Diet

I eat extremely clean. Just wondering what's an ideal diet for Lyme, -!; what has worked for you guys!

Currently-low carb, no gluten paleo based diet

No white sugar and no gluten. Dairy - only kefir as it contains beneficial bacteria
And no processed food

If one has yeast issues, no carbs

It does have to be a well balanced diet, but the usual consensus is no diary, gluten, sugars, processed food. Try sticking to organic, non GMO where possible. I follow the guidelines from this site: http://www.tiredoflyme.com/diet.html

A clean diet is only going to be beneficial for overall health. It sounds like you are doing that, so that's good.

It kind of amazes me that for many, a healthy clean diet only becomes a "thing" after said people get ill (in our cases lyme). Of course I'm no exception.

But it shows how much modern humans don't understand that a majority of what they eat or the ingredients used to prepare it is not "real" food. It's not readily available in nature. It has to be concocted. Eat what is natural from the actual Earth and that's what our diet is supposed to be.

It's not a "lyme" diet, or a "candida" diet, or a "paleo" diet. It's a human diet. We've stopped eating a human diet and people now eat whatever you want to call today's diet.

Raw sugar in excessive amounts is detrimental, dairy and gluten might cause greater inflammation in some people, but not all. Alcohol in excess is detrimental to most. All these concepts hold across the spectrum, not Lyme specific. Buhner states that borrelia consumes collagen, not sugar, thus is why they attack joints and the brain. Stress is also a major contributor to inflammation (the only thing that really triggers my gout,) it also assaults the immune system.