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How Lyme, Mast Cell, and MCS Are Related

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How Are Lyme, Mast Cell, and Multiple Chemical Sensitivities Related? | RawlsMD

How Are Lyme, Mast Cell, and Multiple Chemical Sensitivities Related?

by Dr. Bill Rawls
Posted 3/15/23

Cellular stress and disruptions of immune system functions are chief instigators of overlapping conditions like mast cell activation syndrome and chemical sensitivities. Here’s how they’re all related to Lyme disease. Read more about cellular stress and immune system dysfunction here.

Video Transcript

Question: How are Lyme, mast cell, and multiple chemical sensitivities related?

Jenny Buttaccio: Anna asks, what are your thoughts about Lyme accompanied with severe multiple chemical sensitivities and mast cell activation?

Dr. Rawls: Yeah, you know, that’s what we do in conventional medicine is we divide it up into diagnoses and compartmentalize everything. And to me, chronic illness is just all a variation on the same thing.

It’s all related to distressed cells in the body. It all has an underlying microbe component. What chronic illness is, is reactivation of microbes. We have different illnesses because we get different microbes, and they affect different cells in the body. So that causes a variety of different illnesses because there are thousands of microbes and hundreds of different cell types, different combinations, different diseases.

So when you look at how these reactivated, or ongoing infections with microbes, affect the immune system, you know, it’s a battle, it’s a tug-of-war. So the immune system is trying to do its best to eradicate this really out of control situation. So it’s suppressing the microbes, but the microbes are actually infecting white blood cells and manipulating the cytokines, the chemical messengers coming from those cells to manipulate the immune system.

And they do it in different ways. So it depends on what type of white blood cell they’ve infected, what type of microbe is active. Viruses do this, bacteria do this, protozoa do this. So we know this is happening. So what they’re doing is manipulating the immune system to reduce the sensitivity or the ability of the immune system to take out microbes in cells that have been infected with microbes to shift it toward doing other things, like being hypoallergenic, like mast cell activation syndrome or other kinds of things.

So it’s this total disruption of immune system functions that causes it to be under-activated in some ways and over-activated in other ways. So it’s part and parcel. Now, because everybody gets different microbes. We have different genes, different cells are affected and different parts of the immune system are affected. It can happen in different ways, in different people. Fundamentally, it’s all the same stuff, though.

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Study: Bait Boxes and Met52 Not Effective in Controlling Tick Populations

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TICK CONTROL METHODS NOT EFFECTIVE IN RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS

Mouse with tick embedded on shrub branch.

Controlling tick populations can help reduce the likelihood of individuals being bitten by an infected tick and developing a tick-borne illness, such as Lyme disease. Multiple types of tick control methods have been employed but with varying degrees of success. This study explores the effectiveness of bait boxes and the biopesticide spray Met52 in reducing tick abundance and tick encounters with humans.

In their study, “Impacts Over Time of Neighborhood-Scale Interventions to Control Ticks and Tick-Borne Disease Incidence,” Ostfeld and colleagues examined the effectiveness of tick control methods in 24 residential neighborhoods endemic for Lyme disease in New York.¹

The study, conducted over several years, assessed the impact of tick control system (TCS) bait boxes and Met52 spray on reducing tick abundance and tick encounters with people and outdoor pets. And whether these interventions led to a decrease in reported cases of tick-borne diseases.

“Rapid increases in incidence rates and geographic ranges of tick-borne diseases have stimulated efforts to reduce human exposure.”

The authors examined two interventions:

TCS Bait Boxes

TCS bait boxes attract small animals to a food source inside an enclosed device and apply the tick-killing chemical, fipronil. (Fipronil is lethal to ticks but harmless to mammals.)

Met52 Spray

Met52 spray is a biopesticide, which consists of spores of the F52 strain of the fungus Metarhizium brunneum. The solution, mixed with water, is sprayed on the ground and low-lying vegetation.

Impact varies with type of tick control intervention

“By killing ticks attached to small mammals, TCS bait boxes are expected to affect the abundance of host-seeking (questing) ticks the following year,” the authors explain.

Whereas, “Met52 targets host-seeking ticks, with impacts expected within days to weeks after deployment.”

Unfortunately, interventions were unable to control tick populations in 24 residential neighborhoods in New York over a 4-to-5-year period.

“… the lack of association between reduced abundance of host-seeking nymphal blacklegged ticks in residential areas receiving acaricidal treatments and the incidence of tick-borne diseases in those areas … suggests that tick control for disease reduction needs new approaches.”

STUDY FINDINGS:

  • The study found that in neighborhoods with active bait boxes, questing blacklegged ticks and ticks attached to small mammals were reduced by approximately 50%.
  • These interventions “significantly reduced owner-reported cases of tick-borne diseases in outdoor pets,” the authors point out.
  • However, “neither intervention (nor both combined) was associated with reductions in either human encounters with ticks or self-reported cases of tick-borne disease.”
  • “In neighborhoods with active TCS bait boxes, populations of blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) were not reduced over time in any of the three habitat types tested (forest, lawn, shrub/garden).”
  • “There was no significant effect of Met52 on tick abundance overall…”

U.S. and UK Secretly Agreed to Hide Vaccine Reactions

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U.S. and UK Secretly Agreed to Hide Vaccine Reactions

In the days leading up to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccin, U.S. and U.K. health officials entered into a “mutual confidentiality agreement” to keep vaccine adverse events under wraps.

This article was originally published by The Defender — Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website.

Story at a glance:

  • U.S. and U.K. health officials discussed “anaphylactoid reactions” due to COVID-19 shots and emphasized their “mutual confidentiality agreement” regarding the topic.
  • The news was revealed in 57 pages of heavily redacted U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) records via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit.
  • A government email exchange from May 14, 2021, also discusses concerns about administering COVID-19 shots along with other vaccines during pregnancy
  • Regulatory filings show Pfizer knew of its shots’ waning effectiveness in April 2021 but didn’t publicly acknowledge it until late July 2021.
  • Preclinical studies for Pfizer’s COVID-19 shots also warned of rhabdomyolysis, which is the breakdown of skeletal muscles, but the trial reported it was “completed with no safety concerns.”

In the days leading up to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 shot, an agreement was made to keep serious adverse reactions under wraps.

U.S. and U.K. health officials discussed “anaphylactoid reactions” due to COVID-19 shots and emphasized their “mutual confidentiality agreement” regarding the topic.

The news was revealed by Judicial Watch, which obtained 57 pages of heavily redacted HHS records via a FOIA lawsuit.

Initially, Judicial Watch submitted a FOIA request in August 2021 that specifically asked for:

“All emails sent to and from members of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee regarding adverse events, deaths and/or injuries caused by investigatory vaccines for the prevention or treatment of SARS-CoV-2 and/or COVID-19 currently produced by Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna and/or Johnson & Johnson.”

The request was ignored, prompting the lawsuit that ultimately revealed the confidentiality agreement between U.S. and U.K. regulators.

Why are we engaged in a secret deal to keep secret information about adverse events related to the vaccines?” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton asked. “I just think it’s troubling. The documents speak for themselves.”

U.S. and UK officials make pact to keep safety issues quiet

The pact was revealed in a series of email exchanges from December 2020. Initiated by Jonathan Mogford, policy director of the U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, and sent to FDA commissioner Janet Woodcock and Peter Marks, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.

Judicial Watch reported:

“As background, Mogford includes information on ‘two cases of anaphylactoid reactions in individuals with a strong past history of allergic reactions.’

“Marks replies to Mogford: ‘It would be very helpful if our Office of Vaccines could receive additional details [redacted] from MHRA [UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency] under the terms of our mutual confidentiality agreement.’

“Mogford later replies: ‘Attached are [redacted] hope that’s helpful in the meantime. If I can just remind — information shared under our confidentiality agreement.’”

An email exchange from May 14, 2021, also discusses concerns about administering COVID-19 shots along with other vaccines during pregnancy.

According to Judicial Watch:

“The CDC’s [U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] Dr. Amanda Cohn emailed Office of Vaccines Research and Review Director Marion Gruber and Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Peter Marks with the subject line ‘Coadministration of COVID-19 Vaccines with Other Vaccines During Pregnancy.’

“Gruber writes: ‘I am fine with this language.’

“Marks then responds to Cohn and her CDC colleague, Sarah Mbaeyi: ‘I can live with this too. Please let me know if you want to connect about the adverse event issue later today. Seems like work is still ongoing, but let me know. Thanks.’

“Cohn replies: ‘We have a meeting with Rochelle [presumably CDC Director Rochelle Walensky] at 3:30 about if we should say anything or wait until we have more definitive information. I will let you know where we land. I’m not sure there is a right answer.’”

“It again took a lawsuit for the Biden administration to hand over, albeit heavily redacted, information regarding the safety of the COVID vaccines that the public has every right to know,” Fitton said in a news release.

“This disturbing batch of new documents have uncovered a secret confidentiality agreement tied to COVID vaccine safety issues and emails that raise new questions about the vaccines and pregnancy.”

Pfizer hid data on lack of effectiveness

After initially claiming in late 2020 that its COVID-19 shots were 95% effective, Pfizer’s COVID-19 shots turned out to have rapidly waning protection of just 39%.

That figure was reported in July 2021 by the Israeli Ministry of Health. Pfizer echoed the “declining trend in vaccine efficacy” in late July 2021, but regulatory filings from April 2021 show Pfizer knew of the shots’ failures months earlier.

“It’s clear from the documents that these analyses were almost 4 months old by the time they became public,” Peter Doshi, associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, told Maryanne Demasi, Ph.D., a former medical scientist with the University of Adelaide and former reporter for ABC News in Australia.

“It’s disappointing that neither Pfizer nor regulators, disclosed these data until it was too obvious to ignore new outbreaks in Israel and Massachusetts, which made it clear that vaccine performance was not holding up,” he said.

Even Pfizer’s six-month phase III trial data, released April 1, 2021, stayed silent on the shots’ waning efficacy.

And, at that time, health officials were still claiming that the shot would stop COVID-19 transmission. In May 2021, Dr. Anthony Fauci stated “When you get vaccinated, you not only protect your own health … you become a dead end to the virus.”

As Doshi explained:

“Publicly disclosing that efficacy waned so soon after authorization might have undermined the credibility of authorities, who’d been projecting great confidence about the vaccines’ ability to end the pandemic.”

But instead of transparency and supporting informed consent so Americans could make their own choice about the shots with all the data, Demasi reported:

“Within weeks of Pfizer publishing its data on waning efficacy, President Biden ordered all federal workers (and employees of contractors) to get vaccinated within 75 days, otherwise they’d face punishment or have their employment terminated.”

Shots’ effects on brain known since 2020

mRNA COVID-19 shots teach your cells to produce a protein, or piece of protein, that triggers an immune response, including the production of antibodies.

However, because natural mRNA is easily broken down, this means the experimental gene therapy needs a special delivery system to make it to the body’s cells.

The shots use lipid nanoparticles that contain polyethylene glycol (PEG) for this purpose. The mRNA is wrapped in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) that carry it to your cells, and the LNPs are “PEGylated” — that is, chemically attached to PEG molecules to increase stability.

Usually, if you were to inject RNA into your body, enzymes would immediately break it apart, but the COVID-19 shots are specifically designed so that doesn’t happen. While it was originally advertised that COVID-19 shots “stay in the arm,” Pfizer knew since at least November 2020 that the shots may influence the brain.

Pfizer contracted Acuitas Therapeutics to conduct animal studies, which found LNPs from COVID-19 shots rapidly traveled to other areas, including the brain, eyes, heart, ovaries and other organs.

Naturopath Colleen Huber explained:

“Now that we have LNPs with their mRNA payload delivered past the BBB and into the brain, what do they do once they arrive to the fluid surrounding neurons? The rest is an easy journey for LNPs. Neurons take up LNPs — and they do so very efficiently, at 100 percent uptake, by means of apolipoprotein E, and usually without immune reaction at that point.

“Apolipoprotein E is abundant in the brain — it is produced by astrocytes. The mechanism of uptake is endocytosis, in which the membrane of the neuron engulfs or swallows the approaching LNP. That has been observed since at least 2013. In this way, the Trojan Horse content of the LNP is delivered, because it was contained in a benign-seeming — to the neuronal membrane — package.”

A number of neurological injuries have been reported following COVID-19 shots, including ischemic strokeBell’s palsy, tinnitus and Guillain-Barré syndrome.

As for one mechanism of brain injury, Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D., a senior research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, believes genetic modifications introduced by COVID-19 shots may induce immune cells to release large quantities of exosomes into circulation.

Exosomes are extracellular vesicles that contain protein, DNA, RNA and other constituents, and may contain mRNA along with spike protein.

According to Seneff and colleagues:

“We present the evidence that vaccination, unlike natural infection, induces a profound impairment in type I interferon signaling, which has diverse adverse consequences to human health.

“We explain the mechanism by which immune cells release into the circulation large quantities of exosomes containing spike protein along with critical microRNAs that induce a signaling response in recipient cells at distant sites.

“We also identify potential profound disturbances in regulatory control of protein synthesis and cancer surveillance. These disturbances are shown to have a potentially direct causal link to neurodegenerative disease, myocarditis, immune thrombocytopenia, Bell’s palsy, liver disease, impaired adaptive immunity, increased tumorigenesis, and DNA damage.”

COVID shots melting muscles

Preclinical studies for Pfizer’s COVID-19 shots also warned of rhabdomyolysis, which is the breakdown of skeletal muscles. Writing in DailyClout, Dr. Robert Chandler reported:

“The Pfizer documents contain results from a 17-day study of repeat dose injections of BNT162b2 [Pfizer’s COVID-19 shot] in Wistar Han rats. Myonecrosis and inflammation were identified histopathologically. The appearance was described as ‘Jellied’ (Table 3), which is what rhabdomyolysis might look like after 17 days.”

Despite this and other concerning findings, including fibrosis, inflammation and myofiber degeneration present at the injection site, Chandler explains:

“How was this data presented at the December 10, 2020, Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) meeting regarding the Emergency Use Authorization for BNT162b2? … Completed with no safety concerns.”

A review of data from the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) also revealed a dramatic increase in reports of rhabdomyolysis following the rollout of COVID-19 shots.

In fact, Chandler reveals:

“79% of all reported rhabdomyolysis cases occurred in the two complete years (2021 and 2022) after the EUA [Emergency Use Authorization] was approved in December of 2020 …

“A dramatic, 37-fold increase in the annual rate of cases of rhabdomyolysis occurred after mass inoculation with Spike Producing Genetic Therapy Products began in December 2020.

“COVID-19 (2020) did not cause an increase in rhabdomyolysis reporting in VAERS compared with years 2001-2020.”

A number of case reports have since been published of “COVID-19 mRNA vaccination-induced rhabdomyolysis,” including in a 16-year-old male two days after his first dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 shot and a 21-year-old male one day after his first COVID-19 shot.

The findings that Pfizer and government officials were aware of serious adverse events and waning effectiveness of COVID-19 shots but neglected to share this with the public will only further undermine trust in public health authorities.

As Martin Kulldorff — co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, which scientifically critiqued the effects of prolonged lockdowns in response to COVID-19 — told Demasi:

“In public health, it is important to be honest with the public. Pfizer should have reported the declining vaccine efficacy in its April 1, 2021, press release, which they clearly knew about at the time.”

Likewise with the numerous reports of adverse events linked to the shots, which have now been linked to an explosion of excess deaths.

Originally published by Mercola.

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Children’s Health Defense.

This article was originally published by The Defender — Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Please consider subscribing to The Defender or donating to Children’s Health Defense.

Antiviral Effects of Nattokinase

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Antiviral Effects of Nattokinase

Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 and Bovine Herpes Virus-1 Demonstrated in Vitro

MAY 3, 2023

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

Recently there has been intense focus on “natto” derived from the fermentation of steamed soy by bacillus subtilis. Nattokinase is a proteolytic enzyme used as an oral supplement by the Japanese for the chronic treatment of atherothrombotic cardiovascular disease. Now a recent study in the COVID-19 era by the Japanese demonstrated preventive antiviral effects against SARS-CoV-2 mutant strains and bovine herpes virus type 1. The mechanism appears to be proteolytic cleavage of viral proteins.

Oba and colleagues performed a series of experiments with various concentrations of nattokinase in preclinical models. They found: 1) nattokinase effectively stopped infection of human cells in culture from SARS-CoV-2 and bovine herpes virus type 1, 2) the proteolytic effect of nattokinase was heat sensitive.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Besides having an ability to help “vaccine” injuries and prevent COVID and other viruses, Nattokinase and other proteolytic enzymes have been used by Lyme literate doctors (LLMD) for their role in breaking downbiofilm, the protective colonies many bacteria create which make them hard to eradicate.  Some use the zero-calorie sugar stevia for this purpose as well.

McCullough states that while it’s too early to make therapeutic claims, he says Nattokinase is the most promising data seen among all solutions to end the final state of the crisis: long COVID, “vaccine” injury, and recurrent infections.  For this reason don’t expect it to become mainstream!  This is precisely why they gave ivermectin and HCQ the death toll.  These, cheap, safe, effective drugs just do too many things that compete with the spin of Big Pharma, bought out government health agencies, and Big Media.

Study here:  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34271432/

A Child Can No Longer Walk. Before COVID, There Was Lyme Disease Denial

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A Child Can No Longer Walk. Before Covid, There Was Lyme Disease Denial.

Lyme disease left her paralyzed at 11. Now 19, the girl blessed by the Pope is suing doctors who refused to treat.

APR 29, 2023

Julia Bruzzese, now 19, whose Lyme disease went undiagnosed and untreated for nearly two years, causing paraplegia at age 11. A medical malpractice lawsuit has been filed in New York City on her behalf.

This is a story of medical ignorance: How an infection was allowed to fester even when safe, generic drugs could have stopped it.

No, this is not about covid-19. This is a story of Lyme disease.

Before a pandemic came along, Lyme disease was among the most controversial and, in late stages, abysmally treated infection in medicine.

As covid wanes, the tick-borne illness is still all those things. That is why a nineteen-year-old woman, who represents chronic Lyme sufferers worldwide, is suing a dozen doctors, a pediatric practice, and three hospitals in New York City for medical malpractice.

If anybody can change the image and practice of Lyme disease, it is Julia Rose Bruzzese of Brooklyn, the girl in a wheelchair who met the Pope on an airport tarmac at the age of twelve in hope of a miracle. Maybe, just maybe, she will get it.

First, her odyssey.  (See link for article)


SUMMARY:

  • Julia had a glaring EM rash the doctors simply ignored.
  • This error of ignorance was repeated over two more years and she was accused of making it all up.
  • When her dad suggested it might be tick-borne illness he was treated like he was using profanity.
  • Julia’s lawsuit contends that the continued refusal of doctors and hospitals resulted in her life in a wheelchair and she is seeking judgement and financial damages that would be fair, adequate and just.
  • Her father has fought battles for Julia before when attempting a medical insurance appeal.
  • Author of the article, Mary Beth Pfeiffer, has interviewed scores of others with similar stories of Lyme ruin and denial.
  • Due to this medical controversy another group of doctors has formed the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS) which faults the IDSA for using low-quality and flawed evidence behind their entire paradigm.
    • This group still insists upon using a 30 year old diagnostic test that is wrong some 40% of the time with early infection and anywhere from 7086% in late infection.  Yet this test is followed like the Rosetta Stone.
    • This group also recommends longer prophylactic antibiotics after tick bites and initial infection, and retreatment for persisting symptoms.  Due to this approach, Julia finally felt her feet for the first time in months.
  • Julia experienced extremely abusive situations by doctors throughout this journey including gas-lighting, taking away her wheelchair to see if she would get up to use the bathroom, poking prods into her lifeless legs when she slept, waking up to a large group of doctors looking down on her to observe a supposed case of “conversion disorder,” being dragged along a hospital hallway, and taking all her weight but then dropping her despite her cries of pain.
  • The family has had financial troubles due to this.
  • Julia has faced frightening litany of symptoms that have progressed and worsened over time due to lack of treatment. She has had GBS, POTS, distended bladder, cognitive impairment, vision and hearing difficulties, insomnia, atrophy, migratory joint pain, encephalitis, seizures, severe fatigue, osteopenia, and many other problems.
  • The defendants have denied all claims in the lawsuit, filed in March 2021.
  • Julia made global news when she sought a blessing from the Pope in 2015.
  • Finally able to obtain testing, she now had evidence of 5 infections: Lyme, Babesia, Tularemia, and Bartonella and received treatment which helped but did not cure her long-ignored condition.
  • Julia’s story is now chronicled in a critically acclaimed documentary that is now screening around the country.
  • The ignorance being experienced is largely to a one-size-fits-all medical model which is a huge ongoing problem.
  • While Julia’s lawsuit is a year or more from trial, another trial is coming in May for a “wrongful death” in a young man who had a negative test but ended up dying from Lyme carditis.  A case report in Cardiovascular Pathology journal two years later documented the damage to his heart. There, in color, were corkscrew-shaped Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes, the causative agent of Lyme disease. Similarly to Julia, he was not treated with a round of antibiotics that likely would have spared him.  Journal articles continue to minimize the severity of tick-borne illness by insisting that they are self-limiting conditions.  Therefore, doctors are lazy and apathetic toward a complex illness that has and will kill or maim a good number of patients.
  • A false narrative also continues to insist that people are over diagnosed with Lyme due to supposed false positive tests.
  • Despite stories like this (and thousands more) nothing has changed in Lymeland. 
  • What’s the answer?  Good question.  Pfeiffer thinks maybe big money payouts will help our plight. Recently a Maine lawsuit awarded a family 6.5 million from a hospital and doctor in the Lyme carditis death of a twenty-five-year-old man in 2017.
    • The lawyer who won the case is the same lawyer in Julia’s case as well as in the other Lyme carditis death.  He has yet to earn a dime.  How many lawyers will fight for sick Lyme patients without a living wage?  Food for thought.
  • Like all good dads, Julia’s father is worried for her future, but Julia’s greatest weapon continues to be her optimism.  She is in pre-med, paints, crochets, bakes, and is a make-up artist.