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The Infection Connection

Hidden bacterial infection is now known to be the underlying cause of many chronic ailments. This infection produces excess inflammation and toxicity. The symptoms resemble:

  • chronic fatigue
  • fibromyalgia
  • environmental hypersensitivity-allergy syndrome
As this infection develops, profound neurological problems can arise, resulting in:
  • poor memory
  • poor decision making
  • anxiety
  • depression
  • sleep disturbance
  • tremor
  • numbness
  • tingling and weakness
Diseases believed to be manifestations of this condition include:
  • Bell's palsy
  • rheumatoid arthritis
  • multiple sclerosis
  • heart palpitations
  • restless leg syndrome
  • psoriasis
  • sarcoidosis
  • autism
  • trigeminal neuritis
  • interstital cystitis
  • irritable bowel syndrome
  • LouGehrig's disease
  • tourette's syndrome
The Medical Information

Some bacteria are capable of changing their structure. They can change from typical forms described in medical texts, such as rods (bacilli), spheres (cocci) or spirals (spirocytes), to atypical forms such as 'L' forms (cell wall deficient), and cysts. The bacteria that are capable of this pleomorphism include those found in ticks, fleas, and mosquitoes (responsible for Lyme and other associated tick borne diseases), and those that cause pneumonia, sinusitis, cystitis, and sexually transmitted diseases.

At the intracellular level, these bacteria grow very slowly and their toxic effects often progress gradually over many months and/or even years. If this condition persists, it can affect the muscle-skeletal system, the thyroid and other hormone related glands, the skin, brain, heart, and the immune system.

Diagnosis

Because the bacteria evade the immune system, routine blood tests are commonly negative. Therefore, diagnosis stems primarily from clinical history and findings. However, blood tests for inflammatory markers (including Vitamin D metabolites), can help indicate the condition.

In chronic persistent infections, the active form of the pro-hormone we call Vitamin D is often elevated. This is now thought to be due to a blockage of the receptor for Vitamin D, and appears to be caused by the bacteria itself as a way to avoid the body's immune system.

Note: Bacteria associated with tick bites should be screened, even though the tests normally done by the CDC can be insensitive. (More sensitive tests are available through specialized labs in the USA).

Vitamin D related issues

As mentioned, Vitamin D is a pro-hormone, not a vitamin. Typically, it is produced in the skin by the conversion of cholesterol via UV radiation and is not normally found in foods. In excess, it is toxic.

Treatment

Vitamin D receptor blockage blunts the immune response, disrupts calcium absorption and causes hormonal dysfunction. Therapy is aimed at restoring balance to the body's functions and alerting the immune system to the presence of the bacteria.

At The Stillpoint Center for the Healing Arts, we are having good success in combining low doses of specific antibiotics with an angiotenstion receptor blocker, as well as careful application of homeopathics and in some circumstances, osteopathic treatment. We call this approach to persistent bacterial infection, The Stillpoint Protocol.
"To demand congruity, consistency, fixed contracts, irrevocable decisions, clear cut choices and ideas, predictable fixed behavioral patterns, purity of purpose and simple well-delineated feelings ... (all) free of ambivalence and ambiguity, (and) in a world that becomes increasingly more complex every second, is demanding a condition that is antithetical and foreign to the state of being a person. It is also asking for a death warrant."

-- Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D.,
Compassion and Self-Hate

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