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Lyme Disease Runs on Manganese

The pathogen that causes Lyme Disease -- Borrelia burgdorferi -- does not run on iron like every other life form on earth, but on manganese. 1/2

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Gideon Mountain Hunt

@terriermanUSA

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Nov 28

That means that when the liver produces hepcidin to fight the Lyme infection, that natural iron-inhibiting hormone does nothing to starve the pathogen, which is why Lyme disease is so robust absent a good dosing of Doxycline. 1/2

The pathogen that causes Lyme Disease -- Borrelia burgdorferi -- does not run on iron like every other life form on earth, but on manganese. 1/2

1

Gideon Mountain Hunt

@terriermanUSA

·

Nov 28

That means that when the liver produces hepcidin to fight the Lyme infection, that natural iron-inhibiting hormone does nothing to starve the pathogen, which is why Lyme disease is so robust absent a good dosing of Doxycline. 1/2

The pathogen that causes Lyme Disease -- Borrelia burgdorferi -- does not run on iron like every other life form on earth, but on manganese. That means that when the liver produces hepcidin to fight the Lyme infection, that natural iron-inhibiting hormone does nothing to starve the pathogen, which is why Lyme disease is so robust absent a good dosing of Doxycline.

Zoonotic Disease in Cave Man
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Coffee and Tea to Prevent Dementia?
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The World's Fastest Indian
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From Tommy's Outdoors Blog.

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Before OSHA

Hiram Maxim, the inventor of the automatic machine gun, spent so much time test-firing his guns that he went completely deaf. His son Hiram Percy Maxim eventually invented the silencer, but too late to save his father's hearing.

The Big Wink to Traitors and Murderers

John Brown was the first person to be executed for treason in the United States, in 1859.  America's real traitors and murderers, however, who fought for the traitorous South and led Indian massacres out West, were not tried, hanged or jailed. 

A Renewable Resource
Stone crabs aren't killed for their meat. You simply remove one claw and throw them back in, and they eventually regrow their claw.

A Baker's Dozen
The practice of bakers giving 13 pieces as a "Baker's Dozen" can be traced back to 1266 when King Henry III passed the Assize of Bread and Ale Law which decreed that bakers or ale brewers who shorted their customers should be be punished by fines, flogging, or pillorying. To make sure they always counted right, bakers started counting 13 pieces as 12. 750 years later, it's still a thing.

Hamlet In Translation for the Modern Age

A modern classic.