Thanks for sharing. I personally have never heard of using the zapper to treat any inflammatory condition. Also, when you blend of oils, do they contain any omega 3? If so, they contain vitamin D and could simply be suppressing the innate immune response against L-form bacteria. My major question about the way you treat your patients is – do they experience a powerful bacterial die-off reaction when administered the zapper and oils? Since it is now known that L-form bacteria cannot be killed without generating an inflammatory response that leads to temporary rises in disease symptoms, do your patients deal with such symptom exacerbation?

If not, I feel you may not be targeting L-forms completely. I’m just trying to be honest here, I don’t mean to insult your work. On the contrary, I applaud you for considering that L-form bacteria could be making your patients ill.

Have you read about the Marshall Protocol? It’s the study/treatment described often on this site that was also created about six years ago to target L-from bacteria. I’m not trying to market it to you since it’s run by a non-profit agency and the guidelines and services are all completely free. I just feel that you might be interested in learning more about it since obviously you care deeply about your patients’ health and are interested in L-forms.

The following video describes the treatment and the science that forms its backbone in simple terms:

http://bacteriality.com/2008/05/07/mpintro/

Here’s a quick summary of the MP:

http://bacteriality.com/about-the-mp/

Here’s a link to Dr. Marshall’s (head of the Foundation) published papers and conference speeches:

http://mpkb.org/doku.php/home:publications

Thanks for writing,

Amy

I’m glad you are interested in learning more about L-form bacteria. I have forwarded your questions to Dr. Domingue as his answer should be more complete than mine. I’ll email you if he gets back to me.

Take care,

Amy

First of all, I would like to applaud Amy on this article. It is very insightful. Secondly, I have a question for Amy or Gerald. I am only a sophmore working on a Bioengineering degree so I apologize if the question is completely stupid. Do these L-form bacteria retain the protein receptors or other various surface proteins that they have on the extracellular side of the plasma membrane that they have in their “normal” form? If so, what type of molecules bind to these sites? Thanks for your help!

Glad to be of help and glad you are writing about L-forms!

Best,

Amy

I’m glad you find this site to be informative and thanks for your nice comments about my work!

The MP is the only treatment that effectively kills L-form bacteria, so the only way people with MS could target Borrelia L-forms would be through the MP. However since the MP kills different species of L-form bacteria simultaneously, it would be impossible to do a study in which only Borrelia L-forms were being killed.

Unfortunately high dose and IV antibiotics do not effectively kill L-form bacteria, because as described in this article, at such high doses, they negatively affect the immune system:

“Getting it Right: How to correctly target L-form bacteria”

http://bacteriality.com/2007/10/11/antibiotics/

The good news is that there are an increasing number of MS patients on the MP who appear to be recovering in the same fashion as people with other Th1 diseases. They are definitely experiencing immunopathology – a clear indication that L-form bacteria are being targeted.

Best,

Amy

I guess my question is: Has anyone tried to treat this strain of borrelia in an actual MS patient to see if it has any effect on their condition?

This is the best bacterial site I have seen on the net. I applaud your effert and really appreciate the work you have done.