Seven Innovative Treatments For Lyme Disease | DR. ADAM BREINER

If you’ve been diagnosed with Lyme disease, chances are good you’ve been prescribed antibiotics. That may be fine, but it may not be enough to keep symptoms at bay. You may find the problems you were having return a few weeks, months, or even years later. This happens because the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria (which causes Lyme disease) likes to “hide out” in tissues where blood flow and therefore oxygen is reduced, such as in connective tissue.

Borrelia has also been found to create biofilms, which are like a walled-in city, and the bacteria can survive there in safety until antibiotics are no longer in the body’s system. Then the Borrelia bacteria will reemerge, causing symptoms of Lyme disease to appear once again.

Do You Have Lyme Disease?

Fewer than 50% of patients with Lyme Disease recall getting a tick bite. It is thought that the longer the tick is attached, the higher the risk of transmission. 

Transmission from an infected tick can happen very quickly.

It’s possible to contract Lyme disease even if the tick is attached for less than 24 hours. If you don’t develop the classic “bulls-eye rash”, the Erythema rash, it doesn’t mean that you don’t have Lyme. Some studies show that the rash can occur in less than 20% of Lyme patients, therefore this is not necessarily a good indicator as proof of infection.

If you do find a tick on you or your child, you should proceed to carefully remove the tick as instructed on the ILADS (International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society) website. As cautioned on their website, do not squeeze, burn the tick with a match, or place Vaseline on the tick. Go to: http://www.ilads.org/lyme/what-to-do-if-bit-by-tick.php for instructions as well as a video on their recommended tick-removal process. Once you have the tick, I advise my patients (unless they are coming into the office with the tick) to send the captured tick for testing.

Tick Report (https://www.tickreport.com/) is an excellent place to send the tick for testing for Lyme Disease and other tick-borne diseases.

Tick Report is a non-profit resource based at UMass Amherst; the turn-around time is fairly rapid, and their price is very reasonable.

So how should you treat Lyme disease?

Seven Innovative Treatments

While Dr. Breiner is adamant that no one treatment is guaranteed to work for every patient, he describes seven “alternative” approaches that consistently get great outcomes.

Botanical Medicine

No matter how advanced medical science becomes, never underestimate the powers of Mother Nature!

Many antimicrobial herbs and herbal formula combinations have been shown to effectively kill Borrelia burgdorferi (the bacteria that causes Lyme disease) and other tick-borne pathogens.

“Herbs have an incredibly complex combination of phytochemicals that can be very harmful to certain bacteria, yet are harmless to people,” Dr. Breiner shares. “Even top PhD pharmaceutical researchers have a hard time creating such things in the lab! Incorporating botanical medicine into a patient’s overall treatment protocol can help prevent a resistance to medications such as antibiotics from forming.”

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is incredibly effective at killing Borrelia burgdorferi. In fact, one clinical study has shown that 75 percent of patients with chronic Lyme disease experience improvements in their symptoms while using HBOT. (Of this 75 percent, a quarter experience complete remission of symptoms!)

During HBOT, patients are placed inside a hyperbaric oxygen chamber with an oxygen concentration of 100 percent. The chamber is slowly raised between 1.5 to 2 times the normal atmospheric pressure, allowing more oxygen to enter the bloodstream and cerebral spinal fluid.

“Borrelia bacteria are microphilic anaerobes, meaning that they don’t like a lot of oxygen,” Dr. Breiner explains.

“Under hyperbaric conditions, the concentration of oxygen can become great enough to kill Borrelia, especially in combination with antibiotic and/or herbal therapies.

Furthermore, since HBOT reduces inflammation in the brain and other tissues, it can bring healing and resolution to many of the inflammatory side effects of Lyme disease, such as brain fog and other neurological impairments.”

Biomagnetic Therapy

Biomagnetic Pair Therapy (BPT), also known as Biomagnetism, is relatively new to this country. It is a safe, hands-on therapy that is holistic in approach.

Your body’s pH is critical, and pathogens such as the Lyme spirochete thrive in areas outside of your normal body pH of 7.32. In our center, we identify organs or tissues that are out of normal polarity and place corresponding magnets in appropriate pairs.

This helps to normalize the pH at these points. The Lyme spirochete cannot survive in a normal pH environment. Practitioners of BPT have identified specific points on the body that are commonly associated with Lyme Disease and many of its co-infections.

EEG Neurofeedback

An electroencephalogram (EEG) is one of the most accurate tools to measure the functioning of the brain. As patients’ brain waves are read in real time, special software gives rewards—for example, audible feedback or making a movie brighter—when optimal brain wave patterns occur. This prompts the brain to subconsciously repattern itself.

“Neurofeedback can help treat the ‘brain fog’ from which many Lyme patients suffer,” Dr. Breiner says.

“Certain neurofeedback protocols can even help boost the immune system, since the brain is the master commander of the immune system.”

Diet

Diets that are pro-inflammatory and depleted of nutrients (i.e., the average American diet!) cause imbalances in the body’s biochemistry. Specifically, says Dr. Breiner, the body will become more acidic and inflamed, and less oxygen will be available on the cellular level. Infections such as Borrelia burgdorferi thrive in these conditions.

Borrelia bacteria and other co-infections common with Lyme then release their own toxins, which further disrupt cellular functions and chemistry.

Enter nutritional intervention, which focuses on using supplements and a proper diet to restore biochemical balance.

“Blood tests and hair analysis can tell a clinician which nutrients are most needed for a particular patient,” Dr. Breiner explains. “These tests can also indicate how the patient’s body best metabolizes foods, and which type of diet will work best. Most Lyme patients will benefit from a low-glycemic, high-antioxidant diet rich in fresh organic produce. Patients should also be tested for hidden food sensitivities, such as to gluten, since these can increase inflammation.”

Homeopathic Medicines

Homeopathics are gentle yet effective medicines that use highly diluted natural substances to stimulate the body’s natural healing abilities.

Homeopathics can boost the immune system to more effectively fight the infectious pathogenic organisms that are contributing to the Lyme patient’s symptoms (including the Borrelia bacteria, viruses, and other co-infections).

Homeopathics can also assist various organs in eliminating toxins.

“Homeopathics do not actually kill the organisms themselves, but send information to the body that tells it to ‘wake up’ and address pathogens via its natural immune responses,” Dr. Breiner comments. “The remedies chosen are tailored to the individual patient and may be updated on subsequent visits as organism levels change.”

Traditional Japanese Reiki & Acupuncture

Traditional Oriental medicine such as Traditional Japanese Reiki and acupuncture is rapidly finding its way into the mainstream—and for good reason. Dr. Breiner explains that electromagnetic energy (referred to as Qi) flows in “rivers” (or meridians) throughout the body.

When certain meridians have too much or too little Qi flowing through them, the body becomes imbalanced. This can be corrected by tapping into acupuncture points where the “rivers” of energetic meridians tend to “well.”

“Lyme disease tends to create energetic blockages that can contribute to the patient’s symptoms and make them harder to treat,” Dr. Breiner shares.

“For instance, many patients have blockages in some of the meridians that feed energy to the head, and may experience symptoms such as brain fog or headaches. These same energetic blockages can prevent medicines from reaching their intended destination. On the flip side, the toxic die-off of the Borrelia bacteria may have more difficulty exiting the body effectively.

Opening these energetic blockages through Traditional Japanese Reiki or acupuncture will often improve a patient’s symptoms and allow other therapies to work more effectively.”

Oh, and one other thing.

Do the best you can to purify your body and live a healthy lifestyle. This is great advice for all of us—but especially for those whose health has been compromised by Lyme disease.

“It’s important to supplement antibiotics with natural therapies that promote whole-body balance,” comments Dr. Breiner.

“When the body is overwhelmed with toxins, chemicals, viruses, and bacteria (which is a common state of affairs in the modern world), the organs of detoxification like the liver and lymphatic system become stressed and overtaxed. This makes it much less likely that they’ll be able to fight off Lyme disease and its symptoms.”

Learn more about how to detect Lyme Disease via Dr. Breiner’s recommended specialized lab testing, as well as his in-office testing.

Dr. Breiner was featured in Natural Nutmeg magazine on Innovative Treatments for Lyme Disease. Read FULL ARTICLE.

Dr. Adam BreinerDr. Adam Breiner practices naturopathic medicine at Whole-Body Medicine in Fairfield, CT. Patients from Connecticut and surrounding states seek his care for Lyme Disease, Brain Injuries, such as stroke, concussions, TBI, as well as enhanced Brain Performance. Visit: www.wholebodymed.com or to schedule an appointment call 203-371-8258 ext. 2.

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