By Thomas M. Grier, M.S. © As with any chronic illness, when chronic Lyme patients don’t get better with traditional medicines, many will turn to alternative treatments. One of the most popular alternative treatments that Lyme patients have turned to is colloidal silver. In the strictest sense, colloidal silver is simply a suspension of silver […]

By Thomas M. Grier, M.S. © At the recent 10th annual Lyme Disease Foundation’s conference held at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, there was a lecture by Dr. Catherine Luke, Ph.D., of the University of California, that went almost unnoticed. It was sandwiched between the controversial NIH Intramural Chronic Lyme Disease Study, and a provocative […]

By Thomas M. Grier, M.S. © Lyme disease is a perplexing illness. Early in 1970s in Old Lyme Connecticut, Lyme disease was first described as a rheumatological syndrome called “Lyme Arthritis”. The symptoms of “ Lyme Arthritis” mimicked Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA) and many kids with Lyme disease were misdiagnosed as having JRA. It was […]

By Thomas M. Grier, M.S. © Lyme Disease is a complex systemic disease that is caused by highly motile bacterium in the spirochete family. The bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi was first isolated from the skin of a Lyme patient with the distinctive bull’s-eye rash in the early 1980s. Since that time, culturing the elusive bacterium has […]