TED Video about Coinfections and Antibiotics

A TED video of Bonnie Bassler's articulate explanation of why coinfections are so difficult to eradicate with antibiotics:

http://www.lymediseaseresource.com/wordpress/the-magic-key-to-destroy-virulent-bacteria-without-antibiotics/

Financial Support for Lyme Medications

TOUCHED BY LYME: A program that can help you pay for Lyme treatment. Prescription Hope offers a way for patients with financial hardship to obtain low-cost prescription medications.

Click here:

http://www.lymedisease.org/news/touchedbylyme/prescription_hope.html

Why Are Coinfections So Hard to Beat?

Very informative article as to why Lyme + co-infections are so difficult to eradicate due to bacteria's biofilm ability to "communicate" as a colony.

Biofilm Research Shows Co-Infection Challenge for Chronic Lyme Disease 
(From Jenna's Lyme Blog)

http://www.lymediseaseresource.com/wordpress/biofilm-research-shows-co-infection-challenge-for-chronic-lyme-disease/

Blood Test for Early Parkinson's Disease

UK researchers say they have developed a simple blood test to detect Parkinson's disease even at the earliest stages. The test detects a substance in the blood indicative of Parkinson's well before physical symptoms appear.

Read full story:

http://psychcentral.com/news/2011/12/01/blood-test-to-detect-early-parkinsons/32047.html

BBC News - Bacteria 'linked' to Parkinson's disease

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13469716

Herbs, Hormones, and Heavy Metals

Here's a 53-page PowerPoint presentation by Dr. Richard Horowitz about Lyme treatments, detox, metals, efficacy of herbal treatments, and treatment of hormone imbalances. This is a PDF file on the ILADS site.
http://www.ilads.org/files/compendium07/Horowitz.pdf

Diagnosis and treatment of Babesia & other coinfections

Good articles on Cowden protocol and alternative Lyme treatments.
http://www.lyme-disease-research-database.com/lyme_disease_blog.html

Herbs helpful for Lyme

From a Lyme Yahoo group:

Similax/Sarsasparilla - binds to neurotoxins, neuroprotection

Japanese Knotweed - for neurotoxins, has high resveratrol content, crosses the blood brain barrier, anti-inflamnatory, neuroprotective, protects liver from toxins, stimulates micro-circulation

Stephani root - anti-inflammnatory, as good as corticosterioids

Ginko biloba - for brain hypoperfusion

Red Root - to clear cellular debri (I use to help clear out Babesia carnage)

Burdock - system cleanser, eliminates toxins

Andrographis(warning: don't take if have Chronic Lyme) - anti-toxin, alleviates pain, nerve pain, chronic inflammation

cats claw - anti-inflamnatory, immune modulator, protects the heart, general tonic, boosts CD-57 white blood cells

artemisia - crosses blood brain barrier, anti-inflammatory (caution: I read something about it being bad for CFS, but many have success with it for babesia)

Novel Stem Cell Technique in Pre-Clinical Models of Parkinson's Disease

On Sunday, November 6, Lorenz Studer, MD, director of the Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI) for Stem Cell Biology, published a paper in the journal Nature on a new strategy for using embryonic stem (ES) cells to graft human dopamine neurons into pre-clinical models of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Historically, ES cells have shown promise for treating PD in a Petri dish, they have not yet been effective once transplanted into a living organism. Dr. Studer’s new technique, however, has revealed new promise in models of PD, reflecting the potential for dopamine cells’ survival and function in the brain.

See full story:

http://www.michaeljfox.org/living_viewpoints_newsInContext_article.cfm?ID=37

BBC News - Study links Parkinson's disease to industrial solvent

An industrial solvent may be linked to Parkinson's disease.

Read the article here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15639440