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)
KERRI RIVERA RETURNS TO REVEAL MORE SECRETS OF NATURAL MEDICINE
Kerri Rivera kindly returned for a second interview about chlorine dioxide and other natural medicines. She began studying natural health to save her vaccine-injured son from autism years before Kalcker or Humble appeared on the scene. This makes Kerri an OG, an Original Gangster. This phrase is a rapper complement that now means a respected or old-school source.
Kerri deserves to be heard because of her depth of experience and training with some of the best healers in the world. If you haven’t, listen to her first interview HERE. She helped me clear up some of my confusion about alternative medicine. Kerri is a homeopath who offers online consultations. Email her at kerri@kerririvera.com if you are interested. (See link for article and interview) Go here for the Rumble video version
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Important quote:
“Chlorine dioxide (CD) is foundational; methylene blue is adjunctive.”
A BIG THANKS to Dr. Yoho for summarizing the video in the link above. Most people don’t do this and it frustrates me to no end as most of us don’t have time to listen to hour plus interviews!
He also lists dosages and frequency as well as other helpful tidbits.
Notice that desperation for her son’s health is what drove Rivera to find this treatment. I have seen this play out over and over again.People who are vested in finding real answers find things people who just get a paycheck don’t.
Years after the feds legalized hemp, the ax is still dangling over CBD supplements despite ongoing, exciting research into all of CBD’s health benefits. We need to protect access NOW! Action Alert!
THE TOPLINE
We’re only just beginning to scratch the surface on the benefits that CBD and other cannabinoids can have on our health, but the FDA is standing firm in its determination NOT to allow CBD in supplements.
Part of the reason we don’t know more about CBD’s effects is because federal law in the US made it almost impossible to study CBD and other cannabinoids before the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill.
Non-psychotropic cannabinoids like CBD work so well because they ‘speak’ to the billions of receptors of every cell of our bodies through the recently discovered endocannabinoid system.
The coming years will tell us even more about CBD’s potential to help us ward off many of the key conditions and diseases that afflict modern society—but it may be too late if we don’t take action to protect CBD supplements today.
We are only beginning to understand the array of benefits CBD and other cannabinoids can have on human health, but the FDA is trying to make sure that the only way we can get CBD is to be prescribed it as an FDA-approved drug—a drug listed at $32,500 a year.We cannot allow Big Pharma, in concert with the FDA, to threaten our access to this natural compound.
In hundreds of studies over the last few years, CBD—short for cannabidiol, one of the hundreds of cannabinoids found in the hemp and as well as a number of other plants—has shown promise in helping with pain, neurological disorders, insomnia, seizures, anxiety, stress, antibiotic-resistant infections, and inflammation, to name just a few. This diverse array of health benefits is due to the fact that CBD interacts with the human endocannabinoid system (ECS), an entire network of receptors throughout the body that was only discovered recently and is responsible for regulating mood, pain, and immune responses.
There’s no doubt that the agency wants to ban CBD when delivered in dietary supplements—so it can secure it, along with its many relatives, for control by Big Pharma. Last January the FDA released a statement explaining that the “existing regulatory framework” for foods and supplements are not appropriate for CBD and that a new regulatory pathway is needed. The agency also denied three Citizens Petitions requesting the agency issue a regulation that would allow CBD to be sold as a supplement.
The FDA has affirmed the illegality of CBD as a supplement in the warning letters it has been sending out to CBD and hemp companies, though the agency seems to be focusing its enforcement on companies making health claims about CBD and hemp.
The crux of the matter, of course, is that CBD has been approved as a drug to treat a rare form of epilepsy. If a natural compound is investigated as a drug before it is sold as a supplement, FDA rules dictate that the compound can no longer be sold as a supplement.
The FDA has also raised the issue of safety, claiming that CBD has the potential to harm the liver and the reproductive system, in addition to concerns for vulnerable populations such as children and pregnant women. You can read our rebuttal to those safety concerns here.
This “back-channel” that turns natural compounds into drugs is a big problem that threatens many natural ingredients, but if CBD is turned into a monopoly drug it would be a tragedy.
First, we just don’t know the full range of health benefits CBD and other cannabinoids have because research has just started to pick up steam. Before the 2018 Farm Bill excluded hemp (cannabis plants with less than 0.3% THC) from the Controlled Substances Act, federal regulations made it extremely difficult to study any cannabinoids.
In a 2017 report on the health impacts of cannabis and cannabinoids, none other than the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine concluded that there “are specific regulatory barriers, including the classification of cannabis as a Schedule I substance, that impede the advancement of cannabis and cannabinoid research.”
When the Farm Bill passed, the research floodgates opened. In PubMed, from 2018 to the present, you’ll find around 6,000 results when you search “CBD.” From 2017 to 1924, as far back in time as PubMed goes, there are 5,810 results when you search “CBD.” In six years, there were more studies on CBD than the previous century.
Because we’re playing catch-up on the research, we’ve only recently discovered the human ECS (endocannabinoid system), an entire network of receptors throughout the human body that plays a role in modulating our mood and how we feel, how we experience and respond to pain, how our immune system responds to threats, and much more. We evolved this system because we produce cannabinoids internally (endocannabinoids) especially when we in engage in moderate physical activity such as walking, cycling, swimming or engaging in others forms of rhythmic exercise. But we can expose our bodies to more still when we consume cannabinoids in some specific foods (exocannabinoids). Most of these cannabinoids, including CBD, are not psychoactive – THC being an exception – but they all offer profound benefits.
CBD and other cannabinoids interact with the ECS in a number of different ways, so it’s no wonder that research is finding CBD to have potential in such a wide variety of health conditions, exerting neuroprotective, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and analgesic effects. This could be a game-changer for some people. We recently covered the subject of inflammation and how chronic inflammation is the common denominator in many chronic diseases—yet inflammation is not something that is tracked by mainstream doctors.
As we continue to probe deeper into the effects of CBD and other cannabinoids on the ECS and beyond, we will likely learn even more about the host of positive health effects these natural compounds can have on the body. It would be contrary to the agency’s mission of promoting and protecting public health to put these health benefits out of reach for many people by banning CBD supplements.
Action Alert! Write to Congress in support of bills that allow the legal sale of CBD in supplements. Please send your message immediately.
https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2023/12/05/doctor-exonerated-for-recommending-natural-remedies-for-covid-but-others-still-being-persecuted-new-zealands-scandal/ If you’ve not listened to the interview with Dr. Eric Nepute, aka ‘The $508 Billion Man’, you need to. Within you will learn he was exonerated of all charges brought against him simply for recommending natural things like vitamin C and zinc for COVID. Because he wouldn’t accept the DOJ’s settlement of money which would have presented a gag order, he is able to freely expose how the FTC just changed their guidelines for marketing and advertising for supplements. Currently 700 nutraceutical companies got a letter from the FTC which is now suddenly holding them to the same standard as Big Pharma stating they are violating the guidelines by not completing double-blind, randomized, placebo controlled studies on vitamins.
A standard which isn’t even required for “vaccines.”
Page 2 A ban on dental mercury in the EU? No vote on it expected soon **UPDATE**EU lawmakers agree to ban mercury-based filling for cavities by 2025
Page 3 Scoliosis in child can be caused by pregnant woman’s dental mercury
Page 4 Environmentalists aren’t out fighting against dental mercury – we found out why
Page 5 Fluoride trial is coming in for an early 2024 showdown in federal court **UPDATE**5 Takeaways from this week’s testimony in trial:
Studies found evidence of skeletal fluorosis and neurotoxicity.
The central question is whether fluoride poses an ‘unreasonable risk’
Allegations that political pressure led to suppression of the NTP report which linked fluoride to lower IQ in children & found an association between higher fluoride levels and lower IQ.
There is debate about how to interpret the cohort studies.
Page 6 Bioavailable copper is essential for health but how do we get enough?
Page 8 Oxalate toxins are naturally found in many plant foods – the ones to avoid
Page 9 Covid shots: was “just say no” the best course? Evidence says it was
Page 11 DNA contamination found in Pfizer & Moderna mRNA shots; what now?
Page 13 Vaxxed or unvaxxed, who has the better outcome? What the science says
Page 14 A wireless industry power grab, the blitz is going quietly on in Congress
Page 16 Douglas Cook, DDS a holistic dentist and author fondly remembered
Page 16 Michaela McKenzie, DDS, a biological dentist and active leader
Page 17 Ronnie Cummins, a leader for regenerative agriculture – and freedom
Page 17 David Getoff, traditional naturopath, CCN, in memoriam
Page 18 Carol Ward, DAMS leader for three decades, leaves many memories
Page 19 Marjorie Monteleon, on seacoast of Maine, was a DAMS beacon for truth
Page 19 Anita Karimian, in New York City, a longtime DAMS coordinator
Page 20 Paul Brodeur, writer, sounded early warnings about microwaves
Page 22 Books and DVDs for sale by DAMS
Page 23 DAMS coordinators and worldwide contacts
Page 24 Lisa Marie Presley, her dental mercury story, wondering about Elvis too
It is possible to improve your energy and fatigue in chronic Lyme disease, tick-borne infections, mold toxicity, and other illnesses by improving the function of the cell power factories called mitochondria. For many with fatiguing illnesses, the mitochondria get injured and do not produce enough energy. However, there are effective steps that fix the damage and give energy back.
Mitochondria are the energy factories found in every cell in the body. By some estimates, there are nearly 400 per cell. In chronic Lyme disease or in toxicity issues, due to oxidative stress the mitochondria can be injured, leading to fatigue that will not improve. In oxidative stress, chemicals build up that can damage membranes and even the DNA genetic material of mitochondria.
As power factories, mitochondria create a type of cell fuel called ATP. The fuel sources for mitochondria are fat and sugar, and both need to be transported to the inside of the mitochondria. ATP is created when fat and sugar are burned through several chemical reactions called the citric acid cycle and another process called oxidative phosphorylation.
Transport of fat and sugar into mitochondria requires a healthy mitochondria membrane. Oxidative phosphorylation also requires a healthy membrane. When the membranes are injured through oxidative stress, sugar and fat fuel sources for ATP cannot reach the inside of the mitochondria. Electron transfer in oxidative phosphorylation that leads to most ATP production is also blocked. Mitochondria membrane injury leads to low cell ATP and thus, fatigue. (See link for article and video)
