Andrew D. (NYC) on 08/10/2019

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

Replied By Art (California) on 07/04/2022

Beth,

I think silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) might be gentler to your body and in studies it has shown benefit for breast cancer as well as synergy with chemotherapy. AgNPs can also have sensitizing effects for radiotherapy.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8777983/

Here are some relevant quotes from the study :

>>> ' The idea to use AgNPs as radiosensitizers came along with the phenomenon that metals with high atomic numbers are capable of enhancing the effects of radiation. ' <<<

>>> ' Even though AgNPs have a remarkable anti-cancer effect alone in vitro and in vivo, the most realistic therapeutic use of such nanoparticles might be their application as combinational partners with other anti-cancer agents upon chemotherapy or as auxiliary to other oncotherapeutic modalities. ' <<<

>>> ' Based on numerous publications in recent years, it seems obvious that nanoparticle-based treatment of various tumors is regarded as a novel, attractive strategy to improve cancer therapy. These materials, such as AgNPs, can accumulate in the tumor tissues, interact with the different cancerous and stromal cells in this microenvironment, get internalized into the cells, where they activate a number of signaling pathways, and trigger mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress, autophagy, ER stress, and various ways of cell death. Apart from a direct anti-cancer activity, AgNPs might serve as delivery platforms of various cytotoxic drugs or enhance the anti-cancer performance of combinational partners upon chemo- or radiotherapy. ' <<<

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33486577/

It seems at least worthy of discussing AgNPs with your oncologist.

Art

Replied By Art (California) on 07/04/2022

Beth,

I forgot to include the link explaining why silver nanoparticles for tick bites. Here is that link :

https://www.scielo.br/j/jbchs/a/vyMjkwctSSvrKBvxFzjS9mb/?lang=en

Here is a relevant quote that shows that silver nanoparticles are more effective than silver chloride nanoparticles when it comes to ticks and their bites :

>>> ' In conclusion, Ag⁰ and AgCl nanoparticles are efficient anti-tick agents, however, their activities depend on the source of production of nanoparticles and from their morphologies. Due to this factor, AgCl in its spherical morphology exhibited less activity than spherical Ag⁰. ' <<<

Here is another quote of importance :

>>> ' Burgdorfer, ⁵² who is well known researcher in Lyme diseases, tested in vitro proteinate silver (colloidal silver or Argyrol) up to 1500 ppm (1.5 mg mL^-1) on bacteria that cause Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes).^{53, 54} These bacteria disappeared in less than five minutes and twenty-four hours later, none of the crops treated contained any living spirochetes. Similar results were observed with another bacterium, such as Borrelia hermsii (HS-1), the agent of relapsing fever.

' <<<

Art

Replied By Lucy (USA) on 07/07/2022

I live near the woods and have had many tick bites over the years. The site usually forms a large itchy knot that takes a few months to go away. I got a new tick bite last week and it began to form a knot in a few days, as usual, but this time I applied turpentine topically and it began to recede and did not itch again. You can barely see where the bite was now.

Think long and hard before taking any antibiotics, as they can wreck your gut, as well as cause other health problems, not to mention what antibiotics do to your immunity.

You might even consider taking pure gum spirits of turpentine for your other health issue.