Hi Ben,

I eat liver from time to time - maybe once a week. My iron levels tend to be
too high so I try not to eat it too often.

From what I have read, with Lyme disease there's a potential that the
bacteria will form cysts in which they "hide" and that no antibiotic can get
to. So then you have antibiotics killing other bacteria (beneficial and not
so beneficial) while the borrelia bacteria is hiding in and multiplying in
cysts. When you stop the antibiotics they come out of hiding and you feel
just as bad as before if not worse.

That's the reading I have done so far. Not sure if this is true. I am
leaning towards fasting.

Kristina Carlton
Personal Blog


> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: Lyme Disease
> 
> Kristina,
> Do you eat liver and kidneys? Nothing increases the immune system like
> retinol (the active animal based form of vitamin A)(Far more effective
> than
> plant based carotenes), and the vitamin D also helps. People have
> dropped
> their bundle about vitamin A because you can overdose by taking
> supplements.
> True hunter gatherers eat offal. Personally I suspect that it is
> important
> to eat offal if you are eating high meat, low carb diets. You can kill
> a dog
> or cat or lion if you just feed it steak or chicken breast, but they do
> nicely on steak, liver and ribs.
> 
> Why wouldn't you just try the antibiotics and see how they go?
> Tetracyclines have very little toxicity- they are given to people for
> decades for moderate acne or to prevent chest infections. Mostly they
> never
> notice any side effects. It does not suppress the immune system, that
> is an
> urban myth (propagated by doctors to discourage over usage of
> antibiotics).
> If there are active bacteria, then only tetracycline will do the job.
> Unfortunately the longer you leave it the less effect they have, and
> the
> text books aren't enthused after a long period of infection. But there
> is
> not much other hope.
> 
> Ben