Nutritional Supplements Recommended by Dr. Burrascano

What a great site this is! It lists all the supplements we should be taking and what they do in the body. It also says that you can take 1cc of Methyl B-12 everyday for 3-6 months. It also states that you should see the red color in your urine. If not, then you either need more, or it is not as potent anymore(Just like Razzle said). I will have to let my doctor know.

Anyway, here is the link:

www.lymepa.org/Nutritional_Supplements.pdf

P.S.- It is in PDF format.

I printed out, too. Some of the things I was already taking and some I will add soon.

Just wondering about Vitamin D - one of my LD books - To 10 Lyme Disease treatments ( by B.Rosner, from amazon) makes a special point about the need to avoid all sources of Vitamin D. I guess this is controversial, can't really understand.


thx for the link

bembuks - why do they say to avoid vitamin D? Another thread here says vitamin D3 works as an antiinflammatory. Can't imagine how that would be bad.

Rose

In 25% of lymies have a pathway develops that converts vitamin D into an inflamatory agent.  There is a blood test to determine if you have this pathway, a good LLMD will run it for you.  Inflamation decreases the effectiveness of our immune system.  Those of us who have the vitamin D inflamation pathway, have a bad catch 22, we feel bad after taking vitamin D because some of it gets converted into inflamation and the inflammation blocks our immune system.  However, we still need to keep our vitamin D levels normal for biological function.  Therefore, we take Vitamin D if our blood levels are low but feel bad if we dose too high or get sunlight.  There is a group of people who have discovered that vitamin D makes them feel bad, those are the ones who suggest the no vitamin D diet.  Personally, I still take vitamin D even though I have the pathway because after over a year of low vitamin D I was getting bone pain (I think it was called rickets) but I eat an antiinflamatory diet (no sugar, caffine, milk, limited wheat, basically a lot of raw veggies) and hope for the best.

Hey CG,
about being okay? I guess that would depend on who you asked!! A lot of people think I'm pretty strange!! **wink, wink**
I know all about the sunshine thing - I burn so easily that I have trouble getting enough of it!!

But I have read so many well-known LLMD's & documented studies that suggest that some will have issues such as Cmacaran wrote.

I just think we do need to be really careful. Of course I say that as I get ready to start my own tx - but here again, due to circumstances I can't control, for me it's the only hope of getting decent tx.

I have absolutely NO desire to upset or offend anyone!!! That's why I made sure I put in that post IMHO!! Because that's all it is - my opinion.

And if you, as a Mod., believe that I may be 'speaking out of turn' so-to-speak, please let me know.

Hey CG!! =)
Naw, I'm not upset, just concerned. Way back when (giggle) when I was a newbie to both support groups & the realization I was battling LD, I took supplements & such that I'm sure at least agitated things like my thyroid, the inflammation & such.

I do worry a bit about newbies getting all excited to hear about something that helped one person, & wanting to get back to get back their life so badly that they are ready to try most anything.

I try to err on the side of caution myself, but can still find myself in the same situation from time to time, as well.

So no biggie here either - unless you want to count my headache!! =)

Thanks so much for this link! A huge help!