Lyme Documentary: Under Our Skin

[Amanda]

Highly recommend this documentary on Lyme Disease--basically shows the conspiracy between the insurance industry and medical establishment to deny the existence of chronic lyme. 

http://www.hulu.com/watch/268761

[Ognir]

hulu only works if you are in the US, don't work here in Europe

[Amanda]

Okay.  Looks like it's posted here http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/under-our-skin/  But I just tried to play it, and it looks like it's blocked in the US. Maybe it's also blocked in Europe?? Well, good comments anyway, like these:

Let's not forget. The pharmaceutical corporations and the health insurance industry have control over just about everything they want to. So, it should be no surprise that Pharma makes much More money by maintaining illnesses then curing them. And the health insurance industry also benefits by the millions and millions yearly by the IDSA sticking to the CDC rhetoric that Lyme disease is hard to catch and easy to cure vs. the truth of it. It's easy to catch, and so very very hard to cure. But while they have control, it will always be about their bottom line.

It's also infected fleas, spiders and horse flies. The docs in the US are told to ignore Lymes, and treat it like a mental problem, etc. It is a political issue because the govt. weaponized ticks w/ Borrelia. It's also a convenient depopulation move. Deny treatment, make money on antibiotics that won't kill parasites, define the rules, make doctors treating it an example by stripping them of their licensure, and use the CDC as a legitimate definer of test results. The waste or poop from Borrelia and it's co-infecting buddy parasites are neurotoxins which cause depression. Try chronic crippling pain that comes on overnight and 'stay positive' with bad healthcare.

Not sure if Lyme is a problem in Europe like it is here. But if you get it here in the US, you are basically on your own--you have to get on line, join forums, and get help from fellow citizens. Health care in the US is a complete joke.

[yankeedoodle]

Not sure if Lyme is a problem in Europe like it is here. But if you get it here in the US, you are basically on your own--you have to get on line, join forums, and get help from fellow citizens. Health care in the US is a complete joke.

It's in Britain.  Once heard British lady on radio talking about it, with the usual problems:  doctors don't know, don't care, don't understand, "you're crazy, you've got this, you've got that,"  etc. etc, etc.

[Ognir]

[yankeedoodle]

Message in Yankee Doodle Land:

This video contains content from Warner Bros. Entertainment, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.

Sorry about that.

[Idaho Kid]

Think I heard someone say that Cat's Claw works very well vs. Lyme.

http://www.herbwisdom.com/herb-cats-claw.html

[Amanda]

Yeah, Cat's Claw is important, but you need to use other herbs as well. My sister has Lyme and I have her on Buhner's protocol, which is mega-doses of Cat's Claw, Japanese Knotweed, Andrographis, and Sarsaparilla.  For anyone with Lyme, his books are highly recommended. Here's his site http://buhnerhealinglyme.com/ and books at amazon http://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Harrod-Buhner/e/B000APJOG6  Get Lyme in your central nervous system and it's pretty hellish, to say the least.

[yankeedoodle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuT7STb5lUs&feature=youtu.be

Ticks that carry Lyme disease now in 45% of US counties
https://www.rt.com/usa/329383-ticks-carry-lyme-disease-usa/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

Ticks that spread the deadly Lyme disease live in about half of all US counties, the Journal of Medical Entomology reports. The geographical reach of the bloodsucking arachnid parasites "has changed substantially" since the last study 18 years ago.

"This study shows that the distribution of Lyme disease vectors has changed substantially over the last nearly two decades and highlights areas where risk for human exposure to ticks has changed during that time," Dr. Rebecca Eisen, research biologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and lead researcher in the study, said in a press release.

Most of the expansion was from a common type of tick known as a deer tick, bear tick, or black-legged tick. In 1998, it inhabited about 30 percent of all counties, but now has extended its coverage to 45 percent of all counties. The actual number of counties the black-legged tick has been spotted in has doubled.

Cases of Lyme disease, which brings fever and headache and eventually can harm the heart, brain, and spine before causing death, have increased 320 percent in the northeastern United States where the black-legged tick has traveled.

Reforestation and an increasing deer population are the primary reasons given for the uptick, according to the Journal of Medical Entomology report. Other factors favoring tick expansion are warming climates and rain, though vast plains are effective bulwarks against further spread. The bug's bite is responsible for about 300,000 Lyme disease cases each year.

"A lot of people are seeing ticks where they didn't see them 20 years ago," Dr. Eisen told the Guardian. "The observed range expansion documented in our study highlights a need for continuing and enhancing vector surveillance efforts, particularly along the leading edges of range expansion. It's important to know which ticks are in your area or areas that you visit so that you can take steps to protect yourself."

Good practices for preventing Lyme disease include using repellents, keeping in the middle of hiking trails, and bathing or showering immediately upon coming indoors. Attached ticks can be removed by using tweezers to pull slowly upward on their head.

[yankeedoodle]

New Lyme disease bacteria discovered – US national health agency
https://www.rt.com/usa/331819-lyme-disease-new-bacteria/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

Scientists have found a new bacteria, Borrelia mayonii, that triggers Lyme disease in humans, according to CDC. Until now, Borrelia burgdorferi was the only species believed to cause Lyme disease in North America.

The bacteria is called Borrelia mayonii, and was found by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), along with the Mayo Clinic and health officials from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Dakota, the official statement said.

Researchers from Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, first suspected the chance a new strand of bacteria might exist after they had carried out lab tests on 9,000 people with Lyme disease, and six results were unusual, according to the study published in Lancet Infectious Diseases.

Previously, only one bacterium was known to trigger the disease in North America: B. Burgdorferi. The newly-discovered strand causes similar symptoms, but with several differences.

Both bacteria cause fever, headache, rash, and neck pain in the early stages of infection (days after exposure) and arthritis in later stages of infection (weeks after exposure).

Borrelia mayonii, however, adds nausea and vomiting to the picture, as well as triggers diffuse rashes (as compared with a single rash caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, the so-called bull's eye).

Plus, the findings suggest that Borrelia mayonii triggers higher concentration of bacteria in the blood, and it has only been found in the US upper Midwest.

"This discovery adds another important piece of information to the complex picture of tickborne diseases in the United States," Dr. Jeannine Petersen, microbiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in the press release.

There are some 300,000 cases of Lyme disease in the US yearly, CDC stated. It is transmitted via bites by the blacklegged 'deer' tick, and is rarely fatal: normally, the patients get well after a course of oral antibiotics.

The patients infected with the new bacteria could use the same antibiotics as those with Borrelia burgdorferi.

However, it's too early to tell if the newly-discovered bacterium is more or less dangerous than the earlier-known one, researchers said.

"We have fairly limited information in that our study described six patients. We need more patients in order to capture the full spectrum of those who might have less severe symptoms and those who might have more severe ones," Petersen told Reuters.