Dr. Diane Mueller discusses piperacillin as a potential Lyme treatment and explains why antibiotics alone often fail: they push bacteria into dormant cystic forms but don't eliminate them. She argues herbal therapies like Cryptolepis may work better for chronic cases, and flags mold illness as an overlooked factor in treatment.
Hey everybody, welcome back to my channel. I want to make sure everybody knows about some of the buzz around one of the newish antibiotics being talked about for Lyme disease, which is piperacillin. So piperacillin has been shown in animal studies to dramatically outperform the standard of care doxycycline, and some of the conversation has been that doxycycline doxycycline, the thought is that doxycycline doesn't eradicate fully this component of Lyme called the peptidoglycan. And the peptidoglycan, when the Borrelia, when Lyme is killed by doxy, there's an element of this, this component, this molecule that will live in joint spaces, for example, and that can cause some chronic symptoms. So the thought of this and the thought of the piperacillin is more better able to eradicate the peptidoglycans. And because of that, you're able to then see sometimes that there's less chronic Lyme symptoms. So that's what the studies say. I still feel like this is a not very thorough component of looking at this because from what I see in studies, the other studies are things like with Lyme, we have these 3 different morphologies. We have these 3 different shapes that Lyme can go in and out of. We have our L form, our S form, and our cystic form. And so the cystic form is going to be that more dormant form of Lyme. And one of the things that's important to understand is that we see that one of the things antibiotics do is they cause some of the, the active form, the S form, to transfer into that dormant form of Lyme, that more cystic form. And when this happens, people actually get temporarily better oftentimes because there's much less activity in that form of the microorganism, of the Borrelia. But the problem is that when that Borrelia turns out of that cystic form back into its active form, which it can do, then all of a sudden we see the symptoms flare. And so I really feel like with this, it's not as simple as just saying, okay, well, let's get after the Borrelia in a different way, but we want to make sure those dormant forms are killed. So because of that, that's where I really lean on studies such as the studies on Cryptolepis, which show that they can really get to those dormant forms. So if people are deciding to use antibiotic— antibiotics, which typically I find aren't necessary in chronic Lyme, that the herbs work very well, then I rely on studies that are showing that Cryptolepis, for example, can outperform form, the antibiotics, at least in the studies which included doxycycline, which would go in and actually completely eradicate those dormant forms. So it is something that I know is, you know, coming up, is the questions around this new and newish antibiotic use for Lyme. And I wanted to say that, you know, we do want to consider this, of course, like anytime there's new research, but we also want to rely on the fact that, hey, we want to make sure that these dormant forms are really addressed, and there needs to be additional studies to say, is that even happening with this particular antibiotic, when other studies have shown that antibiotics typically do not go after that dormant form as well as herbal therapies. It's one of the reasons I've relied so heavily upon herbal therapy in my Lyme practices, because of studies like I'm talking about. Now, another common thing I see with Lyme disease is that people oftentimes have Lyme and and, and, and, and, and, and, and the most common hidden thing that people forget about with Lyme is also having mold illness. And so it's not uncommon that I see that people will jump from antibiotic to antibiotic to antibiotic looking for that perfect treatment when part of the problem is that there is mold and there is mold there. And we need to get to that root cause. So if you haven't taken my free quiz yet, please go to getwellquiz.com and take, Take my free quiz because what I'm doing there is in that quiz the whole point is to put in your symptoms and to then to get information about other common missing root, root cause tests that you may not have done. So I do encourage you to do that because like I said so many times, when people are not getting better, it's not just the treatment, it's that one of the root causes or multiple of the root causes have not been found. All right everybody, see you in another video.
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