Posted 6/27/2014 6:00 PM (GMT 0)
Cytokines are inflammatory markers made by your immune system to flag things either bacteria, viruses, cancer cells, parasites, or fungus that should be brought to the immune systems attention.
The are relevant to Lyme disease because your body makes way too many, it becomes cytokine overload and this alone causes many symptoms and makes you sick. Cytokine overload also makes your hypothalamus to become unregulated and off balance, so it stops working. If the hypothalamus stops working correctly, so does the pituitary gland so your whole hormone system becomes unbalanced.
Also excessive cytokines blind the immune system. So even if there is an infection, these cytokine markers are everywhere so the immune system gets confused and doesn't know what to do.
Bb does something unique, it shoots off blebs as it moves around and spirals in the body. All these blebs are like decoys and initiates cytokine markers to go everywhere. So the immune system wants to attack all these blebs as well.
Bartonella also excretes chemicals that cause the release of lots of cytokines, so when you have Borrelia and Bartonella together, it is like a massive cytokine storm. Your whole body just feels like it is on fire. I know all about it and lived through it! Terrible.
Anyways, to get rid of these infections and get well, you have to address this cytokine storm. You can do things like take Curcumin or Meriva-500, this one is excellent in suppressing cytokines. You can also take Japanese Knotweed which has different kinds of resveratrol in it.
Relieving these cytokine storms will help your immune system focus on what it needs to do, make less inflammation in your body, allow you to sleep better (sleep is critical to getting well), and make you feel better overall.