Greg Lee is the founder of the Lyme Research & Healing Center in Frederick, Maryland and the creator of the GoodbyeLyme System for Stopping Persistent Lyme Disease. He is currently managing a research clinic that uses advanced medical scanning, laser, microcurrent technology and microparticle remedies to help chronic Lyme and multiple infection patients recover more quickly. He is also researching natural remedies that can inhibit drug-resistant tick infections. He also provides online and live training for medical providers on Gu syndrome, essential oils, cold laser, and microparticle remedies for healing chronic infection patients. Learn more at GoodbyeLyme.com/training.
Fertility acupuncture sometimes gets presented as a narrow protocol: a handful of reproductive points applied uniformly across patients. What this case reinforced for me: The most powerful work happens when we read the whole picture. The hormone data, the constitutional tendency, the sleep, the digestion, and the menstrual pattern, so we can treat the environment the ovaries live inside.
For those of you unfamiliar with alpha-gal syndrome, it’s been in the news recently for causing Americans to be allergic to meat. It is an acquired allergy to galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose, or alpha-gal, a carbohydrate found in mammalian meat and many mammal-derived products. A new case series on auricular acupuncture is so intriguing points toward a viable treatment strategy rather than lifelong dietary restriction alone.
The motivation behind our practice of medicine is important, impacting not just our experience but also the experiences of those we treat. It is perhaps for this reason that the aspiration to help not just some, but all beings heal, has historically been an important part of the medical tradition. To explain this, we need to consider how medicine is interwoven with other social domains.