Is Dr Mercola COMPLETELY Insane? Or is It ME?

So I am reading around the Internet after shopping for a few Black Friday Video Games and stumble onto this story:

articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/02/05/dr-dietrich-klinghardt-on-lyme-disease.aspx

Bottom line is he believes:


First, external factors that act upon the body 24/7 are evaluated.
This includes electrosmog, EMF, microwave radiation from wireless technologies, and molds. To test for the presence of mold, he uses the ERMI score, which is a semi-quantitative assessment of how much mold is in your home. The score should not exceed 2. However, most of his patients score between 15 and 20. For more information on mold, Dr. Klinghardt recommends www.SurvivingMold.com.

Once external influencing factors have been determined, they're remediated and mitigated. (For mold remediation, please refer to this previous article.)
To mitigate microwave radiation, Dr. Klinghardt recommends shielding your home with a graphite paint called Y Shield outside, and use special silver-coated cloth for your curtains. These measures will compromise your ability to receive cell phone calls, so depending on your situation, you may opt to shield just your bedroom, or shield your entire home and just use a landline.

All cordless telephones are removed, and patients are instructed to turn off all the fuses at night, until they have recovered from Lyme disease.

Next, the emotional component of the disease is addressed using Energy Psychology tools, including psychokinesiology (PK) which is similar to the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), but more refined and advanced...
Dr. Klinghardt begins the treatment for Lyme disease by addressing parasites, followed by "the Klinghardt antimicrobial cocktail," which addresses the Lyme spirochetes, Babesia, and Bartonella. For more details and complete recipes to all his treatment cocktails, see www.KlinghardtAcademy.com or send an email to info@KlinghardtAcademy.com. Some of the ingredients in his formula include: wormwood (artemisinin)—which has been found to be extremely effective for malaria—combined with phospholipids; vitamin C, and specific herbs.
Lastly, viruses are addressed using a tincture of Native American herbs called Viressence, by BioPure.

Additional lifestyle factors are also addressed, including diet and vitamin supplementation.
A Word on Antibiotics

Conventional Lyme treatment hinges on long-term use of antibiotics. While this treatment can indeed be effective, there are many reasons to opt for alternatives such as those detailed by Dr. Klinghardt, as antibiotics will disrupt your gut flora, thereby exposing you to a whole host of other pathologies.
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So now I ask myself, WHAT????? I am a breath away from buying a Rife Machine or trying a gunshot wound to the head But just am having the toughest time spending the wife's money on all these herbs and seeing NO benefit and reading of all of us struggling endlessly for year after year after year....Guilt is one thing but my complete loss of use of both legs for over a month now lends me to ask how could it get ANY worse if I just stop taking all these herbs since they haven't helped a bit so far in 3 months (I know, to soon...)

NO I am not giving up just curious about this atical I read above. I swear the more I study treatments for Lyme Disease, the more all this reminds me of the insanity of treatments to cure baldness. And then I also notice ALL these specialty "Lyme Clinics are ALL run by the same type of doctors. CHIROPRACTORS! All my lights go off in my old brain and I think wow, so they can't drum up enough repeat business for back adjustments so this is even BETTER and we soak everyone for initial $500.00 consults and away we go, then sell them all our "special blend" pills, powders & supplements. I swear, I am REALLY beginning to smell a rat in this field.

I promise I am not discouraged or giving up etc. Just had a bad night with only 1.12 hour sleep again and woke up and saw the above article and think I really don't want to keep throwing all this money at this when I see NO changes....So have to ask what people a whole lot smarter than ME think of all the craziness I read above. And couldn't I just wear a Tin Foil Hat instead of all that expensive specail paint on my house?

Actually, the reason why Chiro's are getting into treating Lyme like that is because in many states, they are less regulated in ways. They aren't scrutinized as hard as MD's by the AMA and state medical boards often.

I'm NOT saying that they are all good and know what they are doing, but some do.

As far as the electromagnetic sensitivities, I know of several people (and myself at points in time with these infections) where I was incredibly sensitive to any and all electrical devices. Not all those with Neuro Lyme experience this, and it may be transient, as it is with me.

Whats Dr. Klinghardt's success rate with his lyme patients? Did it say that in the article?

We shut off our wireless at night. If you look at how it cause excitation of your cells it makes sense to my mind to shut it down when we're asleep.

The peeling an onion analogy is a good one also applied to your environment: get rid of all toxic chemicals products, invest in a good water filter emphasis on GOOD, stop slathering chemicals on your body and face i.e. lotions and makeup and hairdye, etc. (EWG.com has good lists for cleaner alternatives) I mean, why force your poor immune system to have to deal with even more trouble like voluntary toxins?

I don't think Dr. Mercola is crazy, he's usually just a bit ahead of others is all. And yes, he sells stuff.

:)

There is a lot to this-its helps me to look at past holidays and see my progress.

Many docs suggest many things-I tell my friends it like being in a fistfight with a person who will really kill you. What do you do? Everything you can and you make sure that SOB knows he was in a fight! ( I'm usually use more colorful language )
FYI-for me the biological dds helped by far the most-you may try that

All those "goodies" for sale.....big $$ industry,telling us sh!t we already know.


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CD3764 said...
Mike

You may have read us talking about "peeling the layers of the onion" in regards to healing from these infections.

The longer one is infected, it seems the more layers there are to peel.

Dr. Klinghardt is one of many LLMD's who addresses the layers. Dr. Horowitz is another with his 16-point differential diagnosis chart.

What are you doing for your neuro issues? Are you taking stuff like Japanese Knotweed, Dan Shen, Chinese Skullcap?

I will tell you this much: the Buhner-recommended herbalist I consulted has me taking much higher doses of certain herbs than I had been....and I'm taking them 4x daily (instead of 3x daily).

I'm also taking 3/4 tsp Dan Shen as frequently as every hour (per his recommendation) for acute neuro symptoms.

I feel like I'm finally closing the gap.

If you are so inclined, I think money spent on a Buhner-recommended herbalist could prove to be money very well spent. Those I called do phone consults and are VERY reasonably-priced.

Hang in - healing will happen.....in Lymetime which can often feel like a standstill.

Of the 3 drugs you mention, I only use Japanese Knotweed (plus 5 different additional herbs + a ton of supplements). How do I find a Buhner-recommended herbalist? Is Valerie at Sage Herbal one since I considered paying her for a phone interview a few times? Heaven knows we have already spent a fortune just GUESSING and that is 100% on ME for thinking I can do this on my own. Or I should say I thought that at first. NOT any longer.

Shutting off your "fuses" (breakers) every night is a great way to burn your home down around you. That kind of heat level would certainly eradicate any Lyme, but you as well.

My electrician was horrified to find out I was flipping off my hot water heater breaker every weekend while I was away and then back on again 3 days later. He said, and I verified it with checking other sources, doing this weakens the fragile wire connections.

A better idea might be to just unplug a lot of unnecessary stuff.

Post Edited (julymorning) : 11/25/2016 2:41:27 PM (GMT-7)

Dr klinghardt is very well respected. He is very good. My guess is its because he uses powerful antimicrobials. He does use antibiotics on RARE occasions. I also believe he does uv/iv.

I dont like dr mercola because he says in an article lyme patients some should just have to learn to live with their symptoms.

Personally id never go to dr k unless everything else failed lol. I dont like it when doctors do only antibiotics or are the opposite. Thats unnecessary to me. Toi many people have gotten better with herbs and antibiotics to be absolutist with one or the other

jenny - I thought Dr. K. did do herbals...more of a focus on them?

Traveler said...

ChickenArise said...
If you go natural over allopathic you must expect longer resolution times. Much longer.

Actually, this is not true. I healed my Lyme in 12 months, Bartonella in 9 months (Lyme and Bart treatments ran concurrently) and Babesia in 12 months when I was treated for my first set of infections which was 40 years old. All on herbal/natural only treatments. I also healed RMSF, Anaplasmosis, Ehrlichia and many others in that time period.

When I was originally diagnosed by the late, great LLMD Dr. Edwin Masters, he told me that I likely had every single tick-borne infection out there, because of my exposure history, symptom lists and severity of symptoms.

What matters most is getting the proper systems/organs supported and then addressing detoxing and treatments. Without addressing each area, we simply don't heal and why my first trial of pharma abx went so very wrong.

Oh my gosh Traveler. I never knew this. So you had lyme for 40 years and only treated in year 39. How horrible. I thought, for some reason, that you had been treating for the entire 40 years. I have no idea why I came to this assumption.

Rikky1 said...

Others get bit and they get no symptoms.

Remember, Not all ticks are infected.

Sorry girlie i meant i would like to see someone who would be willing to do both.

I know dr k also does amino acids but not sure what that entails entirely

I have always liked Dr. Mercola. I think he has integrity and has put up with a lot since he has been fighting the alternative medicine fight for years before it was popular.

That said, the painting and blocking out things seems a bit extreme. I do believe that electronics aren't great for us. I don't watch TV and shut down laptop two hours before bed. Probably should do more.

Mike, don't give up. I get like that. I feel more frustrated than ever since my son's diagnosis but can't give up. Do what feels good to you. Leave the rest.

I trust this board the most. Trav, healed after 40 years. That's a miracle. Trav you should post what you did, maybe it's already on here.

Hang in there.