Can you starve Lyme just by not eating any carbohydrates for a long period of time?

No. Lyme is a bacteria. Ketogenic diets are helpful for a lot of conditions but they can not be starved out of your body.

Hi Alex- Spirochetes are bacteria, but they do share some of the same characteristics with parasites and protozoa and are often confused. Also, most of the coinfections are bacterial, however, some like anaplasmosis is parasitic.

The general consensus with most of the LLMDs Ive talked to is that starving is not useful and can actually make your recovery worse. The buggers are adept and will simply resort to stealing the nutrients they need in your blood before they reach your body.

AH. This issue.

I did keto for a while, and very low carb for over a year.

While I cannot say if it helped or not, I know I felt 100X better once I added carbs.

I always did research. But really, whatever you want to believe can be validated by googling it. There is information to back up every claim. So I was really into the candida diets, keto diets, and high fat diets since fats are precursors to hormones (something I was trying to balance).

But while VLC my thyroid became hypothyroid, which meant my metabolism slowed, which meant I was not feeding my cells the nutrients it needed to make all my body processes function and remain sturdy.

I realized that I would rather feed a bit of bacteria in order to have a robust immune system and balanced hormones. My goal was to be a fighter, and not rely on anti-microbials and absurd diets my whole life.

I was not "Lyme free" when I initially added carbs back. But at the moment my Lyme tests (Microscopy and Ignenix) are negative. I eat at least 200 carbs a day (I am a 5"4, 120 pound 25 year old chick) and just to ease my mind about all the fear around carbs I weight-train and rock-climb (among other activities) so that the glucose in my blood gets sucked up into my muscles.

The way I see it is, weight training produces ATP, builds mitochondria, strengthens muscles, and supports a high carb diet that makes thyroid function better. This, I fell, has aided me far more than my low carb diet and 50 pills a day.

By the way, just to paint a picture of my health, I couldn't walk, talk, or think clearly about three years ago. I felt hopeless. It's hard to believe I am the same person.

In conclusion, listen to your body. A little experimentation, an open mind and a lot of patience and go a long way.

If you are interested, this is an article on the controversy of Lyme diets. http://itsnotjustlyme.com/best-diet-lyme-disease/

im a strict palio lyme diet no sugar, carbs, diary, alcohol , only fruits veggies and certain meats for protein alot of LLMD besides mine say DIET is so important

For me, diet just helps give my body that fighting chance to get rid of these infections.

what I needed was a treatment to get rid of all harmful microbes and lower the huge bacterial load I had.... That's the most important part.
Get rid of the infections while building up the body!

So, the right treatment+diet+spiritual healing+lower stress=new healthy body....