Lotus97
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Rich actually wrote a paper on Lyme and methylation in 2009. He was also going to speak at a conference in late 2012, but he died before that so I don't know if he revised anything. From talking to other people he believed that methylation would be better to do first and I agree. Treating Lyme with antibiotics is really hard on the body. I think methylation would be helpful to strengthen the body before the treatment. I started a thread on it on some people with Lyme have posted their experiences with methylation.Is it possible that a methylation defect is attacking your immune system and preventing your body from fighting off Lyme? My wife had all kinds of infections that were cleared up with methylation supplements.
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/inde...glutathione-depletion-rich-vanks-posts.21563/
A link has been hypothesized between Lyme disease and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). This link is based on the Glutathione DepletionMethylation Cycle Block (GD-MCB) hypothesis for CFS [6]. The GD-MCB hypothesis proposes that in a person who is genomically predisposed, stressors that place demands on glutathione can cause it to become depleted, and can lead to a partial block in the methylation cycle. The resulting vicious circle interaction maintains CFS as a chronic condition. The present paper suggests that Lyme disease is one of the stressors that can produce this vicious circle interaction in the body of a person who is genomically predisposed. It is suggested that this leads to chronic Lyme disease. If the Borrelia bacteria are subsequently eliminated by treatment, the patient then has post-Lyme disease syndrome. Post-Lyme disease syndrome is one of the post-infective fatigue syndromes, a category of disorders within chronic fatigue syndrome [25]. A commercial test panel is available to test this hypothesis [26], and treatment to lift the methylation cycle block and to restore glutathione is available [7] if these are found to be present.