Now, I’m going to back up a few steps to explain. I’ve had this for thirty years now. Yes, that long. More than half of my life. And through the years, I’ve done numerous protocols, from holistic and herbal, to massive doses of antibiotics while working with one of the top lyme specialists from Boston. Little did I understand then, the damage 18 months of non-stop heavy antibiotics were doing to my body.

Over the years, I developed food sensitivities that would build up slowly over time– making it hard to pinpoint a culprit— until I was so tired and unable to function that I had days when getting out of bed was a challenge. It turns out– I was allergic to rice. Yeah, I know… no one is allergic to rice.  But– turns out my body didn’t like it. and since I was trying to avoid wheat and gluten, I would wake up and have almond butter on a rice cake for breakfast. By late morning I was back in bed, exhausted. I only discovered this particular allergy (this was the first of many) by accident. I had run out of rice. No big deal. I had a few good days. I still didn’t make any connections. I got to the market. restocked the rice pot. Within the first few bites– I could literally feel it sapping me. i knew in that moment, i wanted-needed it out of my body,  and forced myself to throw it up. There have been other allergies/sensitvities that have also developed. My body doesn’t like most grains. No idea why. And i’ve mostly learned to navigate around the worst offenders.

Anyway- this is just to say- Ive done any number of protocols—  and essentially have the label “non-responder”…

So- I keep tabs on the latest research– nothing ground-breaking there. And I try to manage symptoms etc with herbs and supplements. Magnesium was a life-changer. Literally. It used to be that getting out of bed and putting my feet on the floor was painful. like walking on broken glass. After about a week of simple magnesium— it started to fade to something slightly annoying but decidedly tolerable.

I’ve done chaga — which I love. I’ve doe japanese knotweed. I’ve done the Zhang protocol, Ive done intuitive medicine. You name it, I’ve probably tried it.

Now- as miserable as part of this have been– and as much as I often mourn the life I might have had, otherwise… I’ve also done and learned an awful lot. From studying herbalism and bodywork (bowtech) to becoming a trained practicing (very retired) shaman.  So, on many different levels, I’ve discovered a deep understanding of the life I have.

Jump ahead to a few months ago. I came across– something.. that sounded useful. I can’t even remember what it was… because.. when the order came, i was looking at a bottle of WTF is this????

I had in my hand, a bottle of.. let me see if I can spell it… phosphatydlcholine? it’s almost as hard to type as it is to say.

I was about to send it back and get the thing I was interested in– when I decided to 1- check my oriiginal order and then 2– satisfy my curiosity. What is this stuff? And what does it do?

WELL– turns out this is some pretty good shit! And– very likely.. what I need.

What is it, you ask? Okay- for all of you non-chemists and nutritionists out there (myself included).. a primary building block for cell membranes in animals and plants.

Now- two steps backwards. As part of my body being overwhelmed with toxins.. my immune system is sluggish.. and my body temp is about 96.4. I’ve made numerous attempts to convince my naturopath that something is wrong. My thyroid (which has never ever been at the mid range of normal) suddenly starts coming back as– perfect. Except I have every single symptom of a low thyroid. Low body temp. dry skin. weight gain (no matter what I do), low energy.. pretty much tick all the boxes.   And yet, she looks at my bloodwork and says– we can look at your diet.

This is when I suck in my breath and say nothing. because this is the wall of frustration I have hit many times over the years when a practitioner reaches the limits of their expertise.

SO- back to the research board. I learned– that if you have extensive systemic inflammation, the cell walls get damaged. So, while you may have plenty of T3 and T4 (thyroid hormones) circulating in your bloodstream, NONE of it is getting into the cells. Well, that explained a lot.

SO- I wasn’t quite sure what to do with this information, so I sat on it.. and tried to get back to a slightly better diet, and do things that might minimize the systemic and inflammation– except that’s nigh impossible when you’ve got two external factors– literally lucking up the system. (EBV virus and Lyme spirochetes).

Back to muddling through–

Until I came across the phosphytadil choline.

OH- something that can repair those damaged cell membranes? sign me up. This was a very happy accident!

so, I started doing some MORE research about toxins etc. So, another problem I think I had with so many failed protocols– is that when the gut is compromised (reference back to that 18 months  of antibiotics that wouuld kill a rhino:) the body no longer removes toxins and they end up cycling back into the body, and the liver. The  liver gets overloaded and no longer burns fat– it stores it.

Well fkkk:)

Anyway- it took a bit of poking and digging and asking questions online–

butI finally put together a protocol that should address the underlying issues… and the thing is– it’s pretty simple and would benefit almost anyone (with the exception of the lyme protocol itself:)

It started with- activated charcoal in water, every night. because charcoal binds toxins and the molecule is too big to get sucked back through the lining of the intestine.

then in the morning, I started taking chlorella, which is a blue-green algae. Why? because it binds to heavy metals. Another detox pathway.

After a few weeks of that, my body was ready to start– slowly (and this will be a longer process) of attacking the lyme spirochete. A few drops of cat’s claw and crypto–something, in water, twice a day. (yes, there is scientific data that supports the efficacy of these herbs).

After a few weeks of that- starting the phosphytadil choline…

After several more weeks of this– we will add in something called lumbrokinase. I can’t tell you exactly what it is, except it is an enzyme- but it known for being able to break up the biofilm (that’s another topic) that the lyme spirochete creates to “hide” from the immune system.

Anyway- I wanted to keep some kind of chronicle of the process. Right  now I am at week 5?ish? I think.

here is  the clean version of the protocol and the reasoning behind each phase;)

[ WEEKS 1-2 ] ──► Phase 1: Pre-Tox Foundation (Clear gut sludge & test binder speeds)
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[ WEEKS 3-6 ] ──► Phase 2: Start Herbs (1 drop climbing to 10-15 drops) + BodyBio PC
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[ WEEK 7+   ] ──► Phase 3: Add Morning Lumbrokinase (Crack biofilms with an active net)