on betterhealthguy web page

Here is the link mic.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/mic.0.000380#tab2

The research paper is really interesting.

In this study, we investigated the effect of tick (23 °C), mammalian physiological (37 °C) and standard in vitro culture (33 °C) temperatures with the objective of elucidating the effect of temperature on Borrelia biofilm phenotypes in vitro using two B. burgdorferi sensu stricto strains (B31 and 297).Our findings show increased biofilm quantity, biofilm size, exopolysaccharide content and enhanced adherence as well as reduced free spirochaetes at 37 °C for both strains, when compared to growth at 23 and 33 °C.

Huddie said...
Lyme hides in the biofilms right? Oh no.

I have felt so much better since the weather got cold.

Does this mean they have gone into hiding and will be harder to get out?

I was actually starting to believe I was getting better.

I am still going to choose to believe that :)

As Traveler brought out earlier, the spirochetes dislike heat and do what they can to survive. In the case she was talking about it had to do with them lowering our normal body temps.

Biofilms or cysts are another way they protect themselves, and as the OP brought out, they do it in higher temperatures.

So, I would imagine if they were going to form, it would have already been done while the weather was hot.

I feel better now too, on some levels.

Lyme bacteria are actually quite intelligent - they have many ways of avoiding being killed. All we can do is our best to find ways of trying to kill them off - but this does help explain why hyperthermia (heating the body to high temps) doesn't work as well as many think it should, and why cold doesn't help us so much either. The best thing we can do is to get and keep our body at the "proper" temps so we can defeat these things!

Part of it depends on how you feel after you use one or the other. We do need to raise our body temps often, so those will help with that, but trying to use heat or cold to kill the bacteria won't work, as it only sends them into their defensive modes.

The Epsom salt soaks and saunas are good for helping to remove toxins though, they are not intended as a treatment to kill bacteria. This article shows that staying in a sauna too long or with too high of a heat (and bath water temps too), just isn't going to help.