Re: Enzyme to DISSOLVE Spirochetes?



IAmNotLisa wrote:
> What?
> You think I'm crazy?

Yes absolutely certifiable.

The souther brair rabbit baby talk pretty much cinches it.

> I KNOW I read a story somewhere, sometime ago
> that spoke, I think (therefore I am) about LIZARDS in California
> who made a wittle enzyme in their wittle tummies that was SPECIFIC
> to Dissolving the Protein Coating of Spirochetes.

It is a protein not an enzyme in their blood not in their tummies.
Nothing about it being specific to dissolving the protein coating of
spirochetes.

I guess that is just a hallucination in your obviously syphillitic
excuse for a brain. They don't know the mechanism for this protection.

But here's the info on the Western Fence Lizard:


Lizards Slow Lyme Disease in West / Ticks bite them -- and leave with
purified blood
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/04/17/MN65130.DTL


Lizards Slow Lyme Disease in West
Ticks bite them -- and leave with purified blood
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer

Friday, April 17, 1998






It may sound like witchcraft, but Berkeley scientists have found that
ticks who feast on the blood of the common western fence lizard are
purged of any Lyme disease bacteria hiding in their gut.

The newly published findings may explain why there is less tick- borne
Lyme disease in California than in the eastern United States, where the
debilitating illness was first discovered and given its name.

Researchers suspect that a yet- to-be-identified protein in the
lizard's blood destroys the microbes that would otherwise flourish in
the tick's belly and can be later transmitted to human victims.

``We've speculated on this for years, and now we have fairly good
evidence that this is the case,'' said Robert Lane, a University of
California at Berkeley insect biologist who has been studying ticks and
Lyme disease for more than a decade.

Lane and his colleague Gary Quistad conducted a series of laboratory
experiments using young Lyme disease-infected ticks and fence lizards.
In the nymphal stage during which they feed on the blood of lizards,
the ticks are only about the size of a poppy seed. But it is common to
find 30 to 40 at one time sharing the blood of a single fence lizard.

Although infected adult female ticks pose a serious threat of
transmitting Lyme disease to humans, the smaller nymphal ticks are the
most dangerous because they are harder to find and are still capable of
transmitting the disease.

Lane had determined eight years ago that the lizards appeared to be
immune to Lyme disease despite infestation with tick nymphs. His latest
research, published recently in the Journal of Parasitology, suggest
why this happens.

The experiments first ruled out the possibility that antibodies
produced by the lizard's immune system were able to neutralize the Lyme
disease bacteria.

Test tube experiments found that Lyme disease bacteria bathed in
lizard's blood died within one hour, while control samples grown in
mouse blood lasted three days.

In another experiment, the researchers heated lizard blood to the
boiling point, and found that it no longer killed the bacteria in a
test tube. The sum of these tests points to what Lane calls a
``spirochete-killing factor'' that is probably a large protein.

``It's an extremely important paper,'' said Vicky Kramer, chief of the
vector-borne disease section of the California Department of Health
Services.

Researchers are now trying to determine the precise nature of the Lyme
disease-killing protein, and perhaps find out if it can be used to
create a treatment for the disease. Lane said he has not yet discussed
his findings with biotechnology companies.

California health officials long have been pleasantly puzzled by the
fact that Lyme disease is a relative rarity in the state, despite an
abundance of ticks. Lane points out that in the eastern regions with
higher Lyme disease rates, ``they don't have fence lizards there.''

Berkeley's Tilden Park served as the field laboratory for Lane, where
he previously also uncovered a curious quirk about Lyme disease and the
black-legged ticks that carry it there: the infection rates for young
ticks, while low, was three to four times higher than the rate in adult
ticks. The latest findings again suggest why: When young nymphal ticks
feed on the fence lizards, the mysterious protein not only protects the
lizard from infection -- it actually leaches into the tick's gut and
kills the bacteria there.

Lab tests showed that when infected nymphs fed on the lizards, and then
metamorphosed into adult ticks, they were no longer infected.

According to Robert Murray, epidemiologist at the state health
department's Division of Communicable Disease Control, the percentage
of infected deer ticks in high Lyme disease areas such as Connecticut
is 30 to 60 percent. But the percentage of black-legged ticks -- the
closely related cousins that carry Lyme disease in California -- is
only 1 to 2 percent, and only as high as 6 percent in areas such as
Mendocino county, where the most Lyme disease cases are found.

In California, only about one in every 200,000 persons is infected with
Lyme disease. In Connecticut, where Lyme disease was first discovered
in the rural town of Lyme, the rate is 100 times higher.

Lyme disease does occur in California, particularly in coastal zones
that provide a moist, forested environment favored by the ticks. In
Mendocino County, the rate is about 50 per 200,000, and in Humboldt
County, it is 20 per 200,000.

Scientists caution that Lane's findings do not prove the case that the
lizard helps protect western Americans from Lyme disease. ``It may be
one of many factors,'' said Kramer.



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LIZARDS, TICKS AND LYME DISEASE
UC Berkeley entomologist Robert Lane has discovered that a subtance
found in the blood of the common western fence lizard kills Lyme
disease bacteria in the gut of juvenile ticks that feed on it. It may
help explain why there is far less Lyme disease in California than in
the eastern United States, where the lizard does not live. The western
fence lizard -- a commonly found species dubbed the blue belly lizard
in California - can carry an average of 30 juvenile black legged ticks,
which are about the size of a poppy seed. Three stages of tick
development Larval Ticks pass through three stages of development.
During each stage they eat one ``blood meal.'' Larval ticks become
infected with Lyme disease when they feed on rodents.
Nymphal Tiny tick nymphs can transmit Lyme disease by biting a human.
If they feast on a common western lizard, however, something in the
reptile's blood appears to kill the bacteria

Adult Adult black-legged ticks move off the forest floor and onto
plants and grasses. Those who feasted on lizards as nymphs are less
likely to transmit Lyme disease to humans.

Source: National Institutes of Health and Chronicle Research Lizard
photo courtesy of Jack Kelly Clark, tick photo courtesy of Robert S.
Lane

California Academy of Sciences - Science Now

http://www.calacademy.org/science_now/archive/wild_lives/fence_lizards_050601.html

Lizards That Fight Lyme Disease

One of the most common lizards in California, the western fence lizard,
helps to battle Lyme disease.

Hiking in the Sierras or strolling along a vacant lot, you will likely
encounter one of these spiny, granite-colored lizards doing vigorous
pushups. Males have iridescent blue throats and bellies and pushups
flash the bright color to court females or defend their territories
from encroaching males.

These showy lizards provide more benefits to humans than just
entertainment. A protein in their blood kills the bacterium that causes
Lyme disease.Western black-legged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) carry the
bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi, in their guts, which they can transfer
to a human after biting and remaining attached for 24 to 48 hours. But
a tick that sucks the blood of a fence lizard is cleansed of Borrelia,
and its bite reduced to nothing more than a nuisance.

Western fence lizards (Sceloporus occidentalis), commonly known as
"blue-bellies," occur in a wide variety of habitats throughout
California except for extreme desert environments. They can be found
from sea level up to 9,000 feet in areas of broken canopy with rocks,
fallen logs, or other structures like old buildings and woodpiles

Google Search: western fence lizard lyme
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=western+fence+lizard+lyme&btnG=Google+Search


> I sheat you not!

Yes you do.

> Now, I take a daily dose of digestive enzymes - 2 tabs per meal,
> that I practically JONES over if I miss taking them - they help so much
> in regulating and making the whole digestive process go so much more
> smoothly in melting down all those heavy proteins and all...

Goodie for you. Maybe if I took them it would be easier to swallow your
never ending psychotic bs?

> so,
> since the genome of the spirochete has been broken down & "decoded",
> and since that should tell us what departments the nasty bugger is weak in,
> and since there supposedly is a lizard enzyme that causes a meltdown
> of a spirochete's protein coating (wouldn't that work for ALL strains of
> Bb?)
> then, will it come to taking a few Highly Specific Enzyme Tablets Daily
> to wipe out Lyme disease?

One plus one equals fifty quazillion? Your assumptions are all
completely wrong. Don't give up your day job to become a researcher for
a cure. If you can call being a raving psychotic a day job.

> And do Deer maybe have this same enzyme?
> And has anyone gone on the "Deer Diet"?, cause I swear, when I was
> up in New York's Bambi-Land for four years, thirty years ago,
> I saw HORDES of deer, but don't ever remember seeing a deer who
> appeared sick - or, (uhmmhu-uhhm!...(clearing my throat))...
> a deer who had Lyme Disease!

First get a clue. Maybe you can purchase one somewhere. Again you're
totally wrong.

> Haarrrrr-harr!!!
> A Deer with Lyme Disease- see, I tolt you I weren't krazy.

Saying it doesn't make it true. Your behavior belies your above
statement. You aren't just crazy or krazy, you're something way far
past that.

SNIP remainder of psycho ravings.

.

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