Lyme is one of the most complicated pathogens the human race has come up against. It can be a syndrome of multiple infections and each patient can have different responses, different gene issues, different and delicate outcomes. The people investigating and caring about patient outcomes are true heroes. They care about our wrecked lives. This man cares. This man gives me hope.

I have a friend whose sister is 38 years old. They have just institutionalized her with a diagnosis of dementia. The doctors just gave her a one to one and a half year life expectancy. This started a year ago. I myself am a 20 year late stage Lyme disease survivor. I fought for 10 years to get an accurate diagnosis! Then 3 rounds of IV Rocephin antibiotics on and of for two years. I still have relapse and remissions. I believe she has Lyme Disease too!

About 15 years ago my Grandfather was diagnosed with dementia, which eventually led to a very fast decline. The hook to the story is that my Grandfather was a keen gardener+forest work (for over 25 years) in an area that is notorious for ticks in south Germany. Back in the days, people just laughed if they were bitten by a tick. As a kid and young adult , I also was often bitten by ticks in the same area and ended up 20 years later with RR-MS… I was tested for Lyme (differential diagnosis to MS) and came out positive for Lyme IgG-antibodys.Neuroborreliosis was still excluded, due to a higher antibody index in my Serum in contrast to my Cerebrospinal fluid which also turned out positive for Lyme IgG-antibodys.So eventually the Doctors told me that my IgG-antibodys were not produced in my brain but rather passively passed my Blood-brain barrier. Nevertheless the whole story is somehow peculiar.

Every Lyme's patient should watch this video. He gives more info than any 10 compromised doctors give. As a pathologist, I would hold his knowledge above ALL doctors who basically stop learning after graduating med school.

Alan, a huge thank you for doing these 3 videos and to Richard Longland, of the ADR foundation, who produced, Edited, and Posted these Videos for Public Education for us all! these are well done with good audio, visual, and the content ... we all learn so much from you. may you continue having GOOD HEALTH/HAPPINESS from this IOWAN fan, bettyg, lyme activist

What an amazing man to dedicate so much of his time to discovering all he can about Borreliosis or Lyme disease allowing all who are afflicted by it to understand it better and fight it all the better too!!!

Wonderful work hopefully I can find someone to help me ! Wish all medical staff cared as much as you do.

Amazing info...Thanks you Dr for helping humanity ...and being an RN with Lyme disease..which has been ignored cause not ever 5 bands only 3 or 4 or 2 over a 10 year period.I have never understood how any medical person that has taken infectious disease 101 and know Syphilis is a spirochete and has 3 stages of infection in body and the end stage is madness how can they possibly ignore this...they must be in a twilight zone of the allopathic egotistical delusion that they really are honoring the Hippocratic oath while allowing many people suffer and die of a treatable disease early on if they would even acknowledge it!...I am a Hospice nurse in the nursing home realm and I can tell you the people there are infected with some type of lyme,mycoplasma,bartonella ..cause drooling ,dystonia and dying brains is not normal aging!....how can we let this happen again to another whole generation??

All doctors should be as focused and open minded as Dr MacDonald Thanks to him for all he does, believing in us Lyme Patients YOU'RE a treasure DR M ! I'm in Canada *Toronto and we have NO doctors here to help. I've been sick and homebound for years. Just knowing that others believe us is a step ahead, very slowly. Thank you.

The amount of information that Dr MacDonald conveys in the video is just amazing and so well explained that even I could follow it. I highly recommend watching it right through, even if you have to take a break.

Dr. MacDonald, you do a great service in honoring your father.

Dr. Alan MacDonald your are truly a beautiful and wonderful person. As a male 28 that was treated for Lyme with oral antibiotics 3 years ago I see that these bacteria are not killed in one go. I was extremely lucky and got a bullseye rash and reacted positive to the blood test so I was "treated", but three years later there are still problems. My grandmother 90 has Alzheimers and you have given me hope and a direction in which to continue. Love you

I can't believe those SOB's refused to publish the info, that Lyme is related to Alzeimers. - because it may provoke anxiety- well it SHOULD provoke anxiety. then people will carefully remove their clothing, wash it, check themselves carefully while showering for any ticks, after spending time in the outdoors. this disease is highly dangerous and very difficult to eradicate, and the warning is being softened up so no one really takes is too seriously- until it happens to them. this is front page info.

What an great explanation. People who really know their "craft " can make a difference for understanding. Thank you for taking the time to make this knowledge available to most

Thanks Dr. Alan MacDonald for your great work

I am a long distance hiker who spends a great deal of time in the woods. This video answered a lot of questions that were confusing. Good work!

Thank you Dr MacDonald for your dedication, brilliant hard work and beautiful eloquence on a very critical subject.

I have captured Borrelia Burgdorferi burrowing into one of my White Blood Cells (WBC) in this video. Lyme (Borrelia Burgdorferi) burrowing into a White Blood Cell I also show you the SECRETS of how to make a blood smear for microscopy viewing in this video. How to make blood smear for LYME ( borrelia burgdorferi ) observation

Thanks Betty for your kind words. BTW, my non-profit is Arthroplasty Patient Foundation. We are focused on the root causes of degenerative diseases -- ones primarily caused by "sub-clinical" infections.

Excellent video - thanks for posting.

Thank you Thank you Thank you so much! This is already helping several people I know, because you have posted this invaluable jewel-of-a-tool to beam wonderful light into the darkness of the human microbiome and problems that standard medical teachings & protocol still seem to skip right over like a fast-moving car zooms over all kinds of life it does not see. Bless you!

Great vid! Thanks Dr. Mac !

Thank you for great videos, subbed.

Thank you so much Dr. MacDonald for your extensive work understanding Lyme and communicating to us. My wife has clinical lyme ( seronegative) including a swollen tongue. Have you heard or anyone subscribe here heard of a swollen tongue with chronic Lyme?

Good question....

thank you!

Great info!

I emailed the person who filmed this and he said that it was an incorrect diagnosis and that he is fine. Glad to hear that.

Many of us feel all alone. Please read reply below for support group.

Dr. McDonald, just a thank you for such a great video, and that you made it not only to explain this to those of us who already are Victims, but to those out there who don't know they can be a victim, just walking to the mailbox to get the mail! I can't remember the exact words Congressman Chris Gibson used...but to the effect, that a country as big as ours, full of capabilities and beyond, that we can't develop tests and treatment for this major epidemic! The CDC and the IDSA are what? Holding on to faulty Guidelines, for what?, So some "friend" in their tight network can make some money on the account of our suffering? Is this the new America we live in? Dr. McDonald thank you and Dr. Eva Sapi for being TRUE Americans, and being TRUTHFUL!

What a jewel this man is. Very interesting talk. Had to laugh at the idea of spirochetes in the brain waiting for a bus. I wish mine would get on a bus and get out of town.

I love Dr. Alan MacDonald, he ROCKS 👍💚😀

Fantastic video, but I can't confirm the good test methods used in Europe, we struggle hard here to get properly tested. Even with a positive test we have to fight to get responsibly treated.

Thanks to this great man

I LOVE this man!

Yes, thank you. I believe the documentary Under Our Skin, states at the end of the movie, this issue. I will email them and give them your answer. That is not a particularly new video so I don't know where they got their information

That's good he is my favorite Doctor, love all his video's ... I heard that same rumor thank God! I have learned more from this guy than anyone,,, Makes me think my LLMD has not a clue

That You Dr. MacD. The people MUST demand change before it is too late for any species on the planet.

thankyou for writing me back. xoxox

this mans a hero.

You have been doing wonderful work! This is fascinating information. I find it most interesting that pathologists work has no room for error, as you explained. I believe you are telling the truth, because all of your slides prove what you have been saying and, your work is corroborated by other fine scientists, too. All of us with neurological problems who have been diagnosed with Lyme must do something to eradicate the biolfilm and borrelia. I believe Alzheimer's is caused by borrelia. I believe it is an epidemic. My mom lost her mind gradually. Her brain was full of amyloid plaque. I never knew she had borrelia until now. She was combative and had trigger point rage, was hallucinating to a degree, had nightmares, had hearing aberrations, and finally lost touch with reality. My sister is very much the same way. Just as mom could not handle alcohol, neither can my sister. I have the inability to concentrate, odd hearing, chronic bladder irritation, visual changes, depression, chemical sensitivities, EMF sensitivities, numbness, poor reflexes. POTS. Weakness in my heart. Lumps along my long muscles. On it goes. Mom died 5 months after going into a care home. It was the borrelia all along. Poor mom. Mom lived in her garden all her life. She was given Ciprofloxacin three times for pneumonia which messed up her mind. Possibly those powerful drugs caused a very toxic die-off that she could not handle. Who knows? I sure miss my mom. I am trying not to end up like mom. Thank-you once again for your commitment to the research of borrelia:)

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Google it, you will find several reliable sources to answer your question. Google does not allow me to post links. For example, use this search term: what do western blot bands mean

I would like to learn more about the interaction of challenges to the immune system, such as mercury and heavy metals poisoning, and how that impacts the ability to fight Lyme. Additionally, how having a couple of low Ig levels since childhood might make it harder to fight Lyme. Is it that some people get it more easily, and/or have a harder time fighting it off after they get it?

Very informative video and also the Borrelias in Europe are afzelli, garinii, valaisiana, bissetti, burgdorferi and who knows how many others. Many of the ticks are loaded with many pathogens and many of those are known chronic infections as well. Rickettsial infections are different world wide as well and in Sweden we see R helvetica and sibirica and here in US we see Rickettsia rickettsii or Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.Pathogens are susceptible and resistant to different antibiotics.

Igenex has a separate 31kda epitope test. If one shows b31 on Igg or Igm on Western Blot even slightly. If checked off the test form Igenex will then kick it over to the 31 epitope test which is a fined tuned breakdown dna etc.to show if one has late state chronic. It is supposed to be 98% specific. 31 & 34 is outer surface protein of the actual spirochete.

David, it's very difficult to read your writing. If you are referring us to a report, perhaps you can post a website link?

I was wondering the same thing. In the under our skin documentary at the end it stated that he was diagnosed with a form of alzheimer and that he lost all the memory of his research.

I am glad I asked. I do not know why individuals in the Lyme community are spreading this rumor. Thank you.

Because I thought I had lyme (diagnosed by natural Dr)the hospital (Sanford in ND) diagnosed me with numerous mental illnesses and tried to have me committed. They based it on ridiculous number of lies- that they did get caught in, refused to allow me to see my medical records, said biofilm did not exist, tried to keep me from any outside contact ( restricting phone use), owned my lawyer who refused to get my med records or allow me any witnesses, and were going to court mandate me to be forced medicated before hearing. After leaving I was diagnosed with lyme and babesia through Igenx. And all the above is not even the crazy parts of the story. It was only through a miracle that I could smuggle a letter out to the judge that I was court ordered to be released. Does this happen to others?

Hello, does this video go over the specific pathology of lyme disease? I can't find any diagrams that show its pathology when it gets inside the body.

So if there is a connection between Nematodes/Borrelis and Multiple Sclerosis, how could it be treated? Could antihistamine and anti-parassitic treatment be correct?

Thanks. Do you know of a quality Doctors located in the Midwest?

Right, but don't forget that many infections work together as "anchor species." Many chronic infections (UTI, sinus, HAI, etc.) include yeasts and fungi, often ignored by clinicians -- which is why so many infections stay chronic. Why patients stay sick!

Dr Macdonald, My wife is experiencing many symptoms similar to those described in Lyme disease. Her physicians have no answers although Lyme, MS, b12 deficiency, and fibromyalgia have been considered. Her Lyme test seem to be inconclusive although there was some dispute between physicians as to the proper way of reading the results. Can you please tell me what test we should request in regards to Lyme Disease and if you know of any physicians in Florida that specialize in diagnosing and treating Lyme Disease. Thank you any help is greatly appreciated.

from May 2013

I was diagnosed with PLS ( it's a form of ALS) 10 years ago, and the doctors do not know how i got it. I recognize one of the tics which I had dozens on me like 20 - 30 , way before (1,2,3 years before) I had signs of my symptoms, could my symptom have anything to do with it? I'm 36 yr old and live in Queens New York, is there a way I can stop by to talk to you? or to send you all my medical Records ?

Hundreds of thousands of people have the same question!

cont'd -antibody 31. 31 & 34 outer surface protein was used to make vacine promoted by Allan Steere. Practically all labs except Igenex those 2 specific antibodies are removed now from WB. If one wants the 31 epitope test for late stage,it has to be checked off on Igenex form. Will be done if one shows 31 on Igg or Igm WB. Even if equivical. Aprroved on in certain states. Not approved in NY.

You are right. One of the NY lyme fdtns told me that & that he was very ill. I wonder if working with all that bacteria he got lyme disease & his alzheimers was somehow from borrelia and he was IV treated and now is OK. Odd tho. This is a recent video.

Thanks, .But odd - incorrect diagnosis.probably.Possibly they now won't say.Could have been from borrelia.That's good tho. He is fine now. He is a very good pathologist. Just a note:Dr.Burgerdorfer working in lab long time ago.Rabbits urine splashed in his eye.He got Lyme but naturally got it right away.He worked at Rocky Mtn lab in Denver. He actually discovered the gern in US. It takes a foreigner to be on top of things. He is from Switzerland. I am sick of Amer hlth care system in general.

PS. I used to do plumbing in New York City before I was treated with PLS ( primary lateral sclerosis).

In Alan B. MacDonald's later work he confirmed that MS is caused by the bacteria from Lyme disease. London Lecture May 15, 2016 on Vimeo.

Why cant the Dr just use a microscope and check your blood,fluids, or tissue instead of relying on these useless test?

how old is this video?

Where can someone send their blood to get tested?

Dear lillymossrock, You are very welcome..Ask me anytime any questions or puzzlements..I am very knowledgeable. Ask me anything you want.

Spirostats in Texas, Igenex in California for starters...

I just replied to your other comment, but it shows it was deleted. Weird. Anyway, Good point. Other microbes often go undetected...that's why we need our doctors to use technology and methods from THIS century -- not culture-based methods that are 150 years old!

If I think I have Lyme Disease? I have all symptoms and no one has tested me for it! I'm not getting better and I have so many of these symptoms.

Many of my symptoms are European. acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans, many other skin conditions which in US it now coming out also of 1 is schleroderma. Vasculitis etc. I have history of known tick feedings. Did not know before what a tick was or anything. Was negative basically thru the yrs. but diagnosed with Lyme. According to Igenex protocol I have been positive complete and sometimes pos. on Igg WB and another time IGM. I have been positive on 31KDA epitope test which shows if one has chronic late stage. BB can also cause the skin condition of ACA. Plus B Avzelii which they say is more common in Europe. They have in Europe biopsied from lesions of ACA BBurgdorferi which has to be the same strain as US. Also I will say who is to say BAvzelii is not in the US. Not sure I tht Dr. Harris of Igenex said their tests can pick up protein of Avzelli. IDSA now says Oh we have included treatment for ACA only for those who have recently traveled overseas! Wow. Last time I was in Europe was 1984. Tick bites I got were basically from the field in back of hse and or yard. The most common rash of lyme is not the bulls eye either. It can look like cellulitis, eczema, a bruise, solid red circle etc. They found that out when they injected the recipients of vaccine trial. Also sometimes it can mimic Lupus, anteoderma (1 of my many skin items) lichen schlerosis has been found in biopsy floating microscopy - in ref to some European articles plus also a few in US. We are not saying all cases. Forgot psorasis- misdiagnosed for yrs and was later found to be from borrelia. THE DISEASE MIMICKS AND CAN CAUSE PRACTICALLY EVER DISEASE THERE IS DEPENDING ON ONE'S GENETIC WEAKNESS. Also when the immune system gets so compressed from yrs of fighting the disease, secondary fungals develop. Borrelia has been found in bone marrow biopsy as it can cause different types of anemia. (Journal of Spirochetal & Tick Borne diseases). Also unexplained fractures believe it or not.. It was the most horrible horrible- just came out of the blue like electrical jabs. The pain- could not stand at all. included were 2 fractured ribs. Sacroiliac, pelvic etc. I do not have osteooporosis. Took about a yr to completely heal. Get up in morning and hold on to sink to get over to other side -- the pain, spasms behind legs. Pain so bad esp in morning in fetal position. Told twice by home care to go to ER. That is not normal fractures. When it first happened I got also purple and pink rashes in groins. Also in 1981 in NEJM article on sera negative lyme- authors are the same ones that are promoting this hogwash today that the IDSA-CDC-are promoting. CDC talks from 2 sides of mouth. Say it is a clinical diagnosis yet one has to have positive blood test by their el cheapo (less diagnosed less ins. cos have to pay criteria. It is the most pitiful & sinful situation that is being done to the suffering victims. Certain drs??? in US have also influenced a lot of European drs. to their way of thinking within last several yrs. It used to be called Borrelia infection in Europe for yrs...Now many there are calling it Lyme Disease..What jerks. In US dumb Americans- first discovered by Dr. Willy Burgdorferi the actural bacteria. It is called Lyme d. in US just because it first became known or suspected in Lyme Conn. If it wasn't for Polly Murray- possibly we still wouldn't have known of the infection. Heaven help those on the consulting fee ins. side. I don't think unless the repent they will get any help. There have been deaths. As I lost a loved one due to the terrible incompetence, and much more. Barely treated- evil. The unbelievable pitiful suffering. One time and ID doctor . said Oh you don't die from Lyme Disease. WE ALL HAVE TO DIE AND WE ALL HAVE TO ANSWER TO THE LORD----

See reply above from ADRS support. Apparently that statement about his illness is incorrect and needs to be retracted.

follow along with my Lyme treatment through a holistic approach. Lyme Cowden Support Introduction and Protocol Day 11

Over here in Western Australia a woman who suffers from Lyme Disease believes she has become quite well from using Miracle Mist,MSM,Iodine and Camu Camu after nine weeks of everyday usage... Miracle Mist is a product made from nutrients from the Dead Sea........ I'm trying to pass on information that I heard from a woman the other week..

does igenix have the same problem ? this is confusing cause I tested positive on epitope 31. is that the same fake 31 he is talking about?

Hello Dr. Mc Donald,is there anyway for me to communicate with you. I am on Facebook as Mary Sisel. I am very interested in your studies.

please please help me! I can swear I have Lyme and doctors keep saying I'm just crazy and depressed please I need a right testing how where? I'm from Michigan I need help.

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This man it's a genius. I've been sick for years. Now I have the chronic neuro problems. He explains it do well. How can our medical community continue to ignore this!!!! When does the Hippocratic Oath start to kick in. Shane on you medical community, shame on u CDC too b so easily persuaded by the IDS.

I've often wondered the same thing -- how insidiously evil and well-equipped ticks (et al) really are in their environment. It also explains why both the Japanese and Germans started using them against their enemies many decades ago.

Yes, I already commented on this last week: "No, Dr. MacDonald has neither disease. He's quite healthy and lucid, as you can see for yourself in this video...."

Its a complex bacteria and im sure its not just a regular bacteria. This bacteria im sure is stuffed with all kinds of different etiological infections diseases, lipoproteins and environmental illnesses besides the seperate co-infections the ticks inject also.

I will try to find the article and post the link. I hate disinformation. Thanks.

Leptospirosis in ticks in Poland.

Hi, I am not a doctor, but can try to help you find one. Send me a message with your contact info and I'll contact you later this week. In the meantime, gather all your medical records, and if you can, scan them into a single document (PDF) to make your diagnostic records more portable. Talk to you later, hang in there. There is a path to wellness!

4:00 ... wherever a pathogen can become dominant is where we will always find it.

For Tore N Fjelldal, Yes. My thoughts are the chronic inflamation in the brain to fight off the bacteria causes damage to the nerve ending of the brain plus the plaques (amloid) in ref to the damage. The brain is like a big electrical computer and when the nere endings get damaged -the symptoms of alzheimers. One does wonder why are so much more younger people like in the 50's getting alzheimers. To me that is a lot of BS when they say oh in the old days a lot of folks had it but they called it dementia. BS. Alzheimers is so much more now. Not all cases but a lot of cases are from chronic inflamation. Inflamation is the underlying cause of many diseases.

Wrote a Lyme disease brochure with the help of 2 Lyme disease specialists. Will email to anyone interested. God bless, Elaine

BTW,..Alan McDonald is a HERO in my eyes, for his research. ...my Dad is 91. Exposed to ticks all his life, endemic areas of the Western US are not BLACK as they should be, on the CDC map, due to under reporting....ALL my kin, both sides, going back to Germany, Scotland, Ireland,..highly exposed. Exposed in upper US as farmers for 100s of years.. Health issues on both sides of family, pointing to Borrelia as cause. Not NEW infectious disease, just "unfolding", coming to light..

These are just some of the pathogens that hunters or outdoor enthusiasts can have.

I wonder if radiology can kill lyme....

Reply to First Last: First Last 3 months ago in reply to lipanj7 thankyou for writing me back. xoxox Your welcome any other questions let me know. Hope you get better..It really is an evil disease plus politics involve also evil.

Here is what you're up against. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

Wrote a Lyme disease brochure with the input of 2 Lyme disease specialists. Will email to anyone interested. God bless, Elaine

China has told us twice now you only need ONE band on WB to say pos. A study of the technique of western blot for diagnosis of lyme disease caused by Borrelia afzelii in China. Interpretation criteria for standardized Western blot for the predominant species of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in China. -- All spirochetes are the same, it is their antigenic variation in spirochetal prion proteins that make them all diff.

think how much better his work could be going with a 60,000 power rife microscope staining with monochromatic light prysome's instead of die.

I read that he has Lyme/Alzheimers, which I find suspicious, and that he does not remember his research. I hope that is just a rumor. He kinda makes Barbour and others look silly.

No, Dr. MacDonald has neither disease. He's quite healthy and lucid, as you can see for yourself in this video.

romeodelta: continuation of your question. All about MONEY & evil politics. Pitiful. get Aids. You will get better help. There are now more lyme deaths than Aids. I should know as a loved one of mine-one horror story. I have it myself. Get the DVD Under our skin movie. Your question will be fully answered.

Unfortunately, Dr MacDonald has now come down with Alzheimer's Disease himself and can no longer remember any of his research on Lyme or Alzheimers. Talk about tragic irony.