Re: Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome and Antibiotics

Those would be antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria and the effectiveness of antibiotics would be lost. If you're looking at symptoms, antibiotics suppress the symptoms by suppressing the immune response and altering DNA/RNA. Candida can develop antifungal resistance in the same way, which helps to illustrate that antimicrobials aren't the answer and create more imbalances. Restoring balance will always be the answer, but that takes consistent application of healthy principles.

The bacteria within the body form ecosystems that benefit the body. The key to a healthy ecosystem is diversity. Antibiotics destroy that diversity within 5-7 days be wiping out all the bacteria in the body and leaving only antibiotic resistant strains. It takes 9-12+ months for the bacteria to repopulate the body's flora and some strains never come back, leaving a permanently altered bacterial composition and therefore altered function that affects the entire body.

Thinking that antibiotics will resolve these issues is short-siighted. One antibiotic pill creates systemic fungal candida within 4-52 hours. One antibiotic pill can increase your risk of cancer by 50%. What will 1 week, 1 month, or 6 months of antibiotics do? There are plenty of people out there with lifelong illnesses who can supply an answer.

Long-term antibiotic use does not selectively kill a certain species of bacteria. It kills all bacteria, except for the resistant strains that develop.

The point of the article however is not that people who wish to use antibiotics for treating Lyme's shouldn't, but that there will now be imbalances that need to be addressed, or new lifelong imbalances will be created. PTLDS is more likely to be an affect of antibiotic use, than it is continued Lyme's Disease. No one appears to be addressing this and more antibiotics will continue to wreak havoc on the body.

Sooner or later, everyone who takes antibiotics will have to address this and follow principles that correct fungal candida, boost the correct immune responses, facilitate detoxification of the body, and help to restore healthy bacterial flora and diversity. That is the purpose of the candida Plan. Tweet