In my last blog post, I discussed the new doctor that I started seeing for treating my Lyme disease and coinfections. This doctor uses Bioenergetic testing, which I hadn’t seen or experienced before, and the machine itself really intrigued me.

I came home and started researching the technology behind it. The concepts make sense to me. There are nutritionists and other alternative doctors on YouTube showing their machines and how they work. And these people are busy helping patients. Why aren’t these devices ‘legal’ among normal doctors? Why aren’t we studying it more?

I went back to my doctor for a re-test, after my first round of shots. I came to him with a list of similar machines that I found on the internet and asked him more questions.

(This is a follow-up to My Story: How I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease)

I had certainly heard of Lyme disease before I was diagnosed with it. In fact, was tested for it 5 or 10 years ago, the test came back positive, and they put me on Doxycycline. (Surprise!)

There are several guys in my town that told me they see an alternative medicine doctor around 40 minutes away. After doing lots of research, and learning the “main stream” doctors prescribe Lyme patients LOTS of antibiotics (months at a time, sometimes by IV)... and after my initial experience with 3 months of Doxycycline, I decided I wanted to stay as far away from that as possible. The 3 weeks of Doxycycline made my body hemorrhage to the point where I almost threw up.  It ruined my appetite.  And I'm one of the lucky ones.  

The general diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease in dogs is similar to humans.  Dogs get the same antibiotic, Doxycycline.  And they show similar symptoms, including lethargy, joint pain (limping, particularly if the dog limps on the right leg on one day, and the left leg another), fever…

I also asked a local veterinarian about giving vitamins & supplements to canines.  Here is what they said:

I was diagnosed with Lyme disease in July 2017.  I’ve generally been a healthy person, or so I thought, I weighed around 180 pounds which isn’t bad for someone 6 feet tall.  I have backyard chickens so that I have fresh, high quality eggs since 2015.  I’ve been seeing a chiropractor for almost 2 years.  Finally got my disk back into place in early 2016, for reference.  So I thought I was doing great. 

Wrong.

I'm sharing the following story, thoughts, and follow-up in the hopes that it can help someone else going through similar symptoms.  I feel your pain, and know that there are solutions.  

This is a one-page, quick and simple diet for reducing inflammation in the gut and body.  It helps get rid of yeast overgrowth like Candida.  (Free printable PDF)

There is no counting "points" or anything similar.  Eat as much as you want!  Most people find this diet to be a good "healthy human being" diet, and it may help with treating a wide variety of cancers, illnesses, and diseases.  

I had written a review of my berkey water filter when we first purchased it in 2014.  We have been using it nonstop, putting approximately 1 gallon per day through it from our city tap water.  If you refer to the photo, you can see the layer of fine sediment (dirt) coating the bottom two-thirds old filter.  Note that the filter was still working fine, the water tasted great, but the upper tank of the filter wasn't draining because of the clogged filter.  It was taking a full night to filter just 1 gallon of water.  After replacing the (2) filters, we are now filtering a gallon in less than an hour. 

Below is the letter that we sent to Berkey (and their response).  Enjoy!

1. Figure 8's
2. Hot Dog
3. Palming

"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes ... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. ... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things. ... They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do."

- Steve Jobs

As someone who slept their way through high school and parts of college, reading the assigned books was always an issue for me. 

Matter-of-fact, when I first arrived at Shippensburg University, we were supposed to have read a book to discuss in groups during freshman orientation.  When the professor expectedly called on me to answer a question about the book, I politely told him that I hadn't done the reading. Much to my surprise, the world did NOT end, which is why I'm able to tell you about the books that I have personally selected for myself to read since then. 

Here are the books I've read since graduating:

• How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie
• Lies my Teacher Told Me
• The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America (also available in PDF for free)
• Steve Jobs Biography by Walter Isaacson
• Mein Kampf
• Wheels of Life
• Science of Breath and 14 Lessons in Yogi Philosophy by Yogi Ramacharaka
• Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
• Patriots, by James Wesley Rawles
• You Are The Placebo: Making your Mind Matter by Dr. Joe Dispenza
• Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
• Planets in Play: How to Reimagine Your Life Through the Language of Astrology, by Laurence Hillman
• Robes: A Book of Coming Changes, Penny Kelly
• Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence, Rollo May

If you've read any of these books and would like to discuss them, please contact me!  And if there are any books that I should be reading, I want to hear about them, too!