As some of the people reading this thread probably haven’t followed the link, I thought I’d re-post the information here:
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I don't have another link for this that discusses the documentary in English
Documentary: Undercover in German Lyme Clinics (2017)
Short summary:
Several totally healthy danish journalists as well as 4 well known totally healthy danish tv-personalities sent their blood samples to both Arminlabs and BCA Clinic in Augsburg.
They were all found positive for Lyme disease with the Elispot test and treatment was recommended to them.
Same thing for a severely ill danish lady who had been diagnosed with ALS in Denmark:
She went for a second opinion to BCA in Augsburg and was told she had lyme disease and could be cured.
https://forums.phoenixrising.me/threads/documentary-undercover-in-german-lyme-clinics.55493/
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Also, though not directly relevant to Lyme disease, it does speak to infection testing at Arminlabs:
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This is a thread on a paper on the results from Armin labs, which promotes itself a lot for Lyme and tick-borne infections in Europe.
There were similar high rates of diagnosis in both patients and controls
Human enteroviral infection in fibromyalgia: a case-control blinded study, 2022, Armin Schwarzbach et al
https://www.s4me.info/threads/human...ded-study-2022-armin-schwarzbach-et-al.28644/
It's not clear which German lab was used by the family in the article, could be Armin, but I've also seen patients of Dr Ben Sinclair's clinic (
Finlay's), and who Milly/Milly's family are consulting as per the
article, discuss sending bloods to
Susa Lab (also in Germany) and via a medical logistics company called
GLXG. Finlay's seem to
collaborate on this with
Dr Carsten Nicolaus (GLXG's
Chief Medical Advisor) and who
oversees the lyme and IV antibiotic service at Finlay's as part of a worldwide lyme doctor mentoring service, although he seems physically reside in London. I also see Dr Nicolaus previously owned/ran the
now closed BCA Clinic/Lab in Augsberg to which you refer, so perhaps this just morphed into Susa/GLXG. I also spot their family runs a supplement company (
Makewell) for which he is
Chief Medical Advisor and that targets the tick-borne infections market. I've seen patients of Dr Sinclair talk about using the Makewell products as part of their lyme protocols, they get some sort of discount coupon (indeed, they look expensive if you end up taking them for a long time and as many lyme protocols suggest), alongside sometimes up to triple antibiotic therapies (azithromycin, rifampicin, minocycline) and/or IV antibiotics, methylene blue, disulferam, etc., and repeat testing.
From that wee dig around, it seems a total nightmare of a field to navigate. On face value there seem plenty of potential red flags, but Sinclair's (self-proclaimed) 60-70% success rate suggests there is promise. I wish they would publish something, perhaps they will.
I agree with what
@Hutan says, Milly seems the most clear sighted of them all, '“Because I’ve tried loads of things, it’s hard to believe this will really work,” “I’ve lost faith in medicine and practitioners. I’m not feeling much better either. It’s difficult to think of the future right now – where my life might lead.”
There is literature indicating such co-infections may contribute in some cases of Long Covid and ME. I have my fingers crossed for them, and hope that science starts to more clearly support the clinical practises we are seeing.