Re: other co-infection?

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A LLMD, the Buhner

> protocol plus probiotics, enzymes etc.. and a drastic change in her diet are

> paying off!. She is not yet 100%, but we have no doubts she will reach that

> point.

that sounds great!

> The LLMD explains that the goal is not necessarily to get rid of the

> bugs (is that possible???) but to reduce its load and increase the immune

> system to a point where one may have the bugs but NOT the disease. Great, we

> can live with that!!!

if that is really the case (I think it could be) then the question is: is

Borrelia the real cause of Lyme disease?? Isn't the (major) problem/cause our

environment, including diet, psychology etc.

> Getting to the question why " most other mammals are hardly effected " , I

> would argue that we humans have much more diverse diets/life styles than

> each other group of mammals, which may explain much big variations in the

> humans' immune systems (possibly explaining why some get down with the bugs

> and others don't) than in other mammals (who basically continue doing/eating

> the some stuff anywhere in the world and for centuries).

yes, interesting subject and it would help us if there was more solid

information available.

There is one animal that gets almost the same lyme disease symptoms as humans

(including neuroborreliosis): rhesus monkeys. They have a pretty strict diet

AFAIK, certainly not very diverse like us. And I guess they are genetically far

more homogenous than humans, because of the small numbers and their relatively

specific habitat.

So yes, maybe the rhesus monkeys have bad luck that they just happen to have an

immune system that is easily targeted by the bugs, without the option to adapt

(genetically) quickly enough like humans.

It would be interesting to check this idea statistically, but it is a 'sensitive

subject'. If immune diversity is key, I would assume that people with mixed

racial properties are less likely to get Lyme than those with e.g. clearly

African or Caucasian roots. I'm not really talking about 'race' in everyday

terms (external appearance is just a few genes, relatively), but more the

genetic properties like they are now routinely available through genetic

testing.

There is also some research regarding people with HLA-A antigenes (I think this

means bloodgroup A, not sure though) being more likely to get Lyme. The

bloodgroups also have some relation with race, and according to others there is

some relation between bloodgroup and diet (diet recommendations).