Hi Everyone
Many of you have been following my journey to heal Lyme Disease so I thought it would be a good idea to write a blog post about my healing journey.
My encounter with Lyme disease began at the end of May last year (2022) whist on retreat with a group of friends who come together to do ‘Power of Eight Healing’ every week.
We normally meet on Zoom and as we rarely get to all meet in person, we had decided to create our own healing retreat in Cornwall.
It was beautiful and we had a rich time sharing our gifts with each other (we are all healers so had loads to share).
It was not til I got back to Bristol that i realised id been bitten by a deer tick.
The tick was still on me four days later when I found it and my heart sank as I know the dangers.
I quickly removed the tick and just hoped that I would be ok.
The ‘bulls-eye rash’ characteristic of Borrelia Burgdorferi showed up three weeks later, but because it was not classical in appearance, I didn’t clock the significance for another two weeks after that.
By then I had missed the two week window in which antibiotics would be effective and despite many people telling me I should take them anyway, I decided not to.
Instead, I began a rigorous programme of herbs and Chlorine dioxide.
I prayed and hoped (and believed) I would be ok.
I wasn’t!
July 24th was when I experienced my first ‘Lyme symptoms’.
I felt like I had a bad hang-over – extreme fatigue and nausea.
I stepped up the herbs – I threw everything I could at it – I just carried on getting sicker and sicker.
I started regular Bioresonance with a practitioner who assured me i’d be Lyme-free within six weeks.
It didn’t work for me.
I had extreme neurological symptoms: Brain fog, headaches, blurry vision, tinnitus, tingling and trembling all over, insomnia, depression, dizziness, fatigue and aches and pains.
I felt utter despair.
I found out about a clinic in Germany which was claiming to be able to cure Lyme using a combination of antibiotics intravenously and hyperthermia.
In fact it was the same clinic that I had attended in 2007/2008 for stage four cancer – Clinic St George in Bavaria.
Since my visit there all those years ago, they had become specialists in treating Lyme disease.
It was going to be bloody expensive at £22,000 for three weeks.
However I was absolutely desperate at this point so I started fund-raising.
My lovely friends all donated and I managed to raise £2,000 but then the money stopped coming. I really could not imagine how on earth I was going to raise another £20,000.
Then providence kicked in – as it does when you need it to and many of my friends started sending me links to this book: Starving to Heal in Siberia by Michelle Slater.
Michelle had healed her Lyme by dry fasting with the expert guidance of Dr Filinov – a Russian Doctor in Siberia.
Around ten different friends sent me this information and it seemed to me like I was being guided to pursue fasting as a way to heal myself.
I ordered the book which had only just been published and when it arrived, I devoured it quickly.
Two of my best friends Sara and Anna also read it and together we began to get enthusiastic about my healing potential following the same method.
In the book, Michelle describes her healing journey in detail and is a ‘must-read’ for anyone considering this way of healing.
Despite the fact that she was in a wheelchair and had had Lyme disease for six years, treatment with Dr F – which included three extended dry fasts (no food or water for seven days, then nine days, then eleven days), she became well and able to lead a full life once more – including running marathons and hiking up mountains.
It turns out we have all been lied to – a human DOES NOT die after three days without water!
At the same time my good friend Martin had been researching the German treatment and had found quite a lot of people who had not been healed using the hyperthermia and IV antibiotics.
It was obvious what I needed to do – I contacted Dr Filinov and set up a consultation with him by Zoom.
He doesn’t speak a word of English, so this was done with the help of his interpreter, Svetlana who assists him in his revolutionary work.
They advised me to initially do a liver cleanse, then a five day water fast followed by weekly fractional dry-fasting (building up by one day each week), with the aim to achieve a four or five day dry fast before going to Montenegro, where I would be joined by up to Thirty other people in order to do a nine day dry fast!
I was up for it all!
The cost? £2000 – the exact money I had raised on my Go Fund Me to get to Germany!
Anyone who has Lyme will understand the lengths one is prepared to go to to heal.
So my fasting journey began!
What was apparent almost immediately, was that my Lyme symptoms were getting less – this greatly encouraged me.
The liver cleanse was unpleasant, but I did it and I also did the recommended coffee enemas and stuck to my fasting protocol very strictly – even though we were heading towards Christmas!
I actually lost weight over the Christmas holidays for the first time since id had stage four cancer in 2007!
I created a whatsapp group for myself with twenty five dear friends who supported me through my fasting journey.
They got me through it and for them all, I am truly grateful.
I honestly do not think I could have done it without their amazing support and what intrigued me, was that they all got really excited about the fasting and many of them began fasting themselves.
I was not expecting that!
Anyway with the help of these beautiful supportive friends, I managed to get to four whole days on my own or no food or water, before my trip.
The aim of dry fasting is to induce autophagy and mitophagy and massively stimulate stem-cell release.
During dry fasting your body heats up and each cell becomes a thermal reactor, incinerating all the microbes not needed by your body.
In fact the unhealthy microbes have to compete for water with your healthy cells and your healthy cells win!
All dysfunctional intra-cellular organelles within the cells get destroyed and replaced with brand new ones!
Whats not to love?
I went off to Montenegro in January where I met with an incredible group of fellow fasters. Out of thirty, nine were there to heal Lyme disease.
Nine days was a daunting prospect – I was not sure how on earth I was going to manage it, or even if I was going to manage it!
Each day we were encouraged to walk ten kilometres as this kind of fasting makes your blood sticky and you need to keep moving so that you encourage blood-flow and Lymphatic drainage.
You also have a treatment every day which usually deep Russian-style, pretty uncomfortable massages and also painful acupuncture and leaches!
On my eighth day of dry-fasting I had to stop.
My blood pressure had dropped to 90/80 and my pulse was 130.
It was a great relief to bring my fast to an end.
You can watch my extended dry-fasting journey here:
Youtube Clip of my Montenegro Fasting Experience
As you can see, I was really struggling towards the end.
The good news is that I’m doing well!
My energy is back, brain-fog has gone, aching has gone, sleeping well.
I’m loving being a stone lighter than when I began this journey – I am my ideal weight right now.
Lyme has brought with it so many gifts as illness does tend to (iff we allow it).
I am now doing 36 hour weekly dry-fasts which allow me to keep healthy in every way.
I am so grateful to be feeling well again.
O am grateful to have been shown the incredible healing potential of fasting.
I know that I will be helping many people in the future to fast their way to health.
Please do sign up for for further news because id love to spread the news far and wide of how much fasting can help, so I will be offering courses in the future.
We all need this!
Sending you all so much love and health.
Ps: the picture is of me and Dr Filinov.