new book from Dr Stephen Phillips

There’s a website I stumbled upon several years ago - people diagnosed with autoimmune diseases treated with antibiotics and got better/improvement.
There’s pages and pages of testimonies.
https://www.roadback.org/stories/

I don't understand why vector borne diseases and autoimmune illnesses need to be pitted against each other in this way. The framing of the book makes no sense to me. Even if people are lazily being misdiagnosed with autoimmune diseases, the language used in the title and the book copy itself basically serve to say "autoimmune issues don't exist, these people all have Lyme disease". It is really not very measured at all.

Maybe this is a misguided attempt to sensationalize the book for popularity's sake.

Or maybe the author really does hold this view. But it is an extremely overly simplistic one for a Doctor to have.

I would attempt to back up my statements with direct excerpts from the book but thankfully I was able to return my ebook version rather easily.

I gave the book 3/5 stars in an Amazon review.

I am not saying it is worthless, just that there are many other books on the same subjects that are better.

I think that being critical is necessary when dealing with a complex illness like Lyme Disease & co, since there is no established path to follow.

Well I would certainly suggest anyone diagnosed with an autoimmune disease be tested for Lyme - as there’s a chance of “curing” it instead of “managing “ an autoimmune disease.

3 quotes by Dr. P is the Chris Kresser interview Garzie posted.


“The issue is, there are many, many infections, multitudes literally, that provoke autoimmune reactions. And the question is, does it perpetuate in the absence of a small amount of the infection that’s leftover? If we think of our bodies as a fortress the immune system is fighting, the current model, unfortunately, says that the war is still being fought after the enemy has been defeated. And our premise of the book is that the enemy is still there. They’re like terrorists and sleeper cells with little bits of infection still lying around, kind of infiltrating the immune response and making it behave abnormally.”

- He’s NOT saying everything is Lyme disease. He’s saying it is often an infectious issue driving the symptoms and there’s a chance of recovery if you can successfully identify and treat the driving infection. Even in his own illness, he says in this interview that he failed multiple antimicrobial treatments until he got a clue from an email from someone asking for help.

“And then the other thing that people never think about, which is a big premise of our book, is that there [are] so many infections we walk around with that don’t make us sick. And people would be shocked if they knew the true number. Our bodies are like little zoos, and if you get a bad viral insult, something that throws off the immune system, it can reactivate other latent infections. And I’d seen this before COVID[-19] came around. I had patients coming in who didn’t have any known bug bites, but their history was they had a bad case of mono, or they had a bad case of dengue fever, and they just never bounced back. And when I evaluated those patients and treated them for other infections that I found, by treating the other infections, not even focusing on the viral aspect, they would improve.”

- This is like the myco, CPN, EPC, herpes viruses, parvo, etc that we tend to have but never remember being sick from.

“And the question is, does she still have the virus present in her body? Is there truly an autoimmune phenomenon that goes on in the absence of the infection? My personal feeling is that the vast majority of times, but I can never say always, or never, I mean, who knows everything, but from what I’ve seen in clinical practice from the research we did for the book, it seems like there’s an infectious bit still left over that drives these autoimmune reactions. And these patients definitely have hope to get better. I don’t think they have to think of themselves as stuck in this condition just because people are arguing about what’s causing it.”

- This was said in relation to a long COVID patient who was good for 3 months after being given Iver and then had a recurrence of symptoms again and was given another treatment of Iver and recovered again.
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EDIT: Had to add another. One thing they talk about is the suspicion that the medical community deliberately ignores truth. They said they interviewed many medical people and those people told them much different things off the record than on the record. The idea that medicine is corrupted is true.

Listen, I always thought the pharmaceutical industry needed to be highly, highly regulated because they did an analysis of Harvoni, the drug that effectively gets rid of hepatitis C in the vast majority of patients. And they basically said, this is not a good business model. And this article was published. I was shocked to see the article in print. And someone to admit that wow, we’re not going to look for cures anymore when everybody whispers that they’re not looking for cures, and they actually put in an article.

So it’s not just implicit; this is an explicit strategy, I believe, that they use. And this is something that’s obviously come up in discussions for them to write a whole article about it.”

- My emphasis in bold. There’s another quote just before this regarding an actual black list being made of doctors speaking out regarding concerns about a particular drug and a lawsuit. Doctors are afraid of speaking out about anything.

Post Edited (WalkingbyFaith) : 3/18/2021 8:44:32 AM (GMT-6)

There’s a website - think it’s called The Road Back - I’ve posted about it before.
Pages and pages of testimonies from people diagnosed with autoimmune - particularly RA if I’m remembering correctly - who went on minocycline and got better.

I saw this for the first time a few years ago.

"EDIT: Had to add another. One thing they talk about is the suspicion that the medical community deliberately ignores truth. They said they interviewed many medical people and those people told them much different things off the record than on the record. The idea that medicine is corrupted is true."

Agreed.