Dr. Diane Mueller argues doxycycline, the standard Lyme treatment, pushes bacteria into dormant states that reactivate later as fibromyalgia, migraines, and joint pain. Research shows herbal compounds like Cryptolepis and Artemisia eliminate these dormant forms better than the antibiotic alone.
Hey everybody, it's Dr. Diane Mueller, Lyme and mold expert here, talking today about doxycycline and doxycycline as a standard of care for Lyme treatment. So one of the frustrations I've had about doxycycline as a standard of care is the research that has shown that it does not get to the persister dormant cells of Lyme, and in fact it even creates them. So the thing about Lyme is, is that Lyme, the bacteria that causes it, Borrelia burgdorferi, has the ability to morph and shift shapes. And the way I describe it to people is it's almost like being at a costume party and you kind of have everybody figured out because they have their mask on and they're like, oh yeah, that's Jane over there and that's Bobby Sue over there. You kind of get everybody figured out, and then they go and change their costume and they put on a different mask, and it's like, who's that new person at the party? Well, that's basically like your immune system, right? When Lyme changes shape. So Lyme, the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria of Lyme, has the ability to put on a different costume. And your immune system, when it figures out, oh, this is how I fight Lyme, Lyme can actually transfer into a different form, right? So with doxycycline, one of the things that it does very well is kill one of the forms of Lyme disease. The problem is, is that it will convert Lyme and convert the Borrelia into this different costume, into these dormant cells and these persister cells. And what we see in some of the studies is that Lyme will regrow after being treated with Doxy, sometimes as short as a couple weeks later. And so what can happen for many people is they're treated with Doxy, they feel well, Lyme is regrowing, but in these dormant forms. And then the dormant forms aren't super active, so somebody might not feel bad initially. But what makes the dormant forms come out of hiding is a stressful event. And then what happens in that stressful event is those dormant cells coming out of hiding, and then it doesn't look like initial Lyme disease anymore. It might look like fibromyalgia, it might look like a migraine, it might look like anxiety or depression, it might look like a gut problem, might look like neurological issues, it might look like joint pain. And so people aren't thinking Lyme because they thought they took the doxy and that got resolved. So it never triggers people sometimes to even ask their doctor about it. And many doctors aren't triggered to even look into it because it's already been treated. So that's one of my biggest problems with doxy. And I'm not saying it doesn't work sometimes for some people, but for many people, they have these resurgences later and they don't even know that it's Lyme disease.. And furthermore, what's real frustrating to me is there's studies on herbs like Cryptolepis and like Artemisia which outperform doxycycline, especially with these dormant forms, these dormant costumes of Lyme. So there are things we can do to really prevent these dormant forms from coming back, but that is going to be beyond doxycycline. So even if you decide after talking to your doctor that you want to use doxycycline, In my opinion, why would we not combine it with one of these other herbs like Cryptolepis or Artemisia, which are so good and are beyond and outperform doxycycline in research with really getting to those dormant persister forms of Lyme disease. So I hope this has been helpful. Please do share this with anybody that you think would need this information. Thanks a lot for your support, and I'll see you in another video.
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