Many, many MDs, NDs, DCs and every kind of healer are subscribed to this newsletter. Over the years, I’ve befriended a few and among many things that I’ve learned from you is that besides modern allopathic medicine and the well-known traditional Chinese, Ayurvedic and other ancient folk medicines from every continent, there is also the very distinctive Russian medicine, which is basically modern medicine without the overbearing influence of Big Pharma.
Tbilisi, the capital city of Georgia in the Caucasus region of Eurasia may seem like an unlikely place to be on the cutting edge of a treatment for antibiotic-resistant infections but it has become a center for phage therapy because this century-old treatment was only ever approved for use on humans in the former Soviet Union, far away from the purview of Big Pharma.
The quandary around phage therapy in the West is a perfect illustration of how corporatism impedes medicine. Phage is short for bacteriophage, a kind of virus that is the most plentiful form of life on our planet. Although “good” viruses have been found for the treatment of bacterial infections in the former Soviet Union and even at Yale University, this modality is completely outside of FDA guidelines. In certain emergencies, American patients are granted permission to receive phage therapy but their use remains little-known in the West because you can’t patent and market a naturally-occurring virus.
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria kill 23,000 people every year in the United States and the UN estimates that by 2050, more people will die from antibiotic-resistant infections than currently die from cancer. The American scientists interviewed here weigh in on how push will come to shove with the FDA in our post-antibiotic era.
Alexandra,
I’ve written you before…, I have the dreaded, controversial, medico-political,/not-believed-to-exist “Chronic, or, more accurate, “late-stage” Lyme, which is now being called, “B-Cell AIDS”, & causes a “post bite Sepsis”, (which both sounds and feels true for me…, I suffer a great deal… please see “Truthcures.org”) I have severe pain daily…, legislation continues to seemingly WANT people like me to suffer even more by not only STOPPING ANY KIND OF TREATMENT PROTOCOL, but is NOW, FORCING REDUCTION/DISCONTINUATION OF Medications that provide ADEQUATE PAIN RELIEF! ( only prescription medication works for me…., allowing me some kind of life where I can at least clean my house, take a walk…) It seems like they WANT me to suffer, & hurry up & die already!!! Too bad it isn’t a quick death!)
Do you know if this treatment could work for me, & those like me??? I am so tired of being sick and in pain! I have nothing left to lose!!!
Sincerely,
K. Collins
Do a search on “Lyme disease phage treatment”.
Here are some links I found. The Eliava Phage Therapy center in Tbilisi, Georgia is discussed here:
http://campother.blogspot.com/2011/04/phage-therapy-and-borrelia-burgdorferi.html http://jennaslymeblog.com/phage-therapy-for-chronic-lyme-disease-part-two/
https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=30&m=1686073
https://www.phagetherapycenter.com/pii/PatientServlet?command=static_clinicfaq