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Very likely nonsense. It's a so called dark-field microscopy done by an alternative physician, right?What do you think?
She's a doctor. She is the most successful doctor in Spain in treatment, especially in multiple chemical sensitivity. Although she sells her own genetic test, she interpreted several Livewello reports to adapt the treatment to my genetics and immunological analyses. Today I got the picture but I haven't talked to her yet. I know she doesn't do aggressive treatments.Very likely nonsense. It's a so called dark-field microscopy done by an alternative physician, right?
According to the test those filaments that come out appear at 48 hours and not before. What do you think?
With this video we want to clarify the error that some therapists make by confusing spirochetes with chondrites that appear in the blood in vivo. The video shows the totally different structure of spirochetes (corkscrew shape) and chondrites (pearl shape or dotted).
This does not mean that spirochetes can not be seen in the blood in vivo, simply that we should not confuse between them.
An article about Prof Morten Laane's microscopy technique can be found here, and a video here.
His 2013 paper is here:
A simple method for the detection of live Borrelia spirochaetes in human blood using classical microscopy techniques
In this paper he says the technique is simply to add a tiny amount of sodium citrate solution to the patient's drop of blood on the microscopy slide, "which for unknown reasons seems to further stimulate replication of Borrelia". Under these conditions, he says that Borrelia might appear both inside and outside the red blood cells.
The structures interpreted as Borrelia and Babesia by the LM-method could not be verified by PCR. The method was, thus, falsified. This study underlines the importance of doing proper test validation before new or modified assays are introduced.
85% in the healthy control group were positive for borrelia or babesia: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27030913
Thinking of my ubiome results, which identified 7.7% of my microbiome at the phylum level as Spirochaetes, not further identified from the order down to the specie level, there must be many more species than borrelia or babesia only. Though harmless in comparison.
I wonder if the paper (Aase et al, 2016) above used incorrect PCR primers for their PCR? The false positives do look ‘odd’.
Maybe these filaments that grow out of blood cells are actually filopodia "tentacles" extending from macrophages in the blood.
Macrophage cells will sprout these long filaments called filopodia in order to help the macrophage find the bacteria in its immediately vicinity, which the macrophage then ingests and destroys by phagocytosis.
The image below shows filopodia extending from a macrophage as it tries to "feel" for the bacteria, and the tiny elongated objects all around the macrophage are E. coli bacteria.
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A lung macrophage and its filopodia searching for bacteria.
Electron microscope picture.
Source: here
Beautiful electron microscope photo! But it is a white cell rather than red blood cell. Also, there is no scale bar so one cannot be sure about the length and thickness of the filaments. Actually, that’s a problem with the rbc light photo too isn’t it?