I apologize if the timing of my lyme announcement seems overmature. It's a diagnosis that frankly I didn't want to get into, because I believe that sticking with CFIDS makes my blog less polarizing and accessible to more folks.
I'm not 100% positive that I have chronic lyme disease. I'm 100% sure that I have active lyme, and from what I've read about lyme, I'm inclined to believe lyme was the mother of all my chickens and eggs. Its immune system-suppressing activity has been well-documented, causing lyme disease to earn the nickname "The Great Imitator" due to its resemblance to so many other diseases such as MS, ALS, CFIDS, FM, and MS. In my case, I believe I've had lyme my whole life, because electrodermal testing has detected lyme in both my sister and mom. The MD that tested us said only around 30% of lyme is transmitted by ticks, the rest is trans-placental. He just might get lynched for saying this by the IDSA if I leak his name, but I hope the IDSA lynches itself first. The lyme bug acting in concert with the "multisusceptible" haplotytpe via HLA-DR genetic testing likely suppressed my immune system my whole life, causing me to get really sick at a young age and also in college, allowing bronchitis and mono to hit me so hard and officially kickstart CFIDS and fun times aplenty. This might also explain why my 19-yr old sister's health pattern has been my doppelganger up until now.
But again, I'm still not that pentecostal patient that takes a full leap of faith. Going from an active lyme infection to an entire lyme disease predicated on it is a pretty big leap. I'm still unsure whether successfully treating the lyme will resolve my symptoms. Under the popular immune overactivation theory, a paradox occurs where your immune system is suppressed while also being overstimulated due to excessive cytokine firing. If this applies to me, it might take a drug like Ampligen to modulate the immune system back to homeostatis. Another up-and-coming theory is that of mycotoxins: if we have a multisusceptible haplotype (which I along with many other patients have--it's why we're all sick in the first place), then we not only need to put a cap in lyme's squiggly ass and remove any mold from our environment, but we also have to supersuck and toss out the mycotoxins that lyme and mold have been defecating to mark their territories. This would require prescription binders such as cholestryamine, or natural ones such as glucomannan, modified citrus pectin, chlorella, zeolites, or other neat Star Trek characters.
Luckily, regardless of where my itchy brain wants to go with this, all the step 1's involve killing lyme. So really, the decision to go on ABx was a no-brainer. ABx can make lyme go into hiding but not out of the body. This has been the fatal flaw in lyme treatment for years. Whether we use herbs or ABx, these are what I like to call
"outside-in" treatments. And even when they're not attack-based, such as supplements that regulate immunity or aid detoxification, these are at most supportive measures, never high-impact therapy. Lyme is truly a smart little critter. It has even evolved by developing biofilms, which area polysaccharide matrices comprised of minerals, metals and other elements, that make it even harder for ABx to work effectively. Despite all this, there was no better option when I decided to start ABx.
When I first became sick, my uncle used to tell me to wake up at the buttcrack of dawn and sunset to get
infrared light from sunshine. Knowing my uncle, I should've believed he was onto something. My uncle is a Tibetan Buddhist monk, and he says a lot of things regarding the preternatural. I always take him with a grain of salt, because at no point in my life have I ever believed in anything I can't see with my own eyes. But 9 times out of 10, he was right. When my mom's friend consulted with him about a daughter she hadn't seen in months, he took the daughter's picture, meditated, and told her exactly what (drugs) she was doing and where. One day, when he was visiting us from Taiwan, he told me out of the blue he knew what my girlfiend (at the time) was doing but he wouldn't tell my mom. Mind you, he'd never met her, has no idea what facebook is, and what he said wasn't safe for facebook anyway. He was right. As a matter of fact, the only time he was off was when he told me back in '06 that I'd be better in 3 months, but maybe he said that just so I'd think positive. All true stories.
Fast forward to August this year, 2 months into antibiotic fireworks in my belly, and I hear about this treatment on Lymenet: a 7o-something-year old ex-lyme patient said she no longer has lyme after treatment by a German doctor, Dr. Woitzel, using a machine called the Bionic 880. She went back recently with her even older husband, whom was mostly wheelchair-bound with Parkinson's, so he could receive the same Tx. Lyme eradicated, came home, is now on his feet and cooking breakfast for her.
So what exactly is this mystical fairy godmother of a machine? It is a biophoton machine that emits
infrared light at the 880nm frequency. No, this isn't a microcosm of an infrared sauna. IR saunas project infrared light at a wide range of frequencies. This is specifically 880nm. The basis? The work of renowned German biophysicist Prof. Fritz Albert Popp, who confirmed that all living organisms emit certain light aka electromagnetic waves and found that damaged cells emit a weakened intensity of light, healthy cells the reverse. Accordingly, if you apply light in form of coherent biophotons to damaged and weakened cells, they are stimulated to regenerate. This is really in the realm quantum physics, which describes the nature of the universe as being much different than the world we see. This may make sense or sound like completely bunk to you, but this machine has been used successfully for years in Germany, France, England, and Spain for a variety of conditions. You know what they say about German inventions: Sham-WOW. (Great product.) Seriously though, Germany comes out with the best inventions that we're prone to questioning the hell out of but then consistently end up adopting decades later. Because Germans don't have an FDA or big pharma, there are far less restrictions on applying the most modern theories and technology to life sciences. I trust their motto is something like, "If it looks like it works and smells like it works, then I'm gonna hide out in the Black Forest and treat people." And that's what Dr. Woitzel has done.
He has successfully treated lyme using a combination of biophysics and homeopathy (also invented by Germans in 18th century mind you). Each patient has a nosode for lyme, which is basically a vial that carries the vibrational frequency of lyme and only lyme, and a live vial of lyme taped to their solar plexus, and a contact device on the machine projects a 880nm light onto various parts of the body for a few minutes each. There are a few mechanisms to describe why this remove lyme: 1) the frequency of the photons once inside the body are a mirror image the frequency of the pathogen, denaturing or weakening the pathogen and allowing our cells to expel it, 2) the application of nosodes and live vials trigger the immune system to target & destroy expelled lyme, and 3) the light immediately restores cellular communication to enhance leukocytes and their target-and-destroy activity.
Over time, the cumulative effect of photons restores the cells' metabolic processes, including cell division, oxidation, phosphorylation, synthesis of hemoglobin, collagen and other proteins. It also regulates production of leukocytes, lymphocytes, enzymes, prostaglandins and connective tissue. Basically, the theory behind their efficacy is the same as that of stem cells: restore the body's innate systems. Except one uses quantum electrodynamics, and the more well known one, hot and smart substitute teachers. Both are
"inside-out" treatments, and I really believe this is where medicine needs to go when it finally breaks off from the antiquated germ theory of illnesses.
All this might sound like a scene from "What The Bleep Do We Know?" But whether you're a PhD or have a doctorate in yo mama, you can appreciate results. According to Dr. Woitzel, he has had a success rate of >90% in treating borreliosis (lyme) in 500 patients over a 7-year period, with a relapse rate of 1-2% (6 patients with re-onset). In his poor man's version of phase I & II clinical trials (remember, they don't have a FDA), he controllably treated and monitored 108 patients over 3 years, with a success rate of 96%. And all this is achieved with an average of
6 treatments per patient over the course of 3 weeks. Of course, without gov't oversight, you're thinking you could move to Germany and spit out the same claims but with magic soil. That's why it was so important that we had trustworthy fellow patients take one for the team. Back in August, it was looking like a possibility. By September, a few patients went and returned lyme-free it was looking promising. In October, after hearing the before-and-after's of 2 kids my age and a grand total of 7 of our own, I was ready to drink the Kool-Aid and get Frankensteined by Dr. W. So far, 6 of those 7 have achieved anywhere from vast improvement to outright remission. The 1 that didn't improve still has chronic pain, and the ones that have improved but don't feel cured have secondary issues like orthopedic damage. All 7 of them? Lyme-free according to energetic testing (like I said, I truly believe this is the most accurate diagnostic tool on the planet)
Of course, I'm constantly reminding myself to keep expectations Frodo-low. Frolow? I'm cautiously optimistic, but I'm still prepared to come back and go back on ABx or whatever it takes to get well. I'm reeling from the thought of going on an overseas flight for the first time in 4 years. I'll be decked out with a portable oxygen concentrator and so many bug-fighting supplements I might as well wear the Whole Foods T-shirt my best friend gave me. Regardless of how the treatment goes, I'll have plenty of time to write, read, meditate in the black forest, enjoy the clean air, take in a new place, and refresh the spirit. I'll try to update as often as I can. Wish me luck!
I'm not 100% positive that I have chronic lyme disease. I'm 100% sure that I have active lyme, and from what I've read about lyme, I'm inclined to believe lyme was the mother of all my chickens and eggs. Its immune system-suppressing activity has been well-documented, causing lyme disease to earn the nickname "The Great Imitator" due to its resemblance to so many other diseases such as MS, ALS, CFIDS, FM, and MS. In my case, I believe I've had lyme my whole life, because electrodermal testing has detected lyme in both my sister and mom. The MD that tested us said only around 30% of lyme is transmitted by ticks, the rest is trans-placental. He just might get lynched for saying this by the IDSA if I leak his name, but I hope the IDSA lynches itself first. The lyme bug acting in concert with the "multisusceptible" haplotytpe via HLA-DR genetic testing likely suppressed my immune system my whole life, causing me to get really sick at a young age and also in college, allowing bronchitis and mono to hit me so hard and officially kickstart CFIDS and fun times aplenty. This might also explain why my 19-yr old sister's health pattern has been my doppelganger up until now.
But again, I'm still not that pentecostal patient that takes a full leap of faith. Going from an active lyme infection to an entire lyme disease predicated on it is a pretty big leap. I'm still unsure whether successfully treating the lyme will resolve my symptoms. Under the popular immune overactivation theory, a paradox occurs where your immune system is suppressed while also being overstimulated due to excessive cytokine firing. If this applies to me, it might take a drug like Ampligen to modulate the immune system back to homeostatis. Another up-and-coming theory is that of mycotoxins: if we have a multisusceptible haplotype (which I along with many other patients have--it's why we're all sick in the first place), then we not only need to put a cap in lyme's squiggly ass and remove any mold from our environment, but we also have to supersuck and toss out the mycotoxins that lyme and mold have been defecating to mark their territories. This would require prescription binders such as cholestryamine, or natural ones such as glucomannan, modified citrus pectin, chlorella, zeolites, or other neat Star Trek characters.
Luckily, regardless of where my itchy brain wants to go with this, all the step 1's involve killing lyme. So really, the decision to go on ABx was a no-brainer. ABx can make lyme go into hiding but not out of the body. This has been the fatal flaw in lyme treatment for years. Whether we use herbs or ABx, these are what I like to call "outside-in" treatments. And even when they're not attack-based, such as supplements that regulate immunity or aid detoxification, these are at most supportive measures, never high-impact therapy. Lyme is truly a smart little critter. It has even evolved by developing biofilms, which area polysaccharide matrices comprised of minerals, metals and other elements, that make it even harder for ABx to work effectively. Despite all this, there was no better option when I decided to start ABx.
When I first became sick, my uncle used to tell me to wake up at the buttcrack of dawn and sunset to get infrared light from sunshine. Knowing my uncle, I should've believed he was onto something. My uncle is a Tibetan Buddhist monk, and he says a lot of things regarding the preternatural. I always take him with a grain of salt, because at no point in my life have I ever believed in anything I can't see with my own eyes. But 9 times out of 10, he was right. When my mom's friend consulted with him about a daughter she hadn't seen in months, he took the daughter's picture, meditated, and told her exactly what (drugs) she was doing and where. One day, when he was visiting us from Taiwan, he told me out of the blue he knew what my girlfiend (at the time) was doing but he wouldn't tell my mom. Mind you, he'd never met her, has no idea what facebook is, and what he said wasn't safe for facebook anyway. He was right. As a matter of fact, the only time he was off was when he told me back in '06 that I'd be better in 3 months, but maybe he said that just so I'd think positive. All true stories.
Fast forward to August this year, 2 months into antibiotic fireworks in my belly, and I hear about this treatment on Lymenet: a 7o-something-year old ex-lyme patient said she no longer has lyme after treatment by a German doctor, Dr. Woitzel, using a machine called the Bionic 880. She went back recently with her even older husband, whom was mostly wheelchair-bound with Parkinson's, so he could receive the same Tx. Lyme eradicated, came home, is now on his feet and cooking breakfast for her.
So what exactly is this mystical fairy godmother of a machine? It is a biophoton machine that emits infrared light at the 880nm frequency. No, this isn't a microcosm of an infrared sauna. IR saunas project infrared light at a wide range of frequencies. This is specifically 880nm. The basis? The work of renowned German biophysicist Prof. Fritz Albert Popp, who confirmed that all living organisms emit certain light aka electromagnetic waves and found that damaged cells emit a weakened intensity of light, healthy cells the reverse. Accordingly, if you apply light in form of coherent biophotons to damaged and weakened cells, they are stimulated to regenerate. This is really in the realm quantum physics, which describes the nature of the universe as being much different than the world we see. This may make sense or sound like completely bunk to you, but this machine has been used successfully for years in Germany, France, England, and Spain for a variety of conditions. You know what they say about German inventions: Sham-WOW. (Great product.) Seriously though, Germany comes out with the best inventions that we're prone to questioning the hell out of but then consistently end up adopting decades later. Because Germans don't have an FDA or big pharma, there are far less restrictions on applying the most modern theories and technology to life sciences. I trust their motto is something like, "If it looks like it works and smells like it works, then I'm gonna hide out in the Black Forest and treat people." And that's what Dr. Woitzel has done.
He has successfully treated lyme using a combination of biophysics and homeopathy (also invented by Germans in 18th century mind you). Each patient has a nosode for lyme, which is basically a vial that carries the vibrational frequency of lyme and only lyme, and a live vial of lyme taped to their solar plexus, and a contact device on the machine projects a 880nm light onto various parts of the body for a few minutes each. There are a few mechanisms to describe why this remove lyme: 1) the frequency of the photons once inside the body are a mirror image the frequency of the pathogen, denaturing or weakening the pathogen and allowing our cells to expel it, 2) the application of nosodes and live vials trigger the immune system to target & destroy expelled lyme, and 3) the light immediately restores cellular communication to enhance leukocytes and their target-and-destroy activity.
Over time, the cumulative effect of photons restores the cells' metabolic processes, including cell division, oxidation, phosphorylation, synthesis of hemoglobin, collagen and other proteins. It also regulates production of leukocytes, lymphocytes, enzymes, prostaglandins and connective tissue. Basically, the theory behind their efficacy is the same as that of stem cells: restore the body's innate systems. Except one uses quantum electrodynamics, and the more well known one, hot and smart substitute teachers. Both are "inside-out" treatments, and I really believe this is where medicine needs to go when it finally breaks off from the antiquated germ theory of illnesses.
All this might sound like a scene from "What The Bleep Do We Know?" But whether you're a PhD or have a doctorate in yo mama, you can appreciate results. According to Dr. Woitzel, he has had a success rate of >90% in treating borreliosis (lyme) in 500 patients over a 7-year period, with a relapse rate of 1-2% (6 patients with re-onset). In his poor man's version of phase I & II clinical trials (remember, they don't have a FDA), he controllably treated and monitored 108 patients over 3 years, with a success rate of 96%. And all this is achieved with an average of 6 treatments per patient over the course of 3 weeks. Of course, without gov't oversight, you're thinking you could move to Germany and spit out the same claims but with magic soil. That's why it was so important that we had trustworthy fellow patients take one for the team. Back in August, it was looking like a possibility. By September, a few patients went and returned lyme-free it was looking promising. In October, after hearing the before-and-after's of 2 kids my age and a grand total of 7 of our own, I was ready to drink the Kool-Aid and get Frankensteined by Dr. W. So far, 6 of those 7 have achieved anywhere from vast improvement to outright remission. The 1 that didn't improve still has chronic pain, and the ones that have improved but don't feel cured have secondary issues like orthopedic damage. All 7 of them? Lyme-free according to energetic testing (like I said, I truly believe this is the most accurate diagnostic tool on the planet)
Of course, I'm constantly reminding myself to keep expectations Frodo-low. Frolow? I'm cautiously optimistic, but I'm still prepared to come back and go back on ABx or whatever it takes to get well. I'm reeling from the thought of going on an overseas flight for the first time in 4 years. I'll be decked out with a portable oxygen concentrator and so many bug-fighting supplements I might as well wear the Whole Foods T-shirt my best friend gave me. Regardless of how the treatment goes, I'll have plenty of time to write, read, meditate in the black forest, enjoy the clean air, take in a new place, and refresh the spirit. I'll try to update as often as I can. Wish me luck!