Any ideas on not feeding the bugs?

Any smart tricks on not feeding borrelia? Starve them without starting self?
What do they eat, sugers? How can we block their food?



Thanks

I would not recommend doing this, it won't work.

But to answer your question, it includes several types of carbs, iron, manganese (if iron is not available), collagen...

Here's a good article:

https://www.tiredoflyme.com/lyme-disease-can-use-manganese-in-lieu-of-iron-to-survive.html
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Should I Starve Myself Of Manganese?

No. While the idea alone to deprive an invading organism of a single chemical element it needs to thrive makes great sense, the problem arise when that specific element is vitally shared by the host to maintain a properly functioning body as well.
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A person will begin to feel the effects of a manganese deficiency long before, if ever, the bacteria for Lyme Disease does. Consider that need is relative to size, in that the amount of manganese a person possesses, even in deficiency, will provide enough manganese for a least a small portion of the total bacteria load to survive. The Lyme bacteria will continue to find appropriate manganese amounts in the body, even when deficiency symptoms have manifested in the human body.
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Also check out:

https://academic.oup.com/femsle/article/243/1/173/434844

some people with Lyme and Co find quite dramatic benefit from ketogenic diets

my partner went from unable to work and more or less housebound, bloating, pain fatigue etc with lyme and bart to going for 2mile runs within a couple of weeks of changing to fully ketogenic eating

was pretty incredible to watch - i had not wanted to change - but after seeing that i could not avoid it
i did not have quite the same dramatic response - but i would say around 50% improvement in body pain, fatigue and gut symptoms over the next 1 month or so -

so it was about the most useful thing i have done in terms of impact - at least as much as 3months of doxycycline, azithromycin and rifampicin - and i think its helped me to continue on an upward path from that point on.

feeling worse is pretty common in the first few weeks

takes the body a while to adjust to making ketones and running on them

for some people its easier than others - but i agree there does seem to be a subset of people for whom it doesn't really seem to work well - or perhaps more accurately - some people who work better on a higher carb intake than others.

some - like me can be in ketosis with 30-40g of carbs a day
for others they need to get under 20g a day to get there ( my fiancé was like that )
some need 100g plus to feel healthy and don't seem to do well long term with ketosis.

but i also think so many people out there tell themselves they cannot do keto for all sorts of reasons
( i am not pointing at you here - just a general observation)
because "its just wrong for them", "its too expensive", "i will loose weight" or they "just cant deal with life without bread" and many other similar statements of why its just not possible for them.

i think what's really happening is these people are quite attached to how they eat now and don't want to have to change and are using these justifications to avoid doing so.

i was doing something similar - had eaten high carbs sports nutrition type diet all my life. I had read about keto diets and it just seemed to drastic to me and i think i was somehow hoping it wasn't true that it would help - and therefore i wouldn't have to change...

once my partner did it and i saw the benefits right in front of me i could no longer hold onto those wishful thinking type beliefs - it helped - so i had to change.

we are indeed all different - and i don't mean to berate anyone who hasn't chosen this particular path - i just wanted to highlight that you never know unless you try it - and our human minds play all sorts of tricks on us to stay with what they are comfortable with - and that "stickiness" of habits and thinking can sometimes get in the way of things that can really help some people.