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Dr. Steven Phillips on Chronic Inflammation

http://  Approx. 1 Hour

March 25, 2023

Dr. Steven Phillips Discusses Chronic Inflammation

Dr. Steven Phillips discusses chronic inflammation and its management, especially in the context of long COVID and “vaccine” injuries.

Dr. Steven Phillips’ bio: Steven Phillips, MD is a well published, Yale-trained physician, researcher, and bestselling author, whose focus of medical practice and research is that chronic and autoimmune illness can be caused by underlying infections.

Dr. Phillips’ substack: https://zerospin.substack.com/

Amazon.com: Chronic: The Hidden Cause of the Autoimmune Pandemic and How to Get Healthy Again (Audible Audio Edition): Steven Phillips MD, Dana Parish, Teri Schnaubelt, Thomas Allen, Brilliance Audio: Books https://www.amazon.com/Chronic-Hidden…

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Dr. Steven Phillips Discusses Chronic Diseases (Lyme & COVID)

Steven Phillips, M.D. is a renowned Yale-trained physician, author, international lecturer, and media go-to expert. Well-published in the medical literature, he has treated over 20,000 patients with complex, chronic illness from nearly 20 countries. Phillips experienced firsthand the nightmare of an undiagnosed, serious infection after nearly dying from his own “mystery illness,” and having to save his own life when 25 doctors could not.

Here are the questions we will ask Dr. Phillips:

  • What is Lyme+?
  • What is your own story of Lyme?
  • You say that many infections are categorized as Lyme, how do we separate them
  • Are there good tests for Lyme+?
  • Is it treatable?
  • Is there hope for hundreds of thousands of patients of Lyme+?
  • How can an infection cause autoimmune disorders?
  • What is the role of Th1 and Th2 system in this context?
  • Why does it become chronic?
  • Do I have a vector borne infection?
  • We are seeing the same issue with COVID – Is COVID becoming similarly mismanaged?
  • How should patients approach their chronic Lyme+?
  • Is there hope?
  • How do people get help from you?
  • Do you train other doctors with your protocol?
  • Do they reach out to you?
  • On page 63 you write: Despite my repeatedly negative brucellosis testing at U.S. labs, I shared with my Lyme doctor my ideas for an aggressive combination antibiotic treatment against this infection. Nothing else was working, so my doctor agreed to the plan, and by the second month of treatment I started to improve.
  • Tell us about Jarish-Hexheimer reaction
  • Before we go, tell us how can people find you?

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Hospital payments include:

  • A “free” required PCR test in the Emergency Room or upon admission for every patient, with government-paid fee to hospital.  This test, like Lyme testing, is an utter farce.
  • Added bonus payment for each positive COVID-19 diagnosis, based on a worthless test.
  • Another bonus for a COVID-19 admission to the hospital, based on a worthless test.
  • A 20% “boost” bonus payment from Medicare on the entire hospital bill for use of remdesivir instead of medicines such as Ivermectin, all based on a worthless test.
  • Another and larger bonus payment to the hospital if a COVID-19 patient is mechanically ventilated, all based on a worthless test.
  • More money to the hospital if cause of death is listed as COVID-19, even if patient did not die directly of COVID-19, which is all based on a worthless test.
  • A COVID-19 diagnosis also provides extra payments to coroners, all based on a worthless test.

CMS implemented “value-based” payment programs that track data such as how many workers at a healthcare facility receive a COVID-19 “vaccine.” Now we see why many hospitals implemented COVID-19 vaccine mandates. They are paid more.  Source

For those paying attention, COVID is a replay of Lyme and many of the same tactics have been deployed.

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Activism, Inflammation, Lyme, Treatment, Viruses

More Window Dressing: Blumenthal Announces New Federal Funding For Tick Research

https://www.wshu.org/connecticut-news/2023-03-24/blumenthal-announces-new-federal-funding-for-tick-research

Blumenthal announces new federal funding for tick research

WSHU | By Molly Ingram
Published March 24, 2023
Blumenthal

Molly Ingram/WSHU  U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal holds a tick, swollen from drinking blood.

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) has announced millions of dollars in funding for research into tick-borne diseases.

Diseases caused by ticks have more than doubled in the last ten years across the Northeast.

The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, located in New Haven, will receive $200,000.

Blumenthal said the money will fund vital research at the nationally recognized facility.

(See link for article)

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SUMMARY:

  • Money to New Haven will be used to hire staff for testing ticks
  • $26 Million will go to the corrupt CDC to study Lyme disease
  • $7 Million will go to the complicit DOD‘s Tick-borne Disease Research Program

In the words of Willy Burgdorfer, the “discoverer” of Lyme:

“The controversy in Lyme Disease research is a shameful affair.  I say that because the whole thing is politically tainted.  Money goes to people that have for the past 30 years produced the same thing.  Nothing.” ~ Dr. Willy Burgdorferi

Money lining the pockets of the same people in corrupt agencies will come to nothing.
Mark my words.

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Activism, Lyme, research, Testing, Ticks

New Documentary Explores Lyme Disease Controversies

https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/31429431

THINK OUT LOUD; New documentary explores Lyme disease controversies

Carl Tuttle

Hudson, NH, United States

MAR 23, 2023 — 

Today’s letter… The Oregon Public Broadcasting interview below with Winslow Crane-Murdoch, co-director of the Quiet Epidemic is worth the read.

https://www.opb.org/article/2023/03/08/lyme-disease-quiet-epidemic-documentary/

———- Original Message ———-
From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: “thinkoutloud@opb.org” <thinkoutloud@opb.org>
Cc: “dmiller@opb.org” <dmiller@opb.org>, “opbnews@opb.org” <opbnews@opb.org>, “svanwing@opb.org” <svanwing@opb.org>, “mholm@opb.org” <mholm@opb.org>, “abarrett@utmb.edu” <abarrett@utmb.edu>, “R.W.Titball@exeter.ac.uk” <R.W.Titball@exeter.ac.uk>, “kait@thequietepidemic.com” <kait@thequietepidemic.com>, “lindsay@thequietepidemic.com” <lindsay@thequietepidemic.com>, “Raymond_Dattwyler@nymc.edu” <Raymond_Dattwyler@nymc.edu>
Date: 03/22/2023 9:27 AM

Subject: THINK OUT LOUD; New documentary explores Lyme disease controversies

New documentary explores Lyme disease controversies
https://www.opb.org/article/2023/03/08/lyme-disease-quiet-epidemic-documentary/
By Sage Van Wing (OPB)  March 8, 2023

“The medical community has been slow to recognize this form of long-lasting [Chronic] Lyme disease and to find treatments for it”

Oregon Public Broadcasting
THINK OUT LOUD
Attn: Dave Miller, Host

Dear Mr. Miller,

Thank you for interviewing Winslow Crane-Murdoch, co-director of the Quiet Epidemic.

I spent the last thirteen years studying the mishandling of Lyme disease as an independent researcher whose entire family progressed to late-stage Lyme before we knew what went wrong with our health. I can say with 100% confidence that the rush to create a vaccine led to the denial of persistent infection after the one-size-fits-all IDSA treatment guideline; chronic Lyme disease.

Please see the inquiry below addressed to Dr. Raymond Dattwyler who owns 24 patents that include diagnostic testing and Lyme vaccines (OspA) both live bacteria and oral. Maria Gomes-Solecki (co-author of this publication) is co-owner to 17 of those patents.

A new OspA vaccine has been fast tracked by the FDA. The previous OspA vaccine LYMErix was pulled from the market in 2002 not solely due to low demand per the following report.

REPORT ON LYMErix prepared for the 2001 Advisory Committee Meeting:(personal Dropbox storage area)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sodqs3pdeeesktf/Sheller%20Lymerix.pdf?dl=0

Excerpt

“The people who have contacted us were, prior to vaccination with LYMErix, healthy, active and energetic. Indeed, the very reason they sought the LYMErix vaccine was their desire to preserve their healthy, active lifestyle. However, what they experienced was a dramatic degradation of their health and quality of life. As will be described below, these previously healthy individuals are now afflicted with painful, at times debilitating arthritic symptoms, including joint pain and swelling, as well as extremely severe Lyme-disease-like symptoms which have persisted to this day.”

Below is the link to the Final Judgement and Approval of the class action against SmithKline Beecham as a settlement was awarded to these individuals.

JUDGEMENT, FINAL ORDER AND DECREE GRANTING FINAL APPROVAL OF THE CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT: (personal Dropbox storage area)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/v3gyw4fv8nst9bz/2003_Vaccine_Judgement_Final_Sttle_Apprvl..pdf?dl=0

In addition, there were neurological complications with LYMErix as published in the International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine. Reports of cerebral ischemia, transient Ischemic attacks, demyelinating events, optic neuritis, transverse myelitis, and non-specific demyelinating conditions are evaluated in this paper:

Neurological complications of vaccination with outer surface protein A (OspA).
Marks DH
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21673416

2023 Announcement for the current OspA vaccine: (is history about to repeat itself?)

Western New York kids are eligible to get a Lyme disease vaccine through Pfizer clinical study conducted at UB
https://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2023/03/015.html

Mr. Miller,

An astute fifth grader with access to PubMed could find the references I provided to Dr. Dattwyler in my email below.

A chronic relapsing seronegative disease does not fit the business model of vaccine development, patent royalties and pharmaceutical profits. You cannot prove vaccine efficacy when we do not know who has or does not have the disease.

For the record, Dattwyler refused to respond to my inquiry so perhaps you could reach out to him for comment. I have taken the liberty to carbon copy Dr. Dattwyler along with Alan D.T. Barrett, PhD Editor-in-Chief of npj Vaccines.

Respectfully submitted,

Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH

Inquiry to Dr. Raymond Dattwyler:

———- Original Message ———-
From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: Raymond_Dattwyler@nymc.edu
Cc: npjvaccines@nature.com, abarrett@utmb.edu, R.W.Titball@exeter.ac.uk, mgomesso@uthsc.edu
Date: 01/06/2023 2:46 PM
Subject: The year that shaped the outcome of the OspA vaccine for human Lyme disease

npj Vaccines Jan 2022

The year that shaped the outcome of the OspA vaccine for human Lyme disease
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-022-00429-5
Raymond J. Dattwyler & Maria Gomes-Solecki

Department of Microbiology and Immunology
New York Medical College
Valhalla, NY
Raymond J. Dattwyler, Corresponding Author

Dear Dr. Dattwyler,

I read your manuscript with great interest as you call attention to a treatment-resistant Lyme arthritis with “no evidence of DNA” found in the joints of patients after antibiotic treatment.

For some strange reason however, I could not find the following 1995 publication within your paper identifying treatment-resistant neuroborreliosis:

European Neurology 1995

Seronegative Chronic Relapsing Neuroborreliosis
https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/117104

Lawrence C., Lipton R.B., Lowy F.D., Coyle P.K.d

Abstract

We report an unusual patient with evidence of Borrelia burgdorferi infection who experienced repeated neurologic relapses despite aggressive antibiotic therapy. Each course of therapy was associated with a Jarisch-Herxheimer-like reaction. Although the patient never had detectable free antibodies to B. burgdorferi in serum or spinal fluid, the CSF was positive on multiple occasions for complexed anti-B. burgdorferi antibodies, B. burgdorferi nucleic acids and free antigen.

In fact, Dr. Dattwyler there seems to be a great deal of “treatment-resistant” evidence published in multiple journals over the past three decades:

Peer Reviewed Evidence of Persistence of Lyme Disease Spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi and Tick-Borne Diseases (700 References)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n09sk90eo6xz7ua/700%20articles%20LYME%20EvidenceofPersistence-V2.pdf?dl=0

So that brings me to the reason for this email…

Question:  Does a chronic relapsing seronegative disease fit the vaccine model? If not, would that, in and of itself, be the hidden reason for denying chronic (treatment-resistant) Lyme disease for almost three decades?  In other words, patent royalties and pharmaceutical profits over lifesaving care?

A response to this inquiry is requested.

Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH

Cc: Alan D.T. Barrett, PhD Editor-in-Chief
Rick Titball, PhD, DSc, Deputy Editor

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

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Activism, Lyme, vaccines

Two Duke Law Students Launch Pro Bono Lyme Advocacy Project

https://www.lymedisease.org/duke-law-lyme-advocacy-project/

Two Duke law students launch pro bono Lyme advocacy project

March 22, 2023

We, Luke Mears and Madison Pinckney, founded the Duke Law Lyme Disease Advocacy Project (LDAP) in 2022.

In creating the group, we hope to improve the lives of Lyme disease patients by partnering with nonprofit organizations that work on legislative advocacy and lawsuits centered on Lyme.

Madison’s Lyme story

I contracted Lyme at about nine years old, but I wasn’t diagnosed for another 10 years. I grew up in and out of doctors’ offices, searching for answers that always seemed to be “that’s normal.”

While I was deteriorating during a severe flare in 2018, my mom’s research led to finding a Lyme specialist. While filling out the symptom questionnaire in the doctor’s office, I kept pointing to a symptom and asking my mom, “that doesn’t happen to you?”

After being properly diagnosed with multiple tick-borne infections, I found rapid relief of many symptoms, but other persisted.

Throughout the past five years of flares and treatment, I’ve seen the frustration and inequities of being a Lyme patient. I focused my advocacy work on being a mentor, starting a podcast, and lobbying for increased federal funding. In 2021, I saw drastic symptom improvement and took advantage by starting law school at Duke University, hoping to make a difference for Lyme patients and those with disabilities.

Luke’s Lyme story

I was diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2020, only a few weeks after being sent home from my undergraduate institution due to the Covid-19 pandemic.  I remember being more tired than I ever had been and fighting a constant swing of anxiety attacks and mood swings. The pandemic did not make finding a medical provider easy, but after three weeks I got a doctor’s appointment.

Unfortunately, that appointment only led to a misdiagnosis, and it took multiple additional weeks to find a new doctor who was, after much testing, finally able to reach a diagnosis of Lyme disease. After weeks of antibiotic treatment, I began to feel better and improve. The ordeal remains one of the most stressful and painful experiences of my life, and the indifference and ignorance faced throughout made me want to make a difference in the Lyme disease space.

I briefly considered a public health degree instead of law, but I decided to follow my life dream of being a lawyer. Founding the Lyme Disease Advocacy Project here at Duke has allowed me to help others facing this disease, while also working toward larger societal improvements in awareness, prevention, and treatment of the disease.

The project’s formation and work

While sitting on her bed prepping for the Center for Lyme Action’s Virtual Fly-In the next day, Madison saw an email from Luke Mears to the Duke Law Class of 2024. He wanted to start a Lyme Disease Advocacy Project pro bono group at the law school at Duke. After an immediate reply, followed by discussion of their shared experiences, LDAP began to take shape.

Not only was it cathartic to find someone in such a small community who had experienced similar pain, it was even better to find someone who shared our passion for making in difference in this disease. As two individuals healed enough to attend law school, we felt a responsibility to give back to those still waiting for a diagnosis or helpful treatment.

LDAP began a trial period in the spring of 2022 and received great support. During a hectic time, the month before finals, we received interest from numerous volunteers and were able to connect with other classmates affected by Lyme as well.

Becoming official

More than ten students completed over 60 hours of pro bono work, researching and writing about legislative questions and issues regarding Lyme disease. The first research projects completed by our nonprofit partners spurred the project’s growth and LDAP became an official Duke Law pro bono project in the summer of 2022.

This year, we’ve expanded the project and our partners, aiming to provide legal and advocacy assistance across the country.

Some of our work has focused on the relationships between health agencies, policies on including Lyme disease information on government websites, and Lyme vaccine development.

At the halfway mark of the semester, over a dozen students have completed over 70 hours of pro bono work relating to Lyme disease. With these students continuing to work on various projects, we estimate that our ambitious goal of doing 150 hours of pro bono work relating to Lyme disease should be realized by the end of the semester.

Through this project, we are utilizing the incredible resources we have access to and sharing the skills we’ve learned while at Duke. As LDAP continues, we’re proud of everything our volunteers can do to further the fight for change. We’re grateful to Duke University’s School of Law and all our partners for giving us the opportunity to work for the benefit of the Lyme community.

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**Food For Thought**

This is the first I’ve heard of this work, so I don’t pretend to understand everything they are attempting to do other than what is stated in this brief article.  That said, it is my experience that many with a sincere desire to help the Lyme/MSIDS community are uneducated about the sordid backstory of government deception – including fraud, corruption, and underhanded manipulation at every turn, conflicts of interest, and the ongoing yet fruitless attempts to work with these same corrupt government agencies.

This backstory is foundational to know in order to move forward wisely.  Not knowing and understanding this backstory means more time, effort, and money will be wasted, and a lot has already been wasted.

When I read that their efforts include:

  • relationships between health agencies
  • policies on including Lyme disease information on government websites
  • Lyme vaccine development
I am immediately skeptical.
  1. a relationship with any federal health agency has been a complete and utter waste of time, historically
  2. information on government websites will never change until the accepted, government dictated paradigm changes.  It is my opinion that hell will freeze over before this happens.  I pray I’m wrong  
  3. Lyme “vaccine” development is dead in the water as far as I’m concerned until problems 1 & 2 are rectified because they are all intertwined. For instance, you can not have a “vaccine” for a chronic condition(s) and Lyme/MSIDS is just such an illness, which is also the reason ‘the powers that be’ will never admit in 1,000 years that Lyme/MSIDS is a persistent infection(s).  There’s too much money to be made in “vaccine” development and our government owns patents on many “vaccines” and receives royalties on said products.  This merry-go round has been spinning for over 40 years without end.  Further, coinfection involvement muddies the picture considerably and has still not been recognized and taken into account by the federal government and mainstream medicine.  Not only is it impossible to “vaccinated” for a chronic infection(s), it’s also impossible to “vaccinate” for numerous pathogens simultaneously that often work symbiotically, and it’s close to impossible to even accurately test for these infections to begin with.  There’s a bevy of problems that need to be addressed before the word “vaccine” should be even uttered.
  4. the emphasis is always on a “magic cure all” and rarely on effective treatments for the folks that are suffering now
I look at these young, fresh faces and worry that yet another well meaning exploit will result in frustration and stalemate.
I guess I’m showing my age.

Category:

Activism, Lyme

San Francisco Radio Host Who Had Lyme Found Dead

https://www.lymedisease.org/body-of-missing-jv-recovered/

Prophetic last words: “The stuff I’ve been going through in my brain–ugh”

By Dorothy Kupcha Leland

March 24, 2023

Popular San Francisco radio host Jeffrey “JV” Vandergrift often spoke on the air about his struggles with Lyme disease. On February 23, on what turned out to be his last appearance on his WILD 94.9 radio show, he gave the following alarming update:

“The stuff I’ve been going through in my brain that they’re trying to figure out. Ugh,” he said. He added that doctors told him they believed something might have “reignited old infections.” Then he added, “The body and the pain and all that stuff, I can handle. What it’s doing to my brain I could never describe to you.”

The next day, JV was reported missing from his San Francisco home. Shortly thereafter, his wife Natasha–also a WILD 94.9 radio host–posted the following on social media: “The amount of compassion for the physical torture J has been going through for the past 2 years has been overwhelming. I have been in so much pain and fear and I know all of you have been so scared and concerned for JV as well.” At that time, she said the family had reason to believe that “he will not be coming back.”

Sadly, on March 22, a month after JV disappeared, his body was found in the water near San Francisco’s Pier 39. Here is how his heartbroken colleagues at the WILD 94.9 broke the news to their listeners.

This Sunday, March 26, a screening of the Lyme documentary The Quiet Epidemic will be held at San Francisco’s Roxie Theater. While JV was still missing, the filmmakers had already planned to dedicate this event to JV. At that time, they posted the following on social media:

“JV was a supporter of The Quiet Epidemic and was in touch with our team. It’s incredibly sad that we won’t have a chance to meet him. We hold him and his loved ones in our hearts as we continue pushing our story and cause out into the world. This screening is dedicated to JV, his family, friends, 94.9 family, and listeners.”

Click here for details about the screening.

Click here for information about Lyme disease that JV posted on the WILD 96.9 website.

I never knew JV and never listened to his show. But I hear elements of his story from countless people throughout the US–in fact throughout the world–who are being held hostage by an insidious disease that has invaded their bodies and brains.

To make matters worse, the medical establishment and government health officials have failed to act on this serious threat to physical and mental health.
In memory of JV and every other person suffering like he did, we must do our best to change this. The time is now.

TOUCHED BY LYME is written by Dorothy Kupcha Leland, President of LymeDisease.org. She is co-author of When Your Child Has Lyme Disease: A Parent’s Survival Guide. Contact her at dleland@lymedisease.org.

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Activism, Lyme, Psychological Aspects