article: lyme disease may have physical cause

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This repost is a fraction of a post I just deleted, having realized it

contains a long, technical spiel that has no point.

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Your Holiness,

Time for another Th1/Th2 showdown!

Actually I'll be busy this week, but I'd be ravenous to at least read

what youre reading on borrelial Osps affecting macrophage receptors in

a super-inflammatory way. Is there a simple experiment showing this?

> 5) As far as Th1 vs Th2, applied to Lyme, forget all about the

> Engineer. We have bonafide Lyme researches working on that. And what

> they appear to me to be saying goes like this:

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> 6) If the bugs have their way, your immune system will spend all its

> energy waging a pointless, self-defeating battle against a target it

> can't see, damaging your body in the process.

>

> This is because the outer surface proteins of Borrelia burgdorferi

> act directly on macrophages, forcing them to secrete cytokines that

> foster inflammation rather than effective antibody formation.