Natural Remedies for Lyme Disease

Your comment has so much great information.

Organic food is also very important because the glyphosate-based weedkillers are also an antibiotic. I was in the hospital for a week in August of 2019 with Lyme meningitis and was on a strong antibiotic through a PICC for one month. It happened eight months after suddenly losing my sister to a heart attack. I've read that this kind of loss can also set cause Lyme that's been in a body to become very active, I have no idea how long I had Lyme in my system. One year before that I began eating a strict Keto and IF diet for six months. I did it for severe depression/stress, lupus and ptsd (both began when I was 10/11, I'm now 58). After I learned that we have more Serotonin in our gut and it communicates with the Serotonin in our brain, I realized how important the gut really is. The diet heals the body, weight loss is a great side effect; I was amazed with all of the changes that began after just one week; the lupus symptoms were going away as well as my eye floaters, more energy, the severe stress and depression went away, the bumps on the back of my arms, my sinuses were cleared, and so much more; it also reverses type II diabetes. Much like the Gerson Therapy, people are now eating a struck Keto & IF to treat cancer.

My big mistake was taking a 'break' for the Christmas/New Year holiday season. Decades of abuse to a body takes a long time to repair. Adding the chronic lyme has become horrible, and three weeks ago I was in my yard, was bit by another tick and I began having the horrible effects of first getting Lyme disease. My doctor put me on 3 weeks of Doxycyclne, but after one week I stopped. I know it will only destroy my gut, which I'm trying to repair. I'm back on Keto & IF and I researched MMS and am going to try that. Thank you for the information on the Mimosa Pudica supplement. I believe that will help clean my gut. I found a place nearby that sells raw dairy; I'm also making my own sauerkraut. Garlic and oregano are a must. Keto & IF are now my eating lifestyle.

Thank you so much for sharing all that you did.

I've been researching this crazy illness for years and through the hard work of others have uncovered some truths about this disease which almost put me in a wheelchair.

First, killing the adult spirochetes in blood stream is easy but they have found that immediately when stressed these parasites either morph into dormant spheres and are covered in biofilm made up of polysacharides and protein. These spheres are hard to kill and antibiotics are mildly helpful to these persisters. Pulse dosing is better than steady dosing. Combination antibiotics are better than single bullet.

They found that .05 percent clove, cinniamon, oregano oils are better than antibiotics, Selenium and sulfur are helpful upon biofilm too. Some people do enzymes like serapeptase or EDTA . However, the other part to this equation is the fact that these spirochetes actually infest and hide in your red blood cells. Attaching microscopic evidence that is shocking but helpful. I am in remission now and my blood samples have zero spirochetes. I used a the only patented Lyme treatment in the world. It is ionized copper. To watch this copper do its thing is amazing to watch.

ENJOY and LEARN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFwm0HiuB9s

I suffered with Lyme, it's co-infections, and toxic metal poisoning for over 30 years (toxic metals like mercury are common with long-term Lyme). I was bitten at least 40 times growing up in Connecticut. I have taken many kinds of antibiotics and done many forms of chelation none of which ever cured me. They helped, but never cured. What finally did it was drinking Himalayan salt and vitamin C on an empty stomach every day and taking NBMI (Boyd Haley). The herx's are brutal and so I almost quit especially the one around the 9 to 11 month point, but I'm glad I pushed through. After 12 months I stopped feeling symptoms altogether.

It's been a little over two years on Salt/C and now I'm at the point where I can stop the treatment. I make EDTA suppositories and take it at night 80 mins before bed. I wait 60 mins and then take an NBMI suppository and go to bed. I have not found any chelator as powerful/effective as NBMI and I've tried them all. There are many other things I do like the baking soda protocol (most effective candida killer I've found especially from taking all those antibiotics through the years) and the liver/gallbladder flush from Andreas Moritz. I have done around 30 of them and passed thousands of stones.

It thereby unblocked my liver and it's pathways (what a difference it makes!). Now when I do a flush – no stones come out. I also find drinking magnesium chloride every morning on an empty stomach extremely helpful (at night before bed is good too). Drinking all this salt- you should monitor your kidneys, but from what I've read problems only arise in about 5% of the population. I also believe drinking it on an empty stomach is important. I have no food 2 hours prior and no food an hour after. In the beginning I did this 3 to 4 times a day.After a few months I only did it once or twice a day. After the big 9/11 month herx- I have only been doing it once a day in the morning. After 30+ years of suffering horribly there is no doubt this fully cured me.

I find that taking the amino acids – Lysine, Glycine, Glutamine, and Threonine on an empty stomach also very helpful. I also take a high quality whey protein (on an empty stomach) every day to raise the glutathione levels. I take many other vitamins – ones that Dr. Mercola has been recommending for a long time (Krill oil, Astaxanthin, Vitamin B complex, etc). I also bought tanning beds for Vitamin D. For sleep – I find that the combination of l-theanine, lithium orotate, melatonin, and ashwagandha works great. I also take organic whole husk psyllium and apple cider vinegar about 20 minutes before a meal. I make my own fermented veggies and sometimes whole fat yogurt for probiotics.

It's important to know the difference of a water soluble vitamin and a fat soluble one. Water soluble needs no food 2 to 3 hours prior and 1 full hour after, so morning after waking up is an ideal time. Fat soluble should be taken with food/fat/oil for maximum absorption. I find most people don't know this, but it's very important. If you've ever taken a B-complex vitamin and later your urine was a funky color- you had food to close to taking it and you just expelled most of all the nutrients. Taking it on an empty stomach will yield the proper results. I also oil-pull for a half hour every morning prior to eating as well.

Another common symptom of Lyme is constipation. Make sure you're going at least once a day. If you're having trouble- drink enough Salt/C and magnesium chloride and you'll go. Either that or do an enema/colonic.

Lyme also really messes with your hormones. Look into Bio-Identical hormone therapy especially if you're over 35. I make my own DHEA/Pregnenolone suppositories and I also take progesterone almost daily. Women should look into estrogen as well. I take hormone holidays just like Dr. Mercola talks about. Your thyroid is another gland that will often be affected by Lyme, so I highly recommend eating seaweed every day. I eat a 1/2 teaspoon of bladderwrack every day with food.

I also like using a far-infrared sauna (I built my own using Dr. Wilson's guidelines online) every two days and drinking essiac tea prior (bulk-essiac organic) on an empty stomach. I also drink some organic black coffee while in the sauna because I find it makes me sweat much more, but some people may not be able to tolerate this. I remember prior to doing my liver flushes I was unable to drink coffee at all- it used to make me feel terrible. I drink lots of water in the sauna- you can buy reverse osmosis systems very inexpensively now. I add some Himalayan salt and little baking soda to the water to remineralize it. I also sometimes add a pinch of borax to help remove fluoride. I recommend the borax protocol as well.

Intermittent fasting was also a big one. I do this almost every day. I choose to do it in the morning, so I can have a social life at night- plus it ties in with all my other protocols for the morning. Many people also recommend Cat's Claw, which I also took during all this time as a water-soluble supplement every day, but I don't believe it did much. Salt/C along with everything else was very apparent to be working.

There's no doubt everything else I spoke about has a profound healing effect.

Taking Diatomaceous Earth every day was also helpful. When I first started taking it- I could feel parasites moving out of my intestines.

I highly recommend reading more here on earthclinic.com and mercola.com

I want to say at the outset, I believe it requires at least a commitment of a year for this reason. Candida leaves spores in the body that bloom at change of season. So while you may be feeling great after 3 months, pesky little spores may bloom, and you are revisited by the symptoms that you had just seen leave. Anything fungal will include parasites. And parasites leave eggs and larvae. They burrow and hide. For those reasons, I wanted to do a year minimum. And I will do a refresher once or twice annually for the remainder of my time here. 🙂

The first detox was a change of food which can become a lifestyle change if you wish. Or once finished you can return to a menu with more variety. The most important thing is to avoid ALL processed foods, and all non-organic food, all GMO food, and all pasteurized foods.

(Pasteurized foods are those that can be rich in probiotics building a strong healthy microbiome, if only they weren't literally “cooked to death”. Pasteurization heats the food to 165 degrees or above to kill off any bad bacteria–AND all the good (probiotic) bacteria! Before pasteurization, wine and cheese were full of probiotics. That helps the pounds from packing on! Make your own (once you're all healed), and enjoy these foods guilt-free.

By the way, do not use probiotic supplements. There are thousands of strains of probiotics, and in the very best probiotic supplements, which by the way are PROCESSED, have at most only a dozen strains, and have been found to be of very little help. Dr. Mercola did a study on homemade sauerkraut (EASY) vs. the best of all probiotic supplements.

The results? One spoonful of homemade sauerkraut gives you more probiotics than an entire bottle of probiotic supplements.

Meat can be ok if it is pasture-fed, given no antibiotics or growth hormones. It's more expensive than standard meat, but not as expensive as hospital bills to treat illnesses that rob you of your health and life. Interestingly, if you haven't learned yet, antibiotics are a huge problem and given out far too often (to humans), creating these fungal/candida/Lymes problems. Even worse, 80% of all antibiotics produced in America are given to our animals that are raised for food. You may be avoiding antibiotics, but if you buy standard meat or milk, you're getting more there than if you took a dose yourself!

Two natural antibiotics are: 1) Colloidal silver, and 2) a combination of 3 essential oils: (Put into an empty capsule, 5 drops On-Guard, 5 drops Mellaleuca (Tea Tree Oil), and 3 drops of Oregano). Take up to 4 times daily.

The opposite of Pasteurized is RAW. Make sure you read labels before buying anything. Even health foods like RAW Kombucha are being developed differently than if you made it at home. And many supplements are the worst offenders. Look at “other ingredients”. If you don't recognize the long words you're reading, do you really want to put it in your body?! Companies get away with a lot using “natural flavors”, which may or may not be anything close to natural.

The food detox was created by a doctor in the 1940's and 1950's, primarily first for tubuerculosis (skin, lung, etc), and then shifted focus to cancer and any other chronic illness. When you heal, you heal everything.

Nice side note: Within the first several weeks or couple of months all of the bumps on the back of my arms went away. Sleep, which had not been good, became AMAZING. And any calloused/crusty spots on the bottom of my feet went away on their own. I had NO idea all of these things were due to toxins in my body.

This particular detox is not a brand, so I think I can mention the name. It's just a book or a documentary that teaches you EXACTLY how to eat for 2 years. You buy or grow your own food. It's the Gerson Therapy and involves juicing, coffee enemas, eating oatmeal, and fruits and vegetables (as much as you want–seriously I was never hungry and extra weight fell off easily).

It detoxes every organ of your body. You follow it for 18 months to 2 years–which is the length of time required to completely regenerate the liver, one of our most major detox organs– if you're reversing/curing cancer or a chronic illness. When you do the detox, it does become a lifestyle, although when you've completed it, you will likely add in other healthy, non-toxic foods (organic, non-GMO, non-processed and not pasteurized) and continue a couple of weeks of detox annually, the rest of your life. You really can't get sick eating this way, don't feel deprived, and really feel great.

*NOTE: Since I had severe systemic candida, as well as Lymes, I couldn't handle the homemade (delicious–not gross like what you buy at the store) carrot juice. I stuck with green juice only and couldn't even tolerate fruit. Within 6 months, I was able to eat fruit! And that's with a very severe case of these. I had been bedridden for 10 years.

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Because we fight so many more toxins today, I added a fungal (candida, lymes, mold, morgellons, bacteria, virus, etc) component to my life that is so simple. Many companies are now producing supplements from the Mimosa Pudica plant. Anytime you have anything fungal in your body (if you've ever taken antibiotic, birth control pills or steroids–top 3 causes of disruption of our intestinal flora–or if you have chronic symptoms or illnesses–allergies, cancer, skin conditions, ALS, IC, IBS, MS, fibromyalgia, chronic infections or colds, etc), parasites accompany, which is a good thing.

They “carry” the highly toxic fungal material so that you're able to detox without off-the-chart die-off. I've had systemic candida for 20+ years, and had never found a cure. (MP is part of the cure. Heavy metals, including any in your teeth, must also be removed.) Also it's great to know that these fungal issues are one of the most common root causes of any chronic illness.

The seed of the MP plant is the first step of the cleanse. The cleanse cures all things fungal, and in my body, for 8 months, I unloaded parasites non-stop 2-4 cups (up to 1 litre) daily. I had no idea I had any parasites. But the parasites sop up all the fungal stuff out of your small intestines (and the rest of your body, and all your organs), and eliminate them via the colon.

The MP seed gets gelotinous when wet, and grabs and adheres to anything in the small and large intestines and drags them out. Since the parasites and its contents aren't killed, there is little to no die-off. (Candida alone has 90 different mycotoxins). It had felt like I could get die-off just thinking about a cleanse. Ha! Was amazed when I was able to use this MP supplement (which many companies are making) and never have one drop of die-off. I did use coffee enemas as I was accustomed to them, but don't know if I needed them.

I was fortunate to find a company that produced an MP supplement that is very high quality. Organic, non-GMO, no excipients or fillers. (The founder of the company was a naturopathic doctor who himself struggled with Lymes for more than a decade.) They have a great protocol outlined, with other supporting supplements for those who need to clear their detox pathways, etc, and offer a free online Q&A session every week. I have learned so much. Search on Amazon or google to find any Mimosa Pudica supplement.

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Lastly, I'd feel remiss if I didn't mention that there is no need (and in fact it is a waste of time and money) to be tested for candida, lymes, parasites, mold or anything else. These things can be in all areas of the body, and even a cultured stool test may not find parasites that reside in areas of the body that tests have no access to.

Also, most tests only look for a few of the thousands of parasites and pathogens exists. I passed every magazine or online candida test I took–looked like I was in perfect health. I was finally tested for candida 5 years ago, and while the blood test I took the very same week as the stool test I did, the blood test returned a negative result, but the stool test confirmed what I had suspected for 20 years–a very severe, systemic infection. Most lab tests will return false negatives.

Btw, everyone has yeast candida. It's part of a healthy microbiome. It's when the candida morphs from its healthy yeast form into its fungal form, that it becomes problematic.