Michelle’s story:
I was diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2012 and the many specialists I went to took excellent care of me. Unfortunately, it didn’t get any better.
Over the years, Lyme disease drained all the marrow out of me and spat me back a powerless and weakened being. I can no longer endure the struggle of Sisyphus and wake up every morning completely without strength. I could barely cope with the simplest everyday things, only to do the same thing again the next day.
I had read all the available research, all the health books and medical journals. I had experimented with my body like a laboratory animal, tried all known and unknown remedies – I had nothing left but one method.
I had heard about the Russian doctor Sergey Filonov and his dry fasting therapy, where you are not allowed to eat or drink anything – not even water – for a certain period of time. His website described how he had cured people of various ailments by fasting for nine or more days. It also described a months-long preparation process of progressively longer periods of fasting, drinking only water. But I didn’t have these months.
With the help of my husband Dimitri, who was born in Russia and speaks Russian fluently, we contacted Sergey Filonov, and the doctor told me to go to his clinic in Siberia as soon as possible, while it is still summer there. And so, in the middle of August, my husband and I went to Russia and then to Siberia.
Dr. Filonov listened to my heart, mumbled something in the affirmative, and began to give me a “liver massage”. He explained that such massages will help the liver to withstand the extreme detoxification process that fasting without water will activate.
Then I was given banks, which I knew to be an ancient Chinese healing method (and, it turns out, Siberian as well), to decongest the cells and “empty” the lymphatic system.
Filonov had already instructed Dimitri that I should walk ten kilometers every day and sleep outside while fasting. Since the body is neither nourished by food nor given water, it absorbs moisture from the air. Ideally, the patient should be in a clean mountain area with rivers while fasting.
At the beginning of the dry fasting, Dr. Filonov took me to a special meditation place in the forest, at the confluence of three rivers – he was sure that meditation would give me energy. I spent several hours there imagining myself breathing in a healing white light. When I exhale, I visualize how I get rid of the diseased cells. I repeat this meditation every day throughout the fasting period.
Later, a tent was pitched at this location for me to sleep in. Surprisingly, as the days passed, the energy returned. I was confused – I didn’t eat or drink, I walked ten kilometers every day, and my energy increased. How is that possible?
Fasting approached the mythical ninth day, and I had not experienced a single moment of crisis – nothing hurt, I did not feel thirsty, and nothing in my physical body bothered me. I had trained for this marathon, I had cleaned a lot of “debris” from my body to be able to tolerate this powerful cleansing.
The eighth day was very unusual. I went outside on a foggy, sunny morning and felt more energy than ever before.
Filonov repeatedly reminded us that the most critical day in the recovery process is the ninth day, because on this day the cells turn into combustion machines, he called it the “acidosis crisis, which stimulates the destruction of cells.” The burning of diseased cells accelerates, and the patient literally glows. I experienced that too.
By the time I reached the finish line of the fasting marathon, I was given a cold water bath and had to drink hot water. The next day I was allowed to eat a bowl of broccoli, carrot and potato soup. While I was emptying my bowl, the doctor informed me that he had to leave and he wanted to train me so that when I got home I would be able to handle myself and also give myself a liver massage. He promised that the full effect of fasting could be seen within 21 days. Then I will be in a “phenomenal state”.
Twenty-one days… It’s not that long. Then it will also become clear whether Lyme disease will be cooked…
For the first time in several years, I was not in pain during the flight – I did not bend, arching my back in the chair. I hugged my husband at the airport. He smiled and lifted me into the air. “It worked! Look at yourself! I can not believe it! It’s really true!”
Filonov had prepared me for the further process and explained that I would also have to repeat the nine-day fasting without water at home. He emphasized that people tend to mistakenly think that years of illness can be cured by fasting for seven or nine days once.
When I returned home to Berkshire, I repeated the fast. Every day I went for walks and spent the night in a sleeping bag on the veranda, where the windows had mesh. The more I fasted, the easier the process became and I got stronger and stronger, but sometimes I still didn’t feel full.
When I was fasting, the sides of my tongue would be white, frothy mucus, but the middle of my tongue was like varnish, thick, pea-green in color. There were also yellow slime patches on the front teeth – this was also the case when I was in Siberia.
I broke my fast at five in the morning by taking an ice-cold bath and drinking hot water. By drinking water, the mucus layer slowly disappeared from the tongue, and after several days a shiny pink tongue was revealed.
You can read the full version of the story in the July/August issue of the magazine “What Doctors Don’t Tell You”.
What is Lyme disease?
Lyme disease, caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi (named after the researcher Willie Burgdorfer who first discovered it), is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States. If a person is bitten by a microscopic tick belonging to the genus Ixodus that is infected with this bacterium, there is a high chance that the person will contract the disease.
Borrelia is a bacterium of the spirochete family, one of the most aggressive forms of bacteria. Its coiled shape allows it to spiral through the body, using complex ways to take up residence in joints, cells and organs, and even cross the blood-brain barrier.
The tiny size of the tick, which makes it difficult to find it once it has absorbed the body, as well as the invisible war that the spirochetes wage from the inside, make Lyme disease difficult to diagnose.
Common symptoms of the disease include fever, migraines, headaches and malaise, prompting many to seek medical attention, but they are also common in other illnesses. If a person gets tested promptly and treatment is started right away, there is a greater chance that Lyme disease can be controlled with antibiotics. If it is not detected early and the disease remains untreated, just like in my case, the infection becomes chronic and can spread to the joints, heart, brain and nervous system.
2023-08-27 03:18:00
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