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Natural Immunity Again Found Better & Virus Hits 7:1 Vaxxed Over Unvaxxed

**UPDATE**

You may be asking yourself how the world came to believe that “vaccine” immunity is better than natural immunity.  It’s quite simple: the WHO quietly changed the definition of “herd immunity” to now only be acquired through “vaccines,” literally rewriting hundreds of years of scientific understanding just to push COVID injections.  “Vaccines” are the golden calf of Big Pharma and corrupt public health, which own patents on the very things they are supposed to protect the public from.

Despite ‘bubbles’ being found in COVID shot vials, and all of the following information below on how natural immunity is better, the virus hits the “vaxxed” 7 to 1 over the unvaxxed, the UK government reveals the triple vaxxed account for 91% of COVID deaths, the fully vaxxed account for over 90% of COVID deaths since May 2021, and much more, the Massachusetts health system is requiring employees to get the bivalent booster by Dec. 15 or be suspended without pay with disciplinary action including termination of employment.  The system also erroneously states that “masking and other protocols have been good tools for reducing the risk of COVID-19 spread over the past two and a half years,” despite data and reality showing the contrary.  Almost 700 people have signed a petition opposing the mandate calling it “nothing more than bullying by an employer for profit.”

Natural Immunity Better in New COVID “Vaccine” Studies

https://thehighwire.com/videos/natural-immunity-better-in-new-covid-vaccine-studies/  Video Here (Approx. 13 Min)

Numerous studies continue to demonstrate Covid mRNA injections not only fail to stop infection or transmission, numerous studies now have shown negative efficacy, while also establishing that natural immunity, once again, is superior to Pharma products. 

This shouldn’t shock anyone.  The COVID shots have only shown what history has repeatedly shown: natural immunity is robust, long lasting, and more complete than “vaccination.” Further, these mRNA injections actually cause pathogenic priming, specifically antibody dependent enhancement (ADE), setting you up to become infected (Please see article below titled “Virus Hits 7:1 Vaxxed Over Unvaxxed).  These injections are linked to more VAERS reports of adverse reactions and death than any other vaccine in the history of VAERS, and VAERS is known to only capture about 1% of reactions, so numbers in reality are much, much higher.

More keeps tumbling out of the COVID injection barrel of monkeys including results of lawsuits exposing the following derived from this source:

  • Of the 10 million people enrolled in V-Safe, 7.7% (770,000 people) required medical care after getting the shot 
  • 25% (2.5 million people) missed work or school or suffered a serious side effect that affected their day-to-day life
  • Four million people — 40% — reported joint pain.
  • Two million, or 20%, reported “moderate” joint pain
  • 400,000, 4%, classified the pain as “severe”
  • the formula the CDC uses to trigger a safety signal is seriously flawed, because the more dangerous a vaccine is, the less likely it is that a safety signal will be triggered.
  • even using the flawed formula, “death” meets all three safety signal criteria and should have been flagged
  • options for reporting a side effect are predefined and very generic, so people might be experiencing effects that didn’t fit any of the predefined categories of injury.
  • death is not reportable to V-Safe, as dead people cannot use their phones which makes it impossible to know how many actually have died
  • Not only has the CDC taken no action, they deliberately concealed all the V-Safe data from everyone the entire time, until they were sued.  See this three part series on how they did this: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
  • The mainstream media are ignoring all of this which means it’s up to us to inform our loved ones. 
  • Please see this video of civil rights attorney Aaron Siri explain the data, and go here for ICAN’s V-Safe data obtained from the CDC.

The CDC needs to explain why they spent our tax dollars to fight the release of the V-Safe data for 15 months, and why they didn’t halt the shots when a “death” signal was evident. The mainstream press, members of Congress, the medical community and Universities also need to explain why they refuse to investigate  CDC data. To that end, here are a few suggestions for how you can help:

Support Sen. Ron Johnson, currently the only senator willing to investigate the truth of the COVID jabs.
Write or call your members of Congress and ask them to investigate the CDC’s safety monitoring. As noted by Kirsch, “You simply cannot have a safety agency not be able to monitor safety.”
Contact your local newspaper and urge them to investigate and report on the V-Safe data, the VAERS data and the CDC’s failure to act when a safety signal was detected.
Share the data on social media and ask why no one in the media, Congress, academia or medical community is investigating these matters.
Share this information with your doctor and members of the medical community.
Also share it with university administrators, and ask them to explain how and why, in light of these facts, they are still mandating COVID shots for their students.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/virus-hits-71-vaxxed-over-unvaxxed

Virus Hits 7:1 Vaxxed Over Unvaxxed

Data analyst Ethical Skeptic concludes from CDC, Worldometers, Walgreens data: “A 7:1 appetite in the virus for the recently vaccinated”

By Colleen Huber

Nov. 2, 2022

We have seen repeat bouts of COVID among such vaccine promoters as the Bidens, Fauci, Walensky, et al.

Could this abysmal negative efficacy of the COVID vaccines have something to do with the immune impairment that some of us were warning about since way back BEFORE most people had taken the COVID shots?  I was removed from Twitter permanently the same day, 2/19/21, that I promised a Twitter follower that the above article would be coming out shortly.  How high would COVID vaccine uptake have been if critics like me had not been removed from Twitter and suppressed on Facebook?  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Data Analyst “Eternal Skeptic” has compiled data from Walgreens, Worldometers, and CDC showing that the COVID jabbed are 7 times as likely to test positive for COVID than the unvaccinated.  See link for graphs.

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Activism, vaccines, Viruses

Making a Killing Documentary

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Making a Killing

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World Premier Nov. 4, 2022
A documentary that exposes the deadly hospital protocols across the country.

Go here for the trailer and resources if Youtube censors it:  https://www.makingakillingdoc.com/

Over a year ago, Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet and Ali Shultz, J.D. wrote an article published on the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) website explaining how funding from the CARES Act was not only used to fund Operation Warp Speed, but also paid hospitals for the following:

  • A “free” required PCR test in the Emergency Room or upon admission for every patient, with government-paid fee to hospital.
  • Added bonus payment for each positive COVID-19 diagnosis.
  • Another bonus for a COVID-19 admission to the hospital.
  • A 20 percent “boost” bonus payment from Medicare on the entire hospital bill for use of remdesivir instead of medicines such as Ivermectin.
  • Another and larger bonus payment to the hospital if a COVID-19 patient is mechanically ventilated.
  • More money to the hospital if cause of death is listed as COVID-19, even if patient did not die directly of COVID-19.
  • A COVID-19 diagnosis also provides extra payments to coroners.

Attorney Thomas Renz and DMS whistleblowers have calculated hospitals received a total payment of at least $100,000 PER PATIENT due to these practices.

Renz and a team of analysts have estimated that more than 800,000 deaths occurred in American hospitals due to restricting fluids, nutrition, antibiotics, effective antivirals, anti-inflammatories, and therapeutic doses of anti-coagulants.

Due to the CARES Act, hospitals also waived customary and long-standing patient rights by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) who then turned around and implemented “value-based” payment programs that tracked data on how many healthcare workers got the COVID shots.  Hospitals with “vaccine” mandates got more money.

For an excellent interview with Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet from Truth for Health Foundation lays bare what’s been happening inside America’s hospital system over the last two years, where treatment centers seem so intent on murdering their patients that they refuse court orders to treat with routine antiviral therapies like steroids as well specific treatments like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. Incentivized by high reimbursement payments by using potentially deadly treatments like ventilators and remdesivir, the doctors and hospitals have descended into unethical, corrupt medical practices.

Some went through the court system to fight these draconian hospital edicts and lived to tell the tale.

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Activism, Treatment, vaccines, Viruses

New Study & Leaked Docs Show Massive Government, Media, Big Tech Collusion to Censor Dissenters. Judge Rules Fauci et al. Can’t Slither Out of Depositions, Yet

**UPDATE**

Go here to listen to Senator Hawley rip into DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for his agency’s collusion with Big Tech to suppress the speech of US citizens, as well as potentially targeting certain individuals as “domestic terrorists” for questioning COVID origins, “vaccine” safety, and other related controversial subjects.  Go here to stop this madness.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-narrative-big-tech-media-censorship-doctors

Groundbreaking: Study Details How Media, Big Tech Censored Doctors and Scientists Who Challenged COVID Narrative

A groundbreaking new scientific paper published Tuesday exposes the suppression and censorship of doctors and medical experts who opposed and challenged the official COVID-19 narrative.

Published in the sociological journal Minerva, “Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy: Tactics and Counter-Tactics,” details the experiences of medical professionals who spoke out against public health directives, and how they responded to efforts to suppress them.

The paper was co-authored by a team of Israeli and Australian scholars, including Yaffa Shir-Raz of the University of Haifa in Israel, Ety Elisha of The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College in Israel, Brian Martin of the University of Wollongong in Australia, Natti Ronel of Bar Ilan University in Israel, and Josh Guetzkow of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.

As noted by Dr. Robert Malone, himself an outspoken critic of COVID-19 “orthodoxy,” the publication of this article is particularly significant as Minerva is released by “mainstream academic publisher” Springer, a “Q1 journal in its subfield” of sociology with a “decent” research impact factor in the social sciences — meaning that it enjoys a strong reputation within its academic field.

Malone said the article also is notable because one of its authors, Yaffa Shir-Raz, “broke the story with video from the internal meeting at the Israeli ministry of health” on “how they hid many of the key findings regarding the Pfizer mRNA vaccine adverse effects.”  (See link for article)

SUMMARY:

  • Media, tech companies played a central role in stifling COVID debate
  • These companies used censorship and smear tactics to destroy the reputations & careers of dissenters
  • This suppression of scientific dissent has far-reaching implications for medicine, science and public health
  • The study interviewed scientists and doctors globally who have experienced this but remain anonymous
  • Results show that the media and the medical establishment both used censorship and suppression against dissenters including:
    • exclusion (media stopped interviewing and accepting opinion pieces from dissenters)
    • derogatory labeling (anti-vaxxers, COVID deniers, dis/misinformation spreaders, conspiracy theorists)
      • Bought-out “fact checkers” were used to publicly undermine dissenters & social media removed posts, tweets, videos and even deleted accounts claiming dissenters violated “community rules.”
    • hostile comments
    • threatening statements (dissenters weren’t allowed to identify themselves with their institution when being interviewed or when expressing their views – as a condition of renewing their contract)
    • dismissal by employers (defamation with intention to harm dissenter’s reputations & careers. Many were disqualified from prestigious positions without due process or transparency)
      • The media was then used to spread the negative information around
    • official inquiries (investigations with threats to withdraw medical licenses, lawsuits with financial claims, and police searches of private clinics)
      • Please read & watch a video about Dr. Jackie Stone from Zimbabwe & how she faced four charges & was found guilty of two.  Other persecuted doctors are listed as well.  **UPDATE** This article states Stone was fined on two charges but faces no jail sentence.  She plans to fight back.
    • revocation of medical licenses
    • lawsuits
    • retraction of scientific papers after publication (often without peer review or unprecedented time taken to publish the material)
      • Tactics are consistent with Jansen and Martin’s framework on the dynamics of censorship, where covering up, devaluing, reinterpreting, and censoring information through official channels while intimidating dissenters are used
      • Despite this persecution, which caused “shock and surprise,” respondents remained undeterred and decided to fight back using counter-tactics due to their strong belief in the freedom of speech and their concern for public health
        • Counter-tactics include use of alternative channels to get their information out, creating a parallel world to mainstream media and medicine (a lot like Lymeland). New journals and non-profits were created due to the failure of existing ones
    • Study authors contrasted their paper with “Online Conspiracy Groups: Micro-Bloggers, Bots, and Coronavirus Conspiracy Talk on Twitter.”

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https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/homeland-security-social-media-censorship

Leaked Documents Reveal Homeland Security’s ‘Expansive’ Influence Over Social Media Censorship

Internal U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memos, emails and public documents outline “an expansive effort” by DHS to influence tech platforms, despite the Biden administration’s failure earlier this year to launch a Disinformation Governance Board.

Leaked government documents reveal that U.S. government officials have access to a special portal through which they can directly flag Facebook and Instagram posts and request that the posts be “throttled or suppressed,” The Intercept reported Monday.

As of Oct. 31, the “content request system” at facebook.com/xtakedowns/login was still live despite the public uproar earlier this year when attorneys general in 20 states threatened legal action unless the Biden administration immediately disbanded the “Orwellian” Disinformation Governance Board.

Mark Crispin Miller, Ph.D., professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, told The Defender that collusion between the U.S. government and media companies to censor U.S. citizens is nothing new — but it’s become a “catastrophic trend.”  (See link for article)

For more:

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https://www.activistpost.com/2022/11/judge-hands-biden-admin-huge-setback-in-big-tech-government-censorship-case

Judge Hands Biden Admin Huge Setback In Big Tech-Government Censorship Case

November 4, 2022By Zachary Stieber

The Biden administration’s attempt to block depositions of several key officials was turned down Nov. 2 by a U.S. judge.

U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump appointee, rejected a request for a partial stay of his Oct. 21 order authorizing the depositions of eight officials, including President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Government lawyers asked the judge to impose the partial stay as an appeals court weighs a request to vacate the part of his order that enables the depositions of Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, a Biden appointee; Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly, a Biden appointee; and Rob Flaherty, a deputy assistant to the president.

Absent a stay,

“high-ranking governmental officials would be diverted from their significant duties and burdened in both preparing and sitting for a deposition, all of which may ultimately prove to be unnecessary if the Court of Appeals grants” their request, the government said.

(See link for article)

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**Comment**

This case (Missouri v. Biden) is a lawsuit alleging that the U.S. government induced censorship of state officials and others on social media.  Altogether, 67 officials or agencies are accused of violating plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights by participating in a “censorship enterprise” through pressuring Big Tech firms such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter to take action against users offering alleged misinformation.  Go here for a list of the defendants, and here for a list of the plaintiffs.

Evidence backing the claims has been produced in discovery, including exchanges between White House officials and Meta, Facebook’s parent company, and messages showing meetings between administration officials and the firms.

Regarding the partial stay, the judge ruled that the government failed to show how these government employees paid with our tax dollars would be harmed apart from being distracted from their “significant duties.” Anyone paying attention for the past two years has learned that those significant duties primarily consist of censoring, giving misinformation, attacking dissenters, lying, and funding fraudulent research that supports the accepted narrative.  Their narrative.  And yes, they’ve been feverishly busy without any oversight.

On the other hand, the plaintiffs according to the judge, would be irreparably harmed by a partial stay because they’ve alleged a violation of the First Amendment and the loss of Amendment freedoms.   

“The Court finds that both the public interest and the interest of the other parties in preserving free speech significantly outweighs the inconvenience the three deponents will have in preparing for and giving their depositions,” he added.

Finally, someone with a brain.

Fauci’s deposition is slated for this month (Nov.) and others follow in early December unless the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit approves the writ of mandamus.  The writ, predictably, would allow these crooks to slither back into their well protected holes from which they can continue to cause unprecedented mayhem far above the law.

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“What we found in what the whistleblowers put out was that the government was actually engaged—and the White House—in directly communicating with Big Tech on stories and information that they either wanted suppressed or put out,” says Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.

This censorship is global and a favorite tactic of bullies and elites:

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Activism, vaccines, Viruses

COVID Spreads Through Floors & Walls. COVID, Masks, & Shots Cause Low Oxygen & Blood Clotting So Why Are People Still Wearing Masks?

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/28/12/22-0666_article

Volume 28, Number 12—December 2022

Probable Aerosol Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 through Floors and Walls of Quarantine Hotel, Taiwan, 2021

Hsin-Yi Wei, Cheng-Ping Chang, Ming-Tsan Liu, Jung-Jung Mu, Yu-Ju Lin, Yu-Tung Dai, and Chia-ping Su
Author affiliations: Taiwan Centers for Disease Control, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taipei, Taiwan (H.-Y. Wei, M.-T. Liu, J.-J. Mu, Y.-J. Lin, C.-p. Su); Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan, Taiwan (C.-P. Chang, Y.-T. Dai)

Abstract

We investigated a cluster of SARS-CoV-2 infections in a quarantine hotel in Taiwan in December 2021. The cluster involved 3 case patients who lived in nonadjacent rooms on different floors. They had no direct contact during their stay. By direct exploration of the space above the room ceilings, we found residual tunnels, wall defects, and truncated pipes between their rooms. We conducted a simplified tracer-gas experiment to assess the interconnection between rooms. Aerosol transmission through structural defects in floors and walls in this poorly ventilated hotel was the most likely route of virus transmission. This event demonstrates the high transmissibility of Omicron variants, even across rooms and floors, through structural defects. Our findings emphasize the importance of ventilation and integrity of building structure in quarantine facilities.

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https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/why-spike-protein-causes-abnormal-blood-clots-200-symptoms

Why Spike Protein Causes Abnormal, Foot-Long Blood Clots, 200 Symptoms

In this two-part paper, we aim to give an overview on COVID-19 related abnormal blood clots, how they form, how to detect them early, and how they’re being treated
Dr. Yuhong Dong and Dr. Jordan Vaughn
 
Nov 5 2022
 
Excerpts:
 
Physicians have summarized a list of unusual clinical observations of COVID-19 including but not limited to severely hypoxic (low oxygen) patients despite relatively normal lung compliance upon examination, thrombotic complications, and consistent autopsy findings of blood clots (thrombi) in the microcirculation of the lung.

Spike Proteins trigger the clotting cascade

Spike Protein dysregulates RAAS, and competitively inhibits the bindings of antithrombin and heparin cofactor II, worsening the clotting

Spike Proteins directly disrupt the clot dissolving mechanism

Spike Proteins form amyloid-Like substance

The experimental COVID gene-therapy injections contain the spike protein and have caused clotting

Since blood vessels are in all our organs, clotting in the vessels would explain the wide range of symptoms experienced

(See link for article)

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**Comment**

Not to be Captain Obvious, but hopefully the knowledge that COVID can pass through floors and walls and consists of a spike protein that causes low oxygen and breathlessness, clearly shows the worthlessness and indeed danger of mask usage since masks also cause hypoxia.

An eleven month old just DIED from mask asphyxiation in Taiwan.

Don’t get me wrong. There are times to wear a mask for short periods of time, like when you are restoring furniture and kicking up saw dust when using a sander, or when you are dealing with scary chemicals that could damage your lungs. Please, by all means, wear a mask when you are participating in such endeavors!

However, if you still are under the false belief that a mask can stop a virus smaller than the pores in the mask, you are following pseudoscience and propaganda. Throw those suckers away and breathe. Deeply.

What the study should have emphasized is the fact you can not stop viruses. Period. They simply must run their course through a population. What you can productively do is make yourself a tougher target by taking appropriate action for creating a healthy immune system. You can also be prepared with safe, effective, cheap treatments to take early on, should you become ill.

Corrupt public health has made this quite difficult if not impossible by censoring, banning, and maligning anything that competes with their lucrative, vested interests with Big Pharma. These corrupt public health agencies have successfully frightened the public into taking an expensive, experimental, ineffective, and a dangerous gene therapy shot they own half the patent on.

For more on masks:

For more on how to protect against and treat COVID:

Live free and breathe deeply.

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Activism, research, Transmission, Treatment, vaccines

Lyme & Herxheimer Reactions: Your Guide to Feeling Well Again

Lyme + Herxheimer Reactions: Your Guide to Feeling Good Again

by Dr. Bill Rawls
Updated 8/18/22

It’s one of life’s cruel chronic illness jokes: You discover a new therapy for Lyme disease and are really optimistic about your odds of finally feeling better. Then, within a day or two of starting the regimen, your symptoms take a turn for the worse — intense fatigue, insomnia, and pain wash over you, and you feel like you did during your worst days of chronic illness. Could it be the dreaded Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction you keep hearing about from others undergoing Lyme treatment?

Unfortunately, answering that question is no easy feat. To help you better understand what’s happening, we’ll explain Herxheimer reactions and the best ways to differentiate them from other possible issues. Keep reading for advice, plus steps you can take now to feel better — without derailing your recovery.

Herxheimer Reactions, Defined

Herxheimer reactions were first observed in syphilis patients by dermatologists Adolf Jarisch and Karl Herxheimer in the late 1800s and early 1900s. They noticed that their patients receiving treatment often got worse before they got better. The phenomenon was dubbed the Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction and has since been shortened to Herxheimer reaction, herxing, or simply, herx.

“The classic explanation of a Herxheimer reaction in people with Lyme is that when borrelia bacteria are killed off by an antibiotic or herbal therapy, parts of dead bacteria called endotoxins are shed,” explains Dr. Rawls. “These endotoxins then circulate throughout the body and cause an intense whole-body inflammatory reaction. And that makes the war against microbes that’s already going on inside your body worse.”

In general, herx reactions are more common and more intense with conventional antibiotic use than with herbs, says Dr. Rawls. “With herbs, the bacterial die‐off is more gradual, and the immune response is less intense.”

Either way, the intensification of your symptoms can be disconcerting, and if you’re treating Lyme, the odds are good you’ll experience herxing: While there’s no clinical research on the prevalence of herxing, anecdotally, it seems the majority of Lyme patients experience it at some point. And provided it’s not too intense, that’s actually good news: “It’s often a sign that the therapy is working,” says Dr. Rawls.

How To Tell If It’s Herxing—Or Something Else

Herx reactions can throw you for a loop for a few reasons.

For starters, symptoms vary from person to person, says Dr. Rawls, and they’re easy to confuse with other health concerns that are also highly likely in those with chronic Lyme, including a disease flare-up, adverse reaction to a new Lyme treatment, or food sensitivities (digestive issues are highly common in people who have Lyme). What’s more, the timing of any of these issues can also overlap, making it difficult to track your symptoms to their source.

For help clearing up the confusion and determining what’s to blame for your symptoms, check out these helpful identifying characteristics:

HERX REACTION

Symptoms: Intensified fatigue, muscle pain, neurological symptoms, and flu‐like symptoms such as headache, nausea, and digestive distress. You may also experience symptoms not listed here; herx reactions are highly variable between individuals.

Onset: Symptoms intensify in tandem with starting a new therapy.

Telltale signs: Symptoms may gradually improve with the continuation of therapy and worsen again when you increase the dosage or add a new therapy.

LYME FLARE-UP

Symptoms: Intensification of fatigue, arthritis (joint pain, swelling, and stiffness), flu-like feelings, GI distress; there’s a recurrence of your usual Lyme symptoms.

Onset: Symptoms are often precipitated by any extra stress to your system (including emotional stress, poor diet, toxin exposure, physical stress, lack of sleep, or a new tick bite). Symptoms are not related to starting a new therapy, though the two may coincide if you experienced stress just before starting the therapy.

Telltale signs: Your best clue is timing: A Lyme relapse typically occurs while taking a stable dose of treatment and in reaction to some type of stress, so look for recent lifestyle changes (i.e., diet changes, travel, sleep deprivation, relationships trouble, mold exposure).

ADVERSE TREATMENT REACTION

Symptoms: An allergic-like reaction (hives, itching, skin rash, runny nose, watery eyes, wheezing). This is common in people with chronic Lyme disease, whose entire immune system is in disarray and more easily activated.

Onset: Symptoms develop within about an hour of taking a new medication or herb

Telltale signs: Your symptoms get better when you take an allergy remedy such as an antihistamine. *See your doctor as soon as possible if you experience signs or symptoms of a drug allergy. Call 911 if you experience signs of a severe reaction or suspect an anaphylaxis after taking a medication.

FOOD SENSITIVITY

Symptoms: Fatigue, joint pain, muscle pain, general achiness, brain fog, irritability

Onset: Symptoms occur within hours to a couple of days after an offending food is consumed.

Telltale signs: Your symptoms get better when you eliminate the food(s) from your diet. Doctors can order testing for food sensitivity and heavy metal toxicity, however, the best determinant of food sensitivities is an elimination diet.

If these guidelines don’t describe your experience with herxing exactly, take heart. In the beginning, you may go back and forth between knowing whether what you’re experiencing is a herx reaction or something else, but with time, you will become better at distinguishing herxing and discover ways to ride it out.

It’s Herxing. When Will It End?

If you’ve determined (or strongly suspect) that you’re herxing, your next question is likely: How long will it last?

Unfortunately, there’s no cut-and-dry answer — everyone’s experience is individual, says Dr. Rawls. Some may feel better after a few days or a few weeks; others may experience herxing for as long as two to three months(though symptoms tend to wax and wane throughout that time).

The good news is, there’s a lot you can do to help ease a herx reaction and move beyond the symptoms more quickly. The quickest solution would be to discontinue your Lyme treatment. But that’s not necessarily the best option, says Dr. Rawls.

“Fundamental advice with herxing is to continue therapy at whatever dose you can tolerate. Sometimes you will have to reduce the dose to stay comfortable, but you can increase again later,” says Dr. Rawls. “If your symptoms improve over days to a couple of weeks, that suggests confirmation that it’s a herx. And as your symptoms ease up, you can gradually increase the dose until the desired therapeutic dose is reached.”

If your symptoms do not improve, it may be an indication that the therapy is not working. In this case, Dr. Rawls suggests either increasing the dose or adding other herbs or other therapies. If symptoms gradually start getting better, then you know you’re on the right track.

That said, if your symptoms are debilitating, back off on your treatment dosage or even stop altogether, advises Dr. Rawls. Then, once your symptoms are tolerable, you can gradually increase your dosage again.

6 Smart Ways to Ease Herxing

The number one way to find relief from herxing is to address the underlying cause for needing Lyme treatment in the first place: Factors that stress your cells and impair your immune function.

“Stressed cells are what makes people vulnerable to chronic Lyme,” explains Dr. Rawls. “Restore the health of your cells, and not only will your immune system be better at battling Lyme microbes, your body will be stronger at withstanding the side effects of treatment and overcoming herxing as well.”

To begin, work your way through what Dr. Rawls calls “Cellular Stress Factors,” which contribute to inflammation and intensify either a herx reaction or a Lyme relapse. These include poor nutrition, emotional stress, environmental toxins like air pollutants and mold, physical stress, and excessive exposure to radiation from modern sources like computers, cell phones, and microwave towers.

Once you’ve begun to take the pressure off your cells by decreasing your exposure to these disruptors, your body will be better equipped to handle both microbes and the endotoxins they create as they die off. The result: You start to feel better.

From here, there are a number of additional lifestyle habits you can adopt to help alleviate a Herxheimer reaction — all of which also contribute to restoring cellular health and immune functions and thus contribute to Lyme recovery, says Dr. Rawls. Here are his recommendations:

1. Fresh Ginger Tea

In general, drinking a lot of liquids is a good idea, but fresh ginger tea, in particular, has potent systemic anti-inflammatory properties for reducing Herxheimer symptoms. Plus, it’s great to soothe digestive symptoms. You can make it from fresh ginger root or use organic tea bags.

2. Anti-Inflammatory Therapies

Some good ones to try:

Turmeric and Boswellia

As anti-inflammatory herbs, turmeric and boswellia are excellent for reducing systemic inflammation associated with Herxheimer reactions, and it’s hard to take too much of them either. Dr. Rawls recommends 175 mg of turmeric and 75 mg of Boswellia, twice daily.

Marine Source Omega-3 Fatty Acids

Omega-3 fatty acids offer anti-inflammatory support, especially for high-fat tissues such as the brain. Both fish oil and krill oil reduce inflammation, but krill is better absorbed and also contains the antioxidant astaxanthin, which provides extra anti-inflammatory support. The suggested dose for krill oil is 500 mg, 1-3 times daily.

Red Root

Good for stimulating and clearing dead cellular debris from the lymphatic system, red root also supports a healthy liver and spleen, optimal immune function, and swollen lymph nodes.

Chlorella

A freshwater algae, chlorella does wonders for healing an irritated stomach and restoring digestive function. It’s also great for detoxing and healing in general. The typical maintenance dose is 5 to 7.5g total a day, and for additional support, we suggest 10g total a day. Chlorella can be taken any time of day. For best results, take it with food. (Avoid products that also contain spirulina, a blue-green algae that potentially contains toxins.)

Adaptogenic Herbs

These help reduce herxing and moderate the effects of stress. Some to try:

3. Proteolytic Enzymes

There are a variety of proteolytic enzymes that will work to help break down immune complexes and reduce inflammation. Bromelain (from pineapple) is a good choice; the dose is 500-1000 mg, one to two times daily. It’s sometimes found in combination supplements for joint health. Generally, it’s best to take enzymes on an empty stomach to absorb them directly.

4. Heat Therapy

Heat can be very soothing during herx reactions. A far infrared (FIR) sauna or a hot bath is excellent for removing toxins from the body. Adding Epsom salts to your bath can also help soothe muscles and joints.

5. Fresh Air

Forests and beaches or shores alongside open water are especially beneficial. Take your shoes off and walk barefoot: Called “grounding,” it’s a good practice for reducing inflammation in the body.

6. Relaxation Practices

Decreasing stress is key to normalizing the body’s adrenaline-cortisol response. But even when we feel unwell, most of us still try to push our limits. However, when you’re in the throes of a herx, don’t be afraid (or ashamed) to say “no” if you need to. Only agree to do what’s necessary, and let the rest go until you are back on your feet.

Need some extra help to bring on the calm? Use lavender essential oil. Research suggests it may be beneficial for easing insomnia, anxiety, and stress. Apply it to the bottoms of your feet before bed to help with sleep.

Thoughts on Herx Prevention

There’s a decent chance that if you increase the dosage of your current treatment or introduce a new one to your Lyme regimen, the herxing may return. It’s not entirely avoidable, says Dr. Rawls, but you can take steps to help fend off and reduce symptoms.

For instance, a few days before you change up your therapy, Dr. Rawls recommends adding some extra turmeric and krill oil to your daily routine; these help support a healthy immune and inflammatory response. He also suggests working to curb your mental and physical stress.

In general, the most successful approach to experiencing better health is to focus on reducing cellular stress and restoring healthy immune function. Do that, and you’ll rebound faster from herxing and begin to feel better.

REFERENCES

1. Dhakal A, Sbar E. Jarisch Herxheimer Reaction. [Updated 2022 Apr 28]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2022 Jan-. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK557820/
2. Koulivand PH, Khaleghi Ghadiri M, Gorji A. Lavender and the nervous system. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2013;2013:681304. doi: 10.1155/2013/681304

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