I read about
150 pages of this book, and my lord. I'm not sure what to think. Some of it is extremely interesting and should be a wake-up call to the medical community that lyme can persist and needs to be taken seriously. And some of it just reads like a zealot who sees lyme under every rock.
The basic premise of the book is that infection is behind every autoimmune and chronic disease that exists. He implies that we should be treating RA, MS, ALS with antibiotics. The rationale is shaky too. Its basically...”well lyme mimics MS, so MS must be caused by lyme. Hey look this one study over here showed that patients w/ RA marginally improved with antibiotics, so lyme must cause RA.”
The real topper was when he explained away the fact that the LYMErix vaccine doesnt contain a live bacteria, yet it was causing symptoms (autoimmunity), with...well they must have had lyme already!
Contrary to what he contends, I’ve spent enough time in the autoimmune world to know that lyme is always considered...they are chalk full of people who have chased the lyme/infection/antibiotic angle for years to nothing but frustration.
He would have been more successful if he had tried to draw attention to lyme by shining the light on some powerful patients plights mixed with science, rather than the tack he did take, which was to paint it as the single unifying cause underlying every disease known to man. I havent gotten to the treatments section, but skimming though it it seems pretty thin, focusing on antibiotics, with a token outline of some supplements and alternative approaches. Horowitz' Why Cant I Get Better, with his
open-minded MSIDs approach, blows this book away.
All of that being said, it was a fun and interesting read. The anecdotal case reports I always enjoy, and he did have a few interesting takes I hadnt heard before.
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