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Obesity: Babesia, Bartonella, Lyme and Mold
Toxins Make Real Weight Loss by Dr James Schaller, M.D.
by Dr. James Schaller, M.D.
I believe you should stop eating when you cease to enjoy the food in front of you. Exercise helps the obese live longer even if they lose few pounds. Yet a massive component of weight gain is the presence of infections, inflammation and biologically made toxins, which profoundly undermine weight loss in possibly tens of millions or more.
I live in an American county that is world renowned for its eternal sunshine and vigor. It also has more plastic surgeons then blades of grass. And when I started to meet individuals who had certain procedures such as a "tummy tuck," and they looked at 12 months like they should at 8 weeks, some patients in my practice became concerned. Some of their doctor's asked me my opinion, since they knew I liked medical puzzles. I was clueless. Why were some who had liposuction, or tummy tucks or even bariatric stomach reduction surgery, not losing weight like they should? Why indeed.
Finally, I met Lisa who had bariatric surgery, lost 125 pounds, and then gained back 90 pounds. Her problem was not diet and exercise! She had four tick and flea-borne infections, and a moldy attic with air being sucked into her small cozy one floor home. After we treated her for these five problems, she began to return to a healthy weight for her size.
Kim was 60 pounds overweight. She had Lyme and Babesia. She was placed and Mepron 2 teaspoons per day and was told after 6 months she was cured of Babesia. She was retested, and her ECP was slightly raised and so I sent her to have two different labs run visual exams of her blood. One found Babesia. I had learned by then, that 1500 mg of Mepron per day merely lowers body load and does not cure most patients, so we gave her a higher dose. She was also placed on high dose Artesunate, and not merely at an ineffective dose of 3 capsules per day, which may kill Babesia but will not result in a cure years later. As she lost her Babesia she lost 30-35 pounds.
After trying all the 10 routine drugs recommended for Bartonella that studies show should work, and yet do not work in my newer 2008 research, she found two products she wanted to pursue and we monitored her close. Initially the dose did nothing but make her legs larger with non-pitting enlargement. But after a complete heart work-up, and a clean bill of cardiac health and leg blood vessel health, she raised her treatments to see if the labs would show a Bartonella reduction. Her leg size decreased and she lost more weight.
Ehrlichia was treated with aggressive doxycycline and after a confirmation she could tolerate it, she was then tried on minocycline. While she did not lose obvious weight her eyes and belly looked less bloated on these antibiotics that were mixed with Ketek.
She had her home remediated in a manner, which was simple, and yet fully successful-she had read my two easy books on indoor mold toxins, Mold Illness and Mold Remediation Made Simple and When Traditional Medicine Fails, so she knew most remediations fail, and so she used a top remediator who is also a builder. If you are not a builder how do you see structural defects? And some remediations requested by lawyers and mold interested health care workers also fail.
Teri read book after book, and article after article, and came to the conclusion mold toxins, which are made as the spore is made, do not impact the body in a simple predicable manner, but act more like a bomb and hit the body 300 different ways. And a few of these ways is through increasing inflammation, turning off anti-inflammation chemicals, and altering all sorts of hormones, including fat cell hormones. Her home remediation did not help her lose much weight. But when she had her entire home HEPA vacuumed by three people from head to toe, she began to lose weight together with some other treatments.
Due to the complex nature of any single person's Lyme treatment, it is essential to tailor all treatments to each person individually-protocols and guidelines are more fitting for speed medicine. Therefore, I will not discuss the many ways we addressed her Lyme from the very beginning of her care. I found many of the "16 reasons" for Lyme disease treatment failure applied to her. I made some of them. Some Lyme treatments had no effect on weight and some did. Sometimes the weight followed a Herx reaction and sometimes weight was lost with medications that felt invisible inside the body.
In this context anyone who has treatment resistant weight gain really needs to work with someone who is very familiar with all of these sample weight issues. Every health care worker in America probably has ideas on how to lose weight. They exhort you to do x, or take y. But if you have any of the issues mentioned above, they are probably more important than x or y. Please accept my sincere wishes for an increasingly healthy and meaningful year. |
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