The Top 10 Lyme Disease Treatments: Defeat Lyme Disease with the Best of Conventional and Alternative Medicine

This book is refreshing in that it offers information on a variety of methods to fight lyme instead of focusing just on antibiotics. Lyme disease is complicated. Because Borrelia burgdorferi is clever and ever-changing, our approach to attacking it needs to be just as clever and ever-changing. This book is like an appetizer plate -- it serves up info on many different treatments. After reading about the different treatments, you can then hone in on those that resonate with you and work with your particular situation. As a bonus, it is an easy read.

Having been diagnosed just 1-1/2 years ago with Lyme Disease, I was pretty unsure as to how to go about treating it as I was concerned about having to take antibiotics for years like a lot of other lyme sufferers that I knew. I was referred to this book by my doctor--a real MD who had slowly moved into a more natural medicine/prevention approach. I got the book, started treatment starting with a few of the supplements mentioned in the book for both killing off the bacteria (both lyme and coinfections) and supplements to replenish things in my system the lyme/coinfections had depleted. I was seeing progress, which was very encouraging. This helped me to decide to take the plunge and by a rife machine--two, actually. Being a Mechanical Engineer, I was a bit skeptical as electromagnetic medicine all seemed a little hokey. But when I understood the science behind it, especially as relating to natural harmonic frequency, I realized that it could really work. The only question I had was whether the rife machines recommended by Bryan Rosner's books (this book and his first one called When Antibiotics Fail) would actually be strong enough to actually destroy bacteria in the human body. I can now confidently say that I progressed in my recovery even faster than before! To understand how far I've come, before I started treatment or was diagnosed I had to use a cane, was constantly sore, could not sleep through the night, the right side of my body was weak like I had a stroke (I didn't), I had aphasia, emotional rollercoaster, strange bouts of dyslexia (something I've never had), and many other little symptoms. You get the point. After only a year of treatment, I feel like I'm at about 85% of normal, whereas I felt at about 40% before treatment began. Thank you Bryan and others who have helped me along the way! Another reviewer mentioned mangosteen and how his/her doctors said that they hadn't even heard of it before. Well, my recovery really kicked into overdrive when I started taking mangosteen in pill form about 3 months ago. It can be very expensive if you buy it as a juice, which I did for a while. But I found that it wasn't really helping me. When I found out the mangosteen pericarp (the rind where most of the antibacterial "stuff" is located) could be purchased in pill form for a fraction of the cost of equivalent juice doses, and when others mentioned having success with it, I thought I'd give it another try. It has really worked great for me in the pill form. So thank you for your books, Bryan. And I appreciate your honesty when you mention clearly in your books that the treatments you describe may not work for everyone, as we lyme sufferers all have different coinfections and other issues, and it can be a complex, often trial-and-error, process to figure out what works for each of us. The books, along with a knowledgeable lyme doctor, make for a great starting point for anyone trying to sort out the mess that Lyme Disease can

After three years of suffering I was finally diagnosed with Lyme Disease. I've explored and tried lots of treatments but needed more help. After reading "The Top 10 Lyme Disease Treatments", I'm finally making progress. Bryan cuts through all the information out there and found what works. I've made more progress in the last month than in the previous three years. What's more, I understand why, and exactly how the spirochetes work in my body to cause my symptoms. I also know how to get better. The book is incredibly well researched. Christopher Westra

I am a preventive medicine specialist and do not actively treat Lyme Disease with antibiotics, but I definitely end up diagnosing this condition in many people who come to me with a wide variety of chronic, multi-system complaints. I refer out to LLD's, and help patients keep their hormones, adrenal function and toxicity clearance in stable condition while they pursue treatment. I watch them, as some get better, but many also get worse. For those who feel as Bryan Rosner felt, after consulting a multitude of physicians and paying thousands of dollars for the very latest treatments, that you are not better and you are "on your own", get this book. Chronic Lyme disease sufferers are often on their own, with not even the enlightened health care practitioner to turn to, if antibiotics fail to heal them. Mr. Rosner, a journalist, a Lyme disease sufferer and a very intelligent man, found himself on his own in this way and began a journey to recovery that he shared with many thousands of others, trying to heal from Lyme disease using alternative, often unusual techniques. He is careful to tell us when he is simply offerring an opintion (such as with his use of the Marshall protocol), and to tell us that he is not a healthcare practitioner but he has worked hard to get a concensus view from hundreds if not thousands of people who are trying alternative treatments with success. He tells us about the war-like controversies among the medical professionals about how to treat this condition, and aptly points out that even the most enlightened of these does not guarantee a cure for people who have suffered with the condition for many years, especially if they have severe adverse reactions to antibiotics. I deeply appreciate this survey of what is working for people who have not gotten help from antibiotics alone or herbs alone. We desparately need such dialogue. The book is cogently written, easy to follow, very well organized and thorough. These treatments may or may not work for you if you have Lyme Disease, but you will have gained a good deal of insight and knowledge about the disease and about what many other people are doing to get well. The bottom line is that it is up to you, and if you find yourself abandoned by medicine or unable to tolerate antibiotic treatment, this book is definitely worth the read. Dr. Tedde M. Rinker, Redwood City, CA.

The Top Ten Lyme Disease Treatments Chronic Lyme patients are unique. Usually it is not just the Lyme spirochete they are left to deal with but those who are chronically ill often harbor several, if not many pathogens. This creates a situation where symptoms can affect every part of the body and there is no way to be sure which pathogen is causing what symptom. With the many allopathic and natural treatments we are bombarded with, especially for Lyme patients with cognitive problems, it is difficult to effectively decide where to begin. What treatments are most effective? How should they be combined? What are our most affordable options, where we as patients have more control? Many times I have just thrown up my hands in defeat and decided not to deal with any of these questions. Because antibiotics alone seemed to be working for me, the rest was just too complicated to sort out. However, at some point we may not have access to antibiotics for the use with chronic Lyme. Another consideration is that antibiotics don't always remain effective forever, and for some people they just don't seem to work. These drugs can also build up in your system and cause toxic side effects. This is where Bryan Rosner's book "The Ten Top Lyme Disease Treatments" comes into play. The author has created a practical resource that is organized and easy to understand and implement. Being a Lyme patient himself, he has done much research and experimentation. He offers information gleaned from his experience and the experience of others. Antibiotics alone have not been the complete answer for curing or effectively controlling Lyme disease. Most people will come to the same conclusion concerning natural treatments. The Lyme disease germ (borrelia burgdorferi) is a very smart bug, is able to evade the immune system, antibiotics and current available testing. Bryan Rosner's solution is to offer us valuable information concerning both allopathic and natural medicine and how to use them together to form a comprehensive treatment plan. He emphasizes 5 core treatment protocols and other supportive treatments. He suggests that antibiotics be rotated and used for fairly short periods of time. The author warns us that treating Lyme disease and the co-infections is more of a marathon event as opposed to a sprint. If we approach the treatment of Lyme with this in mind, it will help us to avoid discouragement. On page 293 of Rosner's book he says, " Because Lyme disease is caused by a bacterial infection, the core of a Lyme disease treatment protocol is comprised of antibacterial therapies. The most effective antibacterial therapies are pharmaceutical and non pharmaceutical antibiotics, the Marshall Protocol, and Rife Machine therapy. At all times during the recovery process, at least one of these three therapies should be in use." Bryan believes that Rife machine therapy should be the foundation of an antibacterial treatment and tells us why.