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Another COVID Revelation: Snake Venom Poisoning

**UPDATE April 14, 2022**

In this most current video, Dr. Ardis answers questions after revealing his belief that COVID is actually caused by snake venom, such as:

  • Why are children hardly affected?
    • answer: high levels of melatonin are largely protective against snake venom
  • Why are people losing their hair?
    • Those bitten by snakes also lose their hair.
  • What about pets drinking tap water?
    • answer: water is already diluting the toxin, as well as animals may have enzymes that are protective
  • What about the issue of shedding?
    • Snakes actually can propel venom through the air. People with the toxin are going to also expel it through sweating, waste elimination, and coughing, sneezing, etc.  Women also expel toxins through menstruation and breast feeding.
  • If your body is injected with the spike protein, (i.e. COVID shots), identified in France in 2020 as being most like cobra or krait toxin, and rabies virus, your body is now manufacturing this toxic genetic sequence in your body forever – enter “long-term “covid.”  Snake toxin ends up shredding mammalian tissue – causing hemorrhaging, strokes, aneurysms, prion disease, miscarriages, they very things being seen.
  • What about natural immunity?
    • Notice people continue to get “Covid.” Even if this was just a “virus,” like the common cold – people continue to get sick.  Regarding venom, you can also continue to be poisoned and get sick.  There are some doctors; however, who believe you can be exposed repeatedly at low doses and develop a level of immunity (kind of like allergy treatments – LDA/LDI, etc.)
      • A 2021 Italian study found that those testing positive for Covid also had 36 different animal venom peptides, whereas the control group, testing negative, did not have a single one.
      • Further, each type of venom can be isolated and manufactured in a lab. They each target a different human organ which explains the Covid “comorbidity” issue.
  • Why do ivermectin, HCQ, cysticercoids, antimalarials, and zinc work?
    • All of these are protective against snake venom.  NAC and aspirin also help.
    • Nurses are coming forward stating this all makes sense to them now as they are treating patients.
    • Interestingly, only HCQ is listed as an antagonist against remdesivir (can not be adminsitered with it). Ardis believes this is why it has been completely banned and why he prefers HCQ.  HCQ and anti-malarials have been proven for a 100 years to block venom poisoning.  Go here for Ardis on effective treatments.
  • What about our water?
    • The CDC and everywhere else globally has been monitoring our water for Covid. Never has there been any mention of filtering it out.  Waste water becomes drinking water.
    • While Ardis can not prove they’ve put it into the water, he is suspicious as he doesn’t trust the CDC, as well as the fact they are monitoring it, and predicting future outbreaks from it. A rat study shows that drinking envenomed water produces the same results as being bitten.
      • Health Ranger, Mike Adams, states venom can easily be put into the water supply through nano carriers that are stabilized to cause the venom to persist.  He also points out that the UK company Venomtech which has a massive venom peptide and venom fragment library to be used by Big Pharma as well as pesticides for agriculture.  He did an interview with someone who claims chlorine dioxide will neutralize water and nullify any snake venom in it.  Please see this study showing CLO2’s affects as an antimicrobial agent.  It determined that daily ingestion of 500ml CLO2 having a concentration of 5ppm is safely tolerated [23]. This is not intended as advice for medical treatment.
  • While Dr. Malone is often given credit for creation of the mRNA “vaccines”, it’s actually University Pennsylvania Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman who are the creators.  They state in a NIH & NIAID funded 2009 study: “A likely contributing factor to the enhanced translation observed with modification is an increase in biological stability of the mRNAs.  Indeed, higher resistance to hydrolysis by phosphodiesterases from snake venom and spleen has been reported when uridine was replaced with in dinucleotide substates.”
  • Then the two authors of the study have formed a small biotech company that receives funding from the NIH to explore the use of nucleoside-modified mRNA for gene therapy.
  • A 2012 study which found the unusual stability of messenger RNA in venom to conduct, for the first time, quantitative PCR to characterize the dynamics of gene expression of newly synthesized (not natural) venom proteins following venom depletion.  The authors are shocked to learn that venom stored since 1984 is able to stabilize mRNA.  So this means snake venom is the preservative/stabilizing agent of mRNA products.
  • Further, a 2014 study showed they could make it even more stable by wrapping it in a nanoparticle hydrogel.  Then they combined this with Dynabeads.
  • PCR has never been used for testing viruses until Covid.  PCR is, however, used to magnify the gene sequences of snake venom.  Also mentioned in the study is the fact “mRNA encoding snake venom metalloproteinase (which depletes your cells of metals like zinc & copper – which can cause strokes, hemorrhaging, & inability to breathe), serine protease, C-type lectin, Kunitz inhibitor, protein disulphide isomerase and QKW inhibitory peptide was PCR amplified from B. arientans venom which was extracted and lyophilised in 1984.”
  • The ‘powers that be’ are censoring and banning NAC, glutathione, cysteine, and vitamin C because they work against venom phosphodiesterase (and Covid).
  • Peter Hotez and microbiologist Maria Bottazzi of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center, are up for a Nobel Prize & credited with the discovery of Corbevax (aka Cobra vaccine) a low cost, patent-free “coronavirus” “vaccine.”  The only problem is Biological E. Limited from India actually created it and got EUA for use in Feb. 2022 in 12-18 year olds in India, but it had already received EUA for adults since Dec. 28, 2019.  What else does Biological E produce?  You got it, Cobra (Naja Naja) anti-venom, as well as for common krait venom, Russell’s viper venom, and Saw scaled viper venom. 
  • Moderna co-founder is using mRNA technology to treat venomous snakebites.
  • Medical professionals are trained to look for snake venom poisoning when they see elevated d-dimer tests. 
    • Dr. Hoff has already shown that those getting Covid shots have elevated d-dimer tests.
    • Embalmers are also finding blood clotting.
    • Chinese cupping has also shown this clotting.
    • All of this causes an increase in heart attacks
    • Interestingly, Dr. Edward Group states that people are being poisoned by having their skin punctured with a poison (vaccines). In nature there are poisonous spiders, snakes, bees, mosquitoes, ticks, etc. that puncture the skin and inject us with “poisons.”  All of these natural poisons cause an immune response, a cytokine storm, etc. It’s been known in India and other places that drinking your own urine and applying it topically over the bite causes the body to produce anti-venom/antibodies. This was used successfully in 1993 by a man bitten twice by cobras. He used no modern treatment, only his own urine. Snake charmers keep a bowlful of urine handy in case of snakebite.  Jain monks say that one who drinks urine regularly for 6 months becomes immune to snake poison. Research physicians from sessions from the AHA state, “urokinase” (extracts from urine) activates substances in the bloodstream that dissolve blood clots.  Go here for more info on urine therapy (both internal and external).
  • Again, this is not meant as medical advice. 

This means since 2009, they have been using snake venom properties to CREATE mRNA “vaccines.”

**UPDATE April 13, 2022**

For another take on the snake venom theory, please read this article in The Defender as well as this article by Steve Kirsch.  Both agree with some aspects of Ardis’ claims, but want to meet to discuss things more thoroughly.  Everyone agrees he’s making observations worthy of discussion.

Finally, some open minds willing to listen….this is what science is supposed to be.

https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2022/04/world-premiere-watch-the-water-full-movie/  Video Here (Approx 48 Min)

Revelations on COVID – Snake Venom Poisoning?

Stew Peters interviews Dr. Bryan Ardis, retired chiropractor, who drills down and shows COVID is snake venom poisoning.  I highly, highly recommend viewing the video above, but here’s a bullet-point summary:
  • From the beginning mainstream media told us the original source of COVID came from either pangolins, snakes, or bats.  Every time snake was mentioned, fact checkers continually spun it back to bats, but there’s never been any fact-checking against bats.  [A Chinese scientist] said, ‘This can’t be from these bats. These bats hibernate, and it’s the winter.’
  • When they did genetic sequencing from the antibodies of the 1st people who were sick in Wuhan, they found it to be most like proteins from the King Cobra and Chinese Krait snakes, NOT like bats.
  • The SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is also most identical to the Chinese Krait and King Cobra venom.
  • A U of Pittsburgh researcher studying this was going to publish his findings, but he couldn’t because he was found shot to death…..similarly to the German chemist who died a mysterious death after discovering graphene hydroxide in the COVID shots.
  • Anti-venom is monoclonal antibodies, which is why the ‘powers that be’ have bad-mouthed them from the beginning. They stripped them out of Florida and now they’ve totally removed them.  They don’t want patients to have it. Just like they don’t want patients to have HCQ, ivermectin, or NAC.
  • Remdesivir, lyophilized peptides, are king cobra venom proteins.
    • “They mix it in the same preparation as listed on the fact sheet for remdesivir to actually take cobra venom or any other viper venom and inject it into horses to make monoclonal antibodies, (which actually sounds an awful lot like this treatment for Lyme disease). When you read the emergency use authorization for remdesivir, it states that every practitioner who administers this to a COVID patient, pediatric or not, must evaluate for what’s called prothrombin time. If it increases the prothrombin time, it means it’s taking your blood’s ability to coagulate and making it longer, so it thins your blood. You will internally bleed to death.”  ~ Dr. Ardis
    • If you look at the CDC’s & the NIH’s website on the adverse events from remdesivir it actually says it increases prothrombin time which is exactly what king cobra venom does to the human body.
    • When [the University of Arizona] evaluated hundreds of blood samples of people who died, after being treated with remdesivir for COVID, they titled their published article ‘Like Venom Coursing Through the Body: Researchers Identify Mechanism Driving COVID-19 Mortality’.  (it’s an enzyme related to neurotoxins found in rattlesnake venom)
  • These proteins attach to brain receptors that affect your diaphragm, stopping your breathing and destroying your lungs by a cytokine storm.  It also explains why COVID patients have trouble with blurred vision, speaking and swallowing, skeletal muscle weakness, respiratory failure, vomiting, abdominal pain, necrosis, anticoagulation, as well as low blood pressure, rapid heart rate, and weaker pulse – as these are all symptoms of snake bites.
  • When this happens in the hospital, the ‘powers that be’ put you on sedation drugs (morphine, fentanyl, precedex, lorazepam, or midazolam which also work on the same receptors controlling your diaphragm) to put you on a ventilator which will euthanize you by also acting much like snake venom does – by stopping your breathing.  They’ve got the cocktail down pat. The average person DIES on day 9 of this “approved” COVID hospitalization treatment.  Even the corrupt WHO states it’s ineffective against COVID and a NY doctor stated way back in 2020, “We are treating the wrong disease.”  Treating the wrong disease would explain the following quote: “There is a dramatic increase in the number of vascular events, ischemic strokes, and thrombosis, which is likely due to the virus affecting coagulating mechanisms.”  ~ Dr. Pezzini  Source  Sounds exactly like the symptoms of snake bite venom.
  •  Stored Remdesivir is white to a yellowish tint.  Stored snake venom is also this color.
  •  Peptides found in Krait venom – as shown on the TV show “The Black List” – 2016 was predictive programming detailing exactly what’s going down. Corticosteroids and bronchodilators help what this venom does within the body for COVID just like it helped the poisoned character in the TV show.  He was poisoned by drinking the venom…..
  • Speaking of drinking….The CDC has a “waste water surveillance” tab on the COVID data tracker site. They have 400 water testing sites in 37 cities in this country. All of a sudden after testing water from Jan – Sept 2020, they are upping their testing because supposedly WE are pooping and peeing COVID into the water…. and supposedly they can tell the public that when they find high levels there’s going to be an outbreak in 4-5 days in the future…..which of course is just the opposite of what happens in reality.  Once you eliminate COVID from your body, you are on the downhill side of infection.  So how could you know and how could you confirm in the future – an outbreak that is going to happen?  They are using drinking water to target certain populations as well as specific organs like the spleen, pancreas, heart tissue and lung tissue.  They are targeting folks with problems in these organs.
  • The loss of taste and smell is from people drinking laced water….where the toxin then gets into the brain stem and paralyzes your diaphragm and your ability to breathe.  Fauci and ilk lied by stating smokers were being hit by COVID hardest. The truth is smokers were hardly hit at all and in fact nicotine BINDS the receptors the snake venom uses – blocking the venom.  That’s when they came out with the “now is the best time to quit smoking” mantra. They didn’t want anything blocking their venom. Nicotine is protective for COVID because it stops the venom from getting to the receptors.
  • When people suck a snake bite and spit out the venom to remove it – they lose taste and smell…which can last for 12 months- a year and a half, just like COVID patients.
  • There’s an article titled, “Moderna co-founder using mRNA technology to treat venomous snake bites.”He went on to found the company Ophirex in San Francisco that is going to solely work on creating antivenom drugs for snake bites. Ironically, the DOD, the Welcome Trust Fund, and the United Nations FUND this company.
  • Snake bites also cause elevated D-dimers – just like the COVID jabs do.  This indicates the mRNA shots also have snake venom in them which is why people are so fatigued and can have what looks like long COVID. D-dimers, usually at low levels in the body, are a byproduct of fibrinogen. D-dimer levels skyrocket after snake bites AND the COVID jab.
  • The liver is the #1 organ targeted by King Cobra venom. Remdesivir is also liver toxic.  
  • The peptides put in you (whether from snake venom or the jab) worsen over time with each successive snake bite or jab.  This is why they are pushing boosters at all costs.

https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2022/04/like-venom-coursing-through-the-body-remdesivirs-unnerving-resemblances-to-the-toxin-of-a-snake-videos/

“Like Venom Coursing Through The Body” – Remdesivir’s Unnerving Resemblances To The Toxin Of A Snake

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Like most Americans, political commentator, Stew Peters, has watched as the COVID-19 agenda turned into a pandemic surrounded by hysteria. At the same time, there was something interesting taking place. Along with people getting sick with COVID-19, after being admitted to the hospital, it appears the hospitals were hopeless to some degree as many patients would find themselves on ventilators shortly after. And sadly, with no family being allowed around them, some patients ultimately succumbed to COVID-19. Wanting to understand how this could happen, Peters interviewed Dr. Bryan Ardis who had an interesting theory on COVID-19 and snake venom. (See link for article)

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In Latin Coronavirus reads, “The Pope’s Venom”  also “King Cobra venom” pandemic.
 
Ardis believes this is a religious war on the world to get the serpent’s DNA into your God-given DNA to make you a hybrid.
 
Dr. Peter McCullough states autopsies on the vaxxed show the COVID shot’s fingerprints are everywhere including the brain, which is a 1st as no other vaccine has been able to get into the brain.  It’s also been found in the heart, another first for a vaccine, as well as reproductive organs, bone marrow, and lymph nodes.

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Activism, Treatment, vaccines, Viruses

Treating Bartonella Cleared Most of My Son’s Symptoms of Autism

https://www.lymedisease.org/treating-bartonella-cleared-autism/

Treating Bartonella cleared most of my son’s symptoms of autism

By Debbie Kimberg

April 8, 2022

For years, I had no idea that I was infected with Lyme disease and related illnesses. There was nothing obvious, like pain or chronic fatigue. Instead, my symptoms were mild and crept up on me insidiously over my lifetime: anxiety, social anxiety, irritability, then migraines, thyroiditis, a little neuropathy in my fingertips and arthritis in my knuckles.

Little did I know that I had stealth infections that I would unsuspectingly transmit to my three sons during my pregnancies. This is known as congenital Lyme disease.

My three boys all exhibited very different presentations. When my oldest son was in preschool, he was charming, driven and precocious. But he was also oppositional, had excessive tantrums, trouble with transitions, picky eating, and was hypersensitive to seams in socks and sunlight.

My middle son was your typical child with ADHD. He was your happy-go-lucky kid in constant motion, hopping or running from place to place. In school, he had difficulty concentrating and with executive function. By middle school, he developed anxiety and a few panic attacks. Then in college, he suffered from multiple bouts of severe depression and chronic fatigue.

However, it was my youngest son, Sammy, who got the shortest end of the stick. He had issues from day one. His first year of development was mostly on track, but as the years progressed, he developed autism spectrum disorder (ASD), multiple vocal and movement tics, ADHD, learning disabilities, low reading comprehension, baby talk, age regression, bedwetting, antisocial behavior, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), and OCD.

I thought this was just our life. Every family has their problems. Lots of kids have ADHD or ASD. It runs in families, right? My mild issues were under control. I didn’t think there was a single root cause to all of our problems.

Brain on Fire

Then I read Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, by Susannah Cahalan. The author developed an infection that caused severe psychiatric and physical symptoms.

Inspired by the book, I made an appointment with a doctor of functional medicine to evaluate Sammy and give another opinion about his symptoms.  Sammy was 10 years old. After our intake interview, the doctor diagnosed him with Pediatric Acute Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS). He had a majority of the symptoms, 29 in all:

  • Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Vocal tics: squealing, grunting, stammering, throat clearing
  • Movement tics: a neck roll that first appeared at 6 months old, facial grimace, bending, swaying, spinning, hand flapping when excited, running at inappropriate times
  • Baby talk
  • Age regression
  • ASD
  • ADHD
  • Learning disabilities, low reading comprehension
  • Brain fog
  • Anxiety
  • Social anxiety
  • Depression
  • Antisocial (i.e. addicted to electronics, stayed in room, spoke quietly)
  • Bedwetting
  • Dysgraphia
  • Picky eating
  • Dilated eyes
  • Balance issues
  • Gluten and dairy sensitivity

Furthermore, his titers for strep and coxsackie virus were also sky high.

Lyme disease and co-infections

After six months on different antibiotics with little improvement, our doctor ran IGeneX tests on Sammy, his two older brothers, and me, for Lyme disease and co-infections. The results were confusing.

Two boys showed positive for Borrelia burgdorferi; Sammy and I had three indeterminant bands. Sammy was IGG positive for Babesia microti and only my middle son was positive for Bartonella henselae. In time, it was determined that all four of us were positive for the trifecta of tick-borne diseases—Borrelia, Babesia, and Bartonella.

I’ve heard that symptoms of congenital Lyme disease often show in children by age four. This is what we experienced with all three of my boys, though their presentations were vastly different.

An array of treatments–little progress

Once we had the diagnosis of Lyme disease and co-infections, we were optimistic that Sammy would quickly see improvements with treatment. Instead, we found ourselves traversing from doctor to doctor searching for a treatment that would help.

Over a period of five years, Sammy saw ten doctors in all and tried an array of antibiotics, herbals, homeopathics, supplements, and detoxes indicated for Lyme disease or PANS, with little progress.

Because Sammy was slightly better on the treatments versus nothing, we maintained a flicker of hope that eventually we would find a treatment that would work. In some cases, we abandoned certain treatments because his oppositional behavior became intense and untenable.

IVIG

With little progress after five years, we were excited when our neurologist got monthly high dose intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG) approved by our insurance company. We had high hopes for the treatment.

The first five days after his initial treatment were tough. Like with many other treatments, Sammy became even more oppositional and impossible to deal with. Then, suddenly, as if a light switch had turned on, everything changed. Sammy became happy, social, and agreeable. His many tics were much better.

And, after years of poor memory, suddenly he could remember things! Like what he ate at his friend’s house for dinner and the names of all the kids who’d been with him. Since Sammy hit his teen years, he rarely spoke and only about a few topics obsessively such as when he was going to eat dairy and gluten again or wanting to play electronics all night. Now, he was much more neurotypical!

But the improvements were short-lived, typically lasting for only two weeks after each month’s infusion. And each month, the insurance company fought to discontinue the expensive treatment.

Delayed IVIG infusions wreaked havoc on Sammy’s behavior, causing him to devolve into depressive, oppositional episodes. After five treatments, our insurance company denied additional coverage. Despite such great improvements, Sammy was in the worst straits we had experienced.

What next?

We weren’t sure where to turn. With Sammy’s repeated attempts to run-away to ‘live with the beggars’ because our family rules were unbearable, we tried to check him into the psychiatric ward of a local children’s hospital. When the ER psychiatrist refused to admit him, we began searching for a long-term residential facility to keep him safe. My husband and I were heartbroken. How could our son see such dramatic improvements with IVIG, then so quickly become depressed and intolerant of everything around him?

After losing all hope from the failed IVIG treatment, our functional medicine doctor asked if we’d like to try disulfiram, a drug recently found to show great promise in treating Lyme and Babesia. She wasn’t aware of any other children who had tried it and expected Sammy would be one of the first.

It seemed like a longshot, but with no other options, what did we have to lose?

Disulfiram

The decision changed Sammy’s life. After one dose of disulfiram, Sammy’s oppositional behavior disappeared, his worst symptom at the time. No longer did he badger us for more dairy or gluten, insist on playing games all night, or threaten to run away. Suddenly, he was happy, agreeable, and more social. The overnight improvement of just those few symptoms was a miracle for our family life. We knew we were on the right track!

A few other symptoms improved on disulfiram during the six-month treatment: picky eating, dilated eyes, dysgraphia, most of bedwetting, antisocial behavior, and depression.

Yet, along with those important improvements, other symptoms intensified. These included OCD, age regression, baby talk, vocal and movement tics, brain fog, learning disabilities and ADHD. These symptoms proved annoying, but Sammy was happy and the symptoms were tolerable.

Targeting Bartonella

Despite Sammy’s negative Bartonella test, we suspected it due to his OCD.  We treated it next using an antibiotic protocol that included rifampin/rifabutin, clarithromycin, and minocycline. Again, we saw a major improvement in a very short time.

Suddenly, Sammy’s baby talk, age regression, hyperactivity, and eight vocal and movement tics resolved. These symptoms seemed intrinsically tied as they all cleared almost overnight. Sammy was thrilled when at six weeks into treatment, his gluten and dairy sensitivity resolved. He could eat whatever he wanted again with no worsening behavior! Bartonella treatment also fully cleared his bedwetting. None of our doctors seemed aware that these symptoms were caused by Bartonella. In fact, seventy percent of Sammy’s ASD symptoms appeared to be caused by Bartonella. It was an important discovery.

Good-bye to Special Ed classes

The most notable improvement came after four months of antibiotic treatment for Bartonella. Sammy, who had been in special education since preschool due to learning disabilities and low reading comprehension,  now began doing his homework independently. And his grades moved from low Cs to high As.

Remarkably, on statewide testing, he went from a fifth-grade reading level one year earlier to a tenth-grade level last spring. His IQ rose six points into the average range. And he suddenly passed out of his pragmatic language skills/social skills class, which he had made little progress in throughout his life. (Pragmatic language skills are knowing what to say–and how and when to say it.)

I’m pleased to share that the impossible happened. Last fall, in 11th grade, the school moved Sammy out of special education and into all grade-level classes, an exceptional outcome that was beyond our expectations. It was a first for his high school and an accomplishment that Sammy takes great pride in.

Learning disabilities due to brain fog?

In hindsight, the learning disabilities were caused by severe brain fog. Once the brain fog lifted, his IQ, executive functioning, and learning abilities returned to normal. Unlike what I had been told by many professionals, low executive function was not due to improper development of his frontal lobe. Instead, the AD in ADHD was due to severe brain fog and was treatable.

Furthermore, although Sammy had taken social skills classes every year since kindergarten, he had never shown improvement until he was treated for Borrelia and Bartonella.  Now, on his own accord, Sammy wanted to come out of his room to hang out with the family. Our quiet, reclusive son became the most talkative one at the dinner table, leading family conversations on a host of new topics we had no idea he had knowledge of, like Simon Cowell, Kobe Bryant, and inflation!

Today, Sammy is studying for his ACTs and planning to attend a four-year college. This was unthinkable 18 months ago, when we expected Sammy to need lifetime care and be unable to hold a job.

Sammy is 80% recovered from ASD and is still undergoing treatment to resolve three remaining symptoms out of twenty-nine: OCD, neck roll tic, and social behaviors. Sadly, his social behavior regressed seven months after finishing the six-month disulfiram protocol, so we are retreating the Borrelia and seeing some improvement.

What happened to our son is a medical miracle. I am so grateful to every doctor who helped us.

I have written a memoir that I am working to publish to explain our long, difficult, but ultimately successful journey. Even at 17-years-old, it’s possible to reverse learning disabilities and see a great recovery from ASD!

Debbie Kimberg updates their story on Instagram at @HijackedBrains. She can be contacted at debbie.kimberg@gmail.com.

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HALLELUJAH!  This story clearly demonstrates the importance of treatment and the miraculous effects it can have.

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Activism, Autism, Bartonella, Lyme, Psychological Aspects, Treatment

Lyme Disease From Head to Toe: Live Q & A Webinar

https://rawlsmd.com/webinars/ask-dr-rawls-head-toe/

Lyme Disease From Head to Toe

Tuesday, April 12, 2022
8 pm EDT

Ask Dr. Rawls All Your Lyme Disease Questions from Head to Toe

From pounding headaches to tingling toes, Lyme disease can affect multiple organ systems in the body, including the brain, nerves, heart, gut, muscles and joints, and more. In this webinar, we’ll work our way from the head all the way down to the toes, answering your questions and exploring the myriad of manifestations of Lyme along the way.

Whether you suspect you have Lyme disease, have recently been diagnosed, or have been struggling with chronic symptoms for a long time, finding a way forward that provides relief can be downright complicated. Therefore, we know you have questions — lots of them — and Dr. Bill Rawls wants to help you find as many answers as possible.

Join our live, Lyme Disease From Head to Toe webinar with Dr. Bill Rawls, author of the best-selling book Unlocking Lyme, who knows firsthand what it’s like to struggle with chronic Lyme disease. Dr. Rawls’ life was interrupted by Lyme disease. In his journey to overcome it, he explored countless treatments – from conventional medicine to a range of alternative therapies — until he finally discovered what worked.

Since his recovery more than a decade ago, Dr. Rawls has helped thousands of patients find their path to healing from Lyme disease and coinfections. Now, he’d like to help you. Come with your questions, and he’ll answer as many of them as possible. PLUS: Don’t miss an exclusive gift for those who attend the live webinar.

In this webinar, Dr. Rawls will discuss:

  • Which systems of the body Lyme affects the most
  • How Lyme isn’t just about one microbe
  • Relief for the head-to-toe symptoms brought on by Lyme and coinfections
  • Options for conventional and herbal therapies to restore health
  • Numerous other insights and answers throughout the live Q&A with Dr. Rawls

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Activism, Herbs, Lyme, Treatment

Tafenoquine For Relapsing Babesiosis

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214250922000889?via%3Dihub

Use of tafenoquine to treat a patient with relapsing babesiosis with clinical and molecular evidence of resistance to azithromycin and atovaquone

Luis A.Marcosa AnnieLeungb LauraKirkmanb Gary P.Wormserc

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Open access

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Babesia, research, Treatment

Does Lyme Impair Memory? 6 Restorative Solutions to Help Get Your Brain Back on Track

https://rawlsmd.com/health-articles/does-lyme-impair-memory-6-restorative-solutions-to-help-get-your-brain-back-on-track

Does Lyme Impair Memory? 6 Restorative Solutions to Help Get Your Brain Back on Track

by Jenny Menzel
Updated 3/3/22

Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten the very reason you went there in the first place? Or, how about searching high and low for your missing glasses, only to discover they’ve been on top of your head the whole time? We’ve all experienced brief moments of forgetfulness once in a while, and mostly, they can be humorous. But if you’re struggling with neurological manifestations of Lyme disease, memory issues may be a daily, discouraging occurrence — and that’s no laughing matter.

So why do memory issues and chronic Lyme disease go hand in hand? And more importantly, what does this mean for the health of your brain and its capacity to store and recall information over time? Let’s take a closer look at the reasons why your memory may not be operating optimally, plus natural solutions to restore its function.

Neurological Lyme: A Recap

Neurological Lyme is a different flavor of Lyme disease that occurs when infection with the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi affects the cranial or peripheral nerves or the central nervous system (CNS), reports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

In other words, when a Lyme infection triggers an immune response, the immune system rallies white blood cells (WBCs) to act in defense, and inflammatory cytokine activity increases in the brain and spinal cord. When these immune cells infiltrate the CNS in response to a chronic infection, a range of noticeable neurological symptoms may result, such as:

  • Memory loss
  • Cognitive issues
  • Learning disabilities
  • Headaches
  • Bell’s palsy (facial paralysis)
  • Meningitis
  • Numbness and tingling in the extremities
  • Visual impairment
  • Brain fog
  • Depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions
    Sensation changes on the skin

Not everyone with Lyme disease will experience neurological symptoms, though. When it comes to newly-diagnosed, acute infections, approximately 15% of patients reportedly experience one or more neurological effects like Bell’s palsy, meningitis, or numbness and tingling in the arms or legs, according to research published by Frontiers in Neurology. But this figure may be just the tip of the iceberg.

For a host of reasons, getting an accurate diagnosis and obtaining treatment for Lyme is often delayed (sometimes for months to years) due to a lack of physician understanding and public awareness, an unseen tick bite, the absence of the hallmark erythema migrans (bull’s-eye rash), and insensitive testing methods that produce false negatives.

This delay in diagnosis and adequate treatment allows the bacteria to flourish unchecked, embedding itself deeper into hard-to-reach areas of the body, like the brain — increasing the likelihood of developing difficult-to-eradicate chronic neurological symptoms.

Much Like Our Brains, Neurological Lyme is Complicated

The widespread idea that Lyme disease is easily cured with a 10- to 14-day course of antibiotics persists within most corners of mainstream medicine today. But there is a growing body of evidence to suggest the contrary: For example, in 2013, the International Journal of General Medicine published findings that the Lyme spirochete Borrelia is stealthy enough to evade immune detection and even survive attacks from antibiotics.

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Anyone experienced with this illness knows, too, that Lyme disease is so much more than a single microbe. With multiple strains of Borrelia in the mix and other common tick-borne coinfections like Bartonella, Babesia, Ehrlichia, and Mycoplasma, understanding the full effects of neurological Lyme is truly complex. However, thanks to the ongoing work of independent researchers and scientists, our understanding continues to unfold and offer helpful clues to the challenging neurological symptoms that so many people deal with.

The Impact of Neurological Lyme on Memory

On average, your brain has 86 billion neurons, each sending out numerous signals from head to toe at breakneck speed to process and store information, control movement and balance, and utilize your five senses, among other crucial tasks. Neurological Lyme can directly impact those functions, including memory, and here’s how.

How Memories are Formed

The study of human memory stretches as far back as 2,000 years to the times of Aristotle, with the first scientific approach introduced in the mid-1880’s by German philosopher Herman Ebbinghaus — the man responsible for classifying the memory types still relevant today. He discovered we actually have three different memory types, giving valuable insight into how the brain works:

  1. Sensory Memory (SM): Formed by how we see, hear, touch, smell, and taste things, SM allows you to remember by stimulating your five senses. After the stimulation, the sensing is assigned to short-term or long-term memory. Smelling your favorite food cooking, hearing a dog bark in the distance, or feeling the texture of wet grass beneath your feet after a spring rain are examples of sensory stimulation we attach to our short-term and long-term memory.
  2. Short-Term Memory (STM): Less fleeting than sensory memory and less permanent than long-term memory, STM helps you recall specific information about anything for just a brief period. Where you park your car at a shopping center is considered a STM due to the “short-term” need to retain the information. STM will get you to your car after you exit the store, but if there is no need to save the information to long-term memory, the memory quickly fades.
  3. Long Term Memory (LTM): There are two types of LTM: explicit and implicit. Explicit LTM is when we consciously and deliberately try to memorize something, like someone’s birthday, phone number, or lyrics to a new song. Implicit LTM is what we remember unconsciously by repetition without even trying, like riding a bike or taking a specific route to work. Any memory we can recall after 30 seconds is considered “long-term,” which is a majority of our memories.

Our memories form in three distinct stages— encoding, storage, and recall. Encoding is how the information gets into your brain, usually through one or more of the five senses. Storage is when that incoming information is briefly stored into STM, or more permanently, into LTM. The final stage is recall, how we retrieve the information after it’s stored.

When stealth microbes like Borrelia make their way to the CNS, they become savage disruptors, creating a breakdown of communication across multiple body systems by damaging nerve cells, kicking up inflammation, and disorganizing neurotransmitters and hormones, thereby instigating memory problems over time. Here are some of the top known ways neurological Lyme impedes your memory.

Neuroinflammation in the Brain

A recent study probing the brains of Lyme patients with chronic symptoms showed the presence of high levels of a substance called inflammatory translocator protein (TSPO), an inflammatory chemical released by two specific types of brain immune cells.

What does this mean for your memory? High levels of neuroinflammatory chemicals may decrease brain function, manifesting in such problems as brain fog and memory loss. Though the study was small-scale, it demonstrates a physiological basis for cognitive problems and validates the experience of countless people living with Lyme.

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Demyelination of Nerves

Much like electrical wires require insulation to keep the electrical current contained, the nerves in our brains are protected with an outer sheath called myelin, which protects nerves for other electrical impulses. Because microbes like Borrelia and Mycoplasma consider myelin a high-value resource to snack on, people with neurological Lyme are vulnerable to demyelination — deterioration of the nerve coating. When this happens, raw nerves are eventually exposed, and signaling between the nerves diminishes, resulting in communication breakdown. Demyelination caused by Lyme disease has been documented as early as 1989, suggesting the probability of CNS involvement, even after the initial infection appeared to be resolved.

Possible Dementia Connection

Although some studies have suggested dementia-like syndromes may exist as rare manifestations of neurological Lyme, recent research points to a more direct connection. Findings in Frontiers in Neurology support the possibility that neurological Lyme might be linked to Lewy body dementia, a condition where abnormal protein deposits to the nerve cells in the brain cause severely impaired reasoning, mood changes, and memory loss.

While there’s still a lot to learn about this manifestation, this is the first time a persistent neurological Lyme infection has been directly linked to the presence of dementia-inducing antibodies.

6 Effective Solutions to Restore Your Memory

Unfortunately, the current CDC treatment guidelines for neurological Lyme are antibiotics that are often ineffective in later stages of the illness, but all hope is not lost. If you’re experiencing Lyme-related memory problems, there are lifestyle habits and natural remedies like herbs that can help normalize disrupted communications in the brain and nervous system and enhance your memory. Here’s how.

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1. Eat Brain Food.

Nourishing your body with a balanced, anti-inflammatory diet rich in vegetables, healthy omega-3 fats, and choline-dense protein like poultry, fish, and eggs is one of the best ways to begin nourishing a vibrant memory and curb unwanted inflammation. As for brain fruit, blueberries full of flavonoids top the list. Furthermore, adding anti-inflammatory spices to your food is another way to benefit the brain. Turmeric and saffron win by supporting the vascular system and boosting blood flow to the brain. Fun tip: Have fun trying out new recipes by focusing on one new brain food per week to find your favorites.

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2. Get Creative with Brain Games.

While cognitive exercise apps such as Elevate or Lumosity are great options to get your brain in shape, don’t discount the power of your mind to make up your own activities. For example, make a game out of everyday events like shopping for groceries. Tally up the prices in your head as you shop, starting with just a few items and working your way up to see if you can calculate the amount you’ll pay at the register. Over time, you’ll sense improvements, and the process will get easier. However, if you prefer a break from the digital realm, classic crossword puzzles are another great (and inexpensive) option to challenge your memory.

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3. Try Interactive Metronome Therapy (IMT).

Take brain games to the next level with Interactive Metronome (IM), a therapy that is used to enhance memory, attention, focus, speech, and sensory skills in those struggling with cognitive impairment from various forms of brain injuries — even those associated with Lyme disease. By resetting your internal brain clock and retraining neural pathways, the therapy improves communication and desensitizes hyperactive areas of the brain while activating the sluggish areas. The brain-balancing exercises are often covered by insurance and can be performed under the supervision of a variety of professional therapists to increase the brain’s ability to record, store, and recall memories.

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4. Use Brain Supportive Herbs.

Balancing the brain with herbs will naturally boost your memory by creating healthy stress responses and sleep-wake cycles and reducing the microbial load. Some top herbs to suppress infectious microbes, reduce neuroinflammation, and increase needed blood circulation to the brain include:

Need a boost of clean energy in the morning to feel awake and alert? Herbs can help there, too. Try rhodiola or licorice root in the morning to get your day going without caffeine. And for a nightcap to gently unwind, try herbs with balancing and soothing properties like ashwagandha and l-theanine to regulate the HPA-axis and calm the nervous system for better quality sleep.

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5. Reduce Excess Brain Stimulation.

We live in a noisy world and are probably the most overloaded with stimuli than ever before in human history, but there are steps you can take to reduce the noise and help you focus. Try setting a specific time to digitally unplug every night, and consider setting your smartphone outside of your bedroom on the charger.

Need your phone for an alarm clock? Set it on airplane mode to avoid distracting notifications — or go minimalist with a simple alarm clock. Additionally, infuse your nightly routine with calming scents like rosemary, frankincense, and lavender. When delivered through the olfactory system, these essential oils can cool an inflamed nervous system, creating a clearer mind able to retain and recall information.

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6. Cultivate a Mind-Body Connection.

Mind-body practices like hypnosis, yoga, tai-chi, and meditation combine mental and physical focus with breathing and body movements, and scientific evidence supporting their positive effects on the nervous system is growing:

Research published by the Journal of Alzheimer’s found that after only 8 weeks of daily meditation, a small group of participants ages 52 to 77 experienced a significant increase in cerebral blood flow to the frontal and parietal lobes of the brain — two areas responsible for retrieving stored memories. If beginning a mind-body practice has been on your Lyme recovery to-do list for a while, the health of your brain and better memory are two great reasons to get started!

Healing Takes Time

If you’ve been struggling with memory problems from Lyme, you’ve likely come to find that healing is a marathon, not a sprint. Because our brain cells take the longest to repair, improving Lyme-related memory issues isn’t easy, but it’s possible — and worth it.

To sharpen your memory, combine these tips with the essentials, like a comprehensive natural protocol to suppress microbes, a reparative sleep schedule, and exercise as tolerated. If you remember nothing else, remember to keep it simple, pace yourself, and (gently) keep going.

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