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Lyme Center Opens

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/10/11/for-lyme-disease-patients-new-approach-aims-ease-residual-effects/Dzq8hZni6BoBiKZ99eq20O/story.html

A new Lyme Center has opened at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston and offers free mental health counseling due to the generosity of Brandi and Chris Dean.  Dean, herself diagnosed with Lyme Disease, went through the many cognitive issues common to many and intimately experienced grief as a support group leader due to Lyme-driven suicides.

The Center will also support research including a pilot study to test whether a mild electrical current in the brain, now used for stroke and brain injured patients, might improve the many cognitive issues Lyme patients have.

The center has occupational therapists, infectious disease experts, mental health counselors, brain researchers and other professionals to treat patients whose illness persists despite antibiotic treatment.

The two specialists who direct the center are “pushing past the debate” of the schism of belief in the medical community because they’ve “encountered too many patients who simply need help.”

So far, health insurance companies have covered most services at Spaulding.

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Clinic, Lyme, Uncategorized

Flu Vaccine – Causes the Flu

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/11/08/vaccine-exemption-updates.aspx?e_cid=20151108Z1_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20151108Z1&et_cid=DM90094&et_rid=1205331808

Another study proving that a highly vaccinated population still gets sick.

Upcoming Vaccine Information Facebook Event

On Thursday evening, November 12th, from 9 to 10 p.m. ET, Barbara Loe Fisher of the NVIC (National Vaccine Information Center) and Dr, Mercola will be holding a vaccine information event on Facebook. There will be short videos, and information about the programs and services of the NVIC. Various staff members will also be highlighting different programs and services available at the NVIC, all of which relate to education and advocacy.

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Uncategorized, vaccines

Meeting Reminder

We will have a regular support group meeting this Saturday November 7 from 2:30-4:30.  My LLMD recently attended the ILADS convention and I will be sharing some things he learned.  Please bring your questions, successes, frustrations, and anything to add to the group.  “A man of many counselors is wise.”

Hope to see you there!

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Meetings, Uncategorized

Nobel Prize awarded to Doctors Who Discovered Artemisinin and Ivermectin

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/10/31/parasite-fighting-therapies.aspx?e_cid=20151031Z1_DNL_art_2&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art2&utm_campaign=20151031Z1&et_cid=DM89176&et_rid=1195196480

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The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been jointly awarded to Drs. Youyou Tu, William C. Campbell, and Satoshi Omura for their discoveries of Artemisinin and Avermectin, natural substances that treat parasitic diseases.

Campbell from Duke University and Omura of Kitasato University in Japan are sharing half of the $960,000 Nobel Prize award to develop Avermectin which has greatly reduced lymphatic filariasis which causes chronic swelling and “elephantiasis,” and river blindness – both caused by parasitic worms. The purified version was named Avermectin and was later developed into the anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin which is used in both animals and humans to treat a variety of parasites.

Youyou Tu, a pharmacologist turned to traditional Chinese herbal medicine when chloroquine’s effectiveness was waning with malaria on the rise. She had to go back to the ancient literature to successfully extract the active component from Artemisia annua. Artemisinin is able to rapidly kill malaria parasites at an early stage of development and is highly effective in both animals and humans. When used in combination therapy, Artemisinin is estimated to reduce malaria deaths by more than 20 percent overall and more than 30 percent in children which amounts to more than 100,000 lives saved each year in Africa alone.

Dr. Klinghardt addresses parasitic infections first in his MISIDS patients by giving them wormwood (Artemisinin), phospholipids, vitamin C, and various herbs.

Also, eating raw garlic that has been smashed first to activate the beneficial properties and raw pumpkin seeds may also help. Maintaining a health GI is paramount and using fermented foods and taking high-quality pro and prebiotics may help to prevent and eradicate parasitic infections.

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Herbs, research, Uncategorized

Response to the Proposed Monoclonal Antibody Injection to Prevent Lyme Disease

https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/13944776?tk=-q6Qjp9U5xBsfKfijcGzoHsOghM6B0xXtori7lxgItI&utm_source=petition_update&utm_medium=email

Carl Tuttle, a Lyme activist from New Hampshire, has written a letter to Dr. Klempner regarding the safety of the monoclonal antibody injection proposed to prevent Lyme Disease.

  1. There is no safety window to protect against infection. According to Dr. Burgdorfer who stated in 1999 that about 5-10% of ticks that are carrying Lyme have a systemic infection and have the disease already in their salivary glands and can transmit infection immediately.
  2.  There is no protection from blood transmission due to blood transfusion.
  3. It can not protect against transmission by feces, urine, or tick-excretes.
  4. It will not protect sexual transmission.
  5. It will not protect from congenital transmission. 28 Peer-Reviewed Studies http://home.comcast.net/~runagain/Congenital%20Transmission%20of%20Lyme.doc

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Activism, Lyme, research, Uncategorized, vaccines