What does Lyme disease, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and POTS all have in common?
As chronic illness continues to surge in the United States (and really all over the world), it’s left healthcare providers scratching their heads. Even Lyme disease continues to exist as a controversial diagnosis, as it’s often confused with other conditions and a there’s a very real lack of definitive diagnostic tests.
But here’s what the modern medical community is missing, and Lyme disease is the perfect guinea pig: viruses are the cause. There are upwards of 60 varieties of Epstein-Barr virus alone, which are yet to be discovered by current medical research. This leads to lack of testing and inconsistent diagnoses (for example “autoimmune” diseases, in which medicine has just conveniently landed on the explanation that the body’s immune system is suddenly turning against itself).
So for all those mystery symptoms like vagus nerve inflammation, POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, restless leg syndrome, brain fog, mystery heart palpitations, and general nerve pain, you’ve got some kind of virus at the root. And because our understanding of viral function is limited at best, most medical doctors don’t know how to treat these conditions.
Herpetic viruses are especially problematic in creating chronic illness. This includes viruses like Epstein-Barr, herpes simplex 1 and 2, cytomegalovirus, and HHV-6 or HHV-7. These viruses love to hang out in toxic, acidic environments in our bodies such as the liver, the brain, and the digestive system. They produce toxic waste byproducts and neurotoxins that are incredibly irritating to the nerves in the body. Over time this constant exposure leads to nerve damage, and depending on which nerves are affected you can experience a variety of symptoms.
One symptom that highlights this neural inflammation is chest pain. Chest pain can be really scary, and it’s absolutely necessary to get a full medical workup to rule out other conditions. But more and more these days, people are experiencing chest pain with no obvious cause. It is often in these cases that viral inflammation of the vagus nerve (which innervates the heart) is at play.
Right now, modern medicine doesn’t understand that viruses must eat to stay alive (just like bacteria). There are certain foods that viruses prefer over others. These foods include dairy, gluten, eggs, corn and soy. And in order for a virus to be killed off from the human body, it must be starved out while simultaneously boosting the immune system with fruits, vegetables and supplementation.
As a physical therapist working with complex patient cases, I learned quickly in my career that exercise, body work, and the average healthy diet is not enough to address the inflammation I was finding in my patients. This is when I was introduced to the Medical Medium and began applying this information to my own healing journey. Many individuals can be triggered by how the Medical Medium sources this information, and I was doubtful until I started experiencing the profound healing first hand. As I grew more confident in the information, I began educating my own patients to expedite their healing processes too. My own intuitive abilities and sensitive palpation skills allowed me to intimately monitor the rapid changes happening in my patients’ bodies.
We are at a critical junction in human history, where the systems we have in place no longer give us the safety and protection that they should. This unfortunately extends to medical research, where so many studies are influenced by corporate biases, pharmaceutical interest groups, and hidden agendas. Expert information can’t always be taken at face value, so instead individuals are having to relearn what it means to truly listen to the body.
In order to heal, we must reconnect to the planet, the deeply healing foods grown in the Earth, and to our own bodies.
