Lyme Disease
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To get a detailed look at how Lyme affects overall health and our approach, read Dr. Waters' paper below...
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The US Centers for Disease Control states that there are 300,000 new cases of Lyme disease in the US in 2017 and that there are probably ten times that number that go unreported.
Anyone who has experienced a prolonged illness from Lyme disease, or known someone who has, understands that this disease can produce various and complex symptoms and isn’t always curable with a two-week course of antibiotics.
At Waters Center for Biological Medicine, we encounter patients who have been ill for sometimes many years after an exposure to Lyme from a tick bite whether they realized they were bitten at the time or not. These people present with a myriad of signs and symptoms – pain, fatigue, brain fog, strange neurological symptoms, etc.
We have developed a program of treatment based on:
In brief, we implement an 8-pronged program to bring the patient back to health.
For a detailed explanation of our Lyme program, please click here.
Listen to Dr. Waters' speak about his approach to Lyme on our videos page!
Watch the video below of a patient talk about his experience at Waters Center...
The US Centers for Disease Control states that there are 300,000 new cases of Lyme disease in the US in 2017 and that there are probably ten times that number that go unreported.
Anyone who has experienced a prolonged illness from Lyme disease, or known someone who has, understands that this disease can produce various and complex symptoms and isn’t always curable with a two-week course of antibiotics.
At Waters Center for Biological Medicine, we encounter patients who have been ill for sometimes many years after an exposure to Lyme from a tick bite whether they realized they were bitten at the time or not. These people present with a myriad of signs and symptoms – pain, fatigue, brain fog, strange neurological symptoms, etc.
We have developed a program of treatment based on:
- what is known about the biology of the causative spirochete, Borrelia Burgdorferi (Bb)
- how it creates symptoms in the human host
- the methods the human immune system uses to defend itself against microbes
- the improvement in the hosts endocrine and immune function including the correction of nutritional deficiencies that contribute to immune dysregulation
In brief, we implement an 8-pronged program to bring the patient back to health.
- An ultra-low carbohydrate or ketogenic diet. Bb can only use sugar as an energy source, and we can operate just fine, indeed even better, without carbs in our diet.
- Identify and correct disorders of the endocrine glands and gastrointestinal function. Getting all body systems in order sets the patient up to eradicate the Lyme infection and heal the damage.
- Judicious use of bacteriostatic antibiotics. These types of antibiotics suppress the bacteria by inhibiting their ability to manufacture proteins.
- Ozone Therapy, also known as MAHT (major auto-hemotherapy), helps the body kill germs and improve its capacity to heal. It improves neurological function and microcirculation, as well as corrects autoimmune disease.
- Herbal medicines offer an added punch with few side effects. These herbal medicines improve immune function by upregulating the functions of natural killer cells, proliferation of immunoregulating T-cells, reducing the excessive production of inflammatory cytokines, reducing oxidative damage to the brain and other tissues and even, in some cases, have direct inhibiting effects on Bb and other microbes. Importantly, herbal medicines do not have the negative impact on the health of the microbiome.
- Supplementing glutathione since the body is often not able to keep up with production of this vital protection agent while fighting inflammation and toxic free radicals.
- Supplementing L-carnitine is also needed due to decreased levels. We need this amino acid to efficiently burn fats in our mitochondrial powerhouses.
- The treatment we use to correct the autoimmune process initiated by Lyme infection is Low Dose Immunotherapy (LDI). Briefly, tiny doses of Lyme antigens are administered at increasing doses sublingually. Over time, the inappropriate reactions initiated by the Lyme infection are dampened and the pain and neurological symptoms subside. The antigens used are highly diluted Lyme proteins. There are NO living organisms, so infection is not possible. This treatment is similar to allergy neutralization treatment and is very safe. At the high dilution used, if there is a reaction or “flare”, it only means we are on the right tract and must change the dose.
For a detailed explanation of our Lyme program, please click here.
Listen to Dr. Waters' speak about his approach to Lyme on our videos page!
Watch the video below of a patient talk about his experience at Waters Center...
