"has dr r ever talked to you about
the importance of dietary restrictions? did he ever tell you that lyme and bartonella need to be considered as metabolic diseases, in that they proliferate in part from the foods we eat?"
What? Lyme and Bartonella are bacterial infections - they will survive in us for as long as we survive, unless we treat them. It's not a metabolic disease.
"Metabolic syndrome" is the name for a group of risk factors that raises your risk for heart disease and other health problems, such as diabetes and stroke.
The term "metabolic" refers to the biochemical processes involved in the body's normal functioning. Risk factors are traits, conditions, or habits that increase your chance of developing a disease."
www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/ms Now, granted, bacterial infections can most certainly cause heart issues and diabetes, and I know someone that just suffered a stroke from Lyme, it surely doesn't mean that Lyme and Bartonella are metabolic diseases. It means that bacterial infections can do the same things is all. Please do not use the wrong terms such as these as people begin to think that Lyme isn't a bacterial infection that needs treatment. They will believe that it is a condition to be managed - which it can't be. I lived with it for 40 years.
The dietary restrictions we have are to help us combat the bacteria, not to cure or correct Lyme and Bartonella. It would be like thinking that a person could cure pneumonia with diet alone. I consumed diary and gluten and still healed using abx herbs only. While avoiding those things may be helpful to some, believe they are forbidden is not correct either.
Sometimes a person needs to find a new doctor, but often times it's just a new protocol that's needed - they don't all work for everyone. Pharma abx almost killed me, but I've talked to a lot of people that have healed using only pharma abx. The herbal treatment I used - and it worked like a charm for me - doesn't work for most people, I'm finding out - which is why I rarely suggest it. Sometimes it's an asymptomatic infection that is stopping the progression of healing, or it can be gene mutations, or even another condition that can stop the progression of healing.
And we have to realize, once we reach a certain level of learning, the doc's simply can't compete. They don't have all day every day to spend reading and researching like we do. The practitioner that helped me heal was very, very gracious to not charge me extra for all the time she spent reading up on things so that she could treat me - and I am the one that took her most of the articles to read. She had other patients to care for, I had the time to look things up and find supporting articles.
And as Sarah said - many doctors won't put the word Lyme on their site for fear of drawing the wrong kind of attention.