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Lyme Light Radio: Complex Chronic Illness and Integrative Therapies

6/23/2015

Mara Williams on Lyme Light Radio Lyme disease info

Join Mara Williams and Eric Gordon, MD on Lyme Light Radio
Wednesday, June 24th at 1PM (PT), 4PM (ET)

Join the conversation with Eric Gordon, MD discussing complex chronic illness and integrative therapies. "My deep respect for the individuality of my patients is the heart of my practice.The point is to carefully listen to each patient and correlate their subjective experience with pertinent objective laboratory tests, to determine unique treatment guidelines that allow the innate wisdom of the body to overcome illness and restore good health."

What Dr. Eric Gordon emphasizes is listening to his patients. "I believe my patients. Their description of what is going on in their body is the most accurate way we have to assess what is going on with them. I interpret the information they present, and blend it with laboratory results and imaging and other tests to determine a protocol that is customized to their condition."

Patients with poorly defined chronic illnesses react differently to all types of environmental stressors and medical interventions. While one patient may respond well to a particular protocol, other patients may not respond at all, or even have a negative reaction.

Dr. Gordon knows there is an interwoven complexity to these illnesses. There is a layering of the body’s adaptations to environmental toxins and infections from pathogens that is unique to every person, depending on their genetic susceptibility, organ vulnerability, toxic exposures, medical history and life circumstances. The body’s various biological systems - immune, endocrine, neurological, gastrointestinal and so on - influence each other and are influenced by each other, both in the development and progression of illness, and also its resolution.

When illness has been present for a long time, a patient’s body is almost invariably dominated by the sympathetic nervous system; it is in a state of hyper-vigilance, a constant ‘fight-or-flight‘ mode. Dr. Gordon knows to begin with gentle interventions to help the body find a place of rest and safety. These initial steps allow the parasympathetic nervous system to function appropriately, to let the body find its way, and start healing itself.

This necessitates an eclectic approach. Dr. Gordon says, "As the components of a person’s chronic illness reveal themselves, so will treatment direction. Some patients may immediately benefit from intravenous therapies. Others may respond initially to energetic modalities, such as Frequency Specific Microcurrent or Photon Stimulation. Some patients may require antibiotics while, for others, herbal or homeopathic remedies may be more suitable. Everyone has different supplementation requirements, and needs to follow different detoxification strategies."

In addition to seeing patients in his practice, Dr. Gordon has organized and served as medical advisor and moderator for a series of medical symposia in Northern California. From 2007-2009, these intensive five-day meetings brought together extraordinary faculties consisting of approximately 30 leading international academic medical researchers and cutting-edge clinicians, respectively focusing on CFS, Lyme, autoimmune diseases and autism.

For Dr. Gordon, however, knowledge and understanding does not come primarily from research, but from interaction and direct experience with his patients. He is first and foremost a private practice physician. His deep respect for the biochemical individuality of his patients is at the heart of his approach.

Join Mara Williams and Eric Gordon, MD on Lyme Light Radio
Wednesday, June 24th at 1PM (PT), 4PM (ET)

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Lyme Light Radio: Healing After Plague

5/31/2015

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Join Mara Williams and Judy Mikovits on Lyme Light Radio
Wednesday, June 3rd 1PM (PT) 4PM (ET)

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Judy is a rare scientist who refused to compromise her integrity when her research did not bear out on a retrovirus and she went public with this finding. What followed was a nightmare for her when she found herself being scapegoated. Judy has much to say abut retroviruses, chronic illness, Lyme and other chronic infections. Her goal has always been to help people who suffer with illness to heal.

Judy Mikovits, PhD, earned her BA from university of Virginia and her PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology from George Washington University. In her 35 years quest to understand and treat chronic diseases, she has studied immunology, natural products chemistry, epigenetics, virology, and drug development. In just over 20 years she rose from a entry-level lab technician to become director of the Lab of Antiviral Drug mechanisms at the National Cancer Institute before leaving to direct the Cancer Biology program at EpiGenX Pharmaceuticals in Santa Barbara, CAlifornia, where she met and married David Nolde in 2000. There in 2006, she became attracted to the plight of patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome(ME/CFS) and autism and is primarily responsible for demonstrating the relationship between immune based inflammation and these diseases. She has published over fifty scientific papers.

Join Mara Williams and Judy Mikovits on Lyme Light Radio
Wednesday, June 3rd 1PM (PT) 4PM(ET)

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A Powerful Step Towards Healing

1/1/2015

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I continue reading comments from numerous people with Lyme, expressing their rage and hopelessness about their illness and the marginalization by the current system that denies Lyme exists.

Being caught in the place of anger and fear is a stuck place. A large part of recovering from Lyme is understanding that this illness requires your complete attention in every aspect of your being. Energetically, to remain in rage and despair can stall recovery. It does not matter how many antibiotics, herbals or other medicines you take, in my professional experience, rage will slow your healing.

Lyme is an excellent microcosm, a perfect example, of the world today. We are all being asked to expand our awareness, to become more conscious of our surroundings and how we interact in each moment, to help ourselves and each other grow and heal, whether we have Lyme or not. With Lyme I feel this is a necessity.

Denial will keep you from healing and recovering. Begin by asking yourself what trauma(s) have you suffered in your life? What can you do to forgive and move past the trauma? Recently, I was speaking with one of the MD's I work with. We were talking about treating newly activated Lyme and he suggested adding a second or third antibiotic if there was trauma as part of the history of the patient.

What can you surrender that no longer serves you? What habits prevent a return to health? We all have our favorite foods. I’m not suggesting total abstinence of comfort food and drinks, although I do ask that you consider moderation more than indulgence. Are you addicted to sugar? Lyme feeds on sugar and yeast. Does gluten make you feel bloated or gassy after eating it? Dairy? Soy? All of these foods are inflammatory. Do you smoke cigarettes? What is holding you back that you have the power to change?

I have seen people quickly move to recovery once they completely integrate healing in all aspects of their mind, body and spirit. No one asks to get Lyme. It is a terrible illness that undermines your life and those of your loved ones. I live this every day with my daughter, so this is not only a professional take on healing but a personal one as well.

I recommend you gently and kindly look in the mirror and see what it is you need to resolve so that you can move forward into recovery. It is a powerful step toward your own healing for both Lyme and in life.

Blessings,
Mara

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Lyme Light Radio: Complex Chronic Illness and Integrative Therapies

Join Mara Williams and Eric Gordon, MD on Lyme Light Radio
Wednesday, June 24th at 1PM (PT), 4PM (ET)

Join Mara Williams and Eric Gordon, MD on Lyme Light Radio
Wednesday, June 24th at 1PM (PT), 4PM (ET)

Lyme Light Radio: Healing After Plague

Join Mara Williams and Judy Mikovits on Lyme Light Radio
Wednesday, June 3rd 1PM (PT) 4PM (ET)

Join Mara Williams and Judy Mikovits on Lyme Light Radio
Wednesday, June 3rd 1PM (PT) 4PM(ET)

A Powerful Step Towards Healing

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Lyme Light Radio: Complex Chronic Illness and Integrative Therapies

Join Mara Williams and Eric Gordon, MD on Lyme Light RadioWednesday, June 24th at 1PM (PT), 4PM (ET)

Join Mara Williams and Eric Gordon, MD on Lyme Light RadioWednesday, June 24th at 1PM (PT), 4PM (ET)

Lyme Light Radio: Healing After Plague

Join Mara Williams and Judy Mikovits on Lyme Light Radio Wednesday, June 3rd 1PM (PT) 4PM (ET)

Join Mara Williams and Judy Mikovits on Lyme Light Radio Wednesday, June 3rd 1PM (PT) 4PM(ET)

A Powerful Step Towards Healing

Mara Williams

Listen to Archived Lyme Light Radio Shows Below

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Join Mara Williams and Eric Gordon, MD on Lyme Light Radio
Wednesday, June 24th at 1PM (PT), 4PM (ET)

Join Mara Williams and Eric Gordon, MD on Lyme Light Radio
Wednesday, June 24th at 1PM (PT), 4PM (ET)

Join Mara Williams and Judy Mikovits on Lyme Light Radio
Wednesday, June 3rd 1PM (PT) 4PM (ET)

Join Mara Williams and Judy Mikovits on Lyme Light Radio
Wednesday, June 3rd 1PM (PT) 4PM(ET)