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Lyme Disease: A Biological Weapon Gone Awry

Posted on June 3, 2019 by

Posted in Blog, Knowledge Base, L, Lyme Disease & Morgellons — 9 Comments ↓

Prepare yourself for a genuinely frightening Health Tip. I bought Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons, by investigative reporter Kris Newby, this past Saturday at 10 am and finished it at 8 pm. It reads more like a thriller than non-fiction and is chilling in its implications. First, some background: The tickborne infectious illness Lyme disease was first reported in 1975 Read More

I Feel So Inflamed!

Posted on April 22, 2019 by

Posted in Blog, Environmental Sensitivities, Healthy Lifestyle, I, Immune System, Inflammation, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Lyme Disease & Morgellons, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies — No Comments ↓

And among other symptoms, indeed she was. Julia, a bright 40-something, had written “fatigue,” “pain,” “bad digestion,” and “brain fog” on her WholeHealth Chicago intake paperwork. She’d been ill for years and brought with her two binders full of medical info on herself. The thicker of these contained accumulated medical records, lab tests, imaging studies, and physician summaries. At first glance, it appeared the various Read More

Tagged with: A better way to heal, chronic Lyme disease, CMV, homeopathy, HSV, IV lyme, IV ozone, IV silver, IV therapy, LDI, lyme, mold, mold illness, mold toxicity, ozone, poly MVA, silver, viral infections, viral syndrome

Here’s What You Should Know About Lyme Disease

Posted on April 8, 2019 by

Posted in Blog, Diseases, H, Immune System, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Lyme Disease & Morgellons — 9 Comments ↓

In H.G. Wells’s novel (and Steven Spielberg’s movie) War of the Worlds, aliens invade Earth, fully intending to destroy it. Despite our best efforts to defend ourselves, we’re clearly losing until suddenly all the aliens start dying off. Scientists later discover the aliens had no immunity to Earth’s bacteria. The evil aliens were out of their territory and paid the price with their lives. With the Read More

Tagged with: chronic Lyme disease, IV lyme, lyme, Lyme disease

Lyme Disease Fundraiser, Just When We Need It Most

Posted on July 24, 2017 by

Posted in Blog, Lyme Disease & Morgellons — 1 Comment ↓

Here are some well known people who have chronic Lyme disease: singer-songwriter-fashion designer Kelly Osbourne, TV star Ally Hilfiger (Tommy’s daughter), singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson, punk singer Kathleen Hanna, Marisol Thomas (wife of Rob Thomas), Real Housewife Yolanda Hadid and supermodel Bella Hadid, as well as Alec Baldwin, Amy Tan, and Avril Lavigne. Each of the links above goes to an article in which the celebrity Read More

Tagged with: Borrelia burgdorferi, chronic Lyme disease, Lyme disease, Sublyme Soiree

Stevia and Lyme Disease

Posted on April 23, 2017 by

Posted in Blog, Knowledge Base, Lyme Disease & Morgellons, S — 12 Comments ↓

Patients often ask me if stevia can treat Lyme disease. The answer is both yes and no. The question stems from a study published in 2015 in the European Journal of Microbiology and Immunology on stevia and the different forms of Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. The study showed that in a petri dish stevia extract was able to kill the bacterium Read More

Tagged with: chronic Lyme disease, Lyme disease

The Saddest, Loneliest Patients In America

Posted on November 13, 2016 by

Posted in Blog, Knowledge Base, L, Lyme Disease & Morgellons, S — 28 Comments ↓

Imagine this: one night, you awaken from sleep feeling itchy all over. You scratch and scratch, eventually getting back to sleep. The next day, you feel like your skin is crawling. Your hair just doesn’t feel like your hair. A few days later, you see skin lesions on different parts of your body. You go to a dermatologist who looks at the lesions and prescribes Read More

Tagged with: Bartonella, chronic Lyme disease, ILADS, Lyme disease, Morgellons disease

Invasion of the Body Snatchers!

Posted on October 16, 2016 by

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I’d been reading Ally Hilfiger’s new autobiography Bite Me: How Lyme Disease Stole My Childhood, Made Me Crazy, and Almost Killed Me, preferring the Lyme parts to those devoted to fashion and her MTV “Rich Girl” series. Her symptoms were typical of chronic Lyme and simply dreadful. Hilfiger’s very supportive family watched helplessly through hospitalizations and visits to dozens of specialists. As I read, it Read More

Tagged with: Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Borrelia burgdorfi, chronic Lyme disease, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease

With Summer’s Arrival, A Lyme Disease Refresher

Posted on April 25, 2016 by

Posted in Blog, Knowledge Base, Lyme Disease & Morgellons, W — 7 Comments ↓

In H.G. Wells’ novel (and Steven Spielberg’s movie) War of the Worlds, aliens from Mars invade earth, fully intending to destroy it. Earthlings are losing against the Martians until suddenly the latter start dying off. Scientists later discover the aliens had no immunity against earth’s bacteria and paid the price with their lives. With the current Lyme disease situation, we’re the immune-weak aliens. We invaded and Read More

Tagged with: Borrelia, Borrelia burgdorferi, bulls eye rash, chronic disease, chronic fatigue, chronic infection, chronic Lyme disease, deer tick, fibromyalgia, Lyme Academy, Lyme disease, tick, tick bite

It’s All In Your Head—Go See A Psychiatrist

Posted on April 18, 2016 by

Posted in Blog, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, I, Knowledge Base, Lyme Disease & Morgellons — 4 Comments ↓

Before today’s Health Tip, an update. We’ve moved into our new center at 2265 N Clybourn Ave and want to thank our outstanding team for their services and support: Architect Josh Hutchinson, 34/TEN Architecture General Contractor Jerry Sorvino, AST Construction Services Design and Project Manager Marla Rubin, Ensemble Graphics Information Technology specialist Marty Rocha, Nitram Technologies Contractor Miguel Rosas I hope you never have Read More

Tagged with: Candida, chronic fatigue, chronic Lyme disease, fibro, fibromyalgia, food sensitivities, functional symptoms, gluten, gluten intolerance, gluten sensitivity, gluten-free, heavy metals, hypoglycemia, leaky gut, leaky gut syndrome, Lyme disease, mold, Morgellons disease, multiple chemical sensitivities, normal lab test, parasites, psychiatric treatment, tick, yeast

Getting Serious About Lyme Disease

Posted on August 10, 2015 by

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It’s hard not to be a bit worried when you read about the dramatic increase in Lyme disease. This year, new cases are up 350% in New England and 250% in the North Central states. If you’re geographically impaired, click on that link to discover that North Central means us. Surveys taken of physicians show they’re testing patients more frequently than ever, and since positive Read More

Tagged with: bulls eye rash, chronic Lyme disease, deer tick, Lyme Academy, Lyme disease

Tag: chronic Lyme disease

Lyme Disease: A Biological Weapon Gone Awry

I Feel So Inflamed!

Here’s What You Should Know About Lyme Disease

Lyme Disease Fundraiser, Just When We Need It Most

Stevia and Lyme Disease

The Saddest, Loneliest Patients In America

Invasion of the Body Snatchers!

With Summer’s Arrival, A Lyme Disease Refresher

It’s All In Your Head—Go See A Psychiatrist

Getting Serious About Lyme Disease

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