Many people struggle with Lyme disease after a tick bite despite starting treatment as quickly as possible and undergoing antibiotic therapy. Some suffer to such an extent that they are unable to function in society because of joint pain or facial nerve paralysis. However, it is possible to effectively cure all symptoms using holistic whole‑body treatment methods.
There are several options that are sufficient depending on how well your body defends itself.
The simplest and most pleasant is hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which I can confirm from my own experience. At Oxomedica.pl we regularly use HBOT for Lyme disease and it works very well. It worked for my wife, who struggled with this bacterium for a few months, but now has no symptoms or problems with this disease (even though ticks bite her regularly as soon as she puts her foot in the forest).
In practice, about 30–40 HBOT sessions in a medical hyperbaric chamber (that is, one that has oxygen from cylinders and reaches an operating pressure of up to 3 atmospheres) are needed to cure Lyme disease. For my wife, 25 sessions at 2.5 ATA at Oxomedica.pl were enough.
But what if this does not help, or the cure is not permanent? What are the options?
1. Then you can introduce a water fast, preferably combined with HBOT
There are documented cases of people who used HBOT and then a water fast to cure Lyme disease and managed to get rid of all disease symptoms within 21 days. I invite you to watch a report on such an approach:
2. If this still does not work or we want to heal faster – a dry fast should be used
Some people have cured Lyme disease with dry fasting alone and have written books about it:
It took Michelle B. Slater, PhD, 2 months, because she was in such a severe condition that she had to do several shorter dry fasts instead of one longer one. Such fasts are very often carried out in East Asia, for example in Dr. Sergiey Filonov’s clinic. Dry fasting itself is simpler than it seems and can be done anywhere in the world. There are many accounts of people who have done it on their own (up to 13 days without water and without food) while working at the same time.
I myself have done 7 days of dry fasting. Personally, I prefer it to water fasting, because you can achieve the same effects 3 times faster and you don’t feel dizzy on it and it is not unbearably cold. Real healing begins on the 8th day, when all parasites and pathogens are killed in your body, and from the 9th day the body begins to eat viruses and bacteria that are the source of many problems, such as Lyme disease.
Here is Dr. Sergiey Filonov’s book on this topic https://www.amazon.com/Questions-Answers-About-Dry-Fasting/dp/B09JRTTVCS
And what if we combine these methods?
If you use hyperbaric oxygen therapy above 2.4 ATA in combination with dry fasting – this is the strongest holistic whole‑body treatment method in the world.
On the first dry fast your energy level drops to about 20% and it is hard to endure. It is true that some people immediately feel revived on a dry fast and have endless reserves of energy. This happens if the person has been poisoning themselves every day for years with some toxic food that harms them – without realizing it. Usually, however, your body is weakened when starting a dry fast and you will terribly lack energy. If you do it straight away without prior experience with water fasting, you may give up unnecessarily easily.
If you care about quickly curing Lyme disease – then combining fasting with hyperbaric oxygen therapy is the fastest and most effective solution, because dry fasting works 3 times faster than water fasting and cures some things that water fasting is not able to cure, such as cancers (although this usually requires many 11–13‑day sessions). As a result of the lack of water combined with the lack of food, very strong autophagy is triggered, meaning your body “eats” all the imperfect cells of your body in order to recycle resources. Cancer cells, viruses and bacteria after a few days of dry fasting become… food for your starving body.
HBOT (hyperbaric oxygen therapy) above 2 atmospheres not only additionally helps in fighting the disease, but also oxygenates you – even if you have extreme anemia. Hyperbaric therapy gives you the strength needed to survive if you have to fast in everyday working conditions, and not in holiday isolation from everything in the mountains or by the sea. At the same time, it accelerates detox, neutralizes toxins released into the bloodstream and makes the whole dry fast bearable. Without it, it is an extremely difficult experience.
Thanks to the combination of HBOT with dry fasting, it is indeed possible to cure antibiotic‑resistant, long‑term Lyme disease within 11–13 days, instead of struggling with it for months.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy alone is simple – you just need to enter a medical chamber every day for a 2.5‑atmosphere, 120‑minute session. Ideally from the first day of starting the fast until the first meal again.
The most important thing in a dry fast, as well as in a water fast, is to enter it properly and exit it properly.
To start the fast: it is best to eat only fresh, raw fruit for 2 days beforehand. You don’t want anything hard to digest or toxic in your intestines, because that will make it harder for you. Fruit is the easiest‑to‑digest food in the world – not without reason we can eat it straight from trees and bushes in its original, unprocessed form.
Then stop eating and drinking from the morning for the next 11–13 days (as long as you can last!). Simple, isn’t it?
If you feel that you no longer have any strength at all, you can break the fast after 7 days with fruit, take a break on a fruit diet for 2–7 days and then try to enter the fast again.
For fasts shorter than 6 days simply end the fast by eating only fresh fruit for 1–2 days, and then gradually add one new product per day to your food (in order to detect whether you might have an intolerance to a given food, which you may not have known about even though you have eaten it all your life).
To exit a dry fast that lasts longer than 5 days:
you should move from a dry fast to a water fast, that is, drink only water, preferably in small sips and never more than 2–3 glasses per hour, so as not to flush electrolytes out of the body! Drink only water for a period equal to preferably half the length of the dry fast, that is, for a 10‑day dry fast you then have 5 days of water fasting. Do not drink more than 2 glasses of water per hour, because you will flush out your electrolytes. It is best to start slowly, sipping water. At the water‑fasting stage your Lyme disease should have long since subsided, but the point is to allow your body to calmly cleanse itself with water. You can also skip the water fast if you have less than 4% body fat, but then expect severe detox reactions after the first meals, rheumatic pains and various other ailments related to the fact that toxins in your body will be mixed immediately with food and reabsorbed into the bloodstream.
During the adaptation period to eating again, avoid mixing different food ingredients in one meal for as long as possible. Eat mono‑ingredient meals, preferably consisting of one type of fruit per meal. For example, grapefruit for breakfast, watermelon for the second meal, mango for the third, or other combinations. The healthiest fruits are always those that are fresh and that you grow yourself without artificial chemicals.
Then you should move on to eating as after a water fast. I always exit by eating only fruit for at least a week, ideally 2–6 weeks. Preferably freshly picked grapes (they cleanse quickly and that always brings relief) and what grows in your garden or grapefruits. This is particularly important until you start having normal bowel movements at least twice a day – for at least 3 days in a row. This is a sign that the digestive system has returned to form and you can “throw more into the furnace”. If you don’t have your own plants, buy organic watermelon, mango, papaya or, if you have experience – organic grapefruit (citrus fruits most quickly cause bowel cleansing, but also strong cleansing reactions, so if this is your first fast, you may suffer a bit for 1–3 days. It is likely that you may reabsorb toxins from the intestine along with the new food. Don’t worry, this is normal. The kidneys will filter it out and you will excrete it in your urine. Eat enough fruit not to overeat. Listen to your body. If you don’t feel hungry – don’t force yourself to eat. If you feel hungry – eat something, but never so much that your stomach hurts from overeating.
If you don’t have fruit because, for example, you live at the pole – before starting the fast, get white, unroasted buckwheat groats and sprout them the day before you start eating again (spread them on a large plate or in a sprouter if you have one, cover with cold water for 24 hours). Boil such sprouted buckwheat for 3 minutes to get rid of any possible mold. You can eat it like that with water and, for example, some lettuce such as arugula, spinach or sauerkraut. Buckwheat contains all the amino acids needed for life, and the goal is that after the fast you cleanse the intestines of all the toxic, foul‑smelling material that has accumulated in them as a result of burning fat and cleansing the whole body, and seed bacteria that will build a beneficial microbiome in your digestive system, which has been depleted by the fast.
A week after starting to eat, gradually add one new ingredient per day to your diet so that you can observe whether something you eat every day might be harming you. This is how I found out that all nuts harm me, which I had eaten all my life without limits, because they were supposedly healthy for me. I suffered terribly when reintroducing them – especially the next day. If you suffer after eating something after a fast – don’t eat it again, even if you have lived under the impression that it was supposed to be healthy. Simple and effective. Listen to your body.
Remember that nuts, grains and animal proteins are the hardest to digest for your freshly awakened digestive system and you should never start eating again with them, but add them to the menu as late as possible – or not at all ;). Then you do not introduce unnecessary toxins into your body, such as lectins or alkaloids, with which plants and animals defend themselves against being eaten, causing weakening of the body against pathogens and civilization diseases and a whole spectrum of chronic diseases that weaken your desire to live.
Ideally, your diet should remain plant‑ and fruit‑based for as long as possible, with a strong emphasis on fruit and what does not require cooking. Eat “what wants to be eaten” – fruit has a complete set of vitamins needed for health and has everything you need to live without drugs and supplements, feeding exclusively on it (perhaps with the exception of sunlight for the production of vitamin D3). Fruit is a product of the plant intended by the life form evolving for billions of years – the mother plant – to be eaten by a frugivore and to have its seeds spread, preferably with the perfect fertilizer that is its excrement. Treat each fruit as a delicious multivitamin, which it actually is and which surpasses all artificial vitamin supplements in bioavailability.
FAQ
Won’t I die of dehydration on a dry fast?
If at the start you have an adequate reserve of body fat (at least 15%), then no. Dehydration of the body occurs under other conditions. In a situation where your body does not receive any food or fluids – instead of dehydration, stored fat is burned to obtain water and all the components necessary for life, because fat is nothing more than a storehouse in which your body keeps everything it needs in case of problems with food availability. Just as a camel stores water in the form of fat in its humps – so you, dear human, store it in your fat folds – especially on your belly. Of course, the process of metabolizing fat into water is extremely complicated and poorly studied, but the fact is that a person burns about 1 kg of fat per day without water and without food, that is, about 9000 calories.
As long as you have not burned all your fat, you are rather not at risk of dying from dehydration. You can buy a medical scale to monitor this and you will then see that your hydration level not only does not change, but even increases – because your body will start using much less water to process dry, processed food, which harms it the most and dehydrates it the most.
During a dry fast you lose an average of 1 kg of fat per day, which for the average person translates into about 1–2% of body weight. You must therefore have enough fat to endure the planned number of days. With subsequent dry fasts, efficiency increases and sometimes there can be a day when you burn only 0.5 kg of fat, but at the beginning it is better to assume an excess. On a water fast, in turn, after the second week fat burning is only 80 grams per day, so 1 kg of fat is enough even for 12 days.
What is the most dangerous thing during a dry fast?
The risk that your body is poisoned and the cleansing reaction will be too intense. If you get heart palpitations lasting longer than 2 days, or you have the impression that you are about to die – break the fast. Fear can also kill you.
Are there any contraindications to dry fasting?
I recommend reading “20 Q&A About Dry Fasting” by Dr. Sergiey Filonov, in which the doctor lists them. However, most of them concern extended fasting over 5 days (essentially with the exception of type 1 diabetes). So try small steps:
first 1 day,
then after a few days on a plant‑based diet – 2 days of fasting
and so on, increase by 1 or half a day with each subsequent attempt, until you see that you learn to recognize when temporary malaise is just a signal of detoxification of your body, or rather the fight of your disease, which will defend itself against being pulled out like a weed with long roots. I personally have broken dry fasts many times after a few days because of overtraining, because it is very easy to overtrain a muscle (for example, carrying a child, shopping, etc.) and then the pain does not go away until you start eating again.
Can I exercise while fasting?
Yes, but not too hard, so as not to sweat. If you sweat while fasting, know that you have overdone it. It is true that it is very hard to sweat while fasting, but it is possible with an effort you are not used to. While on a dry fast there is still no other risk than overtraining, which will cause a stabbing muscle pain lasting up to a few days after the end of the fast, on a water fast it is more dangerous, because you then lose valuable electrolytes, which you flush out much more strongly than on a dry fast. And when in a short time you get rid of more electrolytes than your body is able to recover from tissues (because you are not taking in food), the conditions necessary for conducting electrical signals in your body will cease to exist. This ends in immediate death. Just as happens from time to time to young, fit footballers on the pitch, who during a match in the sun replenish fluids by drinking water and not an isotonic drink. And do not train new muscle groups, just focus on maintaining those you have.
Is it true that I lose muscle while fasting?
Only if you do not use them or if you no longer have visible fat on your body. Otherwise, you will rather notice that the muscles become more visible, defatted and you will like it. I have never noticed any muscle loss on my body after fasts. Moreover – after they end, it is much easier to build muscle mass and strength than before the fast. A medical scale may suggest that muscle tissue is decreasing, but the accuracy of the method of measuring muscle mass using a scale with electrodes under the feet, and that during a fast, which is not a standard state – is, to put it mildly, low. The body is not stupid and will not impair its physical capabilities necessary to find food in the future and survive, when it has at its disposal fat from which it can easily obtain all the energy needed to function and repair tissues.
Can I start with a dry fast and then switch to a water fast and will it be effective?
Yes, this is a popular and effective approach. Honestly, hardly anyone will endure a fast without water for more than 4 days on the first attempt, especially if they are dehydrated (then after a few days the kidneys start to hurt and water must be urgently introduced to avoid a renal colic attack – this is not dangerous, but very painful). In such a situation it is better to use a water fast – it is still sufficiently effective against Lyme disease when combined with HBOT.
Definitely before starting any fast I suggest reading books about fasting in order to calm your uncertainty and approach them carefully, in small steps.