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Healing Lyme, natural healing of Lyme borreliosis and the coinfections chlamydia and spotted fever rickettsioses, Stephen Harrod Buhner ; foreword by Neil Nathan, M.D

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-509) and index

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Healing Lyme

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Stephen Harrod Buhner ; foreword by Neil Nathan, M.D

natural healing of Lyme borreliosis and the coinfections chlamydia and spotted fever rickettsioses

"Lyme disease infects a minimum of 300,000 people per year in the United States and millions more throughout the rest of the world. Symptoms run from mild lethargy to severe arthritis to heart disease to incapacitating mental dysfunction. Although tests have improved over the past decade, they are still not completely reliable, and antibiotics are only partially effective. Up to thirty-five percent of those infected will not respond to antibiotic treatment or will relapse. The spirochetes that cause Lyme are stealth pathogens--they can hide within cells or alter their form so that our immune systems cannot find them, as well as inhibit the effectiveness of antibiotics. Lyme disease is, in fact, a potent emerging epidemic disease for which technological medicine is only partially effective. The coinfections that accompany Lyme are often as, or more, incapacitating than Lyme itself. Worldwide, hundreds of millions experience infection with babesia, bartonella, ehrlichia, anaplasma, mycoplasma, chlamydia, and the spotted fever rickettsiosis. Healing Lyme examines the leading, scientific research on Lyme infection and its tests and treatments, and outlines the most potent natural medicines that offer help, either alone or in combination with antibiotics, for preventing and healing the disease. The book has been a bestseller for over a decade, and during that time the author has had contact with over 25,000 people who have used some form of these protocols during their healing journey. This edition has been significantly updated, fully revised, and expanded to reflect the increased understandings from that extensive contact, including depth-treatment experiences with hundreds during the past decade. Healing Lyme is the primary text in print on what Lyme bacteria do in the body and how natural approaches can heal the disease. It is the first book in print covering depth understanding and treatment of chlamydial and rickettsial coinfections. This new updated version of Healing Lyme joins the author's other two books on the treatment of Lyme coinfections (babesia, bartonella, mycoplasma, anaplasma, and ehrlichia) and completes his exhaustive work on these stealth pathogens."--Page 4 of cover

Foreword / Neil Nathan -- Introduction: Welcome to the Lyme wars -- Lyme disease and other borrelial infections -- Post-Lyme disease syndrome and chronic Lyme disease -- Borrelial infection: Morgellons, autism, Alzheimer's, and PANDAS -- The ecological reality - and inevitability - of Lyme and its coinfections -- Initial infection dynamics, cytokines, encysted forms, and biofilms: the microecology of borrelial infections -- A closer look at neuroborreliosis -- On the natural healing of borrelial infections -- The core protocol and extended repertory -- Chalmydia -- Chlamydia infection: a deeper look -- Natural healing of chlamydia -- The spotted fever rickettsiae -- Spotted fever rickettsiae: a deeper look -- Natural healing of rickettsioses infections -- The materia medica -- Afterword: Future directions -- Appendixes: 1. Some comments on the dynamics of coinfections -- 2. Resources