Treating lyme, candida, and heavy metals at the same time?

It depends on what treatments you plan to use for each.

If you're trying to treat candida with an anti candida diet & probiotics but you're treating lyme with antibiotics your candida issue is going to be a lot harder to resolve, as antibiotics are a leading cause of candida overgrowth.

If you're mobilizing a ton of heavy metals and then dealing with lyme die off toxins on top of that it could absolutely overwhelm your body.

In my personal opinion and experience, I think getting your body as primed and as healthy as you possibly can before lyme treatment is the way to go. Get all cylinders firing so that when you attack those little buggers your body is a well oiled, toxin free machine ready to wage war with everything it's got!

Hi zowee -

I always find this a very challenging decision to make - what to treat first and what to treat simultaneously. Here is my recommendation from info I've researched and from what I experienced with my own treatment:

First, you're not going to make a whole lot of progress with the most perfect tx protocol if you're not absorbing nutrition, supplements and antimicrobials/fungals/virals, etc... due to leaky gut. Not only does this cause malabsorption but it weakens your immune system.

Secondly, it's not a good idea to start killing stuff w/out having an effective detox protocol in place. For people who are really sick and/or sensitive, figuring out how to detox and getting it started can also be risky - have to start slowly with one thing at a time.

Before I started any other form of treatment I tackled yeast/fungal overgrowth - and did this hard, with antifungal Rx and very strict diet. Once I was able to get the y/f load down, I worked for a couple of months to heal the gut. This took a very healing diet and other support. No other meds.

Once I made progress I started very slowly on a gentle chelator for heavy metals. It's extremely important to leach metals slowly and gently and to make sure your detox is the best it can be. Leaching metals too quickly for you to detox properly will release metals back into the system, eventually to get reabsorbed into your tissues.

When you can manage low doses of a chelator, then it's a good time to start on the antimicrobial tx for Lyme & Co. But with each of these tentacles of treatment, you might need to slowly titrate up to optimal doses. It's a slow ratcheting up of one health issue at a time, one detoxing component at a time.

Hope this is helpful -

-p

I'm currently working on a theory. I have the same concerns. My gut is not in great shape which means I'm probably not absorbing all these expensive supplements I'm taking. My LLMD has me hitting everything at once and my intuition is telling me it's too much.

My theory is that I want to heal my gut - in essence, get my immunity and my body's healing abilities up to snuff. I also have a high cadmium toxicity, which is currently on my mind and a major concern for my LLMD - but she doesn't know enough about it. I think if I heal the gut some, start working on the candida, and then start getting those heavy metals, I can start on the Lyme. I don't know what my lyme/bab/bart load is, but I herx really easy. I also don't want the lyme to get out of control while I work on everything else. It's feeling like a double edged sword, but I think the key is healing the gut.

Anyway, that's my theory.