You may be interested to know that Lyme disease is a chronic viral infection. While you might have been diagnosed with a bacterial infection, the symptoms of Lyme are viral.
Even if bacteria such as Borrelia are present, they’re not causing what makes Lyme patients suffer. The symptoms of Lyme are neurological, and bacteria don’t create neurological symptoms because they don’t produce neurotoxins.
Only viruses feeding on toxic heavy metals such as mercury, aluminium, and copper – as well as gluten, eggs, dairy, pesticides, herbicides and fungicides that are inside our livers and other parts of our bodies -create the neurotoxins that cause Lyme disease.
To understand where we are today we have to first look back in history to when Lyme disease symptoms first became recognised.
Back in November 1975, when multiple young children and young adults were developing symptoms which alerted doctors to launch an investigation in the area around Lyme, Connecticut, that gave Lyme disease its name.
At this time in the medical world, children were getting their tonsils plucked out as if they were apples on trees, with no understanding of the underlying cause of tonsillitis.
Even today there’s no clinical understanding of the underlying cause of tonsillitis.
While technology has made leaps and bounds, advancements in chronic and mystery illness have been at a near standstill.
The symptoms that children and a few adults in the Lyme area started to experience
- Chronic fatigue
- Headaches
- Joint Pain and so on
These symptoms had been seen for decades in every other town in Connecticut, not to mention every state throughout the entire country.
Yet somehow this area around Lyme the illness was treated as something new and unrecognisable. It’s most likely because compassionate doctors were trying to go above and beyond their role, taking these symtoms more seriously on a personal level.
Doctors, researchers and townspeople began looking for a culprit – and landed on the deer tick, because one of the patients reported seeing a tick a few weeks before he fell ill.
That’s like a train derailing for reasons unknown and a passenger mentioning a deer he saw grazing 50 miles back. The clues don’t add up in either scenario.
Even though no one could explain why a tick would give someone Lyme disease, a 17th century witch hunt began. Based on only a rumour, deer and the ticks that lived on them became the target.
In 1981, an entomologist announced he’d discovered the missing link – a bacterium named Borrelia burgdorferi that the ticks passed along to humans through their bites.
He was launded for his discovery, which led to a series of bacteria-focused tests and treatments for Lyme disease.
It was the perfect “out” for medical authorities. No one liked ticks any way, and the theory of a tick borne illness fed into the nature already present in society. Medical authorities felt they could give up on digging for an answer.
Unfortunately, all these discoveries were wrong.
This is what you won’t hear anywhere else:
- Lyme disease is not caused by ticks.
- And Lyme disease is not caused by Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria.
When the research was taking place in the 1970s and 1980s, you’d suppose researchers would have realised the problem was happening nationwide – and globally. And today you’d think someone would wake up and realise that hundreds of thousands of people who have never been near a deer tick receive Lyme disease diagnoses.
As for Borrelia burgdorferi, it’s a normal part of our environment that’s carried by every human being and animal on this planet- including entirely healthy ones.
Truth is, this bacteria poses no health risk…and has zero connection to Lyme disease. If someone with Lyme disease tests positive for Borrelia burgdorferi, it’s meaningless.
Virtually all the efforts of medical communities for the past decades to devise methods of diagnosing and treating Lyme disease have been based upon the false premise that it’s caused by ticks and bacteria.
When a mistaken theory starts to take on a life of its own, no one’s going to want to admit the mistakes and disprove it.
It’s the equivalent of building a house using a poorly drawn set of blueprints.
A worker might recognise issues with the plans, but second guess himself because he doesn’t want to cause a problem or jeopardise his job. In this situation, no matter how skilled the builders and no matter how intricate and beautiful the decorations, the first strong wind that comes along will blow the house down.
Medical communities acceptance of false assumptions in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s has resulted in untold misery for patients who not only aren’t helped but in many cases are gravely harmed by well-meaning doctors acting on tragically inaccurate information.
Something else medical communities don’t know is that there are multiple reasons that people experience symptoms of Lyme disease. The earliest version, which dates back to 1901, produced relatively mild symptoms.
The disease mutated into more varieties and strains by the 1950s. It then began mutating into even more aggressive varieties which leads us to the Lyme symptoms of the 1970s.
By that time, the disease had actually been disrupting the lives of people worldwide for nearly 60 years with its symptoms always attributed to other illnesses or simply considered “a mystery”.
We still deal with these ailments today and have names now for many of them, including:
- Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME)/chronic fatigue syndrome,
- Fibromyalgia,
- Multiple sclerosis,
- ALS,
- Thyroid disorder,
- Lupus,
- Chron’s disease,
- Addison’s disease,
- Autoimmune disease and many more.
Yet they still cause widespread puzzlement and often account for Lyme diagnoses.
The confusion about lyme disease symptoms is vast.
If you visit a Lyme specialist with any symptoms or even a diagnosis of MS, Lupus, fibromyalgia, RA, CFS, or ME/CFS and experience the following:
- Mild to extreme and or persistent fatigue
- Muscle pain
- Weakness
- Twitching
- Spasms
- Restless leg syndrome
- Brain fog
- Burning skin
- Jaw pain
- Dizziness
- Migraines
- Anxiety
- Aches and pains
- Joint pain or swelling
- Tingling or numbness in the hands and feet
With these symptoms you could be deemed to have Lyme whether tests come back positive or negative.
Yet if you visit a doctor who doesn’t focus on Lyme, you may get a totally different diagnosis. It all has to do with where the doctor’s interest and attention lies.
What Lyme disease really is?
Medical communities originally believed that Lyme disease was caused by a bacterium named Borrelia burgdorferi transmitted by a bite from a deer tick.
Recently doctors and researchers have started to realise they may have focused on the wrong bacteria for the last 3 and a half decades.
New patients are now hearing about different decoy bugs such as Bartonella and the microscopic parasite Babesia (which is a hybrid, a cross between bacteria and parasite).
And the new patients aren’t being told about the long road others have been down with the Borrelia tag, about the traps along the way. They don’t have the benefit of that perspective.
You should know by the way, that Bartonella and Babesia are also harmless and most of us carry them. They’re once again bait-and-switch theories that promise an answer but deliver only conjecture.
In case you’re wondering, Bartonella and Babesia have never been clinically found in a tick in nature that wasn’t attached to a human being.
Truth is, Lyme disease isn’t the result of ticks, parasites or bacteria.
Lyme disease is actually viral – not bacterial or parasitical.
When medical communities finally awaken to this truth, there will be hope for Lyme patients.
The true cause of Lyme disease varies in each individual. People who have different varieties of Epstein-Barr can have Lyme symptoms as can people who have HHV-6 and its various strains.
People who carry any of the different strains of shingles can exhibit Lyme symptoms with the non-rashing varieties causing the most severe cases, including symptoms such as brain inflammation and other central nervous system weaknesses.
It’s the same for any number of herpetic family viruses.
So many Lyme patients’ blood work also test positive for EBV, cytomegalovirus, or HSV-1(the virus that causes fever blisters) and so many patients have different mutations and strains of viruses in this herpetic family that don’t even show up in tests.
Many viruses don’t show up on tests because they’re in organs, or they’re low-grade infections.
Any of the more aggressive varieties of these viruses can be behind a patient’s Lyme symptoms.
All the viruses listed above are again in the herpes family can can cause fever, headaches, joint pain, muscle pain, fatigue, neck pain, burning nerve pain, heart palpitations, almost any neurological symptom and or other other symptoms that doctors think of as so called Lyme disease.
They can dramatically decrease a patient’s quality of life and pose serious challenges if not properly treated.
Even if you’re experiencing symptoms of any number of these viral infections, you might be able to avoid experiencing a full blown mystery illness that gets the Lyme disease tag by keeping the virus in a low-grade or dormant state.
If you’re already suffering from more severe symptoms tagged as Lyme there’s a great deal you can do to combat and overcome the illness that I cover in the Part 2 blog and support you with step by step in my 1:1 Aisling Health School Mentorship Programme.
How Lyme disease is triggered
If you’re experiencing an onset of viral infection and your immune system is unusually weak, you can come down with Lyme symptoms in a matter of days. Much more typically, you’ll carry a virus without knowing it’s in your system for years – possible decades-before it strikes.
Any number of the viruses we’ve talked about tend to hide in your liver, spleen,small intestinal tract, central nervous system ganglia or other areas where they can’t be detected by your immune system.
The liver is where they mostly nestle in, many times never branching out and entering any other spots in the body.
A virus can bide its time until some traumatic physical or emotional event, poor diet, or other trigger weakens you an or provides an environment that makes the virus stronger.
A tick bite is at the bottom of the list of common triggers -not causes- of Lyme,accounting for less than 0.5 percent of Lyme cases.
Millions of people globally come down with symptoms of Lyme disease due to various triggers.
All of these triggers can send you doctor shopping and eventually land you with a Lyme specialist, who, regardless of your test results, may give you the Lyme disease tag – without truly understanding what Lyme even is.
To learn about the most common Lyme triggers, the low down on antibiotics and how to address lyme and reclaim your health read the Part 2 What Triggers Lyme Disease and How to Heal
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