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Ahead of the Curve Interview With Dr. Alan McDonald

https://tickbootcamp.com/episode-300-ahead-of-the-curve-an-interview-with-dr-alan-mcdonal  Interview Here (Approx. 2 hours 13 min)

September 10, 2022

Episode 300: Ahead of the Curve – an interview with Dr. Alan McDonald

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Dr. Alan MacDonald is an Ivy League educated Medical Doctor who worked as a hospital pathologist in the eastern Long Island, New York area at the outset of the modern Lyme disease pandemic. He and his pioneering work were first featured on episode 171 of the Tick Boot Camp Podcast.

In this comprehensive interview, Dr. MacDonald discusses his groundbreaking and yet to be published research findings on topics such as the Lyme disease connection to suicide, brain cancer, Leukemia, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease, in addition to how acute Lyme disease disrupts liver function and why and how Lyme disease testing is flawed.

PS you can also view an exclusive Tick Boot Camp presentation created by Dr. MacDonald with photos of Lyme under a microscope and descriptions highlighting the various topics discussed in this interview

Check out his GoFundMe page  to help him continue his groundbreaking work.

McDonald has truly done ground-breaking work but has been vilified by many of his own colleagues who seemingly can’t think outside the box or accept new information. Go here to watch other videos where he shows parasitosis (Neural Larval Migrans) within MS patients as he discovered nematode worms, eggs and both larval forms and mating adult pairs present in the brain and spinal fluid of MS patients.  These videos are circa 2016 and are revolutionary yet are quietly collecting dust and simply ignored in mainstream research.

At 5 min and 51 sec into the 2016 London lecture, you will see the discovery of worms in the brain and spinal fluid of EVERY MS patient tested.  He also explains the difficulty in finding these worms as they move from one area to another.

These worms cause inflammation and damage in the CNS on their own but also infect us with Lyme and other infections. 

CLICK HERE to view the research poster of Dr. MacDonald’s discovery of filarial (small roundworms) in the central nervous system of MS patients at their time of death.

CLICK HERE to view the research poster of Dr. MacDonald’s discovery of tapeworm larva and developing juvenile tapeworms in the central nervous system of MS patients at their time of death.

What this means regarding treatment, is that if you are one of those patients with these worms, you need to disable/kill the worms to get to the borrelia/MSIDS inside them.  Anthelminitics such as ivermectin and Albenza are used to kill worms as well as natural medicines; however, this must be done under the supervision of a doctor as the inflammation and herxheimer reactions can be very great. 

For some patients, addressing worms is a game-changer.  Consider talking to your LLMD about it.

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Alzheimer's, Lyme, Parasites, Psychological Aspects, Testing

Studies Show Doctors Still Rely on “Non-Evidence Based” Judgement in the Absence of RCT’s

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I post this information because it’s a rampant issue in Lymeland.  Doctors have simply stopped thinking.  They now follow dictates from government bureaucrats in Washington who are in bed with Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Media, and research institutions.

We desperately need to break the public health monopoly and allow doctors the freedom to think again.  As it stands, doctors are afraid to diagnose and treat  Lyme/MSIDS patients, COVID patients, and any other disease that is being politically controlled.

https://ashmedai.substack.com/p/2-studies-showing-doctors-still-rely

2 Studies Showing Doctors Still Rely on “Non-Evidence Based” Judgement in the Absence of RCT’s

It’s only certain covid treatments where there’s nihilistic clinical paralysis

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One of the more damning behaviors by the medical community throughout the pandemic was what Dr. McCullough termed “therapeutic nihilism” – the systematic refusal to even try treating covid patients. Doctors the world over fell victim to their own unique mass formation psychosis whereby they suddenly ‘forgot’ how to apply their knowledge and experience to a patient with a novel disease condition – in other words, the very act of “doctoring”.  (See link for article)

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A Few points:

  • ‘It’s the incentives, stupid’.  People generally act in consonance with what they are incentivized to do.  The Cares Act incentivized hospitals and doctors to only use FDA “approved” treatments that government employees own the patents on and benefit financially from.

  • Dr. Kory reported6 that after the first few months of covid, nursing homes tried Ivermectin and saw that it worked, which was a big part of why nursing homes were a tiny % of covid deaths after being responsible for the lion’s share of covid mortality at the beginning.
  • Nursing homes and other types of long-term care facilities only make money on patients who are living. Thus they were incentivized to keep their patient populations alive, which they did. (It helped that nursing homes have in-house pharmacies too, so they could compound their own Ivermectin without dealing with the government bureaucracies or medical cartel organizations.)
  • Hospitals, on the other hand, were financially incentivized to:

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Activism, Treatment, vaccines, Viruses

Pandemic Politics & America’s COVID Cartel

https://rumble.com/v1gi4lp-sen.-ron-johnson-pandemic-politics-and-americas-covid-cartel  Video Here (Approx. 1 hour 27 Min)

Sen. Ron Johnson: Pandemic Politics & America’s Covid Cartel

Senator Ron Johnson has been a champion for freedom since well before the Covid Pandemic. In this mind-blowing interview, he sits down with Del to expose the dirty pandemic politics that drove America’s Covid Debacle.

It’s all right here.

Dirty politics, and a Lyme Cartel have also ruled in Lymeland for over 40 years and continues to this day.  There are many similarities between how COVID and Lyme have been handled for many of the same reasons.  COVID and Lyme research are biased and designed for pre-determined outcomes.

The COVID debacle has shown the world what’s been going on in Lymeland for decades, but will the public wake up to it?

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Activism, Treatment, vaccines, Viruses

Congenital Lyme Part 1 & 2

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Congenital Lyme Part 1

Families Facing Congenital Lyme Disease

Jun 29, 2022 An initial overview of Congenital Lyme Disease and stories directly from families impacted by this illness.
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Congenital Lyme Part 2

First-hand experiences of diagnostic challenges from the mothers whose children are impacted by Congenital Lyme Disease.

Congenital Lyme has been denied and ignored by public health ‘authorities’ for decades. They recently had to admit it happens, although per usual they state it’s “rare,” which is frankly impossible for them to know because nobody’s keeping track of it.  Why on earth are patients and advocates still crying for more federal funding for an organization that lies, suppresses, deletes, & manipulates data, and is in frank denial of a very real disease that is increasing by the day, and causes untold suffering, but then quietly updates information in the dark without any public announcement because they are conducting damage control?

Defund the CDC!

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Lyme, Pregnancy

Lyme Has Taken My Income My Hobbies, Even My Personality at Times

https://www.lymedisease.org/alexandra-logg-tbdwg-comments/

Lyme has taken my income, my hobbies, even my personality at times

Public comment to tick-borne disease working group

Alexandra Logg delivered the following public comments at the July 19 meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group.

By Alexandra Logg

Aug. 24, 2022

Good morning and thank you for the opportunity to speak. Recent reports state that a startling 15% of the world’s population has Lyme disease.

My name is Alexandra Logg, and I am one of those people. I have had Lyme for most of my life.

Because I love data, I’ll let you know I’ve had Lyme living in my body for 78% of my life. 

I was bit by a tick in my own backyard in Bernardsville, New Jersey as a child in 1997. A neighbor with an IV hanging from her arm had visited us upon our moving in, to warn us about living in a Lyme endemic area.

Hyper-awareness surrounding Lyme did not suffice. I developed a bull’s-eye on my shoulder and was treated with antibiotics same day and continued to take them for weeks. I was back in the same pediatric office every two-three months for symptoms deemed viral.

Traumatic brain injury

Looking back at my records, it’s clear my lingering symptoms were tied to Lyme. For two decades, I worked around my symptoms. It wasn’t until 2015–when my car was rear ended on my way to work and I incurred a concussion that allowed Lyme into my brain–that I could not work around the symptoms anymore. Research shows traumatic brain injuries can awaken Lyme disease.

By 2017, I was struggling to walk to the bathroom. It took my own research to connect the dots, as I was under the impression I had been cured of Lyme. 

I have been treating Lyme and co-infections ever since. I was bedridden for two and a half years, often sleeping 22 hours a day. I was in so much pain my spine felt like it was splitting when I rolled over in bed. I could not sit upright or stand without severe pain and blacking out.

During this time, I was so sick I could not communicate. Thanks to an experimental treatment and an incredible doctor, I’m able to walk again and appear “normal.” Looks can be deceiving. I still suffer tremendously from neurological effects and encephalitis.

These symptoms include but are not limited to: intense brain fog, memory loss, anxiety, severe cognitive impairments, and lack of executive functioning. I still have days where I struggle to maintain a standard of living that allows me to care for myself. 

Lack of Lyme funding

The current standards of care for tick-borne illness are not sufficient. In 2019, federal funding for Lyme disease was $63 per patient. As of 2020, that number has grown to $170 but that is still not enough.

The less common West Nile virus has 200 times the amount of per-patient funding.

We are in dire need for more funding to aid in early intervention, education for health care providers, and research for stronger diagnostics and a cure.

Otherwise, the strain and financial burden, both personally and federally, will grow as more become sick every year. Early intervention and more sufficient research would prevent a tremendous financial burden across the board.  

Before I became chronically ill, I worked in Patient Access in Infectious Disease. The irony of constantly struggling to access care for my own infectious disease does not escape me.

There are many gaps in care that have lengthened my illness’s timeline. Simply finding a doctor that understands chronic Lyme often requires word of mouth recommendations between patients.

Getting diagnosed, or re-diagnosed in my case, does not mean a clear path to health. Treatment is based on trial and error. 

I am thankful to have company benefits, but even those I have to fight for, since chronic Lyme is not widely recognized. 60% of my income from 2018 while fighting an illness that requires out-of-pocket doctor visits and treatments is not sufficient.

Lyme has taken my career and steady income, my hobbies, and even my personality at times. Living in a constant state of sickness and stress is one I would not wish on my worst enemy.

Alexandra Logg lives in New Jersey.

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**Comment**

Similar story, different person.

Again, the clarion call for more federal money to be given to organizations that have done nothing but hurt patients is shouting at a monolithic mountain that will never be moved.  Money doesn’t fix corruption – it only increases it.  The CDC/NIH/FDA all have long track records of corruption.  Do not fund these organizations any longer.  They need to be disbanded.

We need to detach ourselves from the behemoth and fund our own independent research to resolve this juggernaut.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

We can not trust a corrupt government that is behind the very disease we are seeking answers for.

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Activism, Lyme