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Why Chronic Lyme Patients Don’t Get Better

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Why Chronic Lyme Patients Don’t Get Better

Dr. Richard Horowitz

10/30/24

In this Made for Health episode, Dr. Richard Horowitz, a leading expert in Lyme disease, joins us to discuss the complexities of Lyme and its connection to chronic health issues. With over 35 years of experience treating Lyme patients, Dr. Horowitz sheds light on his innovative 16-point model, which uncovers overlapping factors that contribute to chronic illnesses. He also shares insights on recent advances in treatment, including Dapsone Combination Therapy, and explores the rising challenges posed by co-infections, mold toxicity, and the impact of long COVID on patient health.

Dr. Richard Horowitz is a board-certified internist and the medical director of the Hudson Valley Healing Arts Center, an integrative medical center which combines both classical and complementary approaches in the treatment of Lyme disease and other tick-borne disorders. He has treated over 13,000 Lyme and tick-borne disease patients in the last 35 years, with patients coming from all over the US, Canada, and Europe to his clinic. He is former Assistant Director of Medicine of Vassar Brothers Hospital in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and is one of the founding members and past president elect of ILADS, the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society. He is also past president of the ILADEF, the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Educational Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the education of health care professionals on tick-borne diseases. Dr Horowitz has trained hundreds of healthcare providers in diagnosing and caring for patients with treatment-resistant tick-borne disorders and was previously awarded the Humanitarian of the Year award by the Turn the Corner Foundation as well as awards from Project Lyme for his treatment of Lyme Disease. He has dedicated his life to helping those stricken with this devastating illness.

Validated Lyme Questionnaire: https://mailchi.mp/8e5ccb1a9297/lyme-…

Informational PDF on Validated Lyme Disease Questionnaire: https://richmondfunctionalmedicine.co…

Website: https://cangetbetter.com/

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Activism, Lyme, research, Treatment

Healing After Four Decades of Lyme Misery

https://www.lymedisease.org/four-decades-lyme-misery/

Finding healing after four decades of Lyme-related misery

By Christian Scarborough

Nov. 5, 2024

I grew up on a little farm in Northern Virginia, just outside Washington DC, in what was then a very rural, middle-class community. That part of Fairfax County is now one of the wealthiest in the nation.

In addition to being around livestock, grass fields and woodlands, my brothers and I liked to hike, camp, hunt and fish. In Virginia, that meant encountering ticks! We routinely pulled them off our bodies, thinking nothing of it. We also dealt with plenty of fleas from barn cats and house dogs.

As a teenager, I began experiencing severe pain in my hands and other joints. An orthopedic surgeon prescribed me the first NSAID – Clinoril – which was later pulled due to its dangerous side effects. He said he felt strange giving a 16-year-old arthritis medication, but that I clearly had it systemically. This was also around the time I started struggling with anger issues, depression and anxiety. I was given prescription sleeping medication by an internist.

I have always been an adventure athlete and health/fitness geek, which as it turns out has saved me many times. People look at me and say you look amazing at 62, but they have no idea of the battle I’m fighting and why so many health issues I’ve had most of my life now make sense.

Severe GI issues

It all came to a head in May 2023, when I began to have severe GI issues and lost 27 pounds. After eight months and several false diagnoses ranging from pancreatic cancer to SIBO, the top GI practice in Austin punted. They said, “You have irritable bowel syndrome. Don’t eat anything and take these horrible meds forever.”

Well, the meds were awful. My gut would spasm so violently that it tore up my insides, but the antispasmodic they gave me had terrible side-effects, too. Another medication swung things to the opposite extreme, leaving me constantly balancing between diarrhea and constipation. And along with this I had severe shin and foot pain at night, no energy, blurry vision, an overall feeling I was falling apart.

A new doctor

I finally went to an integrative physician who specializes in treating complicated illnesses. Unlike other doctors, she spent close to two hours with me, asking detailed questions about my medical history. I told her everything.

Even before I had the very expensive, cash-only blood tests, she said, “I’d bet my medical license that you have Lyme.” And boy was she right! It turns out I also have Babesia and Bartonella.

The first thing she did was address my severe GI pain, spasms and diarrhea – and in a way not one GI doctor had ever suggested. She put me on a nightly microdose of naltrexone, and within a week I was much better. At normal doses, naltrexone is used to treat opiate addicts and alcoholics, but you have to think outside the box in order to effectively treat Lyme.

As anyone who is being comprehensively treated for chronic Lyme disease will tell you – treatments aren’t fast, easy, painless or cheap. The months of oral antibiotics made my already fragile gut worse. Then, they switched me to six weeks of intramuscular Rocephin shots, four days a week rotating between my glutes and thighs. It was as brutal as it gets.

Rocephin is so painful it’s mixed with straight lidocaine, and it still feels like someone hit you with a hammer. I am a tough man. But those shots made me want to cry. The volume is so large it has to be split into two syringes of material with the viscosity of motor oil. I sit in an infusion center every week surrounded by very sick people, many with Lyme, mold, cancer or a combination.

Sleeping through the night

I have been getting weekly procaine IVs with vitamin B12. The results have been amazing! I am sleeping through the night for the first time I can remember – albeit I am still taking Clonazepam before bed. And I find myself in a calmer, more relaxed state in general.

Procaine helps reset the central nervous system. In combination with the daily microdose of ketamine I take per my psychiatrist, it has greatly improved my quality of life and my outlook on fighting Lyme. And at least now I can make sense of why I’ve had three total joint replacements, a foot of colon removed, shin pains, foot tumors, insomnia, anxiety, overall fatigue and brain fog, etc.

I am convinced there are many people like me who are suffering from vector-borne illness and have tried everything with no results. They need to know there is hope.

This week the 25th annual conference of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society is being held in San Antonio, Texas, and my doctor is one of the featured speakers. I hope healthcare professionals in the audience listen and learn from her.

Christian Scarborough lives in Texas.

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Activism, Babesia, Bartonella, Lyme, Pain Management, Treatment

Wind Farms & Climate Hoax: Hamsters on Wheels Could Generate More Power

UPDATE:

Go here to watch an informative video on the staggering amount of energy and resources required to build a single wind turbine.  According to this, there are 75,633 turbines covering 45 states plus Guam and Puerto Rico.  Recently there’s been a slow down due to defects that according to manufacturers can affect up to 30% of turbines which can cause anything from fires to complete breakdowns where they fall to the ground.

https://drtesslawrie.substack.com/p/wind-farms-and-the-climate-hoax?

Wind farms and the Climate Hoax:

Hamsters on wheels could generate more power!

 
Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​
Nov 17, 2024

I recently returned from Wales where once pristine green hills are now littered with (often stationary) giant wind turbines, in the name of saving the planet. On a farm near Llangollen, I met with a group of locals who are deeply concerned about the rampant escalation of these ugly, noisy, lethal and futile installations.

Farmer Tim Smith explained the issues to me in detail which I hope I’ve covered adequately below so that you too can grasp what is at stake, and see that wind turbines are yet another big lie to support the biggest lie of all ­– climate change.

For communities, it’s incredibly difficult to challenge decisions made by developers or government officials. Once more, in the case of this area of outstanding natural beauty, it seems that government has prioritised corporate interests over the health, wellbeing and the livelihoods of ordinary people. With increasingly more wind farm planned for the area, the group expressed feeling angry, frustrated and powerless to defend themselves from these metal monsters.

“The system is set up to protect big business, not the little guy,” Tim said.

Climate change or climate hoax?

There is growing scepticism about the climate change narrative that drives many renewable energy policies. Living in the UK, there is no doubt the weather is doing strange things – it’s been a miserably cloudy and cold year with hardly any sunshine whatsoever. But is this climate change or part of a climate hoax?

Devastating floods in Spain as well as the fires in Greece have raised questions about whether these events were genuinely natural or potentially orchestrated. This possibility only reinforces the need to critically examine policies that push for widespread wind farm developments, which are so obviously visual and noise pollutants. So why are they allowed?  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

The current “energy transition” away from inexpensive, reliable and very clean conventional energy toward unconventional energies such as wind, electric, and solar power that are expensive, unreliable, and deeply problematic environmentally is best described by an article in the Manhattan Institute as an unrealistic delusion. 

Despite thousands of scientists that have signed the World Climate Declaration that states there is no climate emergency, but names numerous hard realities including deforestation, and the extinction of many animals, some inconvenient truths have come to light:

  • two independent studies found intensely noisy offshore wind projects cause hearing loss in marine mammals, turtles, and fish and compromise their ability to navigate, avoid danger, detect predators, and find prey.
  • elevated humpback whale mortalities have occurred along the Atlantic coast from Maine through Florida coinciding with offshore operations.
  • wind and solar farms only work 30% of the time.
  • California serves as a prime example of a state that requires conventional energy to keep the fantasy afloat, yet proponents argue this will all be well given more time, more subsidies, more magical thinking, and more pixie dust.
And all of this matters if you want to remain free and like to eat real food.

Under the guise of reducing “methane emissions,” 13 WEF-infiltrated nations have agreed to engineer global famine by abolishing agricultural production and shutting down all farms to ‘save the planet.’  The U.S. is one of those nations.  Hope you like to eat bugs….

Nobody talks about the economical, environmental, and biological ramifications.  Nobody talks about the very real government geoengineering which is spraying toxins into our air affecting biological health to control the weather as well as to move people away from areas that contain highly sought after natural resources.

Nobody talks about how the resulting damage from geoengineering is then blamed on the boogey-man – ‘climate change.’  It’s a perfect problem, solution, answer government scenario. 

Similarly to pixie-dust, we are simply to believe in ‘climate change’ and that ‘green solutions’ work. 

Energy is being used as a vehicle of control and if the WHO ends up having sole power over global health, combining health, climate and energy issues into one will automatically give the WHO the de facto power to seize control over society in general by creating smart cities, travel restrictions, new food systems, a complete transition to green energy and more. But again, the thing that will really facilitate all of these changes is to have a centralized powerbase, and that is the WHO, but this globalist totalitarian plan goes way back to 1992 but has been steadily worked on since then.

Sacrificing selfhood and the rights of individuals to “serve the greater good” is a hallmark call of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, and they used this “care for others” argument during COVID to pressure people into compliance with everything from lockdowns, social distancing, wearing a mask and getting the jab.  Thankfully, some didn’t fall for their tactic.

The same narrative is also being used to prop up the “climate emergency.” We’re now told we have to sacrifice our standard of living because we have a responsibility both for others and for the earth itself, but rather than focus on true health, true conservation, and true stewardship, we should simply be compliant sheep and trust entities that have done nothing but cover up, manipulate, misinform, censor, use shrouded back channels, and lie.  

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Activism, Climate

Symptoms After Lyme: What’s Past is Prologue

https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/33044899?

Symptoms after Lyme disease: What’s past is prologue (Adriana Marques, M.D.)

Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH, United States
Nov 17, 2024

Please see the following email addressed to Dr. Adriana Marques, Chief of the NIAID Lyme Disease Studies Unit regarding her recent viewpoint published in the journal Science Translational Medicine. The Editorial Staff was Cc’d on this email.

Senior Editor Courtney Malo, Ph.D. responded to my inquiry and is posted below followed by my final comment.

Photo of Marques was found on the following NIH site:
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/adriana-marques-md

Inquiry to Adriana Marques:

———- Original Message ———-
From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: “amarques@niaid.nih.gov” <amarques@niaid.nih.gov>
Cc: “osmith@aaas.org” <osmith@aaas.org>, “mnorton@aaas.org” <mnorton@aaas.org>, “ccharneski@aaas.org” <ccharneski@aaas.org>, “cmalo@aaas.org” <cmalo@aaas.org>, “bberry@aaas.org” <bberry@aaas.org>, “dhallberg@aaas.org” <dhallberg@aaas.org>, “dneuhofer@aaas.org” <dneuhofer@aaas.org>, “mogle@aaas.org” <mogle@aaas.org>
Date: 11/14/2024 9:54 AM EST
Subject: Symptoms after Lyme disease: What’s past is prologue

SCIENCE TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE

13 Nov 2024

Symptoms after Lyme disease: What’s past is prologue
ADRIANA MARQUES
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.ado2103

“There have been five randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trials addressing the question of whether additional antibiotic treatment benefits patients with PTLDS or symptoms attributed to Lyme disease.”

“The results of these trials showed that prolonged antibiotic treatment had no lasting benefit while having potential serious risks.”

Adriana Marques, M.D.
Lyme Disease Studies Unit
NIH Main Campus, Bethesda, MD

Dr. Marques,

For the record there are many infections requiring long-term antibiotics so why Klempner stopped his NIH funded antibiotic treatment trials for Lyme after “12 weeks” and then claimed no benefit makes absolutely no sense whatsoever:

From the following peer-reviewed publication:

Benefit of intravenous antibiotic therapy in patients referred for treatment of neurologic Lyme disease
https://www.dovepress.com/benefit-of-intravenous-antibiotic-therapy-in-patients-referred-for-tre-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-IJGM

Infections requiring long-term antibiotics: [See chart in the publication above with 8 examples ranging from 6mo to 5yrs]

In 1991 the Lyme disease organism, Borrelia burgdorferi, was grown from the cerebrospinal fluid of Lyme patient Vicki Logan at the Centers for Disease Control in Fort Collins, Colorado despite prior treatment with intravenous antibiotics. The patient died when the insurer refused additional IV antibiotics. Here is a copy of Logan’s CDC positive culture report for your review.

(Vicki Logan’s Chronic Lyme Autopsy results Page #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

There are 700 peer-reviewed publications referencing persistent infection and in a 2018 study all patients were culture positive even after multiple years on antibiotics so there was no relief from current antimicrobials. Some of these patients had taken as many as eleven different types of antibiotics.

Thirty-four years ago Dr. Allen Steere identified chronic Lyme disease which should have set off a red flag prompting an immediate search for better antimicrobials but then did a 180° as he became principal investigator (PI) of the Phase 3 clinical trial for the first Lyme disease vaccine. So all the eggs were put into the vaccine basket while a campaign was orchestrated to discredit the sick and disabled patient population along with the courageous clinicians attempting to help these patients. Apparently, a chronic relapsing seronegative disease did not fit the business model of patent royalties, vaccine development and pharmaceutical profits.

Here is Dr. Steere’s 1990 publication summary for your review:

The New England Journal of Medicine 

Published November 22, 1990

Chronic neurologic manifestations of Lyme disease
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199011223232102

The chart below summarizes Lyme research funded by the NIH and only 2.5% has been allocated for treatment: [Click on link to view the chart]

Question:

Is there a reason why these facts/references/lab reports are missing from your viewpoint published in Science Translational Medicine?

A response to this inquiry is requested.Carl Tuttle
Independent Researcher
Hudson, NH USA

Cc: Orla M. Smith, Ph.D. Editor, Science Translational Medicine

Editorial Staff

Melissa Norton, M.D.

Catherine A. Charneski, Ph.D.

Courtney S. Malo, Ph.D.

Brandon Berry, Ph.D.

Dorothy L. Hallberg, Ph.D.

Daniela Neuhofer, Ph.D.

Molly Ogle, Ph.D.

Response from Senior Editor Courtney Malo, Ph.D.

———- Original Message ———-
From: Courtney Malo <cmalo@aaas.org>
To: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
Cc: “Marques, Adriana (NIH/NIAID) [E]” <amarques@niaid.nih.gov>, Orla Smith <osmith@aaas.org>
Date: 11/14/2024 11:26 AM EST
Subject: Re: Symptoms after Lyme disease: What’s past is prologue

Dear Dr. Tuttle,

Thank you for your email in response to the viewpoint “Symptoms after Lyme disease: What’s past is prologue” published in Science Translational Medicine.

We suggest that you submit your comments as an eLetter via our website. To do so, please go to the paper under discussion (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.ado2103 and navigate to the “eLetters” option at the very bottom of the page. Our eLetters platform provides a dynamic and rapid way for readers to provide feedback on the papers we publish and to elicit discussion.

Sincerely,
Courtney Malo

Courtney Malo, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)

Senior Editor

Science Translational Medicine

cmalo@aaas.org |  https://www.science.org/journal/stm

My final reply:

———- Original Message ———-
From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: Courtney Malo <cmalo@aaas.org>
Cc: “Marques, Adriana (NIH/NIAID) [E]” <amarques@niaid.nih.gov>, Orla Smith <osmith@aaas.org>, “mnorton@aaas.org” <mnorton@aaas.org>, “ccharneski@aaas.org” <ccharneski@aaas.org>, “bberry@aaas.org” <bberry@aaas.org>, “dhallberg@aaas.org” <dhallberg@aaas.org>, “dneuhofer@aaas.org” <dneuhofer@aaas.org>, “mogle@aaas.org” <mogle@aaas.org>
Date: 11/16/2024 8:15 AM EST
Subject: Re: Symptoms after Lyme disease: What’s past is prologue

On 11/14/2024 11:26 AM EST Courtney Malo <cmalo@aaas.org> wrote: “We suggest that you submit your comments as an eLetter via our website.”

Dear Dr. Malo,

Thank you for responding to my email. Is my submitted eLetter in the process of being screened?

I would like to call attention to the following 1992 Science article that was listed directly below Dr. Marques’ published viewpoint:

Furor at Lyme Disease Conference: Patient-support groups got a dozen rejected papers reinstated at a Lyme disease meeting, angering researchers who had turned the work down as unscientific
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1604309

Excerpt:

To some authors of the controversial abstracts the grudging acceptance is too little too late, from a close-minded research community. “If [a finding] is not part of a controlled study, they ignore it,” says Long Island internist Burascano.

Dr. Malo,

Isn’t that exactly what I am questioning 32 years later? I am asking Marques why the peer-reviewed references I provided are missing from her published viewpoint:

My question to Marques:

“Is there a reason why these facts/references/lab reports are missing from your viewpoint published in Science Translational Medicine?”

It would appear that the act to suppress evidence of chronic Lyme disease spans three decades. How many lives have been destroyed resulting from inadequate treatment?

It is not uncommon for these corresponding authors to ignore serious inquires. One example is from my 2020 BMJ Letter to the Editor below. It should be noted that the corresponding author refused to respond to my inquiry after multiple requests from Editor-in-Chief Dr. Fiona Godlee.

Letter to the Editor of the BMJ published June 2020 
https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1041/rr-1

Dr. Malo…. Has your journal been used as a podium to broadcast the long-established dogma while omitting evidence of persistent infection after extensive antibiotic treatment?

Respectfully submitted,
Carl Tuttle

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**Comment**
Must thanks to patient and advocate Carl Tuttle for his tireless efforts dealing with knot-heads.  Kudos to you for having the patience of a saint.

Category:

Activism, Lyme, research, Testing, Treatment

Geoengineering Warfare: An Exposé

https://www.saveourskies.org/column-contributor

GEOENGINEERING WARFARE: An Exposé

A WAR CANNOT BE WON

WHEN IT IS NOT EVEN ACKNOWLEDGED THAT IT EXISTS

by Jorge Rebagliati

This exposé will demonstrate to you that Geoengineering Warfare is a past and present fact that is being waged in Sonoma County, in all of California, and elsewhere, threatening the very existence of humanity and the rest of the biosphere.

After reviewing the documentation presented below, it should be obvious to you that there is an ongoing Geoengineering war. The first indispensable local step is to issue a resolution banning all geoengineering operations in Sonoma County, demand that the California legislature and the governor ban geoengineering in California, and investigate and prosecute the planners and perpetrators of geoengineering warfare.

The Sonoma County community, where you live and which you love, is under relentless attack by Geoengineering Warfare. Irreparable damage may have already been done, but your (our) swift action to stop these aggressions and to clean up air, water, and soil, and the impacted life, will have tremendous benefits, SUCH AS MINIMIZING THE INCIDENCE OF “FIRE STORMS.”

No grant or subsidy money offered or given to Sonoma County by federal and state government agencies, corporations, or NGOs to do “the right thing” according to their agendas justifies putting the lives and property of Sonoma County residents at serious risk.

Consider that your inaction on the threat to all of us presented by Geoengineering Warfare can be considered “negligence” in fulfilling your duties of protecting the life and property of Sonomans that you swore to protect as an elected public official.

A very recent article (7/31/24) titled “Certain Dark Chocolates Contain High-Level Heavy Metals, Study Finds” indirectly exposes the contamination of food by the massive spraying of heavy metals (and other substances) by Geoengineering Warfare.

The article suggests that the sources of soil (and water) “contamination” are livestock manure, irrigation with wastewater or polluted water, application of sewage sludge, use of Metallo-pesticides or herbicides, phosphate-based fertilizers, and atmospheric deposition (chemtrails included?).

The case for “atmospheric deposition” likely being the primary source of contamination becomes even stronger when the article reports that for “unknown reasons”, organic cacao products had higher levels of heavy metals.  All the other listed possible sources of soil contamination, except livestock manure, do not apply to organic farming, so atmospheric deposition becomes the primary suspected source of the contamination.

As discussed in the article, lead and cadmium are the primary heavy metals tested in the study. Both are toxic nanomaterials used in Geoengineering, but they are just two of many others, such as aluminum, barium, strontium, vanadium, titanium, manganese, polymers, graphene, sulfuric acid, and surfactants.

And it is not just about chocolate: “Dark chocolate is just one potential source of heavy metal exposure in our diets. According to a 2019 review in Environmental International, a growing body of research has identified concerning levels of heavy metals in various food crops, including:

  • Fruits

  • Leafy vegetables—green cabbage, spinach, cauliflower, lettuce, kale

  • Root vegetables—radish, turnip, carrot

  • Wheat

  • Rice

  • Soybean

  • Corn

  • Garlic

Heavy metals are also potentially problematic in some marine fish, seafood,  herbal medicines, herbal teas, spices, fruit juice, and drinking water, particularly in areas with aging infrastructure or natural geological sources of contamination.”  (See link for highly referenced article and to take action)

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**Comment**

This website has posted prolifically on geoengineering because it affects ALL life-forms on planet earth including the food we eat, which is medicine.

It appears that this geoengineering is also being used to relocate people from one area to another in something called ‘weather wars.’  Global governments admit to ‘cloud seeding,’ but not the fallout it causes.  The fallout is always blamed on ‘climate change,’

In a never-ending quest to destroy humanity, Bill Gates, who doesn’t vaccinate his own children but is hell-bent on vaccinating everyone else’s, also has a mission to ‘dim the sun,’ to supposedly counter the ‘climate emergency.’   Other schemes include stopping cows from farting and burping, limiting cars, and culling the ‘useless eaters.’  A few brave experts are telling the truth:

‘Climate change is a lie and a scam’ and green energy policies have made the climate worse – not to mention our health.

Category:

Activism, Climate, vaccines