In this informative presentation, chuck full of facts and data, Dr. Raphael Stricker, a San Francisco internist and hematologist, and board member of LymeDisease.org, who is an internationally recognized leader in tick-borne disease diagnosis and treatment, discusses what it will take to develop new drug treatments for Lyme disease.
He shows that the Lyme disease epidemic is much larger than HIV/AIDS, HCV, and tuberculosis in the USA and may involve sexual transmission. He calls on Big Pharma to take the lead in the global fight against Lyme disease.
Clearly, this will never happen. Big Pharma and our corrupt public health ‘authorities’ and therefore mainstream research are too enamored with a shiny newLyme “vaccine” which will reap in billions, of which they all will get a nice cut from, to be bothered by such mundane things like treatments, which would immediately help patients and alleviate suffering, but aren’t cash-cows like “vaccines.” Just look at how COVID has been handled for a current example. Doctors are screaming that there have been cheap, safe, treatments from the beginning of COVID, and that 500,000 lives could have been saved, but they are being censored, bullied, and persecuted by regulatory agencies – similarly to the way Lyme literate doctors have been treated.
I argue that the only path forward is to do the work ourselves with independent researchers without ties to Big Pharma and the government. Historically, this is the only positive forward movement that has been made in Lymeland.
The sooner we wake up and realize our corrupt public health ‘authorities’, regulatory agencies, and research institutions that rely upon government grants are captured agencies the sooner we can fix this by going around the system not crawling in bed with it.
N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is a powerful antioxidant which contains the amino acid cysteine, a precursor to glutathione, that was approved as a drug in 1963 and has been widely used as a nutritional supplement since it is not found in food. It is also used in prescription form as an antidote for acetaminiphen-induced toxicity as well as for depression, precancers, HIV & AIDS, to alleviate cancer treatment side-effects, and as a mucolytic agent for upper respiratory conditions such as COVID.
The FDA abruptly decided in 2020 that NAC should suddenly require a doctor’s prescription and issued a warning to seven companies who were illegally selling hangover products with NAC in them. Amazon then completely stopped selling it.
The timing of this abrupt decision is suspicious at best, since NAC very well may help lower the risk of COVID and the fact those with glutathione deficiencies have worse outcomes. Many doctors have recommended NAC as part of an early at-home treatment that is safe, cheap, and effective. Within this article is a video where a pulmonologist explains NAC is necessary to reduce the oxidative stress associated with severe COVID and thus may significantly impact the sales of antiviral drugs.Drugs, in fact, which our conflict-riddled public health ‘authorities’ have a stake in.
Natural Products Insider reports, the warning letters stated that NAC could not be “lawfully marketed in dietary supplements because it was first studied as a drug in 1963.” The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) sent a letter in December 2020 to the FDA’s Office of Dietary Supplement Programs describing the position as “legally invalid.”
To appear reasonable, the FDA announced they wanted more information on how NAC has been marketed as a dietary supplement.
Quick to respond, numerous associations have submitted proof to the FDA of numerous NAC-containing products sold pre-DSHEA and that the FDA is misapplying the prior drug-restriction to NAC, and that it can’t be applied retroactively from the date of DSHEA’s enactment. They also submitted comments, countering FDA’s safety concerns, noting that NAC has been in use for decades and that FDA had access in that time to its own Adverse Event Reporting System, to manufacturing facility inspections, and other tools, as well as data from publicly available research studies conducted on NAC or NAC-containing formulations. CRN pointed to data provided by Pure Encapsulations, a brand marketed by Nestlé Health Science, which includes nine years of adverse event data for the company’s supplement containing NAC:
From 2013 to the present day, the adverse event rate per unit sold of NAC-containing products was only 0.002%
those adverse events were mild and resolved on their own
Sevo Nutraceuticals reported fewer than 10 adverse events for approximately 500,000 unites sold
In a press release, Megan Olsen, CRN’s VP and Associate General Counsel, commented:
“The agency’s continued failure to address the singular legal issue on the table is inexplicable. Their refusal to act is causing harm to consumers and businesses.”
A press release summarized The United Natural Products Alliance’s (UNPA) position on the matter as of January 25, 2022:
The FDA, in attempting to exclude NAC from the dietary supplement market, is acting outside of its statutory jurisdiction and authority.
UNPA provided definitive evidence of pre-DSHEA use of NAC – it is an ODI (Old Dietary Ingredient), NAC is safe, and there is broad agreement on this.
The UNPA NAC Working Group will pursue this important issue until a proper outcome is reached, which is recognition of NAC as a lawful ODI and FDA abandons its misguided retro lookback policy.
The FDA appears to be in hot-water these days and is embroiled in yet another fiasco. The FDA has long been accused of corruption, and ties to Big Pharma which has resulted in unsafe pharmaceuticals. Interestingly, while it approves and promotes toxic drugs like remdesivir and COVID injectionswhich aren’t vaccines and have caused more adverse reactions and death than any other vaccine in the history of VAERS, it squashes safe supplements and proven drugs like NAC, vitamins D, C, zinc, and ivermectin which could improve cases and remove the need altogether for COVID injections. If you have less than 4 minutes, go here to listen to Dr. Kory passionately explain the situation. It literally brought tears to my eyes. Doctors who are truly attempting to help patients are bullied, censored, and shouted down. Kory’s frustration is tangible.
The current top-down, “one-sized fits all” approach to medicine puts everyone into a 4-cornered box regardless of medical history, health status, and individual needs. I highlight how this current dangerous, singular approach, which also includes mainstream media and Big Pharma colluding with public health officials, is removing our precious medical freedoms in this article, as well as is causing a shortage of medical professionals in the U.S. Front-line workers, who were heroes a year ago but are currently being bullied and summarily dismissed without a job or pay simply for not taking an experimental, fast-tracked gene therapy that doesn’t stop infection or transmission.
Unless we educate others and speak and act now it may be too late to roll this back, and it will restrict Lyme/MSIDS patients more than they already are. Mark my words.
The Asian longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis, an invasive species associated with human pathogens, has spread rapidly across the eastern USA. Questing H. longicornis ticks recovered from active surveillance conducted from 1 May to 6 September, 2019 throughout Pennsylvania were tested for rickettsial pathogens. Of 265 ticks tested by PCR for pathogens, 4 (1.5%) were positive for Anaplasma phagocytophilum. Sequence analysis of the 16S rRNA gene confirmed two positives as A. phagocytophilum–human agent variant. This is the first reported detection of A. phagocytophilum–human pathogenic strain DNA in exotic H. longicornis collected in the USA.
Welcome to another Inside Lyme Podcast with your host Dr. Daniel Cameron. In this episode, Dr. Cameron will be discussing the case of a 64-year-old woman with central nervous system involvement of the brain.
A 64-year-old woman was hospitalized with a 24-hour history of confusion and lethargy. The following morning, her lethargy had worsened and she developed subjective fever, mild headache, nausea, vomiting and increased confusion, according to the authors.
The physical exam showed “aphasia and memory lapse of the past 24 hours and an engorged tick behind the knee.”
Her tests revealed leptomeningeal enhancement and bilateral frontal lobe subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH).
Note: Leptomeninges are the two innermost layers of tissue that cover the brain and spinal cord. The causes of leptomeningeal enhancement can include infectious meningitis of bacterial, fungal, and viral etiology; autoimmune and inflammatory diseases such as encephalitis, vasculitis, and sarcoidosis; trauma; and metastatic disease.1
Anaplasmosis testing is positive
The Anaplasmosis PCR test of the serum was positive. A spinal tap was not performed.
The authors point out that the time from transmission to symptom onset in anaplasmosis can be within 24 hours. And typically, neurologic involvement is seen more often in Lyme disease and Ehrlichia.
Tests for Lyme disease or other co-infections were negative. However, the authors acknowledged that these tests might not be positive in early disease.
Treatment for Anaplasmosis
The woman was treated with doxycycline and discharged home.
“However, the patient was again hospitalised 6 weeks later due to persistent headache, word finding difficulties, memory loss and generalised fatigue,” wrote the authors.
“Repeat MRI and MRA of the brain showed significant increase in the FLAIR hyperintensity and hypointensity involving bilateral frontal, parietal occipital lobes, consistent with SAH with persistent left MCA anterior division vasospasm.”
She was discharged without retreatment and speech therapy was arranged.
“The patient has had marked improvement and returned to her cognitive baseline 3 months later,” wrote the authors.
The following questions are addressed in this Podcast episode:
What is Anaplasmosis?
What is leptomeningeal enhancement?
What is subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH)?
How quickly can tick-borne infections be transmitted?
How long does it take for Anaplasmosis symptoms to appear?
What other treatments are there for Anaplasmosis?
Thanks for listening to another Inside Lyme Podcast. Please remember that the advice given is general and not intended as specific advice to any particular patient. If you require specific advice, please seek that advice from an experienced professional.
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References:
Mullholand JB, Tolman N, De Obaldia A, et al. Central nervous system involvement of anaplasmosis. BMJ Case Reports CP 2021;14:e243665.
Forty Years of Evidence on the Efficacy and Safety of Oral and Injectable Antibiotics for Treating Lyme Disease of Adults and Children: A Network Meta-Analysis
Lyme disease (LD) is a heavy public health burden. The most common manifestations of LD include erythema migrans (EM), Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB), and Lyme arthritis (LA). The efficacy and safety of antibiotics for treating LD is still controversial. Thus, we performed a network meta-analysis (NMA) to obtain more data and tried to solve this problem. We searched studies in the databases of Embase and PubMed from the date of their establishments until 22 April 2021. Odds ratios (ORs) were used to assess dichotomous outcomes. A total of 31 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) involving 2,748 patients and 11 antibiotics were included.
Oral amoxicillin (1.5 g/day)
oral azithromycin (0.5 g/day)
injectable ceftriaxone
injectable cefotaxime were effective for treating LD (range of ORs, 1.02 to 1,610.43)
Cefuroxime and penicillin were safe for treating LD (range of ORs, 0.027 to 0.98)
Amoxicillin was effective for treating EM (range of ORs, 1.18 to 25.66)
Based on the results, we thought oral amoxicillin (1.5 g/day), oral azithromycin (0.5 g/day), injectable ceftriaxone, and injectable cefotaxime were effective for treating LD
Cefuroxime and penicillin were safe for treating LD.
Amoxicillin was effective for treating EM.
We did not observe evidence proving the advantage of doxycycline in efficacy and safety for treating LD, LA, LNB, and EM of children or adults.
We did not have sufficient data to prove the significant difference of efficacy for treating LA and LNB in adults and LD in children, the significant difference of safety of oral drugs for treating LD, and the significant difference of safety of drugs for treating EM.
In short, it describes the harrowing experience of a family trying to help their special needs daughter while she was in the local hospital. An international lawyer with Disabled Rights Advocates and legal counsel to the Truth for Health Foundation describes how if a person goes into the hospital with even a broken arm, they will be tested for COVID, which has an extremely high false-positive rate. If they don’t test positive immediately, they keep testing until they do. Then, the patient is admitted, put on an IV bag with a tranquilizer that lowers their oxygen absorption, which then justifies putting the patient into isolation and on the anti-viral remdesivir and then given morphine and fentanyl while being deprived of nutrition.
COVID protocols are passed down hierarchically from the World Health Organization (WHO) to Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and National Institute of Health (NIH), arising from the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) and Health and Human Services authorization to release funding for the declared pandemic that sets the protocols in motion.
From there, hospitals that are federally funded through Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) use coding tied to NIH and CDC-written protocols. If hospitals take that funding, they must follow those protocols, starting with ICD-10 codes (International Classification of Diseases).
The CDC and NIH protocols are based on the WHO’s 2005 International Health Regulations that directs each of its 196 signatory countries to cede all sovereign powers to the WHO in the case of a declared health emergency.
The WHO then directs the various state health bodies—in this case, the CDC and NIH—on treatment, which is why every country is responding in the same way at the same time globally.
When these protocols are passed down to the hospitals that take funding, under the emergency declaration, patients’ rights are waived under the CMS COVID waiver program in conjunction with the PREP and CARES Act, giving participating hospitals legal immunity.
This is a perfect moment to insert today’s post from a 3rd year law student’s paper advocating for a “federal” solution to Lyme. I will repeat: putting the power into the hands of the few will follow the ‘law of unintended consequences’ and will hurt patients and doctors in the end. COVID is a PERFECT example. Don’t do it!
Further muddying the swamp, two men are suing the city and state of New York for unconstitutional racial discrimination for directing medical providers to consider race in distributing lifesaving COVID treatments. The plaintiffs are ineligible for treatment because they are non-hispanic whites.
Still want to put all the power into the hands of the WHO and the federal government?
Dr. Peterson Pierre explains the reason hospitals are killing COVID patients. The information is a reiteration of the excellent article written by Dr. Vliet. In short, in vast government overreach, the government is paying hospitals to do the wrong things. The problem is so bad, some physicians have formed a new alliance, called the Pandemic Health Alliance and have drafted a “Physicians Declaration” and released it Sept. 12 at a global Covid summit in Rome, Italy.
Hospitals are using what many are terming “The Fauci Death Protocol,” which is essentially remdesivir, ventilators, and even death.
Recently, a video was put out by an attorney explaining how it is very important to plan for the potential of hospitalization and that having legal documents ahead of time could save you a lot of heart-ache.
Many patients have had to resort to the court of law to obtain life-saving treatment; however, some have failed.
On January 24, 2022 Senator Ron Johnson invited a group of world renowned doctors and medical experts to the U.S. Senate to provide a different perspective on the global pandemic response, the current state of knowledge of early and hospital treatment, vaccine efficacy and safety, what went right, what went wrong, what should be done now, and what needs to be addressed long term. This 38 minute video highlights the 5-hour discussion. Click here for the entire event video: https://rumble.com/vt62y6-covid-19-a-…
Listen to doctors who have successfully treated COVID patients.
Madison Area Lyme Support Group 