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> I don't know how effective a low-manganese diet or lifestyle would be though but it is very interesting. You cannot achieve what the paper is discussing thro
by Aurornis 1y ago
> I don't know how effective a low-manganese diet or lifestyle would be though but it is very interesting.
You cannot achieve what the paper is discussing through diet or supplements.
The paper is hypothesizing that if a drug could target the components of B. burgdorferi that regulate manganese then that would kill it.
You cannot deprive the cells of manganese or overwhelm them through supplementation or restrictive diet. You would damage your own body long before reaching levels that killed the Lyme infection.
I really hope the alternative medicine people don't start abusing this headline to push diets and supplements.
- canadiantim 1y agoI really hope the anti-medicine people don't start grasping for a middleman to get in between people and self care.
- Aurornis 1y ago> self care. Deliberately inducing manganese deficiency (which I doubt you could pull off while still eating food) isn't "self care". It's a misunderstanding of what this article is saying. Your body needs manganese and MnSOD (one of the target enzymes mentioned in the article) just as much as Lyme disease does. You could theoretically kill the Lyme by killing the host body, like that classic XKCD about destroying anything in a petri dish if you don't care about collateral damage. The key to making a successful treatment is finding a way to kill the infection without killing the host. Calling anything you're suggesting "self care" is dangerous and wrong.