Lyme disease is quickly spreading across the entire globe — very few are enlightened on this troublesome condition — that’s why Dr. Jay Davidson has urgently created the second summit on this topic (with only 2 repeat speakers from 2016). 300,000+ people per year contract Lyme, and 2017 is predicted by some to be an incredibly risky year!
The Chronic Lyme Disease Summit 2 is online and FREE from June 19-26, 2017.
Speakers and Topics:
Wayne Anderson, ND
Overview of Lyme and Its Evolution
James Maskell
Evolution of Medicine and Lyme
Scott Forsgren, FDN-P
Maximizing Lyme Disease Recovery
Philip Blair, MD
Col. US Army, ret.
Lyme Recovery with CBD
Jay Davidson, DC, PScD
Improving Lyme Disease Protocols
Jonathan Streit, DC
Testing for Functional Neurological Issues
Tyna Moore, ND, DC
Strength Training to Optimize Stem Cells
Sarah Ballantyne, PhD
Diet/Lifestyle as a Complementary Approach
Leslie Douglas, PhD
DNA Connexions PCR Assay
Greg Lee, MAc, BS
GoodbyeLyme™ Treatments and Remedies
Dave Ou, MD
Things Missed in the Treatment of Lyme
Evan H. Hirsch, MD, ABOIM
Coinfection Bartonella Treatment
Katie Dahlgren, ND
Helping Lyme Through Parasites
Shayne Morris, PhD, MBA, CNS
The Omics of Borrelia
Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD
Latest on Lyme Testing and Treatments
Amy Derksen, ND
Non-Antibiotic Approaches to Treating Children
Dan Pompa, DPSc
Is Chronic Lyme Linked to Heavy Metals?
Todd Watts, DC
Killing Parasites to Kill Lyme Disease
Isaac Eliaz, MD, MS, LAc
Biofilm and Galectin-3 Breakthrough Strategies
Darin Ingels, ND
Herbal Therapy and Low Dose Immunotherapy (LDI)
Jerod Bergman, DC, CCSP, CSCS
Stopping EMFs and Geopathic Stress
Izabella Wentz, PharmD, FASCP
Thyroid and Lyme Disease
Tim Jackson, DPT, CNS(c)
Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Inflammatory Cytokines
Joette Calabrese, HMC, CCH, RSHom
Homeopathic Approach to Lyme Disease
David A. Jernigan, DC
Unique Approach to Healing
Gerry Curatola, DDS
Microbiome of Your Mouth
Jonathan Landsman
Fixing Toxic Teeth and Gums
Jill Carnahan, MD, ABFM, ABIHM, IFMCP
CIRS and Lyme Disease
Christine Schaffner, ND
Healing Your Brain from Lyme Disease
Diane V. Capaldi, MAP
Consciousness as It Relates to Healing
Jon Butcher
Repairing Relationships After Illness
Keesha Ewers, PhD, ARNP
Feeling Betrayed by Your Body?
Kim D’Eramo, DO
Mindsets That Impair Immune Function
Dana Walsh & Brent Martin
How to Lyme Less and Live More!
Hidden Invaders: Infections can trigger immune attacks on kids’ brains, provoking devastating psychiatric disorders.
Please read Weintraub’s detailed article in link above about seven year old Paul who changed over night, due to pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS).
“PANS is thought to be an inflammatory condition that results when an infection or some other invasive trigger spurs the body to turn on itself and attack structures in the brain. For years, scientists had focused on a single infection — group A streptococcal disease — that produced antibodies that attacked the part of the forebrain involved in forming habits, resulting in OCD. Today, the paradigm has widened into a much bigger idea that expands our understanding of psychiatric disease: A whole host of infections and other unknown triggers lead to the production of antibodies and immune cells that can cross into the brain. Depending on where these immune responses land and which brain structures they block, erode or destroy, a range of psychiatric ills can result. In one person, it could be OCD; in the next, it could be hyperactivity and inattention, anxiety, restricted eating, even hallucinations or autistic behavior.”
A prominent Wisconsin Lyme literate doctor states that 80% of his PANS children are also infected with Lyme/MSIDS. They respond and improve with antibiotics, diet change, probiotics, and other supplements to improve immune function. https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/02/13/lyme-disease-treatment/ According to Weintraub, researchers are trying to find the right treatment that stops inflammation and immune dysfunction due to rogue antibodies that attack the brain.
Weintraub also reports that strep infections can cause neuropsychiatric symptoms. One psychiatrist found that some patients right after a strep infection could develop OCD and eating disorders. She also found that children with OCD from PANDAS had toxic behavior reactions to typical medications that helped those with standard OCD showing the two groups were not equal. In studying 43 children with acute onset OCD, the infectious triggers were strep and mycoplasma. She treated them with Azithromycin and the patients improved. https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/02/07/mycoplasma-treatment/
Untreated PANS children can be disabled by their psychiatric symptoms and have, “OCD with severe intrusive thoughts such as suicidal ideation, psychosis, deep anxieties and fears, panic, rage, and are at risk of committing violent acts, ” as well as cognitive problems such as: “handwriting deterioration, slow processing speed and regressions so frightening that a once-normal 10-year-old might have the skills and behavior of a developmentally slow 3-year-old.”
A pediatric rheumatologist managed to find clusters of children from the same school or neighborhood who had all come down with the condition in the same month as well as other infections besides strep were involved, such as bacterial mycoplasma, influenza, sinusitis, pneumonia and others.
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have reversed depression symptoms in mice by feeding them Lactobacillus, a probiotic bacteria found in some yogurts. Further, the researchers have determined exactly how the bacteria affect mood, providing a concrete link between the health of the gut microbiome and mental health.
Based on their findings, they suspect their discovery will hold true in people and are planning to confirm theirs findings in depressed patients.
“The big hope of this kind of research is that we won’t need to bother with complex drugs and side effects when we can just play with the microbiome,” explained researcher Alban Gaultier, PhD. “It would be magical just to change your diet, to change the bacteria you take, to fix your health – and your mood.”
Lyme/MSIDS patients often have depression and are required to take many medications to effectively deal with numerous Tick Born Infections. Adding anti-depressants and other medications can yield nasty side-effects. This mouse study is promising in that taking probiotics do not have the downsides of prescription anti-depressants. Not only that, these good-guy bacteria help line the gut to prevent or lessen leaky gut syndrome.
Microbiota alteration is associated with the development of stress-induced despair behavior Ioana A. Marin, Jennifer E. Goertz, Tiantian Ren, Stephen S. Rich, Suna Onengut-Gumuscu, Emily Farber, Martin Wu, Christopher C. Overall, Jonathan Kipnis & Alban Gaultier
Abstract
Depressive disorders often run in families, which, in addition to the genetic component, may point to the microbiome as a causative agent. Here, we employed a combination of behavioral, molecular and computational techniques to test the role of the microbiota in mediating despair behavior. In chronically stressed mice displaying despair behavior, we found that the microbiota composition and the metabolic signature dramatically change. Specifically, we observed reduced Lactobacillus and increased circulating kynurenine levels as the most prominent changes in stressed mice. Restoring intestinal Lactobacillus levels was sufficient to improve the metabolic alterations and behavioral abnormalities. Mechanistically, we identified that Lactobacillus-derived reactive oxygen species may suppress host kynurenine metabolism, by inhibiting the expression of the metabolizing enzyme, IDO1, in the intestine. Moreover, maintaining elevated kynurenine levels during Lactobacillus supplementation diminished the treatment benefits. Collectively, our data provide a mechanistic scenario for how a microbiota player (Lactobacillus) may contribute to regulating metabolism and resilience during stress.
Ruben Lee Sims is a vet who has struggled with Lyme/MSIDS for over 3 decades, with most of that time being misdiagnosed. He was punished under the Uniform Code of Military Justice with two Article 15s and nearly court martialed twice, because doctors said no disease caused all of those symptoms. Secured in psychiatric wards three times as a hopeless hypochondriac, he was told he would stay on the psychiatric ward until he got better.
After congressional investigation, he was finally discharged from the Air Force after 14 years of highly recognized and awarded military service that ended in shame because doctors did not understand Lyme disease. Attorneys laughed and joked as they decided he was no longer fit for duty and discharged him from the Air Force without benefits, pay, or health insurance. He was essentially dumped on the streets homeless, disabled, and unable to work, with a wife and a child to provide for.
Three decades later, the VA still cannot diagnose Lyme disease based upon symptoms. Sims learned about Lyme Disease from a May 2015 Costco magazine article. He learned that the rash he had that started three decades ago was the Acrodermatitis Chronica Atrophicans (ACA) rash that is caused by untreated Lyme disease.
It took six months of constant confrontation with the VA to get them to bring in someone that understood Lyme disease. Sims is seronegative by ELISA and Western Blot. So, doctors’ over reliance on serology test nearly left him blind from severe sensitivity to light. The ACA rash confirmed his Lyme disease 34 years after my infection.
The VA did not recognize Lyme disease until the mid-1990s. That means that veterans who had Lyme disease before then were misdiagnosed and some are perhaps homeless and disabled. According to Sims the government is no wiser today than before they recognized Lyme disease. Veterans are still being misdiagnosed and perhaps dying of other Lyme-related diseases.
https://www.lymedisease.org/vet-suicide-lyme/ In this link, Sims wrote a letter to David Riley, National Commander of the DAV. He states that the problem is NOT about getting “timely and effective mental health services,” as these attempts have failed miserably. The rate of veteran suicides has remained nearly constant for over a decade in spite of VA mental health efforts.
The real problem is: military and VA healthcare systems follow CDC two-tier tests Lyme disease guidelines that capture less than 10% of Lyme disease cases nationwide. Over 90% of Lyme disease cases are diagnosed and treated by a minority of doctors who specialize in Lyme disease and tick-borne disease and understand CDC guidelines are fatally flawed.
Sims states that troops are exposed to tick bites worldwide in training and in the fields.Military risk assessments often find high risk of Lyme disease at installations all around this country. Yet, the ability to diagnose and treat Lyme disease is nearly nonexistent in the military and VA healthcare systems.
Veterans with Lyme disease find themselves caught up in a devastating perpetual loop of misdiagnoses, failed treatments, and constant rejection that can only be resolved by proper diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease. Lyme disease affects both the mind and body. However, mental health alone cannot cure Lyme disease.
Sims says nothing will change about suicides in veterans until the CDC Lyme disease guidelines are addressed immediately.
Uploaded on Dec 24, 2016 Lecture to American Psychiatric Association NY Branch, Lenox Hill Hospital
This excellent video has Dr. Jane Marke discussing psychiatric illness in TBI patients, and while the technical lecture is given to psychiatrists it will be highly illuminating to patients. If you only want to know about psychiatric symptoms associated with Lyme, skip to around minute 28.
Marke states,
“Many doctors are convinced that after a short course of antibiotics patients should be well. The huge number of people still ill years after a course of antibiotics belie this assertion.”
“Patients with Lyme, and related tick-borne disease, can have symptoms which mimic every known psychiatric syndrome. Treatment aimed directly at symptoms can relieve suffering rather quickly. These symptoms include insomnia, anxiety, “brain fog”, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, depersonalization, depression, and rages. But antibiotics are needed to undermine the root cause of the illness: the bacteria that causes Lyme: Borrelia burgdorferi.”
Other noteworthy comments:
15:12 – Marke describes the flagella of borrelia is more like the winged arms on a wine bottle opener which powerfully propels the organism.
15:40 – She questions if psychiatric disorders are inflammatory diseases. She lists: Autism, Alzheimer’s, Schizophrenia, Bipolar, PTSD, Depression, Stress, Sleep Deprivation, Self-harm, and Suicid Attempts. She also describes a study in England observing children for over a decade in which children with a high IL-8 at age 8 have an 81% change of developing depression by age 18 and a 2-fold chance of becoming psychotic.
18:04 – She states that TBI’s (Tick Borne Illness) causes an impaired Hypopituitary Axis (HPA) which on a chronic basisdecreases cortisol and increases inflammation.
20:40 – Neurotoxins in the brain contribute to mental illness by causing problems with Homosysteine metabolism, which supresses remethylation, but that apoptosis (cell death) which can be reversed by supplementing with SamE.
21:30 – She says Post Treatment Lyme Syndrome (PTLS) is like a “dog whistle,” and usually demonstrates a bias on behalf of the authors who believe that 3 weeks of antibiotics cures LD. She then goes on to tell of a study that revealed that nearly 50% of those labeled as PTLS (with persistent symptoms) had anti-brain antibodies compared to 16.5% of Post Treatment Healthy Controls (no symptoms).
25:34 – Babesia and Bartonella are of extreme interest to psychiatrists.
*Bartonella produces most of the psychiatric problems as well as photophobia, floaters, blurred vision, bone pain, pain in the soles of the feet, headaches, the hallmark rash that looks like stretch marks, migratory polyneuropathy (burning, weakness, and numbness, on both sides of the body that moves around) and POTS (a fast heart-rate when one goes from a lying position to a standing position). Patients tend to exhibit OCD, self-mutilating behaviors, seizures, rage attacks, and psychosis (bipolar under this).
26:35 Persisting atypical and cystic forms drive local inflammation
28:23 Shows an excellent slide of the percentage of patients with late Lyme and various impairments such as Encephalopathy, memory issues, cognitive impairment, motor issues, and more.
31:15 She sites a study in which researchers set out to prove that there is no such thing as Late Lyme causing psychiatric problems. Compared to controls, chronic lyme patients met criteria for adult onset ADHD(both inattentive type and hyperactive/impulsive types combined) more frequently. She encourages doctors to take “syndromes,” and try to find an etiology, rather than the reverse, which is what is typically done. In this specific case, she’s asking doctors to question and try to find solid reasons (etiology) why an adult would all of a sudden have ADHD.
33:30 She says TBI patients are the worst sleepers she’s encountered. This is important because it is when toxins are cleared in the brain.
35:30 Depression is common in TBI patients.
36:50 She has an informative slide on suicides from those with Lyme collected from newspapers.
38:55 Shows a slide on Case studies of Intrusive Symptoms such as musical hallucinations, intrusive thoughts, Cognitive Tics, catastrophising, OCD.
41:00 Depersonalization, Violence, self-harm, and schizophrenia can be a part of the picture with TBI’s. At 41:20 she tells the story of a little girl who would throw horrific temper tantrums in which she would destroy her room and then feel absolutely horrible after the fact. She also had a psychotic episode. Her MSIDS testing came back flagrantly positive.
42:21 Autism – There is vertical transmission of Lyme from mother to fetus. Those with Bb in a study made remarkable improvement taking antibiotics.
42:56 Finding Spirochetes in Alzheimer’s patients as well as other pathogens.
45:18 She points out the CDC guidelines and controversies, including the very poor testing and the vilification of small labs. She recommends CLIA certified labs and that there is NO SUCH THING AS AN FDA APPROVED LAB. She recommends IGeneX labs as they report the bands to you and uses more than 1 strain of Bb.
48:17 She shows a SPECT scan with marked improvement after treatment with antibiotics for Encephalopathy. She also states that minocycline probably crosses the blood brain barrier the best.
