Archive for June, 2016

The Coffee Enema

The MSIDS (multi systemic infectious disease syndrome – or Lyme with friends) patient learns fairly quickly that treatment includes killing pathogens, detoxifying, and supporting the body.  For a primer on what this entails, please read:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2015/12/06/tips-for-newbies/

There are a thousand ways to do all of these things and many are listed in the above article, but one that has much success is the coffee enema.  Unlike a standard enema, only 1-2 Cups of organic, cooled, coffee is used and held for approximately 15 minutes.  It’s purpose is also slightly different in that the coffee enema is absorbed into the enter-hepatic system which causes the liver ducts and bile ducts to empty toxins into the sigmoid colon. Also, the alkaloids in the caffeine stimulate production of glutathione-S-transferase, an enzyme that encourages detoxification.  And, unlike drinking the coffee, which has to travel through the digestive tract, the coffee enema remains in the sigmoid colon – so it’s safe for those sensitive to caffeine, but if you still feel the effects of being wired, reduce the coffee amount by half for a few days or weeks.  You can gradually increase as the body adjusts.

In the following video, Dr. Jay Davidson explains what he considers to be some missing links in standard coffee enema practice.  For one, he feels it important to do two enemas back to back.  He also recommends taking activated charcoal to bind with the toxins that are released by the enema.  He recommends taking a few tabs prior to and after the enema for best results.  He gives trusted brands as well as information on where to get supplies.  And lastly he recommends taking LB (Liver Gallbladder by Systemic Formulas) to soften the thick bile for a greater release.  He recommends taking this a week prior to taking the enema.

http://drjaydavidson.com/coffee-enema-missing-links/  This link goes into much more detail and has videos as well as sources.  Coffee enema info starts about 7 minutes into the video.  

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Detoxing, Uncategorized

Tiny Tick Big Controversy ABC Special Report

  Published on Feb 4, 2016 WMDT-TV Channel 47 Documentary on Lyme.  Approx. 25 minutes

See local Lyme patients, hear interviews with specialists, as well as medical professionals who don’t necessarily believe in chronic Lyme disease. Emily Lampa, senior reporter for WMDT-TV, courageously took on this challenge and created the documentary, “Tiny Tick Big Controversy”.

The prevention of tick-borne illnesses is much more complicated than just avoiding ticks. One of the major reasons is that the diagnosis and treatment of the most common vector-borne infection, Lyme Disease, is still such a mystery and so often clouded by controversy.

 

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Activism, Lyme, Ticks, Uncategorized

Good News! Stanford Lyme Working Group

 

Forward Thinking! — Ticktalkireland’s Blog

Thanks to Sherry and Lair Cagan, founders of www.Stand4Lyme.com, there is some great research being conducted at Standford University who is collaborating with numerous institutions.

If you need some hope today, watch this 20 minute video.  Kudos to the Cagans!

More good news:  http://www.northeastern.edu/news/2016/03/researchers-investigate-four-promising-new-treatments-for-lyme-disease/  March 29, 2016

“Uni­ver­sity Dis­tin­guished Pro­fessor Kim Lewis, who leads the Lyme dis­ease research team, is now expanding that ther­a­peutic reach with the help of a $1.5 mil­lion grant from the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Foundation.

The team is pur­suing four arms of treatment-related research at Northeastern’s Antimi­cro­bial Dis­covery Center, which Lewis directs.

They are: a mouse study of a reg­imen that erad­i­cated the bac­terium in the test tube, set­ting the stage for human trials; antibi­otic cock­tails using existing drugs; strate­gies to dis­cover new drugs that selec­tively target the Lyme bac­terium; and ways to alter the com­po­si­tion of the microbiome—the com­mu­nity of microor­gan­isms inhab­iting the human body—to stop the autoim­mune reac­tions that char­ac­terize the disease.

All four show exciting promise. The grant, Lewis says, “will give us the flex­i­bility to test our approaches in par­allel, which will save us an enor­mous amount of time.”

“We are going at Lyme dis­ease with every­thing we have.”
— Uni­ver­sity Dis­tin­guished Pro­fessor Kim Lewis

We are rooting for all of you!

Category:

Activism, Lyme, research

Great Lyme Video

Published on Jul 22, 2014
Excellent movie on the international problem of lyme – Approx. 50 min.

Category:

Lyme, Ticks

Borrelia Hiding in Worms Causing Chronic Brain Diseases

Here’s a Feb 2025 Review: Filarial Nematodes Parasitizing Tick Vectors: Unraveling global patterns in Species Diversity, Host Associations, and Interactions With Tick-borne Pathogens.

In short, while ticks are known to spread filarial nematodes of medical and veterinary importance, even now, very little is known.  However, some recent reports have shown success using using doxycycline and ivermectin (dewormer) for some patients with Lyme disease.

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Borrelia burgdorferi/CDC

Press Release May 23, 2016

http://outbreaknewstoday.com/lyme-discovery-borrelia-bacteria-hides-inside-parasitic-worms-causing-chronic-brain-diseases-13216/

Pathologist Alan MacDonald has done it again.

He found three strains of borrelia living in parasitic nematode worms, worm eggs, or larvae in the brain tissue of 19 autopsies.  

MacDonald states that both worms and borrelia can cause devastating brain damage and that:

“while patients are wrongly declared free of Lyme and other tick-borne infections, in reality, too often they contract serious neurodegenerative diseases which can kill them.”  

MacDonald made his discovery from 10 specimens from the Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Center Tissue Bank.  All 10 showed evidence of borrelia infected nematodes.  Five patients who died of Glioblastoma multiforme, a malignant brain tumor, and four patients who died of Lewy Body dementia also showed infected nematodes.

MacDonald used FISH, Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization, which uses molecular beacon DNA probes to identify pieces of borrelia’s genetic material which fluoresce under the microscope with a 100% DNA match.

In other words, this is no mistake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZnY871HZhM&feature=youtu.be  YouTube of MacDonald explaining the results

Lyme discoverer, Willy Burgdorfer, wrote of finding nematodes in tick guts way back in 1984 and in 2014 University of New Haven researcher, Eva Sapi, found 22% of nymphs and 30% of adult Ixodes ticks carried nematodes.  

So where’s the CDC?  I’ll give you a hint: it has something to do with Zika.  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/03/08/fixation-on-zikapolio/

http://www.omicsonline.com/open-access/alzheimers-disease-a-novel-hypothesis-integrating-spirochetes-biofilm-and-the-immune-system-2314-7326-1000200.pdf  An excellent read on how autopsies of brains with Alzheimer’s show biofilms created by spirochetes that are present in the characteristic brain plaques of AD.

 

 

 

 

 

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Lyme, Parasites, research, Ticks, Transmission, Treatment