Lyme and diet pop

Ok, I just came across a few articles indicating that aspartame in diet pop can lock these little Lyme buggers in our bodies and can even spark lyme episodes. Is this true?????? I become more annoyed with this disease every day. ):

Pissed over pop,
northlover

Hi North Lover,

I don't drink diet soda, but I did try it a couple times thinking it would be better than regular soda. I definitely had side effects from it, and it had to have been the aspartame.

I know that sugar is no good for those of us with Lyme, but if I'm going to have sugar, I make sure it's either regular sugar or sugar in the raw. I wasn't able to tolerate the taste of Stevia, although I know a lot of people with Lyme who use that as a sugar alternative.

Hi Northlover,

Please don't drink any soda, yes, easier said then done.  The reason is any type of soda, diet, non-diet, etc. makes one's body very acidic which is not healthy.  Lyme bacteria's love an acidic body compared to an alkaline body. 

I used to be a Diet 7-Up Addict and slowly switched over to filtered water.  I add all sorts of things to my water, fresh lemon juice, or a packet of Vitamin C.

Every morning I make my Immune Boosting Drink that consists of filtered water and Green Vibrance with some DE mixed in. 

If you are up to it, you can make smoothies using blueberries, strawberries, etc.  I used to use a juicer (carrots, celery, apples, etc.) but after finding the Green Vibrance I stopped juicing.

Hope this helps,

Denise

I just hope it passes soon Cait!  U know the routine.  Keep flushin' it out!!  We've all made these kinds of decisions and grown. 

sweet drinks of any kind...major NO NO!!

on lemon water for years......you'll just be feeding the yeast beast and a some point you'll get neurological issues thinking it's lyme when in fact you've got a major systemic yeast infection.

happenned to me....and still does.

I jumped off sweet drinks and started drinking espresso another bad move as i found out the hard way that coffee will kill up to 75% of the good gut flora in one shot of the stuff. Got neurological symptoms after hitting the coffee hard for a week and couldn't figure out why it was happenning. Thought it was lyme...jumped on Jernigans yeast ease..and viola..symptoms gone.