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Woman With Lyme, Babesia, & Bartonella Turns to Carnivore Diet & Improves

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12446991/woman-plant-based-diet-killing-lyme-disease-carnivore

EXCLUSIVE – Woman, 38, whose undiagnosed Lyme disease left her ‘MINUTES from death’ reveals how plant-based diet nearly DESTROYED her body – before she turned to strict carnivore regimen that completely cured her symptoms

  •  Angela Lerro, 38, from Los Angeles, stopped eating most meat and fish in 2013
  • She began fainting up to 20 times a day and suffering from anaphylaxis
  • Angela learned her diet was killing her after being diagnosed with Lyme disease

By CAROL DRIVER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

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A woman who was advised to follow a plant-based diet after being diagnosed with breast cancer and having a mastectomy has opened up about how shunning meat almost killed her while she was suffering from undiagnosed Lyme disease. 

Angela Lerro, 38, from Los Angeles, stopped eating most meat and fish and lived mainly on vegetables and colorful salad dishes for three years after undergoing surgery in 2013.

But instead of feeling better, she began fainting up to 20 times a day, breaking out in hives and rashes, and suffering from heightened anxiety and anaphylaxis. She became so bloated, she looked pregnant.

The reiki master was told it was post-cancer ailments, but her symptoms were actually caused by undiagnosed Lyme disease, which she’d been unknowingly battling for over 30 years. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

This is quite the journey this poor woman has lived.  I pray something within will help someone out there who has barked up every tree but still hasn’t found any answers – or should I say THE answer?

As always, this is not medical advice.  Make sure you are working with an experienced Lyme literate doctor.   But, as is often the case with Lyme/MSIDS, we simply have to experiment.

Angela went on the “Lion Diet” otherwise known as the “ultimate elimination diet,” to reduce inflammation.  Angela believes that ruminant fat, meat, and organs contain the most bioavailable nutrients the body can absorb and use.  She states borrelia feed off gluten, grains, and sugar and when they are consumed they create inflammation.  When she ditched her low-histamine paleo diet for bison, veal, lamb, and venison many of her symptoms disappeared within three months.  She no longer fainted and her mobility improved.

She also had undiagnosed Babesia and Bartonella.

Angela helps others.  Go here for her info: https://www.instagram.com/meatbasedmedium/

I too have improved dramatically with diet; however, diet really didn’t appear to be a problem until later – after I had treatment for 5 years.  Now, could a dietary switch have helped?  Possibly, but as you know – it’s nearly impossible at times to distinguish what is doing what.  It wasn’t until I developed a very painful Baker’s Cyst and what appeared to be “arthritis” that I got serious about diet.  I’m happy to report that I’ve experienced great improvement by ditching gluten, most dairy (except hard cheeses and whipping cream), and trying valiantly to eliminate sugar.  That last one is the tough one for me.  🙂

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Babesia, Bartonella, diet and nutrition, Inflammation, Lyme, Treatment

Two More Dead From Lyme Disease

https://montrealgazette.remembering.ca/obituary/naomi-friedlander-1088887718

FRIEDLANDER, Naomi Lynn
Passed away on September 29, 2023 in Toronto, Ontario.

In 2001 Naomi began a struggle with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, later determined to be un-diagnosed Lyme Disease leading to PTLDS, that she would endure for the remainder of her life. She fought tenaciously to find and obtain medical assistance for a little-understood and under-researched disease. In recent years her condition improved; she began to do limited amounts of volunteer work, including at the Toronto International Film Festival, and was hopeful that she might be able to re-enter the workforce on a part-time basis at some point in the future. These dreams were cut short by a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer in 2020. Once again she fought hard – enduring five months of chemotherapy, a window of hope, a final round of chemotherapy and radiation treatment.  (See link for more)

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https://www.danekasfuneralchapel.com/obituary/ryan-smith

RYAN DUANE SMITH

Ryan Duane Smith was born on January 30, 1979, in Davenport, WA, to Neal D. and Donna Jo Smith.  He entered into heaven at his home in Gifford, WA, on October 5, 2023, due to complications of Lyme disease.  Ryan attended Columbia School in Hunters, WA, graduating in 1997.  He then received his B.S. in Computer Science / Math in 2001 from Eastern Oregon University in La Grande, OR.  Ryan enjoyed all sports and played football, basketball and baseball.  He was especially happy to get to play college football for EOU.

Ryan loved helping others and especially enjoyed farming with Bud and Donna Sampson through his junior high and high school years.  After high school, Ryan began a 22-year career with the WA State Department of Natural Resources.  He served as a wildland firefighter, incident commander, strike team leader, and wildfire investigator.  He became a nationally certified FEMA trainer and taught many classes throughout the Pacific Northwest.  Ryan also worked as a forester until he became unable to walk.  (See link for more)

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Activism, Lyme

Lyme & Coinfection Update: Dr. Armin Schwarzbach

http://

An Update for Lyme & Co-infections

Dr. Armin Schwarzbach/Nordic Laboratories & dnalife

Oct. 9, 2023

Within the field of infections, new research is in constant development. During his discussion, Dr. Schwarzbach will cover both what tests he offers through Nordic and dnalife, looking at what could potentially be a great alternative to what the national health service may have to offer. He will also be informing us about new and ongoing testing and considerations, while also touching on the topic of co-infections as an additional concern for patients.

If you go to the Youtube link, you can also view the transcript.

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Activism, Lyme, research, Testing

Hunterdon Health Participates in Lyme Disease Vaccine Study – Buyer Beware!

https://www.tapinto.net/towns/flemington-slash-raritan/sections/health-and-wellness/articles/hunterdon-health-participates-in-lyme-disease-vaccine-study

Hunterdon Health Participates in Lyme Disease Vaccine Study

By Kathleen Seelig
Published October 19, 2023 

Lyme disease is a tick-borne illness that can cause serious long-term symptoms if untreated.  For people who live in areas where ticks are common, a preventative vaccine would be better than current measures like insect repellants and checking for ticks.  This clinical trial will evaluate if an investigational vaccine is safe and effective for preventing Lyme disease in people 18 years and older.  By choosing to volunteer, you will represent others like you – in age, race, ethnicity and from communities like ours.

Who may participate:

Healthy adults (18 years of age and older) who live in places or participate in activities that increase their risk for Lyme disease.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

New Jersey typically ranks in the top three states for Lyme disease.  In other words, nearly the entire state is filled with people carrying borrelia in their bodies – along with other pathogens.

I’m opposed to a Lyme disease “vaccine” for anyone, but injecting a population with borrelia antibodies already present in their bodies, that many are able to suppress and live harmoniously with, is not only dangerous but stupid.  The main action of a vaccine is to lower the immune system so that it mounts an effective immune response to whatever it is being injected with.  This, right here, is why many are forever negatively affected.

The Lyme “vaccine” as well as Lyme testing – has a long and sordid backstory, which really got the entire disease on the wrong foot from the get-go, and it’s been a crazy-train ever since with no hope of straightening out unless infected patients do the work themselves.  The government is not our answer – which means government funded research isn’t our answer either.  Both are hopelessly corrupt.

Because borrelia and the other stealth pathogens which often come with it don’t hang around in the blood for long testing has been a bust since they are blood tests.  A Lyme “vaccine,” has also been a bust because it didn’t confer immunity, gave people Lyme-like symptoms, and utilized OspA, the known ingredient that can cause auto-immunity in some.  Four people actually died after it.

How do you vaccinate for something that changes?  And how do you vaccinate for a disease that is typically caused by multiple pathogens all working symbiotically together?  And how do you vaccinate for something that is able to shape-shift and survive the immune system and treatment?

Until ‘the powers that be’ recognize these simple truths, we are left to ride on the crazy-train.

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  • The article then glorifies Klempner’s Lyme PrEP, which we keep being told isn’t a vaccine but a monoclonal antibody “preventative treatment,” that directly gives you the antibody.  What they fail to mention is Lymerix as well as Lyme PrEP both use OspA  – the very antigen of Lyme disease that is blamed for causing devastating Lyme-like symptoms. They erroneously state it’s “just antibodies.”  If only it were that simple.  Antibodies, as stated previously, are not always harmless. Watch this brief video to understand the interplay between antigens and antibodies.
  • Klempner was also the trial administrator of the Connaught OspA Lyme vaccine in the 1990s, and is quite aware of the adverse effects of injecting OspA into people.  He also was an author of the 2006 IDSA guidelines that were the subject of an investigation by Senator Richard Blumenthal which exposed undisclosed financial conflicts in many of the panelists as well as the fact they simply ignored alternative medical opinion (which is happening again with COVID). Those guidelines relied heavily on his 2001 “retreatment” study in which most of the participants had not been treated in the first place. 
  • To state that Lyme patients and advocates do not trust Klempner would be the understatement of the year and further, I’m with Lyme advocate Carl Tuttle: we don’t want any Lyme vaccines until the issue of chronic/persistent infection is acknowledged. As you can see from this article, there are those who still believe what we are suffering from is a “scam that should be condemned”.
  • They then mention Sam Telford, also part of the Lyme Cabal, who blames the spread of deer, and suburbanization in America, never once mentioning experimentation on ticks by infecting them with numerous pathogens and releasing them, in fact dropping them, from airplanes.  Telford, a professor of infectious disease and global health at Tufts University, helped discover the mechanism that led to the development of Lymerix and ran one of the clinical trials that tested it. He is now part of a group of biotech professionals who have formed an alliance and want to bring back the vaccine. This article, written by a doctor, methodically records the devastation Lymerix caused but which is completely ignored by Cabalists like Telford who continue to state Lymerix was “effective.” Telford, a Chronic Lyme denialist, teaches biosecurity, specializes in the bioweapon Tularemia, and was the director of a bio-level 3 lab in Groton, Massachusetts that works on dangerous, tickborne diseases on the government’s select agent list.  He’s funded by the NIH and the military-industrial complex.
If that isn’t enough to get you running the other direction, I don’t know what will.

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Activism, Lyme, research, Ticks, vaccines

Interstitial Cystitis & Bladder Symptoms in Lyme & Bartonella

https://www.treatlyme.net/guide/interstitial-cystitis-lyme  (Article and video Here)

Updated: 10/13/23

Interstitial Cystitis and Bladder Symptoms

By Dr. Marty Ross

Some patients with Lyme disease and bartonella infection have symptoms similar to those seen in a bladder infection. These symptoms include

  • urge to urinate,
  • bladder pain and pain on urination,
  • bladder cramping, and
  • increased frequency of urination.

When these symptoms occur, a bladder infection should be ruled out by a healthcare provider. When it is ruled out, these symptoms are often the result of a condition called Interstitial Cystitis. Depending on a person’s age and other risk factors, a urologist may need to evaluate the bladder with a fiberoptic scope to assure that cancer is not present and to confirm a diagnosis of Interstitial Cystitis.

In this article I review the ways to support Interstitial Cystitis with natural medicines in a Lyme disease treatment.  (See link for article and video)

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Bartonella, diet and nutrition, Lyme, Supplements, Treatment