Biofilms and Lyme Disease?

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Biofilms and Lyme Disease?

By Rosner on Oct 15, 2009 in Research

_http://lymebook.com/blog/research-news/biofilms-and-lyme-disease/_

(http://lymebook.com/blog/research-news/biofilms-and-lyme-disease/)

Every year, there is a new buzzword in the Lyme disease community. For a

year or two, everyone focuses on the buzzword, and researchers and

physicians are in a frenzy to find new treatments for the buzzword. Supplement

companies go banannas making money on the buzzword.

In 2009, the buzzword is **biofilms.** I'm not exactly sure how much

biofilms really have to do with Lyme disease, and how much of it is just â€the

word of the year buzz.†I’ll leave that to the experts to decide. But, one

of the interesting factors when it comes to biofilms, and the reason I'm

even writing about it, is that this buzzword may be a clue as to why rife

machines may work to treat Lyme disease.( _What is a rife machine?_

(http://www.lymeandrifebook.com/) )

It used to be thought that rife therapy just vibrated bacteria to death.

Now, however, it appears that rife may also be acting on bacterial biofilms.

This is not my opinion; there are numerous studies concluding this. In

fact, the word “biofilm†is actually used in the studies showing that EMF

disrupts biofilms. They use this technology in sewage and agricultural

purification; a technology similar to rife therapy

Rife and EMF studies

For example, consider the following studies:

_http://ps.fass.org/cgi/content/full/86/10/2139_

(http://ps.fass.org/cgi/content/full/86/10/2139)

_http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12031461_

(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12031461)

A Radio Frequency Electric Current Enhances Antibiotic Efficacy against

Bacterial Biofilms

_http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=529182_'>http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=529182_

(http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=529182)

Engineering Approaches for the Detection and Control of Orthopaedic

Biofilm Infections

_http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi? & pubmedid=16056027_

(http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi? & pubmedid=16056027)

Mechanism of electrical enhancement of efficacy of antibiotics in killing

biofilm bacteria.

_http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=188289_

(http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=188289)

These studies all support the hypothesis that rife may lead to symptom

reduction not just because of its ability to disrupt spirochetes, but also

because of its ability to disrupt Lyme-related biofilms.

To learn more about rife machines, read _Lyme Disease and Rife Machines_

(http://www.lymeandrifebook.com/) . (http://www.lymeandrifebook.com/)

Where to go from here?

Some people also use serrapeptase, nattokinase, or, more recently,

_Bolouke also known as Lumbrokinase_

(https://www.researchednutritionals.com/store/item.cfm?code=CBD202) , , to try

to disrupt bacterial biofilms. I’m not

sure how well these work, but I’m sure the experts will be providing us with

some additional answers in the future.

In the meantime, if you want to read more about how Lyme doctors are

treating Lyme disease, I suggest you read _Insights Into Lyme Disease Treatment_

(http://www.lymebook.com/insights-lyme-treatment-strasheim-book) , a book

that is based on interviews with 13 Lyme Literate Medical Doctors. It was

written by Connie Strasheim, and she basically saves you thousands of dollars

and a lot of time in travel, by bringing the health care practitioners’

treatment to you, rather than you having to go travel to find them

Links

I will leave you with some good links for further investigating biofilms:

_Understanding Biofilms_ (http://bacteriality.com/2008/05/26/biofilm/)

_Lyme Bytes: Getting Rid of Gut Biofilm and The Critters It Protects_

(http://lymebytes.blogspot.com/2008/10/getting-rid-of-gut-biofilm-and-critters.h

tml)

_Introduction to Biofilms: Negative and positive impacts of biofilm_

(http://www.cs.montana.edu/ross/personal/intro-biofilms-s3.htm)

_Biofilms and Lyme Disease: F.I.G.H.T for your health!_

(http://lymebook.com/fight/biofilms-and-lyme-disease/)

_LymeMD: Biofilms_ (http://lymemd.blogspot.com/2008/07/biofilms.html)

_Biofilm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia_

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofilm)