Chronic Lyme disease is responsible for a range of medically unexplained symptoms. The disease affects every tissue and every major organ system in the body and is widely under reported.

STAGES OF BORRELIA

Borrelia exists in three different life stages: 1) the cyst, 2) the spheroplast which doesn’t have a cell wall (commonly called: cell wall deficient (CWD)), and 3) the typical spiral-shaped bacteria form that has a cell wall and flagella. Humans can be hosts for all three stages of ticks.

The spirochete travels through all the tissues of the body. By rotating their axial filament (endoflagella), the spirochetes move in a corkscrew fashion. They literally "screw" themselves into and through the tissues of the body. Spirochetes hide their flagella from the host’s immune defenses......

DANGERS OF CORTISONE TREATMENT

The therapy most often prescribed, that is extremely contraindicated, is the use of cortisone. Treating these patients with steroids reduces the pain and inflammation.

Unfortunately, steroidal therapy is very harmful to Lyme patients because it suppresses the patient’s immune system causing the immune system to tolerate the presence of Borrelia instead of attacking and killing it....


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