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How did we all miss the bacteria taking over her body?
I write about nature, but when Milly got sick with a mystery illness, it never occurred to me that a long-forgotten tick bite could be the cause
What we didn’t know then, and wouldn’t discover until this spring, was that Milly’s body was being invaded by an insidious bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi, which hides in connective tissue, confounding immune systems, wreaking havoc. Lisa sourced alternative treatments: gut biome studies and nutritionists, mushroom tinctures, reiki, biodynamic massage, healers and even a psychic, who dispatched 17 spirits who were apparently haunting our house. You often reach this period where you go: ‘We’ve done everything, all the figures look good, but the person in front of me is not feeling it.’” Certain types of Milly’s natural killer cells, markers of her immune system health, are still much too low.
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