Right.

Um, so that was a, a real big issue right there.

Um, but if I can just circle back for one second about the, the wheat in this country compared to the one in Italy.

Um, not only do we use glyphosate for our wheat and other products, um, but we also...

It's grown in poor soil.

It's, um, over-processed.

It's bleached.

Right.

And so I would love for you to share with listeners a bit of your journey and how you got into this world of chronic inflammation, Lyme and more.

Sure.

So I was an ICU nurse.

I used obviously a lot of medication to save people's lives.

When I went back to school to be a nurse practitioner, I did the acute care track.

So I worked as a hospitalist.

I worked in the ER in the intensive care unit in the Department of Surgery.

Yes, terrible.

And so let's just start there.

So my why was my son.

He was six years old when he got bit by a tick, had a bull's eye rash, brought him to the pediatrician who put him on anywhere between 10 and 14 days of antibiotics.

He had no symptoms aside from the bull's eye, nothing else.

And 13 years later, we went scuba diving and he had a lot of pain and pressure in the lower abdominal area.

Eventually he had to have surgery for a hernia and the doctor actually left him on the operating room table to come out to talk to me.

and asked me if he had a connective tissue disorder because they found his entire abdominal wall to look like Swiss cheese.

love your transparency.

How do you start to think about this?

So we have an IV hydration lounge.

I have a medical spa in addition to the medical practice.

And we do a lot of high doses of glutathione intravenously.

We also do liposomal glutathione.

We do everything possible to try and get rid of the inflammation that's causing the oxidative stress.

We do a lot of high doses of vitamin C as well, ascorbic acid, up to 70 grams a sitting in a liter bag.

Bartonella testing.

So it sounds to me that without the adjunct, the stack there, you're kind of spitting in the wind, so to speak, with just putting them on an antibiotic.

Yeah.

So when I have a patient that comes to me and tells me I have been treated for Lyme disease three times now and they can't get rid of it, it's because they're not including the all natural antimicrobials or the tinctures from nature to be able to kill everything off.

So generally what I'll do is the antibiotics.

One other thing I should mention, there was a researcher, I have no idea what her name is.

I thought it was Eva Sappy, but she said it was not her, that presented research at the 2019 ILADS conference.

And it was a video presentation.

and that uh i don't know if it was darpa or dod we're looking at different vectors to put some of these different things in and that the tick was a recipient or or acted as a a vector what's your take on that and and was it not discovered up in your state right lime connecticut

So what's the answer there? Like, what does that treatment look like to help those patients, and do they ever truly go into remission, or what happens there?

So it's a process to actually get somebody completely cured from Lyme disease, and I get very frustrated when I see rheumatologists or I see infection disease specialists saying that they treat Lyme disease.

They don't treat Lyme disease, and they don't know how to treat Lyme disease.

And I'm not talking about infectious disease and rheumatologists who are a part of ILADS and went through the training, I'm talking about doctors who have never gone through training to actually know how to treat Lyme disease and will put patients on a 10-day course or a two weeks course of antibiotics, and can't go any further than that because of insurance requirements.

And these patients are getting worse and worse and worse, and then they're sent to a rheumatologist, they're given biologics to suppress their symptoms.

So yeah, they're feeling better, but inside these bacteria don't die.

They don't die unless you're actually given the correct protocol.

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