Too many yeast in the intestines lead to a number of problems in Lyme disease. Here are a few.
Increased cytokine (Lyme) symptoms. Yeast overgrowth leads to inflammatory cytokine excess. Just like white blood cells responding to Lyme make too many cytokines, white blood cells make too many cytokines responding to yeast too. Excess cytokine symptoms give most of the Lyme disease symptoms. This means that too many yeast in a person’s intestines can make it look like Lyme is worse. But the problem could be yeast triggering more cytokines. Read more about cytokines in Control Cytokines: A Guide to Fix Lyme Symptoms & The Immune System.
Food allergies. Food allergies and sensitivities can be the result of yeast overgrowth too. Too many yeast is one of the major causes of leaky gut syndrome leading to food allergies. For more information see Leaky Gut Syndrome: A Video Treatment Guide.
Immune suppression. Excess cytokines and allergies to yeast may lead to immune suppression.
Marty Ross MD Discusses Yeast Problems and Diagnosis
Diagnosing Yeast. For more information about diagnosing intestinal yeast, read the whole article below this video.
Exponential Clinical Outcomes (ECO24) was held online in May, 2024 and was created by Dr. Todd Watts and Dr. Jay Davidson who also created CellCore Biosciences.
I have posted Dr. Davidson’s removing parasites to fix Lyme & chronic illness, which I consider some of the best help for parasites out there. His wife battled Lyme/MSIDS so Davidson had to figure it all out to help her. I also posted Dr. Todd Watts’ ‘The Parasite Guy Podcast’ where he shares his own journey with parasites and Lyme disease.
The notes are in the link above and are provided by Scott Forsgren, FDN-P, better known as the BetterHealthGuy.
This is a wonderful resource for executive summaries of the various speakers who present on everything from foundation medicine, testing, why patients get worse, hormones, fasting, mold, unresolved trauma, ‘vaccine’ detox support, infertility, muscle testing, and much more. There’s certainly something for everyone in this seminar.
Neuropathy in Tick-borne Infections and Mold Toxicity
In chronic Lyme disease it is common to have nerve injury in locations outside of the brain and spinal cord – also called peripheral neuropathy. Common symptoms of peripheral neuropathy include:
numbness,
burning sensations,
and/or sharp, stabbing or electric feelings.
In this article Marty Ross MD reviews:
laboratory evaluation of neuropathy in chronic Lyme disease and
a functional medicine approach to remove nerve insults and to repair nerve injury.
Neuropathy Laboratory Evaluation
A basic laboratory evaluation of neuropathy may include:
Vitamin B6 (too much Vitamin B6 causes neuropathy)
Vitamin B12 (low Vitamin B12 causes neuropathy)
Vt D3 (levels around 40 ng/ml to 80ng/ml support healthy nerve function)
CBC
CMP (evaluation of kidney and liver function)
TSH, Free T3, and Free T4 (evaluate for low or high thyroid function)
TTG-IgA & EMA (for possible celiac disease)
heavy metal urine testing (see the end of the article for when to do this)
Functional Medicine Neuropathy Repair
Steps to repair nerve injury include:
removing the nerve insults
correcting abnormal labs including thyroid, Vitamin D, Vitamin B6, and Vitamin B12
stopping RX meds that may cause neuropathy
treating infections
correcting mold toxicity
repairing the nerve damage
repairing nerve cell and mitochondria power plant membranes,
increasing the master cell repair antioxidant glutathione,
increasing the nutrient Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10)
taking acetyl-l-carnitine if you do not eat red meat,
There are a number of medications that can cause neuropathy. You should review your list of medications with your physician or health care provider. There are three classes of anti-microbials used in Lyme treatments that can lead to neuropathy.
azoles including fluconazole (Diflucan), metronidazole, tinidazole, and itraconazole
Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine)
disulfiram
Correct Mold Toxicity
Elevated mold toxins may injur nerve function and damage nerve cell mitochondria. See Mold and Lyme Toxin Illness for more information about how to diagnose and fix this problem. (See link for article and video)
May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month, a time dedicated to increasing public knowledge about Lyme disease. This month emphasizes awareness on preventing tick bites, recognizing symptoms, and promoting early detection.
Go here for moreprevention & printouts on how to identify and properly remove ticks, how to protect your pets and yard, learn about Lyme symptoms, as well as get guest blogs on various topics, a community action calendar, and Lyme statistics.
After we defeated his anti-supplement bill in 2022, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) is trying to do the same thing again. Let’s make sure he doesn’t succeed. Action Alert!
THE TOPLINE
Sen. Durbin is planning to reintroduce his legislation to require mandatory product listing for dietary supplements.
This is an unnecessary regulation that will restrict consumer choices, putting us on a road to high-dose supplement restrictions with no basis in safety or public health.
It is another instance in which the FDA shows its loyalty to drug companies by slapping needless red tape on its competitors in the natural product industry.
It’s time, once again, to defend our supplement access in the face of an FDA / Big Pharma / Sen. Durbin onslaught. We’ve done it before, and we can do it again—but not without a powerful grassroots response telling Congress NOT to restrict our supplements.
MPL on the move
Earlier this week, Sen. Durbin, a longtime supplement opponent, reportedly sent letters to several supplement industry trade groups indicating he would be reintroducing his Dietary Supplement Listing Act requiring mandatory product listing (MPL) for supplements. This comes on the heels of the FDA asking for the authority to require MPL in its list of legislative proposals for Fiscal Year 2025, as it did the previous year. With your help and support, we defeated Sen. Durbin’s legislation in 2022, and we can do so again. But, like last time, we need your help.
MPL seeks to create a registry of all supplements on the market bringing it ever closer to the Canadian model that our colleagues at the Natural Health Products Protection Association have confirmed are wiping more and more products from Canadian retail shelves. Sen. Durbin and the FDA claim this policy would help regulators “know when new products are introduced and quickly identify dangerous or illegal products on the market.” We believe Sen. Durbin and the FDA are using safety as a smokescreen and that such a registry will be used to target and eliminate products that the agency believes do not comply with its ridiculous regulations. Just like in Canada.
Supplements: a health threat despite ZERO deaths?
For starters, this is a solution in search of a problem. The safety record for supplements is indisputable. Dietary supplements boast a consistent and remarkable safety profile making them many times more safe than conventional foods. Data from the American Association of Poison Control Center’s National Poison Data System (NPDS) typically show, year on year, that zero Americans die from taking dietary supplements.
Oft-cited reports on supplements causing adverse events fail to highlight that many cases are the result of unsupervised children swallowing pills, elderly Americans choking, and heart palpitations from ingesting too many diet pills, sexual enhancement pills, and energy drinks. Compare these numbers to the adverse events caused by pharmaceutical drugs, or even rates of food borne illness, and you’ll find that supplements are, overall, among the safest things you can consume.
The bottom line is that the supplement industry is not sickening and killing alarming rates of Americans to necessitate restrictive policies. So what’s the real motivation?
As we’ve argued through the years, the FDA takes an antagonistic attitude towards natural products because it relies on the drug industry for funding, and natural products compete with drugs. Put simply, the FDA is captured by drug industry interests. We believe this helps explain the motivation behind many anti-supplement policies, including the ridiculous limits the FDA imposes on what can be said about the benefits of supplements.
The case against MPL
The implications of MPL are even more concerning. MPL might be used to create a list of supplements that might lead to “adverse events,” similar to a legislative effort by Sen. Durbin we defeated a number of years ago. In that case, the list would be created by the FDA and the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM)—the same body that once said people up to the age of 70 don’t need more than 600 IU of vitamin D per day, and above 4,000 IU may be dangerous. Through this and other mechanisms, such as harmonization with EU supplement levels we’ve discussed elsewhere, we can easily see how MPL could be used to eliminate access to high-dose supplements.
To make a long story short, mandatory listing legislation would add regulations to supplements that would increase prices for consumers and decrease available options, making it easy for the FDA to eliminate supplements that compete with the drugs that provide significant funding for the Agency. MPL would also throttle innovation in the supplement sector that delivers American consumers the most diverse array of cutting-edge products that support health, anywhere in the world.
Action Alert! Write to Congress and tell them to oppose mandatory product listing for supplements. Please send your message immediately.
Madison Area Lyme Support Group 