Dr Myhill On Lyme Disease
4,302 views · Published 2 November 2018 · 2:51 · Indexed 26 October 2026
Channel: Life The Basic Manual · 2018 · Education
Lyme disease is probably the most prevalent vector-borne disease in the Northern Hemisphere and is regarded by many as one of the greatest threats to public health that faces humanity in the twenty-first century. A warmer, wetter climate and increased human pressure on wild habitats have produced a perfect storm of human/tick interaction. Worsening this situation considerably is the reluctance of many governments and health authorities to investigate, accurately map and respond to this emergent disease. As most people with Lyme disease can bitterly recount, the official line in both the USA, the UK, and many other countries, is that Lyme disease rare, is and that it is easily resolved with a short course of the appropriate antibiotics. In this short but telling film, health pioneer Dr Sarah Myhill evaluates the usefulness of the most recent NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) guidelines on the treatment of Lyme disease. She is unimpressed. Dr Myhill makes the excellent point that the pathogen that causes Lyme diseases, the protean Borrelia bacteria, is a spirochete, and therefore capable of disseminating widely throughout the body, and persisting almost indefinitely. A good parallel would be the sexually-transmitted disease syphilis. This spirochetal infection is known to have three primary phases in which it infects the body, and if it is not arrested early, its effects are disastrous and systemic. The most recent NICE guidelines focus only the first and earliest stage of Lyme disease, with little acknowledgement of later effects from unrecognised or inadequately treated infection. Lyme disease is poorly studied, but it is increasingly obvious that the reassuring paradigm in which a patient turns up at a doctor’s office with a bullseye rash shortly after being bitten does not match the real-life experience of many thousands of patients. Often, there is no rash, people are not aware of being bitten, and only learn of their disease when experiencing the myriad of unpleasant symptoms that accompany the later stages of Lyme disease. Testing for Lyme disease is unreliable, so these patients often lack an objective correlate for their illness. Part of the great tragedy of this situation is that every day, more people are unnecessarily infected with a disease that they could have protected themselves from had they received the right prevention messages. Alongside that goes a story of unacknowledged suffering, both in terms of morbidity and mortality, of Lyme disease patients who are dismissed as neurotics when desperately seeking solutions to their health problems. But acknowledging the reality of this suffering would be expensive and difficult; so the current official solution is to pretend that Lyme disease and its many co-infections are a minor problem, with a simple solution. If only it were so. To learn more about Dr Myhill’s work, please see https://drmyhill.co.uk For more on Lyme disease in the UK, please see: https://lymediseaseuk.com For more on Lyme disease in the US, please see: https://lymedisease.org ============================== Links to Dr Myhill’s books and papers: Books: Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Myalgic Encephalitis and Long Covid THIRD EDITION: It's mitochondria, not hypochondria Paperback https://amzn.to/49T7oEk The PK Cookbook – go paleo ketogenic and get the best of both worlds https://amzn.to/4aUxEzD The Underactive Thyroid: Do it yourself because your doctor won't Paperback https://amzn.to/3Wpg56b Paleo-Ketogenic: The Why and the How: Just what this doctor ordered Paperback https://amzn.to/44iOZQd Ecological Medicine, 2nd Edition: The Antidote to Big Pharma and Fast Food Paperback https://amzn.to/44jZDWG Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myalgic Encephalitis 2nd Edition: It's Mitochondria, Not Hypochondria Paperback https://amzn.to/4aMSMaR The Infection Game – life is an arms race https://amzn.to/4b2Fw28 Sustainable Medicine – Whistle-blowing on 21st Century Medical Practice https://amzn.to/3JG6QqJ Prevent and Cure Diabetes – delicious diets, not dangerous drugs https://amzn.to/4a1v9Kz Green Mother: Families fit for the future Paperback https://amzn.to/3UdxD2k Dr Myhill’s three published papers on CFS/ME: http://www.ijcem.com/files/IJCEM812001.pdf http://www.ijcem.com/files/IJCEM1204005.pdf http://www.ijcem.com/files/IJCEM1207003.pdf SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS https://www.youtube.com/c/lifethebasicmanual?sub_confirmation=1 FIND LIFE THE BASIC MANUAL HERE http://www.facebook.com/lifethebasicmanual http://instagram.com/lifethebasicmanual http://twitter.com/BasicManual
