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SH@rawlsmd “This is what almost everyone gets wrong about Lyme disease.
It’s not always just an acute infection that you catch and cure.
Borrelia burgdorferi isn’t built to cause rapid illness. It’s built to persist within the body.
It grows slowly, which makes it less visible to the immune system and less responsive to antibiotics.
It also invades cells – where both immune defenses and medications have limited reach.
And once inside tissues, it can go dormant, forming stable intracellular reservoirs that testing often misses.
So symptoms may disappear, while the bacteria remain.
That is, until the environment changes.
When cells are weakened by stress (be it poor sleep, diet, toxins, infection) those dormant microbes can reactivate and cause symptoms.
Which is also why recovery isn’t only about killing pathogens.
It’s about restoring cellular health – so the body can keep those microbes contained long term.”
#lymedisease #invisibleillness #lymediseaseawareness #borrelia #dormant
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