<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi All,</div><div><div><br></div><div><b><div style="font-weight: normal; "><b>Context:</b> Unlike the US, most Canadian physicians and labs are diagnostically LD incompetent, with physicians too often saying (as with Candidiasis), "it is all in your head." The broad complexity of symptoms just confounds them rather than igniting their scientific/diagnostic curiousity. Or perhaps the pretense of confounding is the best career preserving path.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><div>Indicative of the LD symptom complexity is this check list that one of the relatively few LD specialist MDs uses -- fear of regulatory college persecution/prosecution greatly limits the # of involved MDs even when they recognize LD's existence & prevalence.</div><div><a href="http://lymedisease.org/resources/handouts1.html">http://lymedisease.org/resources/handouts1.html</a>. And fewer still risk prescribing a natural product instead of the "mandatory" antibiotic.</div><div><br></div></div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">Yet when a natural product is the best treatment option, then it may be worth the risk if successful treatment is the goal rather than endless recurrence for many -- such as my wife and myself -- when prescribed antibiotics for LD. </div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">As I discovered, there is a very effective natural product for LD that is side-effect free. Such products are increasingly helping to make it possible for physicians to practice this part of their Hippocratic Oath, </div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">I will </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_prescription#History" title="Medical prescription" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; ">prescribe</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "> regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primum_non_nocere" title="Primum non nocere" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; ">never do harm</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "> to anyone.</span>"</div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">This natural product successfully treated our Lyme disease 6+ years ago: Lyme Immune System #72 <a href="http://www.belllifestyleproducts.com/en-ca/lyme-immune-system-72.htm">http://www.belllifestyleproducts.com/en-ca/lyme-immune-system-72.htm</a>. </div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">And the article research that I am doing currently on body pH (urine & saliva as indicators) suggests the need for a slightly alkaline pH of ideally 7.365 (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvqHSi9oyfw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvqHSi9oyfw</a>) so as to create an internal ecosystem that discourages pathogens -- a slightly acidic normal vaginal pH is at least one exception <a href="http://womenshealth.about.com/od/vaginalhealth/a/vaginalphtestin.htm">http://womenshealth.about.com/od/vaginalhealth/a/vaginalphtestin.htm</a>. </div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">The very long product commentary here on this second BELL product has some very useful details -- including alkalizing <b><div style="font-weight: normal; display: inline !important; ">& acidifying </div></b><b><div style="font-weight: normal; display: inline !important; ">food lists. Bell Acidic Stomach Alkaline Balance #39</div></b></div></b><b><div style="font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.canadanutrition.com/products/96-bell-acidic-stomach-alkaline-balance.aspx">http://www.canadanutrition.com/products/96-bell-acidic-stomach-alkaline-balance.aspx</a>.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">To best ensure a successful treatment, this 3rd BELL product might be useful -- in addition to pH alkalizing -- to take simultaneously, BELL SUPREME IMMUNE BOOSTER #52 500MG - 90 CAPS - MUSHROOM EXTRACTS </div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.nationalnutrition.ca/detail.aspx?ID=4305">http://www.nationalnutrition.ca/detail.aspx?ID=4305</a></div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><div><div><br></div><div>Coincidently CBC Radio's Ontario Today has just had a program on Lyme disease -- <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/ontariotoday/2012/07/18/thursday-chronic-lyme-disease/">http://www.cbc.ca/ontariotoday/2012/07/18/thursday-chronic-lyme-disease/</a>. The guest Jim Wilson is President of the Canadian Lyme Disease Association has well-researched views about physician & lab LD incompetency. (<a href="http://www.canlyme.com/bottom.html">http://www.canlyme.com/bottom.html</a>). </div><div><div><br></div><div>Some other Lyme websites:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="text-align: left; ">Lyme Disease Remedies</div><a href="http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/lyme_disease.html">http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/lyme_disease.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><div style="text-align: left; ">Lyme disease controversy - On The Island - CBC Player (w. Elizabeth May on her LD Bill)</div><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/player/AudioMobile/On+The+Island/ID/2250464529/?sort=MostPopular">http://www.cbc.ca/player/AudioMobile/On+The+Island/ID/2250464529/?sort=MostPopular</a></div><div><br></div><div><div style="text-align: left; ">Tackling lyme disease from the floor of the House of Commons. - Ottawa Morning - CBC Player</div><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/Local+Shows/Ontario/ID/2255418330/?page=10">http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/Local+Shows/Ontario/ID/2255418330/?page=10</a></div><div><br></div><div>Robert</div><div><br></div><div>PS: From a comment to today's CBC Radio program Ontario Today by Prof. Emeritus, Dr. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(20, 18, 18); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Douglas W.Larson</span>:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(20, 18, 18); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">In "Storyteller Guitar (Dundurn, Toronto, 2011)",<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">I tell the following story... (about earlier ecosystem disruption by species extinction)<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Lyme disease exploded in the 1970's. It the fastest growing bacterial disease in North America. It has exploded because we caused the extinction of the passenger pigeon and it's host plant (the American Chestnut) over 100 years ago. Originally white tailed deer, deermice and ticks were rare in the eastern seaboard because the American chestnut was so abundant. Deer did not eat the chestnuts but the pigeons did. <br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">But once we cut out most the chestnut, killed all the passenger pigeons and allowed maple/oak/beech forests to grow, the white tailed deer and other hosts of the spirochete bacterium all exploded.<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">We are now paying the price for an extinction event that we caused a century ago. Why should we conserve species? There might be more Lyme diseases out there.....<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Dr. Douglas W.Larson (President of this years Hillside Feastival)<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Emeritus Professor <br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">University of Guelph</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(20, 18, 18); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">(Perhaps best known for his very innovative work on ancient Cliff Ecology <a href="http://www.uoguelph.ca/ib/people/faculty/larson.shtml)">http://www.uoguelph.ca/ib/people/faculty/larson.shtml)</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 19-Jul-12, at 12:46 PM, ......... wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-CA" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1" style="page: Section1; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Hi Robert: M****s niece has a friend who has developed Lyme’s disease and has not found a remedy for it. I remember you found something that helped you and your wife. Could you let me now what it is so I can pass the information along? Thanks for your help with this. .......<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></div></div></span></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-CA" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1" style="page: Section1; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><br></span></font></div></div></div></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-CA" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1" style="page: Section1; "></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></b></div></div></body></html>