Changes are happening!

Anybody that reads my posts knows that I favor the non-conventional approach to healing! On the other hand, I will always give credit where credit is due. I am a student of trends. I am seeing more and more reports that LLMD's are increasingly thinking outside of the box when it comes to their approach to healing. I just came across a post on another forum that I wanted to share on our forum. Dr. H. from New York recently had a 2 hr. webenar in which he gave a lot of good information. I have been following him for years, and he is becoming ever more bold in revealing "alternative" strategies that he is using.

He is a famous LLMD, and is in a position where he can mentor and positively influence many other M.D.'s who are more limited to the paradigm of their medical training. He specifically talks about things such as biomats, colon cleanses, parasites, leaky gut, heavy metals and other toxins, psychological disorders, autonomic nervous system dysfunction,etc. These concepts are increasingly infiltrating mainstream medicine to the benefit of sick Lyme patients. I am just reporting on the trending that I am witnessing over the last 4.5 years.

The person that took these notes from the webenar is JanisRN from another forum. Here is her post:


I was fortunate to be able to listen to a web-nar last night with Dr. R.H. from New York. Don't know if you all know him but he is an expert and pioneer in treating lyme and is brilliant. Sorry this is long.

He talked really fast and it was very scientific because it was a web-nar with health professionals but I was able to get a few notes down for everyone. By the way, he has written a new book called "Why Can't I get Better, Solving the Mystery of Lyme & Chronic Disease. It is due out this September.

He said that there are at least 100 strains of BB in the U.S. and important to have lyme testing at IgeneX because Lab Corp and others don't test for all of the strains. Also the new culture at Advanced Laboratories. The culture has a 94% sensitivity for BB.

The following bands indicate exposure to Lyme disease but not necessarily active disease. 23, 31, 34, 39, 83-93.

Antibotics alone do not completely erradicate Lyme, can get better but almost always relapses. Need integretative therapy.

Glutathione is crucial and also DIM and Magnesium - all help with DETOX issues.

GSE is good alternative for cystic forms.

NEEM is a natural germ fighter. Olive Leaf Extract. Colostrum has Transfer Factors and also Researched Nutritionals has Transfer Factors specific for lyme and other TF's for the other infections like CMV, Herpes, etc.

Oregano Oil and Pau D'ARCO

OptiCleanse from Xymogen for Leaky Gut and Food Allergies.

EFT and Meditation for Psychological issues.

High protein diet with alot of cruciferous vegetables. Avoid diary, wheat, sugar for most people.

Paleo Diet for sugar & gluten sensitivity.

Crucial to get inflammation down. Curcurmin (Tumeric) helps. I personally use the Organic India Tumeric and my CRP is normal for the first time ever.

Far Infrared, colon cleanses are imperative for detoxification. The sit in type saunas only penetrate 1-2 inches into the body plus they are emitting harmful EMF's, the biomat penetrates 6-9 inches into the body and has a chip to block the EMF's. Remember not to buy through e-bay, amazon, etc. as they are selling on there illegally which could cause the customer warranty or other issues. PM me if you want to know more about the biomat.

Any young man with low testerone - always think lyme disease.

For Sleep issues - need a sleep study. 5HTP, Valerian Root, GABA-L-theanine, Relax Max from Xymogen can help. Relax Max with Inistisol can also help with OCD and biopolar.

Key issues to address is inflammation, food allergies and sleep in order to get well.

He is calling chronic illness MSIDS - Multiple Systemic Infectious Disease Syndrome. Lyme MSIDS and non-Lyme MSIDS. This syndrome really affects our hormones.

He identities these factors in MSIDS

1. Infections - Bacterial - Lyme, Ehrilichiosis, Bartonella, Mycoplasma, Chlamydia, Q-Fever, Tick Paralysis, RMS F, Typhus, Tularemia.

Viral - EBV, HHV-6, CMV, West Nile, Heartland v Powassan, encephalitis, & other viral encephalopathies. Candia & other fungi.

2. Parasites - Babesiosis & other piroplasms, filariasis, amebasis, giardiasis

3. Immune Dysfunction - ANA+, Rheumatoid Factor+, increased HLA DR-4

4. Inflammation - Increased IL-1, IL-6, TNFx equals "Sickness Syndrome"

5. Toxicity - MCS, Environmental Illness, Heavy Metals, Mold, Neurotoxins

6. Allergies - foods, drugs, environmental

7. Nutritional Enzyme Deficiencies - abnormalities in biochemical pathways. deficiencies in magnesium, zinc, iodine

8. Mitochondrial dysfunction - fatigue 1/3 of lyme patients have this dysfunction.

9. Psychological Disorders

10. Neurological dysfunction

11. Endocrine Disorders

12. Sleep Disorders - hallmark of Lyme (cyokines)

13. Autonomic Nervous System dysfunction +/-POTS (low B/P, palpatations)

14. GI Disorders - Celiac, Leaky Gut, Parasites, Gluten Sensitivity

15. Elevated LFT's - Babesia, Lyme, Wilson's

16.Pain Syndromes - Lyme mimics every pain syndrome

17. Deconditioning - need physical therapy

All I can say is this is amazing.

THANK YOU!!!!! Very helpful!

This is great! More LLMD's getting the whole picture!

I have had all or most of this addressed by my natural docs, as I scanned your list. Glad this approach is becoming a little more mainstream!

**thanks Don**

Thank you Don!! I've heard great things about the Bio-mat.

Thank you so much for sharing this info Don. I was looking into buying a FIR sauna, but I will now look into the biomats. If I had bought the sauna first and read this post after I would have been so disappointed feeling like I invested in the wrong thing.

Thanks for sparing me the anxiety!

Everyone- thanks for all of the kind comments.

Shabbychic- Hopefully I didn't open up a can of worms concerning Dr. H's comments about the FIR saunas. He referred to the "sit in type saunas", but I am not sure whether he was only referring to some of the less expensive portable FIR saunas or all FIR saunas. I think that it is true that FIR saunas infrared radiation only penetrate 1-2 inches.

I haven't asked him personally, but I read an article from Dr. J. where he states that the FIR sauna should be at the top of the list for a lyme patient for home use. (I am paraphrasing).

We have a biomat and we love it. At the time, the only reason that we purchased a biomat rather than a FIR sauna was because the biomat was less than half of the FIR sauna that I was interested in. I wanted a $3000 FIR sauna. Also, my wife resisted because she didn't know where we would put the FIR sauna.

I don't know whether anything that I have just said clarifies or muddies the waters.

Don

On the other hand,

Thank you, Don!!! :)

This is great. I'm really excited about the book.

Thank you for posting, Don!

opugirl,

The biomat is based on slightly somewhat different technology than a PEMF mat. The biomat is Amethyst crystal based with a fixed frequency. The only variable option is intensity. I quickly perused a PEMF mat website. i didn't see anything about crystals. I think that it is 100% electronically based, and has variable frequencies. I don't know anything at all about the PEMF mats, but they may be a very good option.

The specific biomat that i have is the Richway "Professional" model. Here is a link to that model. I have no financial interest in any way in that company, nor do I know a distributor. I think that we googled for Richway distributors, and that the one that we chose lives in Hawaii.

http://www.therichwaybiomat.com/bio-mat.html


Don

Hi Deejavu,

Yes, the biomat lives in a volcano on the big island! I love your sense of humor!

I have not been able to find any links to that webinar. Here is a link to another person that took notes from a Horrowitz webinar from 2008. There is some real good information here as well. Dr. Horrowitz talks about the HPA Axis as a problem area for many chronic lyme sufferers.

http://www.wellsphere.com/lyme-disease-article/addressing-the-three-i-s-of-illness-according-to-dr-horowitz/53230

Don

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