It’s a disease that affects hundreds of thousands – and potentially millions – of people in the UK and across the globe.
Indeed, Daisy Ilchovska describes it as the world’s most misunderstood pandemic.
Now the Bournemouth-based nutritionist, published researcher and former Lyme Disease patient has released a new book – Lyme in the Limelight – aimed at raising awareness.
Ten per cent of all proceeds will go to the charity, Lyme Disease UK.
Lyme Disease is the fastest-growing vector-borne bacterial infection (viral diseases transmitted by vectors such as mosquitoes, ticks, lice, biting flies, and fleas) in the UK.
It can trigger more than 40 different symptoms in infected individuals including fatigue, brain fog, muscle twitching, flu-like symptoms, painful arthritis and severe neurological symptoms such as muscle weakness and non-epileptic seizures. (See link for article)
How to lift brain fog and boost your immune system
2/9/23
By Lonnie Marcum
Both viruses and bacteria can invade the brain. All too frequently, patients with lingering symptoms following infection complain of “brain fog.”
Brain fog describes the feeling of mental confusion, forgetfulness, memory loss, lack of motivation, inability to focus, and/or difficulty concentrating.
A simple technique known as lymphatic drainage massage may help to clear the fog and boost your immune system at the same time.
Patients with brain fog often report “drawing a blank” when trying to remember the name of a friend, family member or pet; forgetting what they were going to do; or getting lost on the way home or to a familiar location. Brain fog can also be associated with symptoms of anxiety and/or depression.
Prolonged brain fog can be caused by a variety of factors, including sleep disturbance, certain medications, head injury, environmental toxins, inflammation and infection—which is the case in many individuals with “Lyme brain.”
Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, can infect the brain and nervous system. Neurological symptoms of Lyme disease are a late-stage manifestation of Bb infection called neuroborreliosis.
Neuroborreliosis and Lyme Brain
In 2011, researchers at the University of California, Davis were able to show how Bb invades the lymph nodes within 24 hours after infection. They later discovered how it causes abnormalities in the lymph tissues and impairs the immune system.
A more recent study suggests that the choroid plexus may play a role in how Borrelia infections affect the nervous system. The choroid plexus is found within the ventricles near the center of the brain. It produces and filters cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), the clear fluid that circulates around the brain and spinal cord.
Another important study from Tulane University found spirochetes that cause Lyme disease in the autopsied brain tissue of a patient who had been aggressively treated with antibiotics. This demonstrated that infection can persist despite antibiotic treatment.
Even if the Borrelia spirochetes don’t completely penetrate the brain, they are frequently present in the meninges. These are three protective layers surrounding the brain and spinal cord. Infection of the meninges is associated with increases in inflammatory cytokines, and meningitis, a swelling of the meninges.
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the U.S. and Europe. The spread of Bb to the central nervous system causing Lyme neuroborreliosis occurs in approximately 10–15% of all cases of Lyme disease. In the U.S., one of the most frequent manifestations of Lyme neuroborreliosis is lymphocytic meningitis.
Lyme lymphocytic meningitis is swelling of the meninges with the infiltration of lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell) into the CSF. Symptoms may include fever, headache, neck pain/stiffness, sensitivity to light and cognitive impairment.
Two Circulatory Systems
There are two circulatory systems in our bodies: the cardiovascular system and the lymphatic system.
The cardiovascular system consists of the heart and blood vessels (arteries, veins, capillaries). Basically, arteries carry oxygenated blood and nutrients away from the heart to every tissue in the body, while veins carry used blood back to the heart and lungs in a continuous loop. Capillaries are the small vessels where the arteries and veins connect.
The lymphatic system is a secondary circulatory system. It works separately but in conjunction with the cardiovascular system. When working properly, lymphatics only move in one direction—towards the heart. Included in the lymphatic system are small bean-shaped structures called lymph nodes. Depending on one’s age and sex, there are 400-700 lymph nodes throughout the body with main clusters found in the neck, armpits, chest, abdomen and groin.
T-cells (T-lymphocytes) – play a crucial role in cell-mediated immunity;
B-cells (B-lymphocytes) – produce antibodies that help fight pathogens;
Dendritic cells – present antigens to T-cells, activating the immune system;
Macrophages – engulf and digest foreign matter, cellular debris, and pathogens;
Natural killer cells – attack abnormal (cancerous) or infected cells;
Plasma cells – produce and secrete antibodies.
As bacteria and viruses enter the lymph nodes, the immune cells work to identify and remove them. The more fluid that moves through the lymph nodes, the more immune cells will be produced. From there, the waste is filtered out through the liver and kidneys and the lymph is returned to the blood stream in a continuous cycle.
Unlike the cardiovascular system, which is powered by the heart, the lymphatic system lacks a central pump. Thus, it relies on muscle contractions to circulate lymph. To keep lymph moving through the system, you must drink plenty of water and be active enough to move the fluids through the body.
However, many patients with persistent symptoms of Lyme suffer from chronic fatigue, making activity and traditional exercise nearly impossible—which was the case with my daughter.
When my daughter was immobile due to chronic illness, I used three things to help with lymph drainage: passive range of motion exercises, medical grade compression stockings, and manual lymph drainage massage. These were all things I’d been taught as a physical therapist (PT).
Later we worked with a PT who specialized in chronic fatigue syndrome. She helped my daughter design a full body lymph drainage massage technique she continues to use to this day.
[Note: While you can learn to do all these things on your own, I highly recommend scheduling an appointment with a licensed physical therapist to learn the proper technique for each. PT is covered by most insurance.]
Whether an infection is active, persistent, dormant, or the dead remnants of previous illness, it can produce inflammatory waste products that the body must try to clear through the circulatory system.
Lymphatic drainage massage is a therapeutic technique that uses gentle, rhythmic strokes to stimulate the flow of lymph fluids in a specific direction through the body.
Whole body lymph drainage massage helps reduce inflammation and remove waste products. It also helps stimulate the immune system and allows the movement of basic hormones needed for rest and healing.
Lymphatic drainage massage is similar to deep cleaning your home. It’s like clearing the cobwebs out of the corners and the dust bunnies out from under the bed. When the lymph nodes are plugged, they slow the flow of lymphatic fluid. Leaving those nodes clogged and swollen impairs the healing process.
Never underestimate the value of keeping the lymphatic system functioning.
The Glymphatic System
In the brain, the lymphatic clearance pathway is called the glymphatic system—a pathway that was only recently discovered.
Maiken Nedergaard is a Danish neuroscientist who works at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York. In 2012, she first identified the existence of the network of lymphatic vessels in the brain that eliminate toxins via cerebrospinal fluid. Prior to this, no one knew how the brain cleared waste and infections. Nedergaard created the word “glymphatic” to represent the relationship between the glial cells and the lymphatic system of the brain.
Nedergaard discovered that the glymphatic system is responsible for removing byproducts of infection, including amyloid beta. It’s a protein that can build up in the brain and is associated with the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
The glymphatic system is most active during uninterrupted deep sleep. This is one reason why sleep is so important for overall brain health and why sleep deprivation can exacerbate neurodegenerative diseases.
Head/Neck Lymphatic Self-Massage
[Note: If you have any contraindications listed below, please speak to your doctor before performing this procedure.]
When doing lymphatic drainage massage, you always want to start by opening the lymph valves closest to the heart first, work your way outwards, then back in towards the heart. The first time you do this type of massage I recommend going low and slow — maybe 10 – 20 motions of each of the following steps. Later, if no adverse reactions, you can increase to 50 repetitions of each step.
Step 1. From a comfortable seated position, begin by gently pulsing the lymphatic nodes at the base of your neck, the soft space just above the collarbones. These nodes need to be opened before anything can move down from the head/neck.
Step 2. Move your fingers higher up the neck to the groove just behind your ears. With palms flat, pull the skin gently towards the front and all the way down to the center of your neck where it meets the “V” between the collarbones. (P.S. If your sinuses and/or ears pop and you feel like swallowing, you are doing it right.)
Step 3. Make the “Spock” hand sign. Place your middle and index finger behind the ears and the ring and pinky finger in front of the ears and gently pull downwards.
Step 4. Move your hands around the back of the head/neck to the base of the skull and gently pull forward.
Step 5, 6, and 7 is the first three steps in reverse: Perform steps 3, 2 and 1, pulling all the fluid down towards the collarbones.
This is the video I most frequently use to teach people this simple beginner’s self-drainage massage technique.
Watch:
Other Treatments
Ananti-inflammatory diet, full of high quality proteins, fresh fruits/veggies and fiber, and low in processed foods, sugar, gluten and dairy.
Vitamin B, vitamin C andvitamin D are also vital to immune health,
Epsom salt baths or foot soak. The magnesium helps to calm the nerves
Saunas and dry brushing also help with lymphatic drainage,
Movement based upon your tolerance: simple range of motion (moving arms & legs while lying or seated), walking, yoga, swimming, or biking.
Vagus nerve stimulation regulates the immune system through its connections with immune cells in the spleen, thymus and gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT),
I always recommend speaking to your treating clinician before beginning a new treatment method. Contraindications to lymphatic massage include acute infection, cardiac edema, cancer, blood clots (DVT), bleeding conditions, kidney failure, bronchitis, uncontrolled high blood pressure.
Resources
Find a Lymphology Certified Specialist through LANA.
Self-help: The Concise Perrin Technique: A Handbook for Patients. By Dr. Raymond Perrin. (A practical companion to The Perrin Technique 2E: How to diagnose and treat CFS/ME and fibromyalgia via the lymphatic drainage of the brain.)
LymeSci is written by Lonnie Marcum, a Licensed Physical Therapist and mother of a daughter with Lyme. She served two terms on a subcommittee of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. Follow her on Twitter: @LonnieRhea Email her at: lmarcum@lymedisease.org.
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“We’ll call for action from everywhere with influence on the spread of ‘mis- and disinformation’ on the Internet.”
Should the corrupt UN be the one to push for government action given the UN’s track record for disseminating misinformation of their own including:
Chinese forced labor camps
Covid
nuclear power plants
war in Ukraine
Syrian chemical attacks
you get the idea
Call me crazy but this seems to be a direct attack not on ‘misinformation’ but on any speech that questions global narratives.
Guterres spoke of the doomsday clock that was recently moved a little closer to global catastrophe and a report last week said that the world is moving towards a “polycrisis,” meaning many global problems at once, conflating and confounding one another.
The UN is also on a mission to push governments to “fully comply” with international human rights law to “protect and empower” participation of LGBT and religious communities.
It also has a history of pushing this same international human rights law in the area of parenting, called “Convention on the Rights of the Child,” which would usurp the parent’s role and replace it with international law. States have already been adopting this law piecemeal and it’s wreaked havoc on the ability of parents to direct the upbringing of their own children. There is now a proposed Parental Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to protect “the liberty of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children is a fundamental right.” By setting a firm constitutional standard to protect these rights, the amendment would provide clear direction for courts, doctors, child welfare workers, and other government officials. Racial bias would diminish as fewer cases are left to the discretion of a judge or other state agent. Another provision of the proposed Amendment would protect the rights of persons with disabilities. The proposal states, “The parental rights guaranteed by this article shall not be denied or abridged on account of disability.”
This should be important to all but particularly to Lyme/MSIDS patients who are parents as children have been taken by the state over disagreements regarding treatment. As it currently stands, federal law – because of the influence of the international “Rights of the Child” now requires that parents need their child’s consent to even view their health and educational records, even when they pay the bills.
European leaders will meet in Brussels this week to discuss Ukraine, the economy and mass migration
Silkie Carlo exposes the findings of an investigation showing how secretive Whitehall units in the UK have been recording political dissent on social media under the guise of tackling ‘misinformation.’#censorship#misinformation Journalists, MPs, academics, experts, campaigners, are ending up in central government files with notes about things they said about government policies, particularly during the pandemic.
“The words ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’ are being used as blank checks really by the government to extend power over speech and over information, and what people can see and what people can share, what they can hear, which is a concern, and as you say – yes, that happened during the pandemic, but the staff and the resources are now being applied to other things. ~ Silkie Carlo
Carlo gives the example that David Davis, a well known civil libertarian MP who criticized the policy of mandatory “vaccine” passports and said they could be illegal, was found in the “counter misinformation” files. He was then censored by social media for ‘medical misinformation’ which then performed an about face. A spokeswoman for Youtube said,
“We quickly remove flagged content that violates our company guidelines, including COVID-19 content that explicitly contradicts consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization.”
According to Freddie Sayers, Unherd editor, Youtube only reinstated Davis’ speech because he had a big enough megaphone. Too bad for the rest of us smaller fish.
If you wondered why mainstream and social media did a virtual blitzkrieg on immediately supporting Ukraine, which on an international corruption scale ranks just below China and Cuba, wonder no further. Now the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission will investigate Ukraine for violating and persecuting ethnic groups.
The media is a virtual puppet now being used by the government to influence and distract the public and to funnel billions into Ukraine. You are also unlikely to hear from MSM that hundreds of children are listed(with all of their personal information) on a Kiev-backed kill list. The UN has done nothing about it.
For nearly a decade NIH, DARPA, and BARDA(hence millions of our tax dollars) have funded an implantable biochip using 5G that can detect viral respiratory diseases andcontrol biological processes remotely, which opens the door to the potential manipulation of our biological responses. Bill Gates enters the picture with a 2019 MIT study, funded by the Gates Foundation, which describes how “near-infrared quantum dots” can be implanted under the skin along with a vaccine to encode information for “decentralized data storage and bio-sensing.” The entire project was motivated by Gates’ desire to identify those who have not been vaccinated, which is one step closer to happening as new, specific ICD codes have been created for those foregoing the ineffective, dangerous COVID clot shots that have caused more reports of adverse reactions and death than any other vaccine in the history of VAERS.
Here’s the frightening bit:
….developing individual preventative measures or cures for each known chemical or biological threat is no longer realistic, according to the document. Instead, DOD’s Chemical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP) will focus on finding ways to engineer servicemembers’ immune systems with catch-all vaccines, therapeutics and equipment that can handle a seemingly endless landscape of chemical and biological threats, including ones that aren’t directly the result of weapons programs, Politico first reported.
“There is also an expansion of high containment labs worldwide with ready access to powerful new technologies, increasing the risk of accidental and deliberate outbreaks, even pandemics,” he added.
CBDP will “leverage” existingrelationships with pharmaceutical companies to fast-track development of immunization technologies, each of which can protect troops against multiple viruses, the Pentagon strategy states.
It appears the military/medical complex has completely given up on treatments. All effort and money is being directed to a supposed magic bullet “vaccine” or experimental therapeutic “cure all.” This is why repurposed drugs like HCQ with zinc, ivermectin, etc. are maligned, censored, banned, with legal battles and doctors being persecuted.
The CBDP is looking to “modulate the immune system” of soldiers through six different metabolic pathways as well as looking into monoclonal antibodies for three distinct groups of viruses including COVID, i.e. addressing many bugs with one drug.
Dr. Ruby discusses that in her experience those getting COVID again(which again, can’t be verified due to the PCR fraud occurring and the inability to know if something truly is COVID) have had experimental monoclonal antibodiesor the jab. Getting the antibodies is like renting an army for a day. They come in, clean house, but then go away. On the other-hand, the soldiers in your immune system stay around, continuing to clean house as needed. Those getting the jab are catching every little cold bug or flu that’s going around.
This will all be done by mimicking Operation Warp Speed‘s funding and fast-tracked regulations to make it all happen at the speed of light, like they did with the experimental COVID gene therapy shots, developed by the military which are strategically called “counter measures” and “prototypes,” to avoid lengthy conventional regulatory, commercial development and testing pathways normally required for pharmaceutical products (ICH, 2022) and to proceed to Emergency Use Authorization (EUA).
Of course they are also requesting a “unique medical infrastructure” designed to fast-track new “vaccines” and drugs as well as wearable devices that monitor vital signs.
These questions are begging to be asked:
Is THIS why the government insisted on the country-wide rollout of the COVID shots?
Is THIS why the government mandated that their own soldiers get them?
Are they already collecting information to feed this new experiment?
The following information on U.S. taxpayer funded bio labs in Ukraine will be déjà vu for those familiar with the sordid history of Lyme/MSIDS, which actually has a Wisconsin chapter. A secret directive in 1946 by President Truman, originally coined “operation overcast,” fast-tracked immigration papers for more than a thousand former Nazi scientists. It was later renamed “Operation Paperclip” because a paper clip would be attached to someone’s file, indicating they were to be allowed in without scrutiny. These scientists formed the core that developed America’s nuclear missile program as well as weapons for America that almost certainly violated international law. What doesn’t get a lot of air-play is the secret history of Lyme disease.
Creating a ‘jobs program’ for foreign scientists on the taxpayer’s dime isn’t new.
Judicial Watch obtained 345 pages of heavily redacted records under the umbrella of the DOD on the U.S. funding of anthrax lab activities in the Ukraine. Russia requested the UN Security Council to investigate these bioweapons but was rejected.
“This is really a jobs program for Soviet scientists.
What do you do with all these labs and all these scientists hanging around who have very deadly toxins on their hands? Well, you Co-op them. Right? So you create a program, you fund them, you let them do their experiments, but the idea since you are funding them, you’re controlling them. That’s the idea. Except that then it becomes inconvenient and awkward when things like wars pop up or when the Russians knock out all the electricity in Ukraine, and guess what’s needed to maintain those laboratories and the security of those pathogens in those labs? Electricity. ~ Chris Farrell Director of Investigations and Research, Judicial Watch
In other words, experimenting with deadly pathogens has significant risk.
Yet, the laboratory work isolating deadly pathogens continues with a partnership with an investment firm directed by Hunter Biden and Christopher Heinz (stepson of climate czar John Kerry).
Dr. Andrew Huff on the Connection Between Hunter Biden & Biolabs in Ukraine
“Metabiota is the company that had the contracts w/ DTRA for the labs in Ukraine.
Metabiota is the company that was invested into by Rosemont Seneca, which was Hunter Biden’s VC firm.”
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**Comment**
Circling back to Lyme for a moment, according to patent no. WO/2008/147879 filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), UMDNJ Biomedical Informatics expert Ryan Golhar PhD describes “a processing technique, associated method, product description, and related software… for achieving rapid identification of DNA”. The author explains how this can detect a very wide range of biological warfare pathogens:
“The present invention provides methods and devices for the identification of bioagents via the presence of their nucleic acids. In the context of the present invention, a ‘bioagent’ is any organism, living or dead, or a nucleic acid derived from such an organism. Examples of bioagents include but are not limited to cells (including but not limited to human clinical samples, bacterial cells and other pathogens) viruses, toxin genes and bioregulating compounds). Samples may be alive or dead or in a vegetative state (for example, vegetative bacteria or spores) and may be encapsulated or bioengineered.” Source
Golhar then goes on to list the many biowarfare pathogens, which may be detected using his technique. The list is subdivided into bacterial, viral, toxin, and fungal weapons.
“Bacterial biological warfare bioagents capable of being detected by the present methods include, but are not limited to:
A hard-to-catch, easily cured disease that neither kills nor disables would hardly seem much of a choice as a bioweapon. Why then, do we hear, again and again, that the agent of Lyme is being studied in maximum-containment biowarfare labs?
When I exposed, a few years ago, a document I found on the US National Institute of Health’s website which listed Lyme as one of the pathogens studied in Fort Detrick, (the premier biowarfare lab in the US), the NIH quickly announced it was a “printing error” and removed the words Lyme disease from the page.
However, further leaks have resulted in similar information being accidentally released again and again. For example, Lyme was listed as one of the biowar agents to be studied in the new high-containment lab in San Antonio, Texas, in a report that was picked up by the Associated Press (3). After being publicized over the internet by Lyme disease patient campaigners, the link to the article was summarily removed by MSNBC; however, various archived copies survive.
A document on the website of Colorado State University revealed that Lyme was being studied in a top-security BSL-3 lab there. (4) Biosafety Level 3 is used for some of the most dangerous pathogens known, which additionally pose a major biowarfare hazard because of transmission by the airborne route. It is only one step down from BSL-4, the highest level of containment, reserved for those agents for which there is no known vaccine or treatment.
Lyme disease in nature is usually acquired by tick-bite and is not considered transmissible by the airborne route. But weaponisation usually involves creating fine-milled, aerosolisable particles – and techniques for lyophilisation, or freeze-drying of borrelia in fine particles – were developed decades ago. Source
Maine hospital ordered to pay $6.5 million for wrongful Lyme death
Feb. 3, 2023
In 2017, 25-year-old Peter Smith, died of Lyme carditis in Portland, Maine.
Now, a jury has ordered the hospital and doctor that failed to recognize that he had Lyme disease to pay $6.3 million in a wrongful death lawsuit.
But the award is expected to be reduced to $4 million because of a state law that caps loss-of-life damages.
Lyme carditis occurs when Lyme bacteria enter the tissues of the heart.
In June 2017, Smith was examined twice by Dr. John Henson at Mercy Hospital in Portland, for fever, chills, dizziness, headaches and a rash “that was slightly target-shaped.”
According to court documents, Henson wrote there was “no sign of Lyme disease” and diagnosed Smith with a basic viral illness and erythema multiforme, a skin disorder characterized by bull’s-eye-shaped lesions.
When Smith returned two weeks later, Henson again diagnosed him with a skin infection.
Five days later, Smith was taken by ambulance to a different Portland hospital. Physicians there immediately diagnosed him with Lyme disease and found it had invaded his heart. Smith was treated and released but died July 2, 2017.
I couldn’t help but notice the crooked smile on this handsome face. This is hallmark Lyme. Here’s a few more examples:
While Bell’s Palsy can be severe in some, it can also simply look like a crooked smile as seen in these pictures. Usually one eye droops as well. There is no test for this symptom and it is diagnosed clinically. “Authorities” want to put this symptom in a box, put all kinds of rules on it, and state it’s “rare,” but reality paints a very different picture. “Authorities” often treat it with corticosteroids, which would not be wise in those with Lyme/MSIDS as it suppresses their immune systems even further allowing all the pathogens to come to life. Like everything else, dealing with the root cause (bacterial or viral infection) is the best treatment, and is often successful, although the symptom has been known to persist even in those treated with antibiotics.
Daisy Ilchovska: “Lyme is a silent pandemic that continues to affect hundreds of thousands.” Picture: Dorset Biz News.
