Posted by bleauberry on April 9, 2018, at 13:48:43
In reply to Re: Cordyceps for Lyme Disease? » bleauberry, posted by SLS on March 30, 2018, at 14:33:46
> Can you name the top 3 things that Cordyceps does to treat the Lyme infection or its symptoms? Perhaps you can limit your answers to 1-3 sentences for each. I doubt a whole book would be necessary for you to write here.
The primary thing is that it stops the cascades involved in inflammation processes, regardless of the cause.
And it acts as an agonist/antagonist for hormones - it can raise low cortisol and lower high cortisol - depending on what needs to be done - because of the combined agonism/antagonism. I think many psych patients are not aware how much hormones play into their symptoms.
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> Thanks for the book suggestions.for psych patients truly wanting to get better and use every tool they can find to accomplish that, I would say these books are mandatory not suggestions. They really are that good.
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> Politically speaking, is Lyme Disease treatment with antibiotics a left issue or is it a right issue? I should think that the treatment of disease with herbs would be supported more rigorously by the left than by the right. What do you think? Why would a left-leaning search engine filter-out left-leaning treatment paradigms? I am somewhat naive, but I try very hard not to be cynical. Cynicism is bad for you health.Well you certainly cannot trust search engines because most of them are extremely biased. Lyme is not a left or right issue. I would describe it as academia-establishment versus real-world clinicians.
The academia people get all bogged down in clinical trials and scientific explanations - which are usually deeply flawed when you look closely at the details and fine print of how those studies were actually executed, choice of samples, who funded them, and who did the subjective summaries of what it all means.
The academia-establishment folks do extremely well with mechanical medicine - but not mystery medicine. Lyme is definitely in the mystery column. Being the great imitator, able to duplicate almost any cluster of symptoms you can think of and be misdiagnosed, it does not lend itself at all to the ways American science organizes the way it does studies. The individual variables from one person to the next are too great.
The real world clinicians - such as the 2 doctors who ended my treatment resistant depression - base their treatments on the successes/failures/discoveries they make in their own private practices, and add to that with further study at seminars and books - academia-establishment pretty much ignore what's happening in the real world and focus only on what their white coat lab guys concluded.
It's sort of like the divide with amalgam fillings. You've got academia telling you that a minute amount of the 2nd most toxic substance on earth in your mouth is ok. But in the real world we see people's symptoms improve dramatically with the removal of amalgams.
So you have to choose your camp and go with it. I am obviously not in the academia-establishment camp, though I was the entire time I used to be here while on psych meds. I didn't really start getting better until I went to real-world docs who knew a bunch of stuff the lab coats didn't know. And it is still that way today.
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Some patients improve greatly with herbs. They helped pave the way for me. But many people find that herbs alone are not quite enough to get over the hump. Antibiotics - usually 3 at a time - are often required. It's hard. I don't want anyone to think it's as easy as going out and getting some antibiotics and then wham your depression goes away. It takes months of cleaning up the infections and inflammation and getting hormones and such back into balance.
For me that was 3 years. I didn't even see any psychiatric improvement until after 1 year. As I look back now though, I see that 3 years was a very small investment compared to the 20+ years I had put into my psychiatrists without good results. My psychiatric journey was maybe around $120,000 total with not much to show for it. Lyme treatment that gave a lot to show was maybe around $10,000.
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> https://www.google.com/search?&q=Healing+Lyme%2C+Stephen+Buhner&oq=Healing+Lyme%2C+Stephen+Buhner
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> https://www.google.com/search?&q=Why+Can%27t+I+Get+Better%2C+Horowitz
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> https://www.google.com/search?&q=Lyme+disease+and+Modern+Chinese+Medicine%2C+Dr.+Qingcai+Zhang
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> - Scott
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