Lyme disease spirochete

What about viral serologies?

Specific viral serologies should be guided by the patient risk profile, targeting organisms such as Borrelia burgdorferi, Bartonella henselae, human immunodeficiency virus, cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus, varicella zoster virus, parvovirus B19, mycoplasma pneumonia, and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.

That is a comprehensive list.

Any other specific tests?

A 2020 companion review titled Role of Vector-Borne Pathogens in the Development of Fever in Cats to Tick and Sandfly-Associated Diseases, also by Michael Lappin et al., emphasizes tick and sandfly-associated agents.

These include Anaplasma figus autophilum, Anaplasma platus, Babesia species, Borrelia burgdorferi, Borrelia persica, Cytosine species, Ehrlichia species, Franciella tolarensis, Hepatizoon species, Rickettsia rickettsii, Rickettsia conori, Rickettsia massiliae, and Leishmania species, mainly Leishmania infantum.

Cats with anaplasma figus autophilum may have fever, anorexia, lethargy, lameness, and thrombocytopenia.

About 30% of cats with proven clinical infections may be seronegative when first assessed, but most ultimately seroconvert.

And again, when most of them are riding together, it's sometimes it's hard to differentiate which in particular.

Um, I find that, uh, the B. burgdorferi in particular has a lot of OCD.

Mm-hmm.

Um, and then Bartonella as well.

He is widely considered the closest thing that the chronic illness world has to a master diagnostician.

Dr. Horowitz developed the MSIDS model, 16 hidden factors from Lyme disease and Bartonella to mold and toxins that quietly drive everything from brain fog to Alzheimer's.

He just published the first study showing this same model reversing pTAL217, the most sensitive Alzheimer's biomarker there is, using a nine-week protocol.

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And to be able to alleviate that pain for people would be one of the greatest gifts to humanity.

And I feel like your work is heavily centered around that very problem that I'm dealing with right now.

You know, it's interesting when I started off as a board certified internist, I was not expecting to be a specialist in Lyme disease or Alzheimer's disease or autism or ADHD, none of these things.

But interestingly enough, my spiritual teachers, I did my training in Belgium for seven years in French at the Free University of Brussels.

Yeah, I think the most important thing to remember is it's good that you have a diagnosis, but it's bigger picture.

If we're speaking about chronic Lyme, it's bigger picture than just Borrelia burgdorferi.

I don't believe it's ever just Borrelia burgdorferi, but it's good to have a name and it's good to have a label.

It's good to know one of the pathogens.

But you have to know that you can heal, but you also have to know that it may not be an easy journey and you have to be open minded and you have to learn how to pivot.

The closest relative from the relapsing fever group of spirochetes are Borrelia.

The closest to Borrelia, the Lyme clade or whatever, the Lyme group, Borrelia burgdorferi, and it's in the spirochetes that cause Lyme disease.

And I also have him, what is unusual is, so usually when you get Lyme disease, you don't just get Lyme disease, you get babesiosis, you get Bartonella, you get ehrlichiosis, rickettsiosis, you get, you know, and the Lyme disease, also anaplasmosis.

Well, the same year that he gets this spirochete, I also find him learning about how you can roll a whole bunch of infections into one and it causes this same immune tolerance that he discovered and was looking to induce with these weapons.