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Note To The Healthcare Professional . We want to extend a special welcome to you as a healthcare professional. The fact you have taken the time to come to this site says much about your care and concern as regards your patients and are to be commended. If you treat lyme patients you have no doubt found, firsthand, the special issues involved with such patients. Given its pervasive, systemic and "morphing" nature, it is easy to see why it is called the "Great Imitator", imitating so many other disorders - Fibromyalgia, neurological disorders, Arthritis, cardio problems, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's, ALS, intestinal disorders, Alzheimer's, etc. It is often difficult for lyme patients to even adequately convey to others the full scope of the disorder. And it is likewise very difficult for the dedicated practitioner to find adequate information and treatment options. As you no doubt know, this is almost completely due to the fact there has not been really good testing for lyme. The closest in recent times has been the Igenex Western Blot test and the PCR test. However, because the Western Blot measures antibodies to lyme and not the lyme bacteria itself, it is known to be subject to variance and false or equivocal results. We have known many lyme sufferers who've experienced this. The PCR measures the bacteria, and parts of the bacteria, but is relatively expensive, often not covered by insurance, and is subject to interpretation - i.e. it can vary lab to lab and even technician to technician. We have found the best test is the RiBb (Rapid Identification of Borrelia burgdorferi) test available through www. bowen.org developed by Dr. Joanne Whitaker, based upon an old medical procedure once used to identify Diphtheria and other infections. While it has not gained an FDA stamp to date, it is nonetheless the most accurate we have found, as it identifies the Borrelia Burgdorferi bacteria itself, not the antibody. We recommend it to you and your patients, and suggest liaising with the lab as regards the results, for it now able to measure "concentration" or degree of bacterial load as well. To date, we have found the protocol results to be promising and consistent. Moreover, we wanted to let you know that the protocol has been shown to-date to be safe when researched as described. In the course of researching it, there have been medical tests done periodically and the parameters have been found to be in normal range, even at the higher measures (or "dosages") of the protocol. Should anyone in your care opt to research this protocol and ask you to monitor, we encourage your help and the periodic testing. Any general findings, clinical observations, or doctor's notes able to be extended to us to add to the overall effort would be greatly appreciated in terms of our goal of codifying and organizing the research overall. We again welcome you to this site, commend you for visiting and invite you to review and participate in the overall research effort if so interested. All the best, Lyme Strategies
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