Another article on Stevia use for Lyme Disease

Very interesting. Is there any difference between an extract and eating whole leaves? I grow Stevia to throw in my iced tea during the summer and would be happy to just gnaw on a handful of leaves.

This stuff: http://www.myherbs.net/nutramedix-stevia-sweet-herb/ ?

Just want to be clear before I buy it.

thanks for sharing the article. Unfortunately it's not a new study, but the same study by E. Sapi shared earlier.
www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=30&m=3535465

That ofc is still better than nothing, but we'd like to see some confirmatory tests in vivo and some trials, i mean Stevia is really easy to find, you don't need a prescription and an IV port to administer it.

What i am afraid is some of the active compounds in stevia may get disabled by the digestion process and/or will not reach the deep tissues where lyme spirochetes hide (like brain, joints, etc..).

And about the fact it's nutramedix stevia, that sounds a bit fishy. I thought the researchers were careful enough not to advertise that kind of information. There are 4 possible stevia extracts, that were listed in the study: Nutramedix, Now, Sweet leaf, and Truvia. Truvia only seems to have powder based Stevia and the article clearly says one of the tested products was in power form and it was found ineffective
/www.truvia.com/products

So that leaves: Nutramedix, Now, Sweet Leaf.
Both Now and Nutramedix have high quality alcohol based Stevia extracts, not sure about Sweet leaf, haven't heard of them.

original PDF of the full study can be found here
www.akademiai.com/doi/abs/10.1556/1886.2015.00031

Even if u don't guess what it is, if you look at their tests, 2 out of 3 extracts had very good activity against borrelia. Yes only one has fantastic activity, but the 2nd place is also very good (better than doxy for sure).

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