Increasing temperature by 3.6°f increases Lyme's susceptibility to antibiotics 16 fold (in vitro)

Quick note: I'm not necessarily advocating for this, please be careful, especially if you have Babesia which already increases body temperature.

i think there is a little bit of scientific evidence that lyme likes it just a degree or so cooler than human body temp - i think i saw something in the culture conditions that are around 35-36 deg C
and in animals the ears ( which are cooler) often have higher spirochete counts.

its adapted to a very wide selection of host animals - from ticks and lizards ( cold blooded ) to birds and mammals (warm blooded) - so it has to tolerate a wide temperature range. but its been known for some time that it has an upper limit of around 40 degrees c - maybe 42 v short term
its a curve - i think the other post has the specifics -

syphilis - another human spirochete infection - also has a strict upper limit - so much so that one of the "cures" that were used before pharmaceutical antibiotics were developed - was to give the patient malaria - and the ensuing high fevers would kill the spirochetes

it could be that the organism is adapted to supress the fevers such an infection would normally cause - and in doing so, also cause the basal body temperature to be a bit lower than normal.

there is evidence that bartonella does this also - as blood born infections like bartonella - normally cause extreme high fevers - but chronic bartonella is associated with low basal body temps.

from memory i think i read that the german hyperthermia clinics do routinely combine antibiotics with the hyperthermia treatment

the other data point i have is that last year when i was making decent progress with mainly herbs and methylene blue - i was getting my body temp up to around 39 degrees every 4 days with very hot very full baths. s well as direct antispirochetal effects - heat therapy is supposed to break down biofilms and increase the immune response with, in particular, raised interferons. its also thought to increase tissue perfusion so herbs, drugs and immune cells can reach tissues better.

unfortunately my heart condition seemed to flare after the hot baths so i had to put that on hold earlier this year - but i do think they were helping - so if it were not for that issue i would continue.

My Lyme doc suggests using my infared sauna a 1/2 hour after taking antibiotics. So that correlates to the title of this post. This post is reminding me to start using my sauna regularly again.

Post Edited (Strengthtime) : 10/4/2023 3:24:44 PM (GMT-8)

Yeah my body temperature seems to have gone down as well. I'd say it's proof I've become more cold hearted, but that doesn't explain why I've started crying during commercials with dogs.

Post Edited (Bailey) : 10/9/2023 2:51:47 PM (GMT-8)