Hey it’s Theresa back at you with more about Immune system healing to reverse chronic Lyme disease, autoimmune illness and troubling persistent symptoms. In my last message I talked in depth about the microbiome and how that plays into everything.
Today I will talk more about overall concepts of Immune System healing .
The two main pillars of immune system healing are:
- Healing your GI tract, the center of the immune system – this includes balancing out your microbiome
- Detoxing accumulated and stored metals, chemicals and other toxins that provoke
autoimmune antibodies.
Working on these two things will help to bring your microbiome back into a place of health so that it is fighting in your corner rather than fighting against you!!
You see, unpleasant symptoms that you feel in your body, like fatigue, achiness, sick feeling in your chest and lungs, unexplained pain, brain fog, unusual levels of anxiety and depression, IBS, constipation and diarrhea, gas and bloating, migraines and headaches, a dizzy, off balance feeling, neuropathies, unexplained joint pain, visual changes, Thyroid and adrenal issues, pituitary issues, insomnia, any many types of nervous system symptoms can be directly related to a sick immune system. When it is attacking certain areas of your body and not attacking what needs to be taken out, you end up with unpleasant symptoms, possibly an autoimmune diagnosis, the inability to fully fight off Lyme disease, and other parasites.
I talk to my clients a lot about stealth chronic “infections” in their bodies. Most of the time conventional testing and even very expensive out of the box testing misses these things because they are not classic, fever producing, strep throat type infections that can be easily found on a blood test or culture swab. Most of the time they are hiding out in what are called biofilms – little slime coated communities of microbes that can be found almost anywhere in your body. These biofilms will line your gut, teeth, and many other places all throughout your body. You see, these little microscopic beings want to live as much as we do!! They have survived the attacks of antibiotics that we have mounted against them and have made themselves even stronger and more adaptable than ever before. They hide out in these biofilms and communicate with other microscopic beings hiding in there with them to help each other out. This is called Quorum sensing. To make matters worse we now know that these biofilms are reinforced by the toxins and heavy metals that we have accumulated over the years. Antibiotics many times cannot bust into these biofilms and therefore the person who goes off their antibiotics sees certain symptoms eventually return.
Many pioneering and successful doctors in the new and emerging field of immune
system healing are confident that many of the symptoms we are seeing in chronic Lyme, autoimmune illness and other unexplained illnesses are a result of our immune system producing an ineffective attack against these hiding little microbes and the toxins that shield them. Until we develop better testing to find them, they remain elusive and well meaning doctors remain puzzled.
So how do we reduce the numbers of these biofilm communities in our bodies in order to take that burden off of our immune systems? 20 years ago Lyme literate doctors started using long term antibiotics to get the job done. Patients were seeing some improvements, but like I mentioned in many cases once the antibiotics were withdrawn, they saw symptoms slowly re-emerge. This has been the dilemma of practitioners in the Chronic Lyme space for several decades now. Advances were then made using HERBAL antibiotics which when taken over a long period of time can do a much better job, much more safely, in taking out these biofilm communities. Many people then got help calming down their immune system and relieving their symptoms. Just as exciting is that people with autoimmune diagnoses and those with troubling long term symptoms started seeing some of these doctors and getting results as well!!Even with negative tests for Lyme disease. Now that was interesting!! This was suggesting that there was indeed similar root causes between those who were suffering with chronic Lyme, those who had autoimmune diagnoses, and those who had troubling long term symptoms. But even still we found that there was a subgroup of people who just couldn’t conquer their symptoms fully, or saw their symptoms return after years of killing bugs in their bodies. Many doctors and scientists were fellow sufferers with their patients. This motivated them to really dig in and look for reasons WHY we just weren’t making full or sufficient progress against these chronic stealth infections and other illnesses. We have since learned that long term inflammation from mold and heavy metals and other toxins can be key players in why people don’t make the progress they need to make. For some it is unhealed emotional trauma that is blocking their progress, and for some it is too much EMF exposure interfering with their progress. For many we are learning that parasites of all types that our bodies used to be able to live it, have become more aggressive due to the persons compromised and inflamed body.
Fortunately more and more practitioners are finding effective ways to detox the things that are causing all the inflammation and I am one of those! The science on all of this is still emerging and will continue to emerge as we forge forward in solving these mysteries. What I love so much about the testing I do, called Zyto testing, is that it doesn’t just look at which bugs may be present in a persons body, or which toxins may be present. It helps us as we work together to look at what their body is prioritizing. Unraveling layer upon layer of damage that these toxins and biofilm
communities have done can be difficult even for the smartest practitioner! Fully
unraveling these layers takes time and persistence for sure.
If you are sick and tired of being sick and tired and needing more answers to what you
have been going through do your research!! Start looking into these toxins and chronic stealth infections that provoke and disrupt your immune system. Look outside of some of the traditional boxes that leave you without answers or hope. Never give up!
Stay tuned to learn more each week about these toxins and chronic stealth infections
that I talked about here today. If I can feel better than I have in decades so can you!! We are on this adventure together!