I’ll try to update this page as I test out various methods…

So far I’m in the research stages of the following: (if you have personal experience on any of them, I’d love to hear about it!)

• Activated Charcoal

  – Seems like the best alternative, but it also binds nutrients? So possibly good for short term detox but not good for long-term usage.
  

• Purified bentonite clay

• Parsley, Burbur and Cilantro
  

• Chlorella

I spent the first half of today almost in tears because I decided that I needed to stop ignoring my worsening symptoms and needed to start doing something about it. Reading about Lyme and people’s personal struggles doesn’t encourage me and doesn’t make me feel like I’m not the only one out there. I’m so glad that for many people that’s exactly what it DOES do for them. For me – the more I read, the more scared I get – and reality hits me that this is something I can’t ignore. Maybe it’s because I’ve been fortunate so far that it hasn’t reached the stage of becoming a completely debilitating disease in my life. But on days like today where my joints are aching and it’s become tiring trying to collect my thoughts – I’ve decided to sit down and start reading again.

There is a lot more information out there than when I last had aching joints and a foggy brain and knew it was time to sit down and learn more. And I’m excited today for the first time in a long time. Not scared. REALLY excited.

Dr. Rau’s apporach to Lyme caught my eye at first because he’s a Swiss doctor with a practice about an hour and a half from where I’m currently living. His methods also interested me because as I contracted Lyme here in Switzerland while I was on vacation — I wondered if he had any extra insight into the “local variety” that I have. I just finished watching all five parts of his talk he gave in the States in April 2010. I know that there isn’t one cure for everybody – and there are many paths to the same result. Antibiotics for some, a more natural approach for others, or maybe even somewhere in between. For me, after hearing Dr. Rau’s presentation – it has completely resonated with me. I’m hoping that I’m not severe enough to need actual treatment from him and that the diet and detox methods from his book will be the kick-start my body needs to fight it. I hope.

So I’ve ordered his book and have Monday set as the day I begin the diet and detox. So this weekend I will celebrate my new found encouragement with one last hurrah of the foods I’m not allowed to eat…. fondue, frozen pizza and a nice bottle of wine. Then I’ll be good. I’ve promised myself. I need to be. I want to start to heal this for good.  So here’s to a gluttonous weekend and then onwards to healing!

In 2010 I had 2 milder episodes of symptoms. It’s usually the same times of the year – late Spring and the worst time of the year seems to be late Autumn. I took a week course of the Cholestyramine on both occasions and quickly improved both times.

So here I am in Jan 2011 – and again experiencing symptoms. Not as bad as 2009 but if I don’t do something about it soon – I think I’ll go down hill quickly.

After taking Cholestyramine for so many years, I’ve decided to try something new. I’ve been extremely happy with the results while using it, however there are enough down sides to help make the deicsion to try something new. Firstly, the die off period while on the Cholestyramine is intense. I usually need to drop out of life for about 3 weeks while its taking effect. Maybe if I took it on a regular basis I wouldn’t have so much problem with that. But I don’t want to risk it losing it’s potency in my body by taking it long term. Secondly, I’ve gotten very into limiting chemical influences in my life and am trying to live as naturally as possible. I’m currently studying herbal medicine and have come accross many effective and documented herbal alternatives for Lyme.
So I’m going to give this a try and will try to keep a blog of my progress on this website — what works and doesn’t work. Of course the results and effectiveness will be different for everyone – but hopefully if you’ve stumbled on this site looking for answers – maybe something that works for me might work for you too.

So I’m starting today – hopefully 2011 will be the year that I stop just managing Lyme but instead start to heal it.

This histopathology shows the Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes in Lyme disease using Dieterle silver stain. (CDC / Dr. Edwin P. Ewing, Jr.)

CTV.ca News Staff

Canadian researchers are the first in the world to use high-resolution, 3-D imaging to create dramatic new footage of the bacterium that causes Lyme disease as it moves through the bloodstream of a living host.

Microbiologists at the University of Calgary have been able to create a fluorescent strain of the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi and observe its movement in mice.

B. burgdorferi is part of a group of bacteria known as pathogenic spirochetes, which cause a variety of bacterial diseases such as syphilis, leptospirosis and relapsing fever, as well as Lyme disease.

Until now, scientists have been unclear how these bacteria move from the blood to tissues in the body.

However, the ability to view the spirochete will allow scientists to better study and understand how these and other bacteria spread through the human body and lead to disease.

“When you get a tick bite, the spirochete gets into the blood and then hitchhikes through the body, gets out of the blood system and then gets into the heart, neurological tissue in the brain and in the joints,” Dr. George Chaconas, one of the lead researchers, told CTV News. “So this is its way of getting transportation around the body.”

The image of the bacterium was published in the journal PLoS Pathogens.

The new breakthrough comes at the beginning of the peak season for Lyme disease. Each year, about 23,000 new cases of Lyme disease are diagnosed in the United States. About 100 new cases are diagnosed in Canada.

Humans contract Lyme after they are bitten by an infected tick.

According to the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Canadians can get Lyme disease from two sources: the western blacklegged tick, which is found in British Columbia, and blacklegged ticks, which are found in southern and eastern Ontario, southeastern Manitoba and areas of Nova Scotia.

Early symptoms of Lyme disease include:

• A circular rash near the area of the tick bite
• Fatigue, chills and fever
• Headache, as well as muscle and joint pain
• Swollen lymph nodes

If left untreated, Lyme disease can lead to nervous system disorders, various neurological symptoms, arthritis or arthritis-like symptoms and extreme fatigue.

Prevention methods include wearing long-sleeved shirts and pants and tucking pants into socks or boots; using a bug spray containing DEET; and inspecting clothes and skin for ticks after being outside.

Lyme disease is diagnosed after a blood test identifies antibodies the body produces in response to the bacteria. A patient who is in the early stages of the disease can then take antibiotics to clear the bacteria. However, Lyme is harder to treat as it advances through the body.

Some Canadians are concerned that people who have symptoms of Lyme disease are not always taken seriously by doctors and are therefore not tested for the bacterium.

Protests are scheduled to take place in cities across the country on Friday. The aim of the protests is to advocate for better testing methods, more awareness of the disease and a better warning system for the public.

While the United States Centers for Disease Control has a detailed map on its website of where infected ticks can be found in the U.S., no such map exists in Canada. As well, the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation believes that far more than 100 new cases of Lyme disease occur in Canada each year.

Mary deLisser fell ill in 2002 after camping in a park in Courtney, B.C. She came down with flu-like symptoms, including pain and fever, and developed short-term memory loss. A doctor at a walk-in clinic missed the signs and it wasn’t until 10 months later that she found Dr. Ernie Murakami, who diagnosed her with Lyme disease within days.

Because her illness was already at a later stage, her round of antibiotics has not completely eradicated her symptoms.

“Since I’ve been treated I’m still left with a considerable amount of pain, although it’s a lot better than it was,” deLisser told CTV News.

“And I still have the terrible fatigue and the cognitive difficulties that get worse as the day goes on.”

DeLisser said that PHAC should be tracking the disease more carefully and should have warnings about Lyme disease in places like public parks.

Robbin Lindsay, a research scientist at PHAC, said the agency has noticed that tick populations are expanding into provinces where they haven’t been seen before. The agency is also working on ways to better inform people of the risks of contracting the disease.

“I suspect that in the next year or so, we will have maps like that available for general viewing by the public and for physicians to know where the ticks are established,” Lindsay told CTV News.

Another problem for patients is that they could suffer for months, as deLisser did, or even years because doctors don’t know enough about the disease and so don’t think to test for it.

“It’s under the radar here, perhaps under publicized and not enough people know about it. And in the case of Lyme disease, the best approach to dealing with it is prevention,” Chaconas said.

With a report by CTV medical correspondent Avis Favaro and senior producer Elizabeth St. Philip

Real-Time High Resolution 3D Imaging of the Lyme Disease Spirochete Adhering to and Escaping from the Vasculature of a Living Host

Tara J. Moriarty, M. Ursula Norman, Pina Colarusso, Troy Bankhead, Paul Kubes, and George Chaconas

Pathogenic spirochetes are bacteria that cause a number of emerging and re-emerging diseases worldwide, including syphilis, leptospirosis, relapsing fever, and Lyme borreliosis. They navigate efficiently through dense extracellular matrix and cross the blood-brain barrier by unknown mechanisms. Due to their slender morphology, spirochetes are difficult to visualize by standard light microscopy, impeding studies of their behavior in situ. We engineered a fluorescent infectious strain of Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease pathogen, which expressed green fluorescent protein (GFP). Real-time 3D and 4D quantitative analysis of fluorescent spirochete dissemination from the microvasculature of living mice at high resolution revealed that dissemination was a multi-stage process that included transient tethering-type associations, short-term dragging interactions, and stationary adhesion. Stationary adhesions and extravasating spirochetes were most commonly observed at endothelial junctions, and translational motility of spirochetes appeared to play an integral role in transendothelial migration. To our knowledge, this is the first report of high resolution 3D and 4D visualization of dissemination of a bacterial pathogen in a living mammalian host, and provides the first direct insight into spirochete dissemination in vivo.

by Dr. James Schaller, M.D

I have never been comfortable with failed care. You know what I mean. You do an intake, get some lab testing done, you are given a diagnosis such as Lyme disease, and then you take full and aggressive antibiotics for complete trials. Yet they do not hit the home run you hoped for, and in fact at times you actually feel worse. At best, you improve partially and then hit a wall. Why? How is it that the “cure” makes you sicker and leaves you far short of a return to normal health?

Last month, we mentioned one reason for Lyme treatment failure–Babesia has over 11 species that infect humans and our labs only test one or two. We have also found that Bartonella has at least nine species that infect humans and 99% of our lab testing is fair and only tests for two. I will discuss this more in an upcoming Bartonella textbook. Still another cause for Lyme treatment failure is exposure to indoor surface mold spore toxins found in 30% of USA structures (per EPA).

These mold spore surface toxins highjack dozens of body chemicals and weaken your ability to fight Lyme. Are your air ducts dusty? If you answered, “Yes” this may be adding to your illness. Mycotoxins are almost entirely ignored, and sometimes actually naively belittled in advanced Lyme medical care. In this article, I would like to discuss biotoxins that are not from special indoor molds, but from the Lyme bacteria itself. How often do you hear this discussed as a problem in Lyme treatment? If it is discussed, is it merely in the context of “it might be good to take some cholestyramine to bind up some Lyme biotoxins?” But when I listen to discussions about Lyme’s surface biotoxins it is usually clear the reasoning is confused.

I would like to make this critical area of Lyme biotoxins and your ability to remove them simple and understandable.

First, we should not be surprised that any organism has biotoxins because the biological world is teeming with organisms that use toxic chemicals to function and survive. In the animal kingdom snakes and skunks have killing or annoying chemicals. Fish carry toxins in their barbs or their body. Insects have a wide range of toxic stingers and toxic inflammatory bites. Fungi and molds have dozens of toxins that have absolutely no safe dose.

Finally, bacteria and viruses have many toxins that serve to undermine host defenses and increase the damage of these infections. In this context, that Lyme bacteria have toxins on its outer membrane should be no surprise. Lyme has over two-dozen plasmids designed to defeat the attacks of the immune system, so why not also have biotoxins to defeat the immune system and undermine the human body?

Simply, Lyme bacteria release more than bacteria debris when they die, they also release highly specific chemicals that are designed to disrupt and damage a mammal’s body. With each passing year, medicine and science learn more and more about the seriousness of biotoxins such as those made by Lyme bacteria. Biological toxins like those found in Lyme bacteria have so many ways to harm your body, that it would take a small book to show how they harm humans when released. Yet here are some brief examples.

Lyme biotoxins disrupt the fat cell system and if not removed cause a type of obesity highly resistant to diet and exercise. The critical Leptin hormone increases and creates a type of bloating, puffiness or abdominal distention that is demoralizing to those trying to have a healthy weight.

Lyme biotoxins can disrupt VEGF that make and open capillaries throughout the entire body. These biotoxins undermine VEGF function so your capillaries ability to get oxygen to many types of tissues is impaired. A disrupted VEGF system often leads to profound fatigue and body pains, particularly after exercise or pushing yourself to perform a “full days work.”

Similarly, Lyme biotoxins can disrupt the manufacturing of erythropoietin, a crucial chemical that produces red blood cells that carry oxygen to all our body organs. Amazingly, the number of red blood cells does not control erythropoietin levels, but instead it is regulated by low oxygen in your tissues.

The body knows you can have “average” numbers of red blood cells, and still have tissues starving for oxygen. That biotoxins can sometimes disrupt tissue oxygenation is not unique, since other illnesses also cause this problem, e.g., kidney or liver diseases, excessively thick blood, inflammation chemicals, nutritional deficiencies, hypothyroidism, infections or cancers.

Lyme biotoxins also undermine the making of MSH (melanocyte-stimulating hormone), which according to Dr. Cone’s definitive text has about fifteen critical functions. It controls inflammation, so it is being used to treat inflammation disorders like asthma and psoriasis and ulcerative colitis. It helps repair nerves and makes the natural pain system work normally.

Perhaps one reason some struggle with addictions is their MSH is abnormally low—under 35-40. This super anti-inflammatory chemical is currently manufactured all over the world for a wide range of illnesses. After passing the extensive FDA process it will eventually be available in the United States—just not soon.

Another chemical impacted by Lyme biotoxins with some similar abilities is VIP (Vasoactive intestinal peptide). VIP is the topic of over 10,000 research papers and is involved in dilating the heart’s blood vessels, promoting breathing by bronchodilation and controlling the immune and hormone systems. However, its role in the brain is the cause for great excitement. It can undermine brain tumors, improve brain blood flow, improve learning and memory, and protect the brain.
The introductory article is only meant to show you sample ways Lyme biotoxins can harm the human body. Do you wonder how effective your body is at removing Lyme biotoxins? You can easily determine your unique genetic ability to remove Lyme’s specific biotoxins by ordering a special 5-part HLA inherited gene marker test from LabCorp (test 012542), which is one of the largest labs in the United States.

This HLA test is not the HLA-DR4 test that is involved in aggressive Lyme arthritis. It is also not the HLA-B27 that is found in people with ankylosing spondylosis, various types of arthritis, and some people suffering from psoriasis, inflammatory bowel disease or other autoimmune disorders.

This 5-part HLA test is able to determine how well you can remove the dangerous biotoxins of different organisms that live in the oceans, lakes, forests, and buildings. But for our purposes in Lyme disease treatment, we are particularly interested in two patterns—the 15-6-51 or the 16-5-51 pattern. If you have these you will not be able to remove Lyme biotoxins.

So when you try to kill Lyme with antibiotics, antibiotic herbs, HBOT, or a wide range of traditional or progressive means, you will release Lyme’s surface biotoxins and they will pass throughout the body easily and disrupt and damage dozens of human body functions.

Simply, this Lyme poison has no natural body antidote for those who cannot naturally remove it—it will simply stay in your body and damage gene expression, hormones levels, protein function and cause dozens of other injuries. Consider it to be an eternal disruptive chemical poison able to easily pass through water pores and cell membranes.

If you make the mistake of thinking you are still ill because of residual Lyme, and try additional antibiotics at higher doses, you will release still more biotoxins and they will damage your body. Therefore, no one should be treated with antibiotics unless it is known how able they are at removing Lyme’s biotoxins.

You do not open a drum of industrial chemicals until you first know how well the body is going to survive the exposure as you remove the top! For children who fear lab testing, their HLA pattern can often be determined from their parents. If both parents do not have the Lyme problem gene, then none of their children can have it.

Other HLA patterns exist which will cause Lyme toxins to be released slowly. But they are outside the scope of this introduction.

Further, one often hears that the treatment for those who have biotoxin damage is simply the use of cholestyramine, an old cholesterol medication with broad biotoxins binding abilities. Unfortunately, in reality, by the time most patients with the 15-6-51 pattern or the 16-5-51 pattern get to my office, they have had these biotoxins disrupting many body systems and my interventions need to be equally as complete. The idea cholestyramine will reverse all damage in a few months of aggressive use is profoundly simplistic.

Further, after these individuals are physically repaired from biotoxin damage, they then require very tailored and carefully paced Lyme treatment along with treatment for their co-infections.

(The original Lyme biotoxins and HLA pattern work was done by Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker. It has been replicated by a small number of clinicians who understand this medical science.)

A week later, with the characteristic bull’s eye staring back at me in the mirror – I  burst into tears. This explains the high fever and flu symptoms I was feeling. But more than that, I panicked. Living in NJ, everyone knows somebody who has contracted Lyme. I’ve heard the horror stories of aching joints, fuzzy thinking, etc. And now was I going to BE that person that always had some nagging ailment? Determined not to be, I got to the doctor as soon as I could and was put on a 2 week dosage of Amoxicillin and was told I would be fine.

Good, I thought, I’ll be OK since I got antibiotics in me so quickly. I recovered from the flu symptoms after a few weeks and soon felt back to normal. About a year later, I started to feel extremely fatigued with generally weird symptoms. After the symptoms began to get too hard to ignore, I told my mother how I was feeling. Completely forgetting that I even had the tick bite, I didn’t associate how I was feeling at all with Lyme. Hearing the same symptoms I was expressing, from many of her friends, my mother was the one who made the connection.
She said that she heard success stories with this medicine called Cholestyramine that was used for high cholesterol levels and that my doctor from home (I was living in the UK at this time) recommended I try it. I was very dubious at first. This was in 2004 when the research was at a very early stage. I searched on Google for the connection between Cholestyramine and Lyme but found nothing except some research papers. Mom asked me to try it. My symptoms were getting bad enough that I couldn’t ignore them, so I did. If nothing else, I thought, my cholesterol levels will be better!

I took the medicine, faithfully, with a milkshake for 2 weeks. My energy level and muscle aches did improve. But I was still not convinced that it had anything to do with this cholesterol medicine. This cycle continued for three more years. Every fall I would call home weary of strange illnesses and just plain weary. My mom would call up my doctor and send me the Cholestyramine in the mail and call me to make sure I took it. And every year I felt better after taking it. But still, I  wasn’t convinced that it just wasn’t my symptoms running their course.

This past fall was different. It’s been 5 years since I first found the tick bite. Again, Lyme was in the back of my mind and I was happily getting on with life. And then the weird symptoms started again. But this time I couldn’t ignore them because I couldn’t get through the day without going to bed.  If I went out for a day, I’d have to rest 4 to make up for it. My brain has become so foggy that some days it feels like I’m losing my mind. For me the cognitive impairments that Lyme causes is the hardest to accept. I know that I can go to bed and rest if I’m feeling physically ill. But living with a brain fog was just too much. So again I called up my mother, and she faithfully reminded me that I should be taking the Cholestyramine. This time, I didn’t hesitate. Armed with my fruit smoothies, I blended up the powder into the smoothie and chugged it down. I’ve heard from others who take the medicine that if you’re experiencing strong Lyme symptoms, the “die off” period from the medicine makes you feel even worse. They weren’t kidding! For about a week I felt nauseous, dizzy, and it seemed it multiplied my original symptoms. But about 5 days after taking the medicine, my head felt clearer. I should have taken the medicine longer – blaming my busy schedule, I stopped once my symptoms were manageable again. I’m told it takes a good 3 weeks of taking the powder 2-3 times a day to really kick the toxins out of your body. So that’s what I’m doing now. I’m on day 4 of my 3 week process and already my head is feeling clearer.

So that’s my story so far. For me, this medicine has been a lifeline and I’m encouraged with the results I’ve had already.

I encourage readers to share their stories here – successes or failures with different treatment products.

I’m in no way affiliated with Dr. Shoemaker or the variations of the medicines mentioned on this website. I’m a web developer and researcher and just thought that I could use my skills to get the word out that there is hope for those of you who are suffering with the many symptoms associated with lymes.

Dr. Thomas Rau “Lyme Disease” Talk Part 2 (April 2010)

Dr. Thomas Rau “Lyme Disease” Talk Part 3 (April 2010)

Dr. Thomas Rau “Lyme Disease” Talk Part 4 (April 2010)

Dr. Thomas Rau “Lyme Disease” Talk Part 5 (April 2010)

Under Our Skin Documentary - click here to watch full trailer

Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker’s Research

Dr. Joseph Burrascano Discusses Neurotoxins and Lyme Disease

What is Cholestyramine and where can I get ?

While Cholestyramine is not a cure-all for Lyme, individuals have responded positively to treatment, and like me, it’s offered hope and help for sufferers of chronic Lyme symptoms.

Cholestyramine (Questran, Questran Light, Cholybar) is a cholesterol medication with broad biotoxins binding abilities.
Ask your doctor! It’s a common medication that has been around for over 50 years.

Ritchie Shoemaker, MD, pioneered the use of CSM for biotoxin removal. Although CSM is primary used to lower cholesterol levels, he petitioned the FDA for an exception for the use of CSM to treat patients exposed to biotoxins. The FDA determined that an exception was not required since dosing was similar to that for approved uses. Since then, CSM has rapidly gained acceptance among specialists treating biotoxin related illnesses.

The risks of using CSM are fairly low. Since the drug does not enter the bloodstream there is little chance for drug interactions. However, CSM must be taken several hours away from other medications or it may bind them as well. CSM will also bind ‘good’ fats and minerals so if extended therapy is indicated, supplementation should be considered.

Once a diagnosis has been made, the next step is to begin treatment. The very general steps are as follows (Please note that each individual is different and their treatment protocol must be tailored to their needs. The following information is not intended as medical advice, but only as a general overview of what to expect during treatment.).:

1. Begin cholestyramine (CSM) or Questran treatment. We have found that CSM powder works best. Many patients experience an intensification of all or some symptoms with CSM therapy. If Lyme disease is diagnosed, treatment with Actos is considered, since the mobilization of the Lyme biotoxin is especially hard to endure for many patients. Actos helps to prevent the cytokine storm and prevent TNF and MMP9 from increasing. Actos is not risk free, so with this, or any other information on this website, please consult your care provider.
2. Treat hormonal imbalances.
3. Treat underlying infections. These include: multiply antibiotic resistant coagulase negative staphylococcus (MARCONS) which is very often present in the nasal cultures of biotoxin patients, re-activated viruses, yeast, Lyme (Bb) and co-infections, and mycoplasma.
4. Monitor progress with bloodwork and repeated follow-ups using on-line BIRS© tests.

For more information, click here for the source

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I’m in no way affiliated with Doctors Shoemaker or Burrascano, nor the medicines mentioned on this website. I myself have Lyme and am a web developer and researcher who just thought that I could use my skills to get the word out that there is hope for those of you who are suffering with the many symptoms associated with lyme.

Source: The Environmental Illness Resource

Over the years, a large body of research has been developed on microbial toxins and their clinical effects and ability to damage various tissues and organs, on both cellular and molecular levels. Microbial toxins can damage the body through both directly damaging tissues and indirectly through toxemia (the presence of toxins in the blood stream). With the Lyme disease causing bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi being implicated in so many chronic illnesses, the study of it’s toxins is currently a highly relevant research subject in terms of both the way these toxins cause disease and identifying targets for potential treatments.

The term “Bio-toxins induced illnesses” has recently been introduced in light of this research into microbial toxins, and Lyme disease is considered as the most important in this category.

On the subject of molecular toxicology, Dr. C. Shoemaker, MD and H Kenneth Hudnell, PhD state that “Borrelia burgdorferi produces a large suite of bio-toxins that have tissue affinity, mainly neurotoxins with high molecular tropism for lipid structures (i.e., central nervous system, peripheral nervous system), muscles, joints, lungs and many others.” These statements are backed up by research data identifying specific neurotoxins from Bb (1).

What this means is that Borrelia burgdorferi toxins are strongly attracted to fatty cells (such as those of the nervous system), and exert effects that disrupt normal functioning of these cells. These bio-toxins are thought to alter various specific sites in the brain on molecular, structural and chemical levels, interfering with all the major neurotransmitters (dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine, acetylcholine, GABA). In this way they can cause all manner of neurological and psychiatric symptoms that mimic (or cause) many illnesses, from degenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s Disease and Alzheimer’s (2), to depression (3) and autistic disorders. Indeed, Dr. Paul Fink, a former president of the American Psychiatric Association, has acknowledged that Lyme disease can contribute to every single psychiatric disorder in the Diagnostic Symptoms Manual IV (DSM-IV), the manual used to diagnose psychiatric disorders.

Lyme bio-toxins are also known to interfere with many hormones, enzymes and their receptors, interfering with their usual functioning. One symptom that is prevalent in Lyme disease and related illnesses (chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, autism, depression etc), is chronic fatigue. This can be explained by molecular toxicology research that shows that the calcium channel’s normal functioning may be altered by Bb’s bio-toxins. This results in the impairment of enzymes and other cellular chemicals involved in cellular energy production.

The same may be true for muscle and joint tissues, resulting in the aches and pains associated with Lyme disease. In fact there is a type of arthritis associated with Borrelia burgdorferi, known as Lyme Arthritis. This condition is officially reported as being rare, but as with all Lyme associated illnesses, accurate diagnosis and reporting may be well below actual numbers.