Ross Douthat
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328 appearances
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first heard Mar 2022
last heard Mar 2022
Ross Douthat’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The challenge, at least the challenge that I tried to set myself in living through an experience like this, is you have to be able to find a balance where you're able to say, look, I feel like I know a lot more about what the establishment can get wrong.
But that doesn't mean that the establishment is wrong about everything, or we wouldn't have had, you know, hundreds of years of amazing medical progress.
But keeping that balanced view, I think, is really, really challenging.
And especially when you're in the throes of suffering.
There's a reason I didn't write about it then, because I don't think I would have been a reliable narrator of the overall situation.
Right, so to go a little deeper into the theory of chronic Lyme, a core part of the theory is that
The Lyme bacteria is just really good at self-defense in various ways.
One way is that it burrows deep into tissue, so it's harder for antibiotics to penetrate in large quantities, and the other theory is that it changes its shape.
It takes on uh cyst-like forms, it forms biofilms with other bacteria that enable it to evade or resist antibiotic treatment.
These are all the theories.
And the theorized solution to that is that you need to find things, drugs or herbs, or enzymes that expose the bacteria in various ways.
And these get called cystbusters.
The idea is that the bacteria changes its shape, maybe in the presence of certain things, and then the antibiotic can kill it.
And that was basically my
Experience where starting with Tindamax and continuing with a bunch of over-the-counter things, I found things that I could take that it literally felt like I was releasing more stuff into my bloodstream.
It wasn't like a Herxheimer reaction.
I would just feel sort of more dissociated and weird after I had taken them.
And then I would take a traditional
antibiotic like doxycycline and I would get some kind of
initially very strong
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