Lyme Disease and Raw Milk..

When I had first met my LLMD, he explained to me the importance of raw dairy during Lyme treatment, as I hadn't been doing much dairy at all.

He suggested that I read a study called "Pottenger's Cats."

He briefly went through the book with me.

A man had two sets of cats. One was fed raw milk and the other was fed pasteurized. The cats on the raw milk thrived, while the cats on the pasteurized died.

Isn't drinking unpasteurized milk dangerous? That's why it's illegal to sell, right?

So wrong.

While it is possible to get sick from unpasteurized milk, it is very rare. So rare that one in 6 million people (from what I've read on various sites) will fall ill.

Raw milk has many health benefits, including being a good source of natural probiotic, enzymes and other vitamins and nutrients. So many, that even people that end up having a dairy allergy to pasteurized dairy can usually tolerate it.

There are many websites online and blogs created by people with Lyme Disease that swear by it for healing. Just type into your search engine, Lyme Disease and Raw Milk. An entire universe of accounts appears.

Some people even claim to have cured debilitating Lyme with Raw Milk Fasting.

Raw milk is even a dairy that is allowed and incorporated in Candida healing.

Personally, I've scouted out where to get raw milk in my town, and I am even lucky enough to have a mother that gives me fresh goats milk from her own goats.

I drink the milk on it's own, add it to baked fruits in the morning as a cereal/oatmeal substitute and I also make the raw milk yogurt that is listed on both the SCD diet and the Paleo Diet.

I, personally, have found the yogurt the most beneficial.

You make it the same way as you make any other yogurt. Heating the milk, and using a thermometer to watch until it rises til at least 180 degree, and then pour it into a Mason Jar. Let it cool at room temperature (submerging the closed jar in a bath of ice water, and then mix in your starter (probiotic yogurt) and then let it ferment for 24 hours inside of your stove.

If you'd like an exact recipe, ask away and I'll get you one as soon as I can.

Take care, Reader!!

Candida Tongue Check, after one month of treatment.

My tongue, during the first week

of treatment

 

 

One of the most common physical characteristics of Candida Albicans

is a stereotypical white coat on the tongue. It is a form of Thrush, just

like infants get. 

 

As you can see from the photo of my tongue up top, my visual yeast was

geared more toward the back of my tongue, and not very severe.

 

I have seen other people's photos online, and even some people I know

that I now realize have severe Candida from their tongues, and mine is mild

in comparison.

 

What I find interesting, is that one of my Candida symptoms when it was

starting to get bad on the Lyme antibiotics, was sore throat.

 

Here, we see the yeast growing on the back of my tongue, toward my throat.

 

it would make sense if these two aspects were connected to each other.

 

 

Regimen: Oral Nystatin, Hydration, Bentonite Clay, Probiotic,

Probiotic Yogurt, Alchornea Leaf tincture and the SCD modified version of diet for Candida

as well as TONS of home made Probiotic yogurt and Raw Milk.

 

 

 

My tongue after one month of Candida Treatment

 

 

 

Did you notice how pink and healthy it looks!!!?? I can see a major difference

from one image to the next. There still appears to be a little of the film left, but I am still

going to be treated for three more months after this.

 

As for symptoms, I have had no sore throat, no head aches, no major mood swings and only minor fog brain. All in all, I  feel as though what I am doing is working.

 

I can't wait to see what it looks like after the entire four months!!!

Will post final results!!!

 

 

 

 



 

End of October, Early November, 2015~

 

"Nature itself is the best physician."

 

                       Dear Reader,

 

                        I am pleased to be able to report that I am up to five of the Lyme Core Protocol  

                        supplements a day (on my way to six a day until I reach twelve week by week),

                        and show no signs of worsening symptoms, and very minor symptoms for both        

                        Lyme and the Candida overgrowth.

                       

 

                        It is still a few months yet before I go to see the doctor and get my Candida lab work

                        back, My hope, is that it will show to be minor after all the changes I've made and

                        healing work I've been doing.

                                 

                        The SCD diet agrees with me greatly, and I have been making sure to keep on my

                        outdoor adventures. The mountains really help so much.

                        It's a fine mixture of the sweat on the hike, the knowledge along the trail (I'm 

                        continuing to develop my woodland identification knowledge), the company I have

                        with me on my adventures, and the scenery.

                        I personally find the process beneficial to mind, body and soul.

                       

                        When I first realized that I had Lyme disease, I had feared that I would not be able to

                         hike again, or lead any kind of a normal life.

                        I celebrate each symptom less day, and find in each one multiple blessings.

                       

                        I still have not bathed in the city water that we have at our current home                   nor have       I ingested  it orally, and I believe that this has aided in my health.

                        On an ecstatic note: WE GOT THE HOUSE!!!!!!!!

 

                           

                        In prior writings, I had mentioned that we has been on the lookout for a house with

                        good well water and enough land to grow food on, and here this month we have been

                        with a house that has both to offer.

                      

                       This past weekend was Halloween weekend, and I spent it packing and preparing

                       for a garden to start by the Spring. I hope to be able to grow the many vegetables and

                       berries that I have to eat and pay a decent price for at the market.

                       I have also made contacts and am able to start buying fresh grassfed cow meat

                       straight from the farm, and a decent source of raw milk.

          

                       So far things are coming together for me nutritionally, which leaves me feeling

                       hopeful for the future.

 

                       I do plan on recovering fully, and leaving this all behind me.

 

                       So far, I've had to change the way I eat and cook completely, the way I manage my

                       stress and some behaviors, my residence and even how much I bathed for a short

                       while there before we found the house. 

 

                       These sacrifices and changes will benefit my future, and I feel that something as    s                      severe  as  Lyme Disease should have a defense just as serious right back at it.

 

                         I find myself feeling grateful that I have caught this disease early enough, as well as

                        having the ability to move, eat the way I need to and supplement myself properly. I

                         am also grateful that I am not dragging children and a family through this ordeal with

                         me. I can't even begin to imagine how taxing this all would be for some families, and

                         parts of it (like the change of residence) impossible.

 

                        When the worst becomes worst, I think of these things. And get outside. Alas! The

                        winter comes, and I dread cabin fever and the wanting to venture out of doors when

                        it might be better for me to stay put.

 

                         I'll find something out, that's for certain.

 

                         Tonight, I leave you nearly symptom free, and hoping to stay good and on course.

                         

                         

 

                        

 

                     

                           

                       

 

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