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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

I Get 20 Tick Bites Every Week (Lyme Disease)

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I’m going to share my secret to preventing Lyme disease. Lyme disease is usually treated with antibiotics, which kill not only the bad bacteria but also the good bacteria, lowering the immune system.


Some people will develop a resistance to antibiotics, which may result in problems such as chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and autoimmune disease after Lyme disease treatment.


There are over 900 different species of ticks. Some ticks carry Lyme bacteria, a corkscrew bacteria called a spirochete. These bacteria can penetrate many different tissues and evade your immune system by hiding in tissues without immune cells.


A tick bite usually causes redness that could develop into a bull’s eye rash, a common indicator of Lyme disease.


Corkscrew bacteria can invade the heart and cause palpitations. They also have a defense mechanism that can keep them alive even after they’ve been engulfed by your immune cells. Spirochetes downgrade your receptors for vitamin D, the most important vitamin of the entire immune system.


Vitamin D strengthens your monocytes and makes them more efficient. It also increases antimicrobial peptides that help kill spirochetes.


There are 2 main systems of vitamin D. One controls calcium, while the other supports the immune cells, heart, muscles, central nervous system, and intestines. The latter system depends on vitamin D from the sun, your food, and supplements. This vitamin D only lasts for 24 hours in the body.


If you suspect you have Lyme disease, you may want to try taking at least 30,000 IU of vitamin D daily, even if you’re taking antibiotics. Anytime you take vitamin D3, you also need adequate magnesium, vitamin K2, and zinc.


Japanese knotweed and garlic can also be beneficial for Lyme disease.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

By now I should have had Lyme disease over and over again.

0:02.8

I get roughly about 20 ticks per week.

0:07.0

I'll be in the shower and I'm like scratching in my head.

0:09.4

I'm like, what the heck is this?

0:11.3

And then I'll pull out a tick on the back of my scalp.

0:14.0

I'll have them hiding in different places.

0:16.5

I'll be looking in the mirror and thinking that it's a mole but actually it's a tick.

0:20.7

It's really weird and the problem I have with the treatment is I don't like antibiotics.

0:25.2

I'm not telling you not to take an antibiotic or the conventional treatment or to take it.

0:28.7

I just want to give you another viewpoint. Antibiotics don't just kill the bad bacteria. They also kill the good bacteria. So they lower your immune system and there's a percentage of people that develop resistance to antibiotics. So now they have things like chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, they developed an

0:45.9

autoimmune disease after their treatment of Lyme.

0:50.3

So what I'm going to reveal today is what I think is the reason I'm not getting this Lyme disease.

0:56.0

A couple points about ticks. Number one, there is over 900 different species of ticks.

1:01.0

A certain percentage can create a lime, which is a kind of a corkscrew

1:04.8

bacteria. They can penetrate into tissues that no other bacteria can get into.

1:10.9

And this is one way they evade your immune system by going into certain tissues

1:16.8

that don't have any immune cells. But there's other types of spiral kite infections that create other diseases like syphilis and something called

1:25.6

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever which is a bit rare. And so you have this concept of not all ticks

1:30.4

will carry this bacteria and also this other point not all of these corkscrew

1:36.5

bacteria can create disease and understanding that is very very important in

1:42.0

preventing these diseases.

1:44.8

So here's what happens.

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