April, 2009

Showing 30 results for the month of April, 2009.

  • CD57 levels on protocol CD57 levels on protocol
    Dear Stephen, After being on the herbs for 4 months, plus 2 months antibiotics before that, my CD57 levels have only gone up to 17 (from 16). It was 11 before the antibiotics. This is hugely disappointing.
  • Recommit. Again and again and again. Recommit. Again and again and again.
    I practice recommitment on a monthly, weekly, daily—even moment-to-moment—basis. I also practice forgiveness. I forgive myself for not following through on previous commitments, goals, and self-promises. I let go of recriminations, self-flagellations, self-denigrations and I move on.
  • How Lyme Disease Saved My Life How Lyme Disease Saved My Life
    When Lyme disease saved me, I had no clue that anything was really wrong with me, except there were some weird things that kept happening. For one thing, as I told an allergist, my sinuses, in waves, felt funny, and for the last several seasons, I'd gotten morning headaches
  • Tick menagerie: Lyme isn't the only disease you can get from a tick Tick menagerie: Lyme isn’t the only disease you can get from a tick
    From the time National Institutes of Health medical entomologist Willy Burgdorfer first sliced open deer ticks from Shelter Island (off of Long Island) and studied them under the microscope in his Montana lab, he observed a glut of microbes.
  • Varicose veins Varicose veins
    Dear Stephen, Over the past year I have noticed both varicose and spider veins appearing between the ankles and calves and seem to be spreading. I wondered whether this could be a consequence of Lyme.
  • New Study: Autism Linked to Environment New Study: Autism Linked to Environment
    Research links soaring incidence of the mysterious neurological disorder to fetal and infant exposure to pesticides, viruses, household chemicals.
  • Autism Teen Creates Autism Teen Creates “Outsider” Art
    Arthur Simo is a teenager, self-taught artist and he has autism. Creating art gives him a way of showing his feelings about the way he perceives the world around him.
  • She Speaks in Metaphors (I Understand) She Speaks in Metaphors (I Understand)
    My doctor (one of them) says my entire left side is jammed. It's like shrink-wrapped plastic wrap, tight and brittle but it should be like one large, flowing, unified teardrop. It should have coherence and flexibility and it should breathe.
  • Artist Blogs About Life with Severe MCS and Advanced Neuro-Lyme Artist Blogs About Life with Severe MCS and Advanced Neuro-Lyme
    PlanetThrive.com's newest guest blog post is by Julie Laffin, a Chicago-based performance artist who writes of her struggles with severe chemical sensitivity and advanced neurological lyme disease.
  • Living a holistic life Living a holistic life
    A holistic lifestyle is more than just eating organic foods and practicing yoga from time to time. It means paying attention to all aspects of your life: relationships, career, health and spirituality to be sure that you are living a life in balance. This might mean making some adjustments.
  • Hemorrhoids Hemorrhoids
    Dear Stephen, I have really bad hemorrhoids, I think it is aggravated by the lyme/bartonella/babesia that I have. Is there anything you could recommend to help?
  • Indiana: High rates of autism, toxic pollution Indiana: High rates of autism, toxic pollution
    Indiana’s autism rate is now 1 in 113, above the national rate. Is it a coincidence that 266 million pounds of toxic chemicals were released into the state's air, land and water in 2006 alone?
  • Babesia: developing resistance to meds and herbs? Babesia: developing resistance to meds and herbs?
    Dear Stephen, I've been diagnosed with Babesia duncani and everyone keeps telling me that unless I continue the prescription drugs with the artemisinin, I will cause the babesia to become resistant.
  • Pregnancy, Candida and Autism Pregnancy, Candida and Autism
    Dear Donna, Is there a link between autism and fungal infections in a mother during pregnancy?
  • Filter for drinking and hard bath water Filter for drinking and hard bath water
    Dear Dr. Rea, For about 4 months, after using hard water (city supplied) for drinking and bathing, my hair has become very thin and every time I shampoo I lose around 200 hairs instantly. Which water filter can solve my problem?
  • Personal | Political Personal | Political
    Some of you may be wondering: what's with the thrive! journal header imagery? It has a very hippie-esque back-to-the land aesthetic to it. Why did you choose to use this visual to represent your website? The brutal truth is this: it was not so much a choice,
  • Glass half full Glass half full
    Living with a chronic illness is not easy. Especially when your symptoms include severe depression and hopelessness. It can take work to turn the picture upside down and see the glass as half full. But I can tell you that the effort is well worth it. On my bad days, all I can see is that I am in my sixth year living in near isolation,
  • Let it Flow Let it Flow
    Blocked energy results in stagnation. Stagnation can contribute to disease. As part of my personal healing initiative, I promised myself this year to focus on "flow" and to open up all those blocked passages in body and mind. One result of this is the "primal scream" practice I began a few months ago after moving to a more desolate locale
  • Protocol for young teenage girl Protocol for young teenage girl
    Dear Stephen, My 11-year-old daughter has lyme, bartonella and babesia. Is your herbal protocol safe for her?
  • Healing trauma and chemical sensitivities Healing trauma and chemical sensitivities
    Interview with Derval Dunford, creator of Sui meditation CD, about how she healed trauma and overcame the limitations of chemical sensitivity.
  • Unconscious Amygdalar Fear Conditioning in a Subset of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients Unconscious Amygdalar Fear Conditioning in a Subset of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients
    I propose here a novel hypothesis for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). ME/CFS may be a neurophysiological disorder focusing on the amygdala.
  • The The “Question” of Health Reform
    Patricia Ann Rattray writes about how the government and corporate elite work together to silence those with environmental illness and others who threaten the status quo balance of power and profit.
  • Dissolve Biofilms With Fibrinolytic Enzymes: A Novel Approach to Chronic Infection in Autism Spectrum Disorders Dissolve Biofilms With Fibrinolytic Enzymes: A Novel Approach to Chronic Infection in Autism Spectrum Disorders
    Interview with Peta Cohen, M.S., R.D., who specializes in treating children with autism using a biomedical / nutritional model, including the use of fibrinolytic enzymes like lumbrokinase and nattokinase.
  • Doctors Use Lumbrokinase to Help Conquer Lyme Disease Doctors Use Lumbrokinase to Help Conquer Lyme Disease
    Two doctors report on using lumbrokinase to help break up the biofilms in Lyme patients who don't seem to improve on antibiotics or herbal antimicrobials alone.
  • Autism Recovery... OSD, TMA, AAP, NIH, CDC, IOM, Listen Up!!! Autism Recovery… OSD, TMA, AAP, NIH, CDC, IOM, Listen Up!!!
    A military mom recovers her vaccine-injured child from autism using biomedical treatment therapies.
  • A new theory on autism put forward A new theory on autism put forward
    Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have proposed a sweeping new theory of autism that suggests that the brains of people with autism are structurally normal but dysregulated.
  • Planet Thrive rocks! Planet Thrive rocks!
    PlanetThrive.com is a grassroots community for personal wellness, with a focus on the health-environment connection. We offer a healing space for those on a personal health journey and those wishing to live a healthier, more conscious life.
  • Acne and rosacea Acne and rosacea
    Dear Susun, I have acne that takes forever to clear up and rosacea. I have heard that evening primrose oil and chaste berry are good. Could you help?
  • Flagyl and taking herbs Flagyl and taking herbs
    Dear Stephen, I will be doing IV Flagyl one week per month and I am very concerned about how hard Flagyl hits people - how sick some people get. What can I take to moderate side effects?
  • Scientists find 'baffling' link between autism and vinyl flooring Scientists find ‘baffling’ link between autism and vinyl flooring
    Children who live in homes with vinyl floors, which can emit phthalates, are twice as likely to have autism, according to a new study by Swedish and U.S. researchers.