Vitamin C and Lyme Disease

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Camille

Posted April19, 2013.  The mailman just brought my vitamin C order! Aren’t these boxes beautiful!!  Ah… the little things in life to get excited about!  I wake up every morning and take one of these packets on an empty stomach.  The company who makes this lyposomal vitamin C says to then wait about 15 minutes before eating  for maximum absorption.  They claim this lyposomal form of vitamin C is as effective as doing an IV vitamin C drip.   Incredible!!   I know it’s tough because if you have Lyme symptoms and Lyme disease you are probably already taking a lot of other medications and supplements.  But I think the extra trouble for lyposomal vitamin C is worth it!  Hopefully you also read the post about how some LLMD’s are using it for Bartonella, a co-infection of Lyme disease.

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From Web MD:  Vitamin C is one of the safest and most effective nutrients, experts say. It may not be the cure for the common cold (though it’s thought to help prevent more serious complications). But the benefits of vitamin C may include protection against immune system deficiencies, cardiovascular disease, prenatal health problems, eye disease, and even skin wrinkling.

A recent study published in Seminars in Preventive and Alternative Medicine that looked at over 100 studies over 10 years revealed a growing list of benefits of vitamin C.

“Vitamin C has received a great deal of attention, and with good reason. Higher blood levels of vitamin C may be the ideal nutrition marker for overall health,” says study researcher Mark Moyad, MD, MPH, of the University of Michigan. “The more we study vitamin C, the better our understanding of how diverse it is in protecting our health and our immune systems.

“But,” Moyad notes, “the ideal dosage may be higher than the recommended dietary allowance.”

So, if you are struggling with Lyme disease, consider adding vitamin C to your regimen!

Here’s the one I take every day:

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If You Want to Recover from Lyme Disease

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Camille

Posted April 17, 2013.  If you want to recover from Lyme disease……  Let me ask you this:  Do you want to donate your body as a science experiment for  Big Agra Company?  If you do not believe GM foods are harmful, then you can consume them and see what happens over a period of time.  More importantly, if you have been eating GM foods (as we all have been, because most of us haven’t been aware of this issue up until recently) and you are 100% recovered from all Lyme symptoms and Lyme disease, please write to me.

I think it is a tragedy of enormous proportions that we now have enacted the “Monsanto Protection Act.” (See explanation below.)   So many other countries have banned GM foods or at the very least, have required labeling. If you want to recover from Lyme disease, one suggestion is:  don’t eat GMO foods, especially GMO corn!!

Here’s the article:  From the Russian Times –A leaked study examining genetically-modified corn reveals that the lab-made alternative to organic crops contains a startling level of toxic chemicals.

An anti-GMO website has posted the results of an education-based consulting company’s comparison of corn types, and the results reveal that genetically modified foods may be more hazardous than once thought.

The study, the 2012 Corn Comparison Report by Profit Pro, was published recently on the website for Moms Across America March to Label GMOs, a group that says they wish to “raise awareness and support Moms with solutions to eat GMO Free as we demand GMO labeling locally and nationally simultaneously.” They are plotting nationwide protests scheduled for later this year.

The report, writes the website’s Zen Honeycutt, was provided by a representative for De Dell Seed Company, an Ontario-based farm that’s touted as being Canadian only non-GMO corn seed company.

“The claims that ‘There is no difference between GMO corn and NON Gmo corn’ are false,” says Honeycutt, who adds she was “floored” after reading the study.

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Nasty GMO corn and  lyme disease and lyme symptoms

According to the analysis, GMO corn tested by Profit Pro contains a number of elements absent from traditional cord, including chlorides, formaldehyde and glyphosate. While those elements don’t appear naturally in corn, they were present in GMO samples to the tune of 60 ppm, 200pm and 13 ppm, respectively.

Honecutt says that the United States Environmental Protection Agency (FDA) mandates that the level of glyphosate in American drinking water not exceed 0.7 ppm and adds that organ damage in some animals has been linked to glyphosate exposure exceeding 0.1 ppm.

“Glyphosate is a strong organic phosphate chelator that immobilizes positively charged minerals such as manganese, cobalt, iron, zinc [and] copper,” Dr. Don Huber attested during a separate GMO study recently released, adding that those elements “are essential for normal physiological functions in soils, plants and animals.”

“Glyphosate draws out the vital nutrients of living things and GMO corn is covered with it,” adds Honeycutt, who notes that the nutritional benefits rampant in natural corn are almost entirely removed from lab-made seeds: in the samples used during the study, non-GMO corn is alleged to have 437-times the amount of calcium in genetically modified versions, and 56- and 7-times the level of magnesium and manganese, respectively.

These studies come on the heels of a recent decision on Capitol Hill to approve an annual agriculture appropriations bill, even though a provision within the act contained a rider that frees GMO corporations such as the multi-billion-dollar Monsanto Company from liability. The so-called “Monsanto Protection Act,” written by a lawmaker that has lobbied for the agra-giant, says biotech companies won’t need federal approval to test and plant GMO-crops, even if health risks are unknown.

“The provision would strip federal courts of the authority to halt the sale and planting of an illegal, potentially hazardous GE crop while the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) assesses those potential hazards,” reads a letter to the House of Representatives that was delivered to Congress last month with the signatures of dozens of food businesses and retailers, as well as interest groups and agencies representing family farmers. “Further, it would compel USDA to allow continued planting of that same crop upon request, even if in the course of its assessment the Department finds that it poses previously unrecognized risks.” 

Here is a link to help you find non-GMO foods when you shop.  (Needless to say, fast food places are going to be replete with GMO foods, not helpful when you’re trying to recover from Lyme symptoms or Lyme disease!)   Go here for a list of non GMO foods:

https://lymesymptoms.com/gmo-free-list-and-lyme-symptoms/

 

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Good News For Bartonella and Lyme Symptoms

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Camille

Posted April 16, 2013.  Just heard from an LLMD friend that people with Lyme symptoms and Lyme disease who have been struggling also with Bartonella are having good recovery results with IV vitamin C.  Bartonella is a co-infection of Lyme disease.  Often when the tick, or whatever insect, bit you, it puts into you more than just Lyme disease.  Often there will be other bacteria, or “co-infections” as they are affectionately called, in addition to the Lyme disease spirochete.  Bartonella can be especially hard to eradicate from the body.  (Incidentally, Bartonella is also called “Cat Scratch Fever.”  There are many ways to get Bartonella other than a tick bite.)

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Vitamin C to help knock this rascal dead!

When I had Lyme disease, I also had Bartonella.  It was difficult to eradicate and caused me immense pain in the feet and elsewhere in the body.  Those of you who have Bartonella know what I’m talking about.  So what great news that there is something which seems to be helping those suffering with Bartonella and Lyme disease.  If you have never been tested for Bartonella and you are suffering with Lyme disease, be sure to be tested!  It could be an important piece of the puzzle. You may not be recovering because the Bartonella is alive and well in you.  Test with IGeneX labs. It is expensive to do a co-infections test, but well worth it in the long run, because then you can be properly treated for all the possible bacteria in your body.

You can either ask your doctor about getting an IV vitamin C infusion, or ask him or her about taking lyposomal vitamin C.  I called this company and I am quite impressed with what they are doing.  It is non-GMO and they claim it is as effective as an IV infusion.   I take it every morning on an empty stomach for maximum absorption.

Here is the link for the Vit. C:   https://lymesymptoms.com/lyme-diet/

Be well.  Remember, 100% Recovery, don’t accept anything less.  And of course, always BeRelentless!

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Malibu Canyon, They Found Lyme Disease

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Camille
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Gotta love those lizards! No lyme disease No lyme symptoms

Posted April 12, 2013.  So on last Sunday’s run in Malibu Canyon, I ran next to a doctor in the group who proceeded to tell me “there is NO Lyme disease in California.”  Ah, don’t you love that.  Of course I corrected him with all the politeness I could muster.  (Why is it that lawyers can’t get away with saying patently false statements like that?!)  Anyway news story below confirms what we already know, yes Virginia, there is Lyme disease in California.

The discussion about the lizards is interesting.  Happily, I have a lot of lizards in my yard.

I think they are underestimating the amount of ticks infected with Lyme disease in Malibu Canyon significantly however.  But it’s good there is more and more attention being given to Lyme disease.  If less people could suffer from this dreaded disease, so much the better.

Ticks with Lyme disease found in Paramount Ranch

Posted:   04/11/2013 07:01:25 PM PDT
Updated:   04/11/2013 07:03:58 PM PDT

 

Officials estimate approximately one or 2 percent of adult western black-legged ticks, pictured here, in the Santa Monica Mountains carry Lyme disease. (Photo courtesy of L.A. County West Vector & Vector-Borne Disease Control District)
I say it’s way higher, don’t be fooled!!

Ticks infected with Lyme disease have been found within some new areas of the Santa Monica Mountains, prompting state and local vector control offices to warn visitors to take precautions.

Three different pools of infected western black-legged ticks were found along the Coyote Trail within Paramount Ranch recently, one of three Santa Monica Mountains park sites that have come back positive for Lyme disease. The other two locations were Tapia Park and Malibu Creek State Park, both located within a short distance of one another, officials with the Los Angeles County West Vector and Vector-Borne Disease Control Districts said Thursday.

“We’re finding that about 1 or 2 percent of western black-legged ticks in the area carry the Lyme disease bacteria, so it’s important for us to identify where the problem is occurring,” said Robert Saviskas, executive director for vector control.

“This particular tick is most active from late November through May.”

Lyme disease is caused usually when a young, infected tick called a nymph bites into skin and transmits bacteria. The tick likes to attach on warm parts of the body, such as the groin, armpits or scalp areas of the body. Transmission can occur if the tick remains attached to the skin from 36 to 48 hours. The bacteria can cause flu-like symptoms, including headache, fatigue, and in about 60 percent of the cases a skin rash that looks like a bulls-eye. Most cases can

be treated with a few weeks of antibiotics, but if left untreated, Lyme disease can lead to long-term health problems.

Yeah, sure it can be treated with a few weeks of antibiotics.  Ask the people who’ve had Lyme disease for years.

Saviskas said this was the first year his agency tested ticks for Lyme disease at Paramount Ranch, which was among almost a dozen sites tested within the Santa Monica Mountains. The spot was chosen because it appears to attract many visitors. Lyme disease was first detected in the Santa Monica Mountains in 1998.

Lyme disease is most often found in the East Coast and Midwest and was first identified in Connecticut in 1975. That state often leads the nation in number of cases. But California sees fewer people infected with the disease. There were 79 confirmed and 13 probable cases statewide in 2011, the last year for which data were available. That’s a decrease from 2010, when there were 126 cases.

“We have not seen an increase in California in Lyme disease,” said Dr. Vicki Kramer, chief of the vector borne disease section for the state’s Department of Public Health. On average, 2 percent of adult western black legged ticks are infected, she said.

“We see the greatest risk in the northwestern areas of the state and the Sierra Nevada region, but the incidence is pretty low,” Kramer said.

A doctor in the area sees 2-4 NEW Lyme patients a day from this area.  That is low??

The only reason there is a significantly lower number of infected ticks is because of the western fence lizard, Saviskas said. The nymphs will feed on the lizard, which carry protein inside it that will kill the Lyme disease bacteria, Saviskas said.

“Without those western fence lizards the rates would be 25 percent higher,” Saviskas said. “They definitely keep transmission down.”

Evan Jones, chief ranger for the Santa Monica Mountains, said vector control’s findings provide a good reminder to visitors to stick to the trails and avoid vegetated areas, where ticks hide.

“Though Lyme disease can be very serious, simply following a few basic steps can greatly minimize exposure,” Jones said. He said hikers should check clothing and exposed skin before heading home. They also should wear light colored clothing with long pants.  For more information from vector control, call 310-915-7370.

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New Law in Virginia and Lyme Disease

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Camille

Posted April 11, 2013.  Good news, read below.  From Your4State.com

WINCHESTER, VA – Lyme Disease can be difficult to diagnose because often, tests come back negative, even if the patient has the illness.

In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as of 2011, “Lyme Disease is the sixth fastest growing disease in the United States.”

Virginia is the first state in the nation to require written disclosure of Lyme Disease tests for all patients.

“It’s an infection caused by a bacteria which is transmitted to humans by the tick,” says Dr. Charles Devine, Lord Fairfax Health Director.

For many, it can take more than a few tries at the doctor’s office to know they have it.

“I went over a decade without being diagnosed; I went from doctor to doctor to doctor. I was tested three times and each time that I was told that I was negative, that resulted in just dozen “go-see’s” and different specialists and no one could really figure out what was wrong with me,” says Attorney-At-Law, Susan Green.

It turns out testing early can produce false negative results, making patients think there is nothing wrong with them.

“The fact that the matter is that an early infection, the test can be up to 71 percent inaccurate and yield false negatives and positives but more often false negatives,” says Executive Director, Monte Skall of the National Capital Lyme Disease Association.

As for March 12th, Gov. Bob McDonnell signed a bill allowing all patients to receive disclosures advising them of the false negatives.

Each time a patient goes to their physician’s office for a lab testing, they will receive a paper letting them know they may receive negative results but it may not necessarily mean they do not have Lyme Disease.

Dr. Devine says this all depends on when your body reacts to the bite from the tick.

“If the blood test is ordered too early, the body may not have reacted enough to produce the evidence of infection that the test is looking for,” adds Devine.

With this bill soon to come into effect, patients will not have to wait decades and even years until they find out the bad news.

This new law will begin on July 1, 2013.

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New Law and Lyme disease and Lyme Symptoms

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