, and brain infection from Lyme is rare.

Doctors like Leo Galland are stepping out with more truth. His article on Huffington Post discloses more about chronic Lyme infection. At the bottom of his article, you will see that the majority of the 500 comments are Lyme victims sharing their nightmare stories.

Organizations that pretended to protect public health with no commercial interests (CDC, NIH, Universities) partner with Big Pharma and are not in the business of seeing anyone healed. Maybe generations from now when there is enough of an outcry, when many have lived ill and died, some drug company will try to be the hero of the day and come up with a poisonous drug to treat Lyme.

Even that scenario is highly unlikely as chronic Lyme is not allowed to exist. But when it does there will be a vaccine waiting for you.

So tragically in the meantime, Lyme victims serve as a host for the parasitical medical establishment, lining the coffers until they are bled completely dry. The real ticks (the poli-ticks) are still here.

Watch Under Our Skin for more mind blowing information. Find out about the doctor who discovered an actual link between the Lyme spirochetes and disorders like dementia, Alzeimer’s, M.S. and more. One alternative health practitioner has not seen one M.S., ALS or Parkinson’s patient in the last five years who did not test positive for Borrelia burgdorferi.

You will also see proof that Lyme inflicted mothers experience multiple miscarriages and their babies are riddled with the disease. Babies who survive often develop late stage neurological damage during childhood and adolescence. All events that the IDSA swear have never happened. They insist that Lyme cannot be spread to the unborn child.

You will witness the families grieving over their dead loved ones. Lyme Disease is listed on their death certificates.

You will hear from doctors who were bullied, investigated, and ousted for attempting to actually treat Lyme, usually with intravenous and lengthier antibiotics. After all, isn’t that how other infectious diseases are conventionally treated – Tuberculosis, HIV, Hepatitis?

Conscientious doctors have to treat Lyme secretly if they want to help their patients without losing their license. They have to tell their patients, “Don’t mention Lyme.” How’s that for a cover up?

So What Now? What If I Have Lyme?

Chances are, you know someone who is manifesting the aforementioned symptoms and is battling the never ending circle of finding proper diagnosis and treatment. They may or may not remember a tick bite. Since the truth about Lyme is so stifled it is more than likely spread through blood transfusions (as with Babesiosis) and shared between couples (as shown in Under Our Skin).

They most likely have been diagnosed with one of the mysterious “incurables” like MS, ALS, or even early Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. The latter two are increasingly diagnosed in younger patients.

Or perhaps they were dismissed as crazy and bear the misery of not knowing that they actually suffer from Lyme. Regardless, they suffer and believe they must wait until research catches up to them before they die.

Cont. – What You Can Do About Tickborne Diseases And Treatments

~Health Freedoms

http://healthfreedoms.org/2011/07/01/lyme-cover-up-rages-on/

Sources:

Under Our Skin (2008), available on Netflix

http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/postLDS/index.html

http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leo-galland-md/lyme-disease-symptoms_b_876096.html

http://www.lymenet.org/SupportGroups/UnitedStates/

http://www.lymecommunity.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2711

http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-204_162-10007902.html?tag=page

This series is dedicated to Lyme patients everywhere.

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The bacteria that cause Lyme disease, one of the most important emerging diseases in the United States, appear to hide out in the lymph nodes, triggering a significant immune response, but one that is not strong enough to rout the infection, report researchers at the University of California, Davis.

Results from this groundbreaking study involving mice may explain why some people experience repeated infections of Lyme disease. The study appears online in the journal Public Library of Science Biology.

“Our findings suggest for the first time that Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that cause Lyme disease in people, dogs and wildlife, have developed a novel strategy for subverting the immune response of the animals they infect,” said Professor Nicole Baumgarth, an authority on immune responses at the UC Davis Center for Comparative Medicine.

“At first it seems counter intuitive that an infectious organism would choose to migrate to the lymph nodes where it would automatically trigger an immune response in the host animal,” Baumgarth said. “But B. burgdorferi have apparently struck an intricate balance that allows the bacteria to both provoke and elude the animal’s immune response.”

About Lyme disease

Lyme disease, the most important tick-borne disease in the United States is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, corkscrew-shaped bacteria also known as spirochetes. The disease is transmitted to humans and animals through bites from infected deer ticks. The disease occurs mainly in the Northeastern and Great Lakes states, and is present to a lesser extent in Northern California.

Symptoms of Lyme disease are quite variable and may include fever, headache, fatigue and a skin rash. If the infection is not treated, it can spread to the joints, heart and nervous system.

Usually, Lyme disease can be successfully treated with about four weeks of antibiotics; treatment is most successful during the early stages of infection.

The UC Davis study

Swollen lymph nodes, or lymphadenopathy, is one of the hallmarks of Lyme disease, although it has been unclear why this occurs or how it affects the course of the disease. The UC Davis research team set out to explore in mice the mechanisms that cause the enlarged lymph nodes and to determine the nature of the resulting immune response.

They found that when mice were infected with B. burgdorferi, these live spirochetes accumulated in the animals’ lymph nodes. The lymph nodes responded with a strong, rapid accumulation of B cells, white blood cells that produce antibodies to fight infections. Also, the presence of B. burgdorferi caused the destruction of the distinct architecture of the lymph node that usually helps it to function normally.

While B cells accumulated in large numbers and made some specific antibodies against B. burgdorferi, they did not form “germinal centers,” structures that are needed for the generation of highly functional and long-lived antibody responses.

“Overall, these findings suggest that B. burgdorferi hinder the immune system from generating a response that is fully functional and that can persist and protect after repeat infections,” Baumgarth said. “Thus, the study might explain why people living in endemic areas can be repeatedly infected with these disease-causing spirochetes.”

In addition to Baumgarth, members of the UC Davis research team include Stephen Barthold, director of the Center for Comparative Medicine; Emir Hodzic, director of the Real-Time PCR Research and Diagnostics Core Facility; staff scientist Sunlian Feng; graduate student Christine Hastey; and Stefan Tunev, formerly of the Center for Comparative Medicine and now at Medtronic Inc.

Funding for the study was provided by the National Institute of Health.

About UC Davis

For more than 100 years, UC Davis has engaged in teaching, research and public service that matter to California and transform the world. Located close to the state capital, UC Davis has more than 32,000 students, more than 2,500 faculty and more than 21,000 staff, an annual research budget that exceeds $678 million, a comprehensive health system and 13 specialized research centers. The university offers interdisciplinary graduate study and more than 100 undergraduate majors in four colleges — Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Biological Sciences, Engineering, and Letters and Science. It also houses six professional schools — Education, Law, Management, Medicine, Veterinary Medicine and the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing.

Japanese Knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum) is an increasingly prolific and invasive plant species that has spread across much of the US including upstate New York and the Adirondacks. It is considered a noxious weed in New York State and eradication programs have been enacted in the Adirondacks with herbicides being one of the main weapons of mass destruction. The plant resembles bamboo, but is actually in the buckwheat family (Polygonaceae) and is native in South Central Asia and Japan. Japanese knotweed  spreads aggressively through its rhizome with even small pieces growing into plants.

It chooses to grow along the edges of fields, waterways, and roads with a particular fondness for disturbed areas where there was once toxic waste of sorts. It is a perennial and grows up to 6ft. high with broadly ovate leaves and white, cascading flowers and hollow stems. This is the bad news…

The good news is that Japanese Knotweed is a highly medicinal and edible plant that is currently being used as treatment for Lyme disease. We can also use as much as we want of this plant being that it is so highly invasive, allowing us to reduce our use of native or non-invasive plants.The young shoots are a food source that can be steamed and boiled like asparagus. The root/rhizome is gathered in the Spring or Fall and contains a variety of medicinal constituents used traditionally to treat everything from eczema to bronchitis and stalled labor.

One of the main compounds of Japanese Knotweed is resveratrol, also found in red grape skins (red wine) among  many other plants, and, according to herbalist David Hoffmann, can “modulate multiple molecular pathways thought to be associated with the development and progression of cardiovascular disease and cancer….” Resveratrol is considered antioxidant, antimutagenic and inhibits platelet aggregation. It is particularly appropriate in the treatment of Lyme arthritis as, with Lyme being a spirochete, the arthritis is incited by the production of specific proteins that stimulate pathways that do not respond to treatment by other herbal anti-inflammatories.

The whole plant contains several other constituents and, when taken to treat Lyme disease and it’s symptoms, has proven to be very effective in bringing  relief to many people suffering from the disease and its coinfections. Japanese Knotweed tastes bitter and sour with energetics being cold and dry. It is considered stimulating and astringent. Japanese Knotweed  has also, according to herbalist Stephen Buhner, been proliferating across bioregions immediately preceding the emergence of Lyme disease.

I have witnessed this occurrence in the area of central New York State where I live. I  heard Stephen speak at a conference about this about 5 years ago and, at the time, I had minimal knowledge or experience with Lyme disease and its treatment. I had also never seen a Japanese knotweed plant. I began to notice them in my locality about 4 years ago and, even then, it was only sparsely on  the edges of roads and in vacant lots where houses or small industries used to exist. It has spread dramatically in the last three years simultaneously with the abundant increase in deer ticks . The ticks have been slowly increasing as the winters have been slowly getting warmer.

The herb has a long list of medicinal uses especially as a broad-spectrum antibacterial and has been found effective against spirochetes including Borrelia burdorferi(Lyme). It is an antiviral, immunomodulator, immunostimulant, laxative, diuretic, expectorant, antitussive and a capillary stimulant. The capillary stimulant action is of specific importance in Lyme treatment as it increases the blood flow to areas where the Lyme spirochete likes to live such as the eyes, skin, heart and joints.

This then helps to carry the medicinal constituents of any treatments to those places. This makes it a great addition to any Lyme treatment formula/protocol. It should not be taken  in pregnancy except in small doses and should not be used with other blood thinners.

I have been taking Japanese Knotweed this summer in a preventative formula for myself. I contracted Lyme disease last year and have, fortunately, been symptom free and feeling healed since about December.  Because there is not any way to accurately test to see if I still have it, as Lyme can encyst or hide itself, I can only continue to maintain a healthy lifestyle and try to avoid getting run down where my immune system could be compromised. I also, naturally, try to avoid getting another tick bite because it is a disease that can be contracted repeatedly.

Invasive plants are undoubtedly a challenge to our ecosystems and can create a great deal of damage to native plant populations as some are quite imperialistic. They can also be seen for the gifts they offer that are seemingly appropriate to some of our new and emerging illnesses. For more information on the positive side of invasive species there is a book soon to be available called Invasive Plant Medicine The Ecological Benefits and Healing Abilities of Invasives by Timothy Lee Scott. I personally can’t wait to read it!! It is expected to be out sometime in August and you can pre-order at http://invasiveplantmedicine.com/

Sources for this article:
Healing Lyme by Stephen Buhner

Medical Herbalism by David Hoffmann

Jade Remedies by Peter Holmes

Materia Medica: Japanese Knotweed by Chris Marano in the Journal of the Northeast Herbal Association Winter/Spring 2010

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The Dr I saw certainly has a lot of amazing stories. Most of them where allergy related.  The BAx folks just came out with a lyme protocol. If you decide to try it you can call the company for practitioners in your area. They do have a locator on there website but not all practitioners are on there.

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Hope you all are doing great

Paul

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If your not aware lyme and all the other critters we have tend to cling onto heavy metal and chemicals. So when you kill the bugs they get released into your body. This is why a lot of folks will take binders like charcoal and french green clay and so on.

Few highlights from the asyra. One i am very toxic so i will address that with binders, detox supplements, FIR sauna, rebounding, foot bath and so on.

It also said I had lyme, bart and rickettsia. This will be addressed with the rife machine. After  treating all of this stuff for a few weeks i will get back on the asyra and see what else comes up.

There will be many layers of stuff  to deal with. This was just the most important stuff for me to work on right now. The asyra could have found out a lot more but I just wanted to know the top priority stuff right now.

The Asyra also ran a food allergy test on me. It came up with 37 foods I need to stay away from.

When all of this testing was done it also made up some homeopathic drops to help clear a lot of these issue’s. Can’t really comment on the since I just started taking them.

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Later

Paul

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