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Is it Lyme disease or Hashimoto's? I'm going to do this, even though a lot of you are going to be saying bad things about me afterwards.

There's a culture out there, and that's how I prefer to refer to it, and I call it a Lyme culture. The Lyme culture is built around the infection of a human being by Lyme disease, which indeed occurs. When we were trying to figure out chronic fatigue and we're trying to figure out chronic pain and fibromyalgia, there was two factions. In one faction was the alternative medical world. The other faction was the alternative non-medical world.

The alternative medical world likes to... It's designed to attack the symptoms. It's designed to attack the bug. It's designed to kill the bug. It's designed to find the one thing that they think might be causing something. Lyme disease fell into that category. Heavy metals falls into that category. There's a number of things that fall into that category. That in, what I call the dark ages of when we were trying to figure this out, people would get treated for a Lyme, they'd feel much better. People would get the heavy metals taken out. They would feel much better. But I had a lot of patients who came in from that, felt much worse or it didn't help them at all. Or they were on their third trial of antibiotics for six months, which there's no justification for that anywhere. But that was the Lyme issue.

There was a whole language of killing the Lyme. Then there's the dark field microscopy and certainly the Lyme hides as does Epstein-Barr virus as does other viruses. Viruses hide. That's what they do. I remember being dragged in and, "Look. Here's the virus and you can see how it hides." I'm like, that's common physiology for a virus.

I was never against it. Now I'm in Reno, Nevada. Chris, I don't know if you're still here. I'm going to talk about you, but I'm not going to say your last name, but he was here. He was an alternative medical doctor, alternative dentist. I went to him. My wife went to him and we had knock down drag out fights over Lyme because he was the President of the National Lyme Association. In his world, everything was Lyme. Everything that we were looking for, the answer for it was Lyme.

So here's what I've seen and I know many of my colleagues will agree with this because this is what we do. There are 42 triggers for autoimmune thyroid disease, Hashimoto's. One of them is listed as Lyme. I have a little chart here on all of the 42 and the one that is listed is the Borrelia burgdorferi down here. These are all of the triggers for autoimmune thyroid disease. It's listed here as one of them.

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