Can Lyme Disease Be Cured?

The question of whether or not Lyme disease can be cured is a

recurring question that is asked every doctor who is faced with a
person suffering from the disease.
The term “Cure” is almost taboo in the healing arts profession. No
doctor that I know of is willing to say they can cure any illness…
especially not Lyme disease.

Before we just say an absolute “No” that Lyme disease is incurable lets
see what the best medical dictionaries define the word “Cure” as
meaning. After all, these medical dictionaries are the basis of what
even the most agnostic doctors hold up as “truth.”

The following are taken from Dorland’s Medical Dictionary and

Stedman’s Medical Dictionary.
cure
noun.
1. Restoration of health; recovery from disease.
2. A method or course of medical treatment used to restore
health.
3. An agent, such as a drug, that restores health; a remedy.
4. Something that corrects or relieves a harmful or disturbing
situation.
Cure
verb.
1. To restore to health.
2. To effect a recovery from: cure a cold.
3. To remove or remedy (something harmful or disturbing): cure
an evil.

Reading these definitions one immediately notices that at no time does

the word cure mean all the bacteria are gone. A patient of mine said it
best on a Lyme forum, “Antibiotics are for killing, not healing.” Now
doctors may read this and say the antibiotic “killing” of the bacteria
creates healing by eliminating the cause of the disease…but in their
own scientific scrutiny does this line of thought hold up to its claims?
Not according to the Journal of the American Medical Association
(JAMA), the worlds leading, peer-reviewed, medical journal.

Articles in the JAMA encourage doctors to stop treating every

suspected infection with antibiotics. This is because international
research, which is cited by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, have demonstrated that a doctor will usually prescribe
antibiotics for a “routine” sinus, ear, eye, respiratory infection for
approximately 7-10 days. What the research found is that even
without prescribing antibiotics that the infection was resolved with 7-
10 days.

So the medical research and the medical definition of cure show that a
“Cure” is not the absence of bacteria. The people experienced a
“Restoration of health” without killing all of the bacteria. And yes for
those of you who might say the body killed the bacteria via the
immune system, this too is not borne out by the medical research that
reveals the Strep or whatever bacteria is was is still in the body, only it
is now non-pathological.

Can Lyme disease be cured? Before answering that question, possibly

the medical dictionaries are not using the same definition as the
general public.

According to Dictionary.com:
Cure, noun
1. A means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
2. A method or course of remedial treatment, as for disease.
3. A successful remedial treatment; restoration to health.
4. A means of correcting or relieving anything that is
troublesome or detrimental.

It would appear that everyone agrees that a “Cure” is a condition of

the body returning to health. If it is true that “Cure” is a restoration of
health and thereby the absence of symptoms, then “Disease” is a loss
of health with the onset of symptoms.

Do we suppose that bacteria and viruses are somehow stronger during

the winter months? After all, winter is the time of year that people
typically get sick the most with infections…of course not. The bacteria
and viruses don’t somehow get stronger in wintertime. The human
body is weakened by the extreme cold and inactivity, not to mention
the mental and emotional fear that has been engrained in us by the
media that “We are entering flu season!”

So we see that when the body is optimally healthy we enjoy symptom-

free life. When the body is weakened we experience dys-ease.

When a person gets over strep throat they are cured and the
symptoms go away without antibiotics within 10 days. Does this mean
they will never get strep throat again? Are they a ticking time bomb
just waiting to go off? No! If they go to a rock concert and yell and
scream, while drinking copious amounts of alcohol, and smoke, then
the mucus membranes in the throat will be damaged and the strep
bacteria, which were always there even in the healthy throat, create
the “strep throat” symptoms again.

“But this is Lyme disease!” I can hear people saying. “But I was
completely healthy before I got bitten by a tick!” Of course the
bacteria do matter once it has gotten out of control in a person’s body.
And no, you were not optimally healthy before you got bitten, even if
you were a tri-athlete. No bacteria can thrive in an optimally health
human.

In medical “science” it is convenient in a disease like Lyme disease,

where the laboratory tests have such a high rate of false-negative
tests, that after a course of antibiotics a person is often proclaimed
cured, when the follow-up lab tests come back negative. The person
with the Lyme disease is left in a perplexing position because often
none of their symptoms are gone and their health has definitely not
been restored.

This is not good science.

So do I believe that Lyme disease is curable? Yes absolutely, to the

degree that your body can be repaired. If your body has been
damaged beyond repair by the medicines, by accidents, by surgeries,
by radiation, by trauma by any means, it will be limited to that degree.

The restoration of health, “CURE” is the result of facilitating the

restoration of the integrity and function of every aspect of the body,
mind, and spirit. Every organ, system, tissue, and cell must be
restored to optimum integrity all at the same time.

This is the goal of American Biological Medicine, to use the best

scientific understanding and to push the natural science as we
understand it, beyond the simplistic blood tests, and yes it is simplistic
to base health on the presence or absence of bacteria or antibodies
present in the blood, to work with the perspective that at no time can
or should a doctor harm one part of the body in order to correct
another.

When through whatever methods, natural or otherwise, a person

experiences a restoration of health, by definiton they are cured.