What are the best lyme books that I should read?

My girlfriends tests indicate bart, babesiosis, borellia, and Trichothecene toxins.
What are some must read books for getting better?
Are there any quaks that I should stay away from?
She seems to be very sensitive to all treatments we've tried thus far.
She recently took Fluconazol for a recently diagnosed yeast infection and had a steroid shot (which we should never have done) and is now in utter agony.

I have read and own:

How Can I Get Better?: An Action Plan for Treating Resistant Lyme & Chronic Disease by Richard Horwitz

Chronic by Steven Phillips

Toxic by Neil Nathan

Two Stephen Buhner books: His Lyme centric Book and his Bartonella centric book

Unlocking Lyme by Bill Rawls

In my opinion, Dr. Horowitz has the best grasp on Lyme and all it's confounding factors. He calls it MSIDS (Multiple Systemic Infectious Disease syndrome). He employs a 16 point diagnostic "map" he believes he needs to address with patients to address all factors. This includes things like Lyme and co-infections, Immune dysfunction, mitochondria, enviromental toxins, ANS dysfunction, GI disorders, among others. In my view, I think this is the best book written on the topic. The information is vast and incredibly informative. The one big downside I see in Horowitz is that he treats really aggressively which might not be suitable for everyone if you were actually considering his clinic. Additionally, in my opinion, he can seem a bit performative and over-the-top at times. Like a promoter. It's tough for me to gauge if he is just really passionate or is selling himself hard at times. I suspect he has over-exaggerated successes of his ideas in the past. However, I can't deny he has a brilliant understanding of this syndrome. This is the best book on Lyme that I am aware of.

Stephen Buhner's books are also informative. Just know his prescriptions are going to focus on herbal therapy.

Chronic by Steven Phillips probably would have been a great book if I was a newcomer, however, I bought it last year and it didn't have much information that I hadn't already read about.

Toxic by Neil Nathan is also a good book. A lot of people who are really sensitive to everything like going with his philosophy. Instead of a bombardment like Horowitz employs Nathan's strategy seems to be much gentler building up intensity over time. He seems to look at Bartonella as a major player. Compared to popular renowned LLMDS he def subscribes to more esoteric ideas. Nathan will focus on factors such as mold, MCAS, porphyria. He likes ideas for rebooting the nervous system that you prob wouldn't be exposed to at top LLMDs offices.He talks about ideas such as UV light, silver, ozone, HBOT, etc. That's not to say Dr. Nathan's book is witch-craft woowoo. There are some sections, graphs, and charts that are highly technical and scientific. Just know his approach is likely going to be different than your standard ILADs LLMD's approach. That's neither good nor bad. It just is.

Unlocking Lyme by Bill Rawls is one of my favorite books. The reason why is because he suffered from chronic Lyme and worked his way back to wellness. His treatment prescriptions are nothing special. Mostly he uses the Buhner protocol with a few adjustments. Of course he sells his own herbal protocol and it's not cheap, but hey, he was a practicing OBGYN and lost that due to illness. I can't blame the guy for trying to make a buck after illness forced him out of his profession. On top of that I don't think his herbal protocol is bad one. It looks pretty good. I've read some complaints that some don't think it's strong enough dosage wise but it's hard to hit the bullseye in a disease where experiences vary wildly. Because of his experience with the disease I LOVE his book. Not for the herbal recommendation part, but for the tips and tricks. He has lived it and has lots of interesting ideas about managing your illness. I refer back to this book often.

As a lot of great books already are posted I want to add that the most important thing for me has been good habits around lifestyle factors over time.
https://www.amazon.com/atomic-habits-proven-build-break/dp/0735211299

I would also recommend books around sleep but I don't have any single good recommendation there. I read 6 books about sleep and prefer some podcasts from huberman lab around sleep as they are more updated and takes less time.

Cold therapy is also something I have found very helpful
https://www.amazon.com/what-doesnt-kill-environmental-conditioning/dp/1623366909

Post Edited (Deep_sleep) : 3/2/2023 12:36:48 AM (GMT-8)

Definitely recommend Unlocking Lyme by Dr. Rawls. It’s been super helpful and is very clear!

Do any of these books have useful information for somebody that’s been a veteran In the line online lyme community for years?

I assume near everything that’s good to know has been mentioned in bits and pieces throughout the web and on this forum over the years. If I’m missing anything, I’d be interesting to read about , One page at a time though lol.
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Post Edited (astroman) : 3/4/2023 11:58:20 AM (GMT-8)

if one gets the technical data in buhners myco bart specific books then going down the collegiate pathology text rabbit hole one may find "protoplasts and l-form bacteria " by guzman helpful . if one is more into a personal perspective the book "bitten" is a good warmup

astroman said...
Do any of these books have useful information for somebody that’s been a veteran In the line online lyme community for years?

I assume near everything that’s good to know has been mentioned in bits and pieces throughout the web and on this forum over the years. If I’m missing anything, I’d be interesting to read about , One page at a time though lol.
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In my opinion, Yes. Particularly Horowitz's, Buhner's, Rawl's and Neil Nathan's books have great information, even technical information, that you won't see online forums. Horowitz's most recent book has a specific clinical experience related to one of his MSIDS factor for every factor he covers that is really interesting and informative.

Dr. MR's free online guide is fairly in depth as well. Great resource.