Natural Treatment For Lyme Disease

Hey, everybody. Dr. Diane here in this video, we're going to talk about natural treatments for Lyme disease. And one of the things I want you to orient to is that natural does not always mean weaker. Sometimes people get concerned that by using natural, they are not having the results that pharmaceutical medicine has. And that is not always true, and sometimes the opposite is true. So we really want to consider the big picture of everything that's going on now with Lyme disease. One of the things that comes into play play that we have to consider for treatment is that Lyme disease has these three different shapes. We call them morphologies. And Lyme disease has the ability to switch these shapes. It's kind of like putting it on a different costume at a costume party. Somebody shows up and they're spider Man. You're like, oh, that person, that's John over there. He's Spider Man. And he goes into the bathroom, and all of a sudden he comes out and he's X man. And you're like, where'd John go? Right. And so that's like the immune system with treating these Borrelia spirochetes, the Lyme bacteria, is that the Lyme bacteria has this ability to shape shift into these different morphologies. And so when we're. Your immune system is looking for the Lyme, it has to alter itself in order to find these. The Lyme in the different shapes. Another thing that's super, super important to understand is that when we use antibiotics, antibiotics target one shape. So very frequently with antibiotic use, you need to be giving three different antibiotics to shift and to basically get these shapes all taken care of. Right. So that's a big problem because now we see some research showing that even with one use of antibiotics, with one course of one antibiotic, that the microbiome can be destroyed up to 90%. And the problem with that is that the microbiome is a huge part of our energy. It's a huge part of our immune system. In our microbiome, we activate vitamins and minerals. So it's a huge portion of how we actually convert vitamins and minerals into the usable forms in our body. And it's a huge part of our immune system. And when we're working with Lyme, we got to have a working immune system. So that's one of the challenges. And I'm not saying by any means that antibiotics should not be in our toolbox. I think when it comes to treating chronic illness, we. We need to keep our toolbox very, very wide. So I'm not Saying that it's not a place for these things. But what I'm saying is what I would recommend, what we tend to recommend in our clinical practice, and what I'm trying to educate you on, is I would not recommend using antibiotics as a first line of treatment, because when we destroy our immune system, guess what? Recurrence is a lot more likely. And I see recurrence so much more frequently in the people that have used long courses of antibiotics. So I'd hugely recommend focusing on herbal medicine as a portion of how you're treating this is a huge part of how you're treating this. And a big portion of using herbal medicine is making sure you're pulsing it. Because we can have these types of cells, they're called persister cells. And persister cells are very resistant to most things. Right? They're very, very resistant to antibiotics or resistant to a lot of herbs. But one of the ways we actually start getting the persisters and getting these hidden cells is by pulsing our therapy. So we can do things like five days on a therapy, two days off. That also gives the body the ability to heal, to clear any toxins that get released when we are actually killing these microorganisms, because the microorganisms will release their toxins. So that's really important. And I use. I do pulse, and I do use crypto lepsis as an herb in my practice. And crypto lepsis is a really important herb to understand because there's studies that have shown that crypto lepsis is way superior for getting these persistent, these dormant, these cells that are hard to kill. Cryptolepsis outperforms every herb and every pharmaceutical in the study. Right. So again, we got to get away from this thinking of, like, antibiotics versus herbs is always better. And we got to really start thinking more holistically and understand which each. How each of these medicines work, to use them in the toolbox when it's appropriate. So for most people, I recommend starting on herbal therapy, pulsing it, making sure you're working with somebody that understands how to really get at all of these three different shapes and then only use antibiotics if you're not getting results. Right. Because that way we can, for most people, avoid depleting the immune system. And that's going to keep the rates of recurrence low. It's going to keep you healthier. It's going to help so much with treatment. So I hope that helps. Again, I'm Dr. Diane. If you like this information, please do subscribe to my channel. You can always book a consult with us over at my lime, Doc. Information about working with us is in the show notes. We'll see you next time.