Archive for August, 2022

Lyme Disease & The Effects of Vitamin D

https://www.globallymealliance.org/blog/lyme-and-vitamin-d

Lyme Disease and The Effects of Vitamin D

by Jennifer Crystal on August 16, 2022

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Lyme disease can deplete your vitamin D levels–which ironically, are essential in your recovery. Read about the positive effects of Vitamin D and techniques to increase it.

While kayaking recently, a friend noticed that I was getting a lot of sun on my face and asked if I wanted a hat. “No thanks,” I replied. “I’m wearing sunscreen, and I want to soak up as much vitamin D as I can.”

There were summers during my convalescence from tick-borne illness when I couldn’t be in the sun at all, due to the phototoxicity of the medication I was on. Doxycycline, the most common antibiotic used to treat Lyme disease, can cause you to be very sensitive to the sun. When I was on doxycycline or other antibiotics in the same family, my face would feel like it was on fire if I was exposed for more than five minutes. I spent summers bundled in protective shirts, under hats and umbrellas in the shade.

A former camp counselor who spent every day in the sun before I got sick, summers in the shade were not my style. Now that I am in remission, I want to (carefully) get as much sun as possible, making up for lost time and summer glow. But it’s not just sun-kissed cheeks that I’m after. I literally am trying to soak up vitamin D, provided by the sun, because I know that Lyme disease can cause a deficiency in that vitamin.

The Lyme disease bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi, directly reduces vitamin D receptor expression in immune cells. Low vitamin D can be involved in immune dysfunction and autoimmunity, so Lyme patients who are already struggling with compromised immune systems may be further compromised by a vitamin deficiency. As Clinical Nutritionist Lindsay Christensen, MS, CNS, LDN, CKNS explains in her blog post “Lyme Disease Nutrition Tips for Optimal Immune Function,” Vitamin D3 is “essential for healthy immune function. Within the innate immune system, vitamin D3 supports the production of cathelicidin, an antimicrobial peptide (protein) that protects the body against bacteria, viruses, and fungi. Vitamin D3 also regulates dendritic cells, which are immune cells that ‘bridge the gap’ between the innate and adaptive immune system branches and may help defend the body against Borrelia.”

In other words, the very vitamin that can be depleted by Lyme disease is also necessary to help fight it.

So what should Lyme patients do? First, make sure your doctor is monitoring your vitamin D levels. A blood test can tell you whether you have a deficiency. If you do, sunshine, and certain foods like egg yolks and fatty cold-water fish, can help you get vitamin D. You also may need to supplement with vitamin D3 to maintain what Christensen describes as “an optimal vitamin D3 level of 40-60 ng/mL, which is higher than the 30-60 ng/mL range suggested by most labs.”

Testing vitamin D levels can also help a Lyme Literate Medical Doctor (LLMD) determine if you have Lyme disease, if you have symptoms but have not yet been diagnosed. Though not a definitive diagnostic marker (low vitamin D is also seen in other conditions like multiple sclerosis), low vitamin D can be a tip-off that Lyme disease could be the cause of your symptoms.

Vitamin D is not the only vitamin that can be affected by Lyme disease, or that you may need more of to help fight tick-borne illness. Many Lyme patients have a vitamin B12 deficiency. Others have anemia or low ferretin. It’s important that your doctor do regular blood work to check for any nutritional deficiencies, and then you can determine together how to best supplement them, to support your overall healing. In the meanwhile, as long as you’re not on a phototoxic drug, sticking your face in the sun can’t hurt!

The above material is provided for information purposes only. The material (a) is not nor should be considered, or used as a substitute for, medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment, nor (b) does it necessarily represent endorsement by or an official position of Global Lyme Alliance, Inc. or any of its directors, officers, advisors or volunteers. Advice on the testing, treatment or care of an individual patient should be obtained through consultation with a physician who has examined that patient or is familiar with that patient’s medical history. *Make sure to protect your skin when in the sun.
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Jennifer Crystal

Opinions expressed by contributors are their own. Jennifer Crystal is a writer and educator in Boston. Her work has appeared in local and national publications including Harvard Health Publishing and The Boston Globe. As a GLA columnist for over six years, her work on GLA.org has received mention in publications such as The New Yorker, weatherchannel.com, CQ Researcher, and ProHealth.com. Jennifer is a patient advocate who has dealt with chronic illness, including Lyme and other tick-borne infections. Her memoir about her medical journey is forthcoming. Contact her via email below.

Email: lymewarriorjennifercrystal@gmail.com

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**Comment**

This is a perfect example of Lyme/MSIDS patients needing to be their own advocates and learning about their own bodies and what they require for optimal health.  It’s a road that never ends so buckle up and enjoy it.

There are times in the journey when this revelation can be overwhelming.  Accept it for the time being and don’t allow it to bog you down.  When you are capable of reading, comprehending, remembering, and searching yourself – do it – you won’t regret learning and improving.  There are many stages to the journey.  You can’t learn it all at once – your head would explode.  So, bit by bit, piece by piece – accrue your knowledge and use it for yourself and to help others.  This is, BTW, the best way to learn.

For more on vitamin D:

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Lyme, Supplements

September Lyme Support Meeting

When: Sept. 24, 2022

Time: 2:30-4:45

Where:  Pinney Library, Room B, 516 Cottage Grove Rd. Madison, WI

What:  Support and education for Lyme/MSIDS patients

This will be our last support group meeting unless someone steps up to volunteer.  I moved two years ago and have started a group here.  Please consider volunteering for this as support is a vital part of the journey.

I will continue running the website, fielding phone calls, keeping the doctor list updated, and helping anyone that requests it.

I look forward to meeting with all of you and hearing how you are doing.  Please share with the group things that are working for you.

See you soon!

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Meetings

FDA Buries Head in Sand as 44% of Pregnant Trial Participants Suffer Miscarriages – Then Has the Audacity to Re-categorize Them As “Recovered” Adverse Events

https://rumble.com/v1g5nmf-pfizer-buried-their-heads-in-the-sand-as-44-of-pregnant-trial-participants  Video Here (Approx. 3 Min)

44% of Pregnant Trial Participants Suffer Miscarriages

A document released under court order reveals that 44% of pregnant women participating in Pfizer’s mRNA COVID vaccine trial suffered miscarriages.

Dr. Naomi Wolf:

“Over a year ago, the FDA received this report that out of 50 pregnant women, 22 of them lost their babies, and they did not say anything. Thus the FDA was aware of the horrifying rate of fetal death by the start of April 2021 and were silent.”

“If you extrapolate, globally, to all the pregnant women who are injected, it could explain what we’re seeing now of a baby die-off.”

https://rumble.com/v1g5qnt-the-monsters-at-pfizer-recategorized-miscarriages-as-resolved-or-recovered  Video Here (Approx. 1.5 min)

Pfizer Recategorized Miscarriages as “Recovered or Resolved” Adverse Events

Dr. Naomi Wolf:

“Pfizer notes the miscarriages as serious adverse events with moderate or severe toxicity ratings. However, all of them were recategorized, by Pfizer, in the internal documents under the category of adverse events that were ‘recovered’ or ‘resolved.’

The miscarriage is in the same category as a headache that went away. If you lost your baby, Pfizer said, ‘Your adverse event was recovered or resolved.'”

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**Comment**

Remember, the FDA wanted 75 years to release this information, but thanks to a non-profit who sued, a judge has ordered the agency to release 12,000 documents immediately, and then 55,000 pages a month until all documents are released — totaling more than 300,000 pages.

Predictably, Pfizer has stated that deaths in trial participants are “not related” to the ‘vaccine.’ #ABV

They have purposely been obscure and have buried the data making it very difficult to find, but scores of volunteers are pouring through the mountain of documents to unearth the unfathomable.  The icing on the cake is when Pfizer asked the court to dismiss a whistleblower lawsuit because the government was aware of the fraud.  Yes, you read that correctly.  Our government’s collusion with Big Pharma is that blatant.

Now, since data evidently doesn’t even matter, the FDA has waived clinical trials altogether for boosters.  Why even bother?

Please read Dr. Wolf’s Substack article: “Dear Friends, Sorry to Announce a Genocide” where she points out the lies:

  • FDA and Pfizer knew by Dec. 2020 that the mRNA shots waned in efficacy, presented “vaccine failure”, and that a side effect was infection with COVID
  • Pfizer knew by May 2021 that minors can experience heart damage a week after the shot, but the FDA rolled out the jab for teens anyway and parents didn’t receive a press release until August – after thousands were already “vaccinated.”
  • Pfizer knew that the spike protein and the lipid nanoparticles do not stay at the injection site but go directly into the bloodstream and then lodge in the liver, spleen adrenals, lymph nodes, testes, and ovaries.
  • The FDA knew that the Moderna shot has more than three times the 30mcg of the adult Pfizer dose of lipid nanoparticles and spike protein.
    • Pfizer knew there was a higher rate of adverse events with the 100mcg dose so they stopped experimenting with it internally due to its “reactogenicity” but nobody bothered to tell the American people who got the first and second 100mcg Moderna dose AND boosters.
    • Pfizer not only lost hundreds of records of trial subjects but chose females for 3/4 of the subjects because they are less prone to cardiac damage.
    • There were over 42,000 adverse events and more than 1,200 people DIED. Four died on the day they were injected.
    • The FDA and Pfizer knew about blistering, rashes, shingles, and herpetic conditions (blistering conditions oddly foreshadowing monkeypox symptoms)
    • The shots contain PEG, an allergen that causes some to go into anaphylactic shock but nobody, especially those with a PEG allergy, was warned or even watched by their doctor
    • Pfizer’s documents show that “exposure” to the ‘vaccine’ was defined as sexual and skin contact, inhalation, or via lactation.
    • Pfizer BioNTech’s SEC filing shows a fainting side effect so violent you may hurt yourself.  Please consider this when you hear of people “slipping and falling” and hitting their heads.  #ABV

For more:

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Activism, Pregnancy, vaccines, Viruses

FOIA Request Uncovers Lab Rat Offspring Got Rib Malformations After COVID Shots

https://www.theepochtimes.com/lab-rats-got-rib-malformations-from-covid-vaccine-moderna-trial-documents

Lab Rat Offspring Got Rib Malformations After COVID Vaccination: Moderna Trial Documents

By Enrico Trigoso
August 16, 2022

Moderna documents regarding their COVID vaccine trial on animals, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request by Judicial Watch, showed that some of the offspring of rats that were injected with Moderna’s mRNA shot developed rib malformations.

The 700 pages contain a portion of the formal Biologics Licensing Application (A) package that a manufacturer is required to submit to the FDA for approval.

The documents have not yet been made public, but were analyzed by former pharma executive Alexandra Latypova and reviewed by The Epoch Times.  (See link for article)

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SUMMARY:

  • No study report was given, only Moderna’s interpretation of the results done as part of the singular reproductive toxicology test
  • The injection manufacturers didn’t give any dose calculations or justification information for dosage selection
  • Despite results the FDA issued a statement on Jan. 30 saying that there were no adverse effects on postnatal developments
  • The Pfizer shot also caused a 295% increase in abnormal ribs in the offspring of “vaccinated” rats
  • A board-certified OBGYN states that this is an extremely dangerous warning signal which was never brought to the light of day – which means the CDC, Pfizer, Moderna, and prominent medical journals are guilty of lying to the American public and should be held accountable
  • Thorp recently analyzed and verified the most recent Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data related to COVID-19 vaccines and compared them to the influenza vaccines, finding numerous abnormalities.  A summary of his findings:
    • increases in menstrual disorders, miscarriage, fetal chromosomal abnormalities, fetal cystic hygroma, fetal malformations, fetal cardiac arrest, fetal cardiac arrhythmias, fetal cardiac disorders, fetal vascular malperfusion abnormalities, abnormal fetal surveillance testing, abnormal fetal growth patterns, placental thrombosis, and fetal death.Compared to influenza vaccines, COVID-19 shots posed the following risks:
      • Abnormal uterine bleeding (menstrual irregularity), 1,000 times greater than for influenza vaccines
      • Miscarriages, 50 times greater
      • Fetal chromosomal abnormalities, 100 times greater
      • Fetal malformation, 50 times greater
      • Fetal cystic hygroma (a major malformation), 90 times greater
      • Fetal cardiac disorders, 40 times greater
      • Fetal arrhythmia, 50 times greater
      • Fetal cardiac arrest, 200 times greater
      • Fetal vascular malperfusion, 100 times greater
      • Fetal growth abnormalities, 40 times greater
      • Fetal abnormal surveillance tests, 20 times greater
      • Fetal placental thrombosis, 70 times greater

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research, vaccines

Wisconsin Safe Harbor Practitioner Exemption Bill Vetoed by Evers

Wisconsin Safe Harbor Practitioner Exemption Bill Vetoed by Governor Evers

Wisconsin’s Complementary and Alternative Practices bill, AB 86, was vetoed by Wisconsin Governor Evers on May 17, 2022, after the bill had successfully passed the Assembly and the Senate. 

Health freedom activists worked almost 20 years, taking turns to move Safe Harbor Practitioner Exemption legislation through the Wisconsin legislature.  2022 proved to be the year they finally moved the bill to the governor’s office.  But the completely sad news is that Governor Evers vetoed the bill.

Thank you everyone, for helping move the safe harbor bill forward. Unfortunately, politics plays a major role in Wisconsin.  The Wisconsin Governor’s veto is the first veto NHFA has ever witnessed for Safe Harbor legislation. NHFA attorneys Diane Miller and Anne Gillum both attended hearings during the sessions to support the Wisconsin Health Freedom Coalition (WHFC). And WHFC had a lobbyist who assisted during the last three years of the effort.  Still, in the end, the governor wrote a veto letter.  In reading it, some Wisconsin advocates say that it appears as if he never read the safe harbor bill at all. 

As you know, holistic healers do not practice licensed medicine and therefore do not seek out a license. However, at the same time the safe harbor bill moved to the Governor’s office, so did a bill requesting the licensure of Naturopathic Doctors.  The Governor signed the Naturopathic Doctor bill and vetoed the Complementary and Alternative Health Care Practices bill.  It was a confusing and sad time for the health freedom advocates that depend on their complementary and alternative health care practitioners.

It is important to note that the new Naturopathic Doctor bill that passed states in subd 1. that a person may not:

“designate himself or herself as a naturopathic doctor or doctor of naturopathic medicine; use or assume the title “naturopathic doctor,” “doctor of naturopathic medicine,” or “doctor of naturopathy”; use the words “naturopathic medicine” or “naturopathic health care” in connection with his or her practice; append to the person’s name the letters “N.D.” or “ND”; use any other titles, words, letters, abbreviations, insignia, or designation that would imply that the individual is licensed, certified, or registered as a naturopathic doctor or doctor of naturopathic medicine; or claim to render naturopathic medicine or naturopathic health care services unless the person is licensed under s. 466.04 (1) or (2).”

But that new Naturopathic Doctor bill also provides protection for unlicensed persons in the use of the term “naturopath’ when it states:

“This paragraph does not prohibit or restrict a person from designating himself or herself as a naturopath or from using or assuming the title “naturopath” if that designation or use does not otherwise violate subd. 1.

Naturopathy is just one of hundreds of complementary and alternative health care practices that Wisconsin citizens were working to protect.  It is good to know that based on the new Naturopathic Doctor law, practitioners that are not licensed can continue to call themselves “Naturopaths”, however they may not use the term Naturopathic doctor or ND, even if they earned the credential through an accredited ND program.

The criminal law for practice of medicine is still law in Wisconsin because Wisconsin does not have a safe harbor practitioner exemption for all complementary and alternative practitioner, protecting them from being accused of practice of medicine.  Hopefully some day in the future citizens will once again pass a safe harbor exemption law in Wisconsin for all complementary and alternative healers that are not licensed medical professionals, and the next time, the Governor will successfully sign it.

Much gratitude for all those wonderful health freedom activists and legislators that got this bill through the legislature and on to the Governors desk!

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**Comment**

If you are unfamiliar with AB86 and what it entails go here and here.

In short, it:

  • Protects your access to services provided by practitioners of complementary and alternative health in Wisconsin such as herbalists, traditional naturopaths, nutritional consultants, homeopaths, Reiki practitioners, Ayurveda practitioners, and many more.
  • Enables practitioners to provide services without fear of being charged with practice of medicine without a license as long as they avoid a list of prohibited acts and give out proper disclosures.
  • Adds clarity to Wisconsin law and updates it to reflect what is happening already!
  • Already passed unanimously out of the Senate Insurance, Licensing and Forestry Committee and it passed the Senate, as amended, on a unanimous voice vote on April 14.
  • Last session, it passed the Assembly Health Committee, the Assembly Floor and the Senate Committee on Health before stalling in the Senate due to COVID-19.
  • 11 other states already protect the practices of many wonderful complementary and alternative practitioners who are providing great services to health seekers – Wisconsin should too!

Politics wins again in Wisconsin despite the thousands upon thousands who rely upon alternative health for Lyme/MSIDS since mainstream medicine is completely in the Dark Ages regarding tick-borne illness.  There are many who never would have even obtained a diagnosis without these alternative providers.  This is truly disappointing considering Wisconsin is an epicenter for tick-borne illness.

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Activism, Treatment