Medical medium diet is helping me

Shasta mentioned - "I was not someone spiritual before lyme.
During lyme, my life changed: extreme weakness and disease made me open to the plant world, for example."

Nothing spiritual with plants, except maybe with the 60's hippie natural living movement (ha ha) or ....indigenous peoples of the past and today.

Ive been lyme symptom free for four years now, and I contribute that to healthy living. Ive done many natural diet versions, but as I mentioned earlier, I categorized foods (many by testing) into safe, neutral or offensive for my blood type and what current infection was going on.

Having experienced candida many times and proved with blood tests, there were fruits I needed to avoid. Why? Because as you know , there are some foods that peoples specific array of enzymes just will not be completely digested (like sugars). Whats left is consumed by gut flora, some good, some bad (candida). When candida cleared, I could consume those again but at low controllable levels.

Safe potatoes for myself are North American sweet potatoes, not white or baked russet types - slight difference.

So although I am delighted to hear of someone getting better health per diet- we note to note to others (and I always did) that its trial and error per individual regardless of how it works for us.

Newbies here always ask whats the best diet?- what I say -try them all and figure it out. Not what they what they hear.

As far as celery goes, I found it interesting that this increases stomach acid. As a long term test I am taking supplement HCL as its more direct and easier than celery joiuce. Many past Drs have mentioned overall health increases from HCL supplementation.

If we all have EBV , I would think some test out there would be advanced enough to find it (?). Dont know.


Whatever diet works for one person may or may not work for another -good to get ideas / options out there though.

Post Edited (astroman) : 2/20/2020 10:20:38 AM (GMT-7)

Interesting topic. My thoughts on dietary intake have been well noted on this forum but I'll extrapolate a little for this thread. Most people consider Borrelia burgdorferi the main etiological agent in Lyme Disease but in my opinion, it is just a contributing factor. The same may be said for Bartonella infections. If you look at our GI tract, in normal individuals, the pH is very low starting in the stomach and gradually increases as you travel downward. This is altered slightly in most Lyme patients as their GI pH is a little higher as a result of lower stomach acid. It is known that ammonia production is increased at higher pH levels, so less ammonia is produced at a pH of 5 than a pH of 7. This is important when considering the entire picture of Lyme pathology. Most physicians do not consider what pathogens we acquire from tick bites. We focus on Borrelia, or ehrlichia, or some other well known vector borne pathogen. Most people do not know that in addition to Borrelia, we often acquire various streptococcal strains from tick bites. This is very important since the virulence of these bacteria are directly associated with glutamine levels. Some streptococcal strains will not even grow unless animal protein is associated in their growth medium. Streptococcal growth is important because they can directly affect our glutamine and glutamate levels. Glutamine is the amino acid that is responsible for transferring nitrogen between the tissues. It also regulates protein synthesis, is a substrate for renal ammonia production, a precursor for nucleic acid biosynthesis, and a key fuel for intestinal mucosa. So if we get Borrelia and a streptococcus strain that thrives from animal protein ingestion, our pH will rise and our GI flora will be adversely affected from the change in glutamine and the increase in ammonia. Streptococcus actually produces modest amounts of ammonia and that pH change is what can contribute to SIBO. There's much more to it than this but I don't have a lot of time this morning. Good thread, eat appropriately.

Post Edited (Georgia Hunter) : 2/21/2020 3:47:19 AM (GMT-7)

My personal "cliff notes" simple summary for lyme brains:

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PH scale for newbies:

Acidic starts at 1 or so, then goes up to neutral at about 7, then keeps going more alkaline to 10 or so. There are extremes, but you might not be living anymore.

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There are different levels / reasons of "eating healthy". In the case of strep , it would be a band-aid, not addressing the real root cause. If strep eats protien, and protien elimination helps, OK, but would it overcome/ eradicate the strep forever?

This is why I dont care for Williams approach so far. He just tell you to do things (he heard from a spirit) without explaining what the reason is. If this guy were straight forward, he'd come across as more intelligent and get more respect. Some people like to know details and not go for the smoke and mirrors approach.

As for the celery consumption, - the reason it might helps is it supposedly increases stomach acid. -( a lower stomach PH number)

Staph lives in a wide PH range (4-10). (if fed well)

I think its hard to get gut PH below 4, thats pretty acidic and maybe not safe?. Celery will not accomplish this.

I Have not looked up EBV preferred Ph

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Also- bugs aside. We make less stomach acid as we age;

-Low thyroid T3 also contributes to less acid production.

Less acid leads to Improper digestion which is even better for "bad bugs".

Post Edited (astroman) : 2/21/2020 6:55:52 AM (GMT-7)

Same as Georgia here.
Whatever heals, that's what matters.
Coming from an alien? From a plant talking to me? From creatures in my dreams?
I don't mind: if it heals, why not?

Who said I was going to get these results, BEFORE I tried the diet?
No one.
I sincerely did not even think that my Raynauds + systemic sclerosis + chilblains + permanent hand and feet discoloration would EVER heal.
But the fact is: they are healing.

I wanted just to get rid of my food allergies and stop losing weight: I got that after 4 months in the diet!!!!
So I went on, as my arthritis stopped progressing. Now, this improvement with Raynauds!!

Do I stop eating this way, because there is lack of scientific studies?
No way!

Scientific studies cannot do much for chronic diseases, can they?
What can they do to reverse Systemic sclerosis?

The only thing they can do for SS is to tell the patient: "you got 10 years of life. Prepare for death!"
Same as ALS: "you got 2 years of life". Even if it's not necessarily true.
That's the answer clever science has for us.

I’m science driven and like to know the why’s of things. That’s part of the reason I’m still here. Learning how the body works is interesting and obviously useful.

Plus you can’t just believe what your told in this world. That’s being gullible. And the world loves to take advantage of gullible people as it does every second.
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Science gets a bad wrap sometimes- but without it we would still be cave dwellers.

Post Edited (astroman) : 2/21/2020 10:14:23 AM (GMT-7)

Manuka honey in particular is used for candida despite the natural sugar.

Not all drs know this and only look at the sugar content.

Georgia, that's interesting.... That's what dr K said: parasites harbor toxins in their bodies.
When they die, they pour them in the host....

There's also the poop and pee of pathogens (both Dr. K and Anthony speak in these terms), that's also toxic. But not so much. Then die off garbage, also toxic, but not AS toxic as the increased neurotoxin created ON PURPOSE by pathogens.

I remember having read about neurotoxins used as weapons by Bb and other pathogens in the past - maybe Dr K showed some papers?

The interesting thing with Anthony is the way he quantifies things, because all he writes does NOT come from science, from the internet, from papers. He INSISTS that everything he writes does not come from human research, but simply, he writes what Spirt tells him to.

So he quantifies that neurotoxin weapon this way I explained you above. It means that, no, these critters do not PROTECT us from toxins, in the sense that they produce MORE toxic garbage, to weaken our immune system.
I'm pretty sure dr Klinghardt also talked about that: these neurotoxins produced by pathogens are a weapon to diminish our immune systems.

It's different from the toxins harbored by their bodies, coming from die off, which is less harmful that these 'neurotoxic bio-weapons'.

He said that the aim of certain pathogens such as EBV is clear: it will start slow, barely creating symptoms, grow slowly here and there, and when it reaches certain numbers, it will launch an attack.
That's when people fall ill with mononucleosis, and doctors find values in the blood, he said.

Once the episode of active mono dies down, the pathogens in fact, won: they already conquered organs such as liver, spleen, for example. The 'mono' phase served that purpose, in fact....
The dr thinks the patient healed, but it's just EBV going deeper in the body's systems.
They won't find any blood values anymore, because EBV is not anymore in the blood, but already deeper in the organs.

It will grow slowly in the organs, aiming then the thyroid and other glands (sexual glands too), in order to control body functions. You know, lower body temperature, lower immunity, mess up with sleep patterns, etc...

Dr. Klinghardt always spoke about pathogens being extremely patient, waiting to attack glands to control our bodies: Anthony speaks about that too.

Once it reached the thyroid and other glands, it may create thyroid symptoms, hormonal imbalances, etc.
It could take decades for that to happen. Or years.

But the critter is still not happy.
It'll wait for an opportunity (low immunity, stress, accident, another infection) to go further to reach its final aim: the nervous system!
That's where it feels like a king, because from there, it can control everything.

When I read about it, it felt so much like the way I imagined lyme invading our bodies...
Anthony says that most herpes family viruses love the nervous system.
They cannot attack it immediately because we do have good body defenses.
But they are extremely patient, and grow slowly with the years, decades even, and they will eventually attack the nerves if they can.
It depends on the immune system of the victim, the amount of toxins present, the strain of virus or other coinfections (parallel infections that help these herpes viruses to develop)...

I found all that so similar to the way I thought about lyme...
Anyway...

I found a podcast explaining about the liver, as the culprit of our digestive problems.
It speaks of pathogens living in the liver, and why we need low fat, low protein diets.

If you'd like to listen:
https://www.medicalmedium.com/blog/healing-bloating

Post Edited (Shasta) : 2/21/2020 12:44:11 PM (GMT-7)