Morgellons disease is a controversial health topic today, which I only learned of once I had become aware of 'geoengineering', which was in the summer of 2013, and you'll see I initially prepared this topic in August of 2013. I edit in when I find new things rather than creating new topic threads sometimes.

One of the better historical backdrops that I've seen, along with overall good information, is at this link, which I became aware of at the end of September, 2015 and am including now, and up top because I think it's the right placement for readers / YOUsers of Lumigrate. It's from MorgellonsUK dot org (link provided, below) and this is the history portion that I found very helpful as a 'preface':

In 2001, Mary Leitao, a Pennsylvanian biology technician, researched the symptoms of her two year old son. He presented with sores on his lip, with protruding fibres. She read a report from 1674, by a British physician, Sir Thomas Browne, who described 'The Morgellon'; a disease which afflicted French children with 'harsh hairs on their backs'. Leitao believed Browne's paper was the closest description of her son's symptoms. (Click here for further reading on the history of morgellons [1]).

Soon after making her son's symptoms public, thousands of families were also reporting similar symptoms to the Centre of Disease Control, who then decided to launch an investigation into the phenomena in 2006.

Morgellons disease is barely recognised by main stream medical communities and its cause has not been established to date. It has a variety of symptoms [2] including itchy skin; with crawling, biting sensations, white granules from skin and hair follicles, chronic fatigue, aching joints, anemia, malabsorption and distended abdomen, inflamed lymph nodes, skin lesions and filaments coming out of skin pores. These filaments are the defining symptom of morgellons disease (2).

Morgellon disease sufferers often observe activities related to small flies (Table 1 [3]). Some describe themselves as being 'saturated' with small larvae and many sufferers report seeing worms coming from their skin. Sufferers often test positive for Lyme disease along with other bacterial and fungal infections. Very few sufferers have managed to find a cure.

The correlation between myiasis and morgellons was first (and last) suggested in 1946 by a British physician, Dr Emslie-Smith (87). The term 'morgellons' is likely to have originated from France in the 1600's; derived from the Provencal form of muscula, meaning 'a little fly' (88, 87).

Flies that are called obligatory parasites require living tissue for larval development. Facultative parasites usually develop on carrion or vegetable matter, but may occasionally develop on living tissue. Some facultative myiasis-causing flies have adapted so well to a parasitic existence that they essentially become obligatory parasites. In such cases, the distinction blurs between the two categories (6).

In accidental myiasis, sometimes the eggs or larvae are accidentally ingested and are not killed in the intestine (6). Accidential myiasis is the most common cause of infestation, as also adult flies can be accidentially inhaled, or fly into body cavities (mouth, eyes, ears, open wounds) and there reproduce.

Many published reports are concerning myiasis infecting travellers and, in general, myiasis is thought to be much less common in temperate regions than in tropical countries. However, human cases also originate from North America, UK, Netherlands, Portugal, Turkey and Greece amongst others. Myiasis is endemic in the United States, where it is thought to be caused by larvae of flies of the genus Cuterebra.

The scientific community have not yet established the biological, chemical and behavioural traits of myiasis causing flies (30). So out of the 158,000 recorded species of fly, why is it believed that only certain species manage to infest animals or humans?

Experts question whether it is simply the ability of the fly larvae to overcome the immune defence response of the living host (30). If this is the case, then it may indicate that humans and animals maybe susceptible to infections from a wider variety of fly families with various attributes, than currently thought. In fact, there are cases of fruit flies, wood gnats, moth flies and even fungus gnats causing myiasis in humans (62), (90), (91), (92).

Furthermore, in terms of evolution, experts believe that arthropods parasitising vertebrates is a switch, which is not thought to have happened with other groups, e.g. protozoa, nematodes and platyhelminths (30). If this evolutionary switch took place with certain flies, then there is a possibility that this switching has actually taken place with a wider variety of flies than presently recorded.

Children, the elderly, the disabled and the immuno-compromised are particularly susceptible to myaisis infections, due to lack of physical movement (inability to scratch), decreased personal hygiene and therefore greater odourous attractants for flies.

Myiasis is responsible for severe economic losses (billions) to animal farming and affects domestic and wild animals - known as 'fly strike'. Animals include, cattle, sheep, horses, cats, dogs, rabbits, rodents, amphibians and even elephants. It causes abortions, reduced milk production, weight and fertility loss and poor quality hides (30). There are also scientific reports that consider whether the extensive use of pesticides is driving flies to find new hosts, which has been proposed as another theory to explain the increase in animal myiasis recorded, as well as climate change (42).

A simulated climate change model predicted a potential increase in fly populations of 244% by 2080 (43).

Please go to the link, above ^, and see all that is provided because it is significant. I included the portion that leaves off with climate change factors, changes due to chemical use, and included many important points to 'open the mind'. The author makes the point that it is somewhat more likely a person will be diagnosed if they had been traveling to a place thought historically / taught to medical providers to have such problems, yet even with that, naturally, many don't get properly diagnosed. Another portion of this resource that I particularly found interested was their reporting of what people with known Morgellons often report finding in their homes. I learned that 'cob webs' are something different than what I had always thought, and want to point out that the information includes that people report long thin strands.

Summer of 2015 was my year to connect the dots on what the long thin strands are. I first observed them in the fall of 2013, after learning of them when studying geoengineering. People active in talking about that thought the strands were coming from the chemtrailing aircraft. I saw some things in the rose bushes, or on trees but thought 'it could have been a spider'. One day I was outside cleaning the windows and put the tools against the post to the porch cover long enough to hose off a patio door and turned around and there were all kinds of strands on the tools and post, spanning the space between. A spider hadn't done that! Then I looked up when the roof was barely blocking the sun from my eyes and I saw loads of it wafting in the air, very long strands, multiple feet long. This past weekend I saw a strand that went across a trampoline frame from about the 1:00 to the 5:00 position, it was I would guess eight feet long. There was another one that was about six feet and then a bunch all over the spring areas --- they 'caught' more of it. You can see it caught on bark in 'nooks' on trees too, with the right lighting. Very fine, very hard to see, they glint with the light when you move or they move.

That day in fall of 2013 when I saw a bunch in the air going over the roof, there was also a chemtrail plane spraying what is called 'short spray', it reminds me of how you'd have a nozzle and apply a liquid spray to plants in a large area.

In the summer of 2015 I had caught up with the learning going on by an interesting researcher / teacher named Steve Beddingfield who has figured out and tells others that those strands are 'giant sulphur bacteria'. What he teaches about 'dovetails' beautifully with what the above-linked-to article theorizes, I can see both supporting the other. I'm going to provide the link here to the 'introductory' / 'applied' topic about giant sulphur bacteria which has easy to understand photographs of what to look for in your yard, house, food, etc., and the basics of what to do about it AND links to go further and learn more in other topics at Lumigrate focused on Steve Beddingfield's group and work more in-depth. www.lumigrate.com/forum/stuff-interloping-and-overwhelming-everything-examples-and-ideas-remediation-our-immediate-env [5]

I very much appreciating Steve's perspective that the chemstrails are spraying for the GSB. So it seems to me that perhaps I saw the chemtrailing aircraft short spraying in my area because they knew there was a high amount of the strands wafting in the air that was aloft at that time, and it wasn't the chemicals sprayed forming the long strands that I saw.

When others have observed and gotten samples that they have analyzed, perhaps the chemicals found are the chemicals being sprayed that are on the GSB strands, without the laboratory reporting about the GSB aspect because they're simply not looking 'for that'. There are two activists in Arizona who did a nice YouTube video early in 2015 about what they had seen and collaborated on getting on camera and then sampled and analyzed.

You can't know what you haven't yet learned, and the GSB information is apparently such a massive problem the governments of the world and others have been trying to get a handle on it secretly before we are notified so they'll have better news to tell us and not create havoc. That's just a theory that I have, and I wanted to share it here for YOUsers to consider. As always, do your own thinking and figuring what your opinion is going to be. But I'm glad I'd studied geoengineering thoroughly in 2013 so I'd have that done before encountering what Steve Beddingfield presents.

Geoengineering is a massive 'rabbit hole' of information to go down if one studies it in-depth, and it "cross pollinates" or "dovetails" with more than a few things which have to do with health. One is Morgellons disease (MD), and another is the food movement. The food movement and Morgellons are also connected.

Foods and geoengineering become interconnected, in some aspects of the information, because it is believed by some/many that there are manipulations being done to the seeds by those who make seeds and want to influence what foods are grown in the world, and the seeds are being created to grow in soils that have more aluminum in them. It's not only the GMO (genetically modified organisims) at hand, it's the chemicals that are used in farming them, such as glyphosate (such as Roundup, which is made by Monsanto). See the reason for the March Against Monsanto groups?

There is a coordinated effort between those doing the March Against Monsanto movement and those doing the March Against Geonegineering movement (they clearly rotate which one is doing worldwide marches to raise awareness, I actually learned of the March Against Geoengineering from Marianne Williamson's speech on May 25, 2013 at the Venice, California MAM rally.)

I will suggest that everyone takes ten minutes and know your way back to this topic if you don't know and understand what Agenda 21 is. That is NOT at ALL controversial, it is very much a certainty. But it's been kind of slipped past the people in the 'masses' if they rely upon mass media for their education about what's going on in the news. It's not like it NEVER is said anywhere, but it'll be one reference here or there, such as when President Bush included the words 'new world order' in a speech. President Clinton signed Agenda 21 in via an executive order in 1993, I have learned. And something would have been out there about that but no 'big deal' is made of it. They were making a big deal of his sexual relationships and filling up the time so we thought we were getting news we really needed to know. Ugh. Here's the link to my topic at Lumigrate about Agenda 21 for Dummies as a 'primer'. www.lumigrate.com/blog/you-proactive-citizen-and-media-consumer-social-or-mainstream-learn-ropes-entangling-us [6]

To give Yousers who might not be familiar the overview: the geoengineering program's 'detectives', who have a lot of information from many years of study on the Internet, have found evidence that aluminum is being included in what is sprayed from the 'chemtrailing' planes used in geoengineering. In the past it was 'the staple' of what was being sprayed, it is believed, and is believed to continue to be included, though the other chemicals might be changing as time has gone on. Other chemicals have been barium and strontium, and there are a number of other biologic things found in samples which have been collected and analyzed for many years by those who were aware and concerned, making it their 'life's work' in some cases, to get independent information out to the Internet and otherwise to help validate what is going on and lead to the movement that is currently underway to oppose it.

This has been a very secreted program which only in 2013 did the program's administrators begin the process of disclosure in the mainstream media. (See The Colbert Report website for the segment in December 2013, it's very findable on YouTube and on The Colbert Report website. Another search word besides geoengineering is David Keith, PhD, or Dr David Keith.)

But you can't get very far on the Internet searches about Morgellons and geoengineering without finding the website of Clifford Carnicom. I'm not linking out to his site here since he's very well-known and I thought I'd provide some unique and lesser-known information on this topic. I've covered that base on one of Lumigrate's geoengineering threads as well. (Which sometimes are in the 'political / activism' forum since it is politically a major issue, geoengineering, as it wasn't until late 2013 being really 'disclosed' by those 'in the systems that are in cahoots about all this'. Once it was 'coming out of the closet' I began including it in other forums here. Search words in our Search bar are your friend as much as just panning through the forums to see what is there. Hints to the layout like this might help. I hope you find a lot of great information to help you.

It appears to me today, early 2014 as I edit the upper part of this topic to update it and expand it for future readers, that I somehow found a 'gem' in what I reported on initially related to Morgellons, because it was from 2008 and they filmed at the START of a study and perhaps got some information out there that was valid and now substantiated by the 2012 research that I was made aware of today in order to include it here. And many who have and study Morgellons that I've gotten to know did not know of this off the beaten path gem.

There were reasons within the 'overall systems' that appear to me to have wanted Morgellons research that was funded by the system to have the outcome of 'psychiatric'. If anyone reading has not become aware and educated about the corruption today in the funded science circles, please consider changing that. This coloring something 'mental' was done in the past about many other health issues in the history of modern medicine, and those things today are not at all 'controversial' anymore. It seems that recently it was Morgellon's turn, so to speak.

When I succombed in 1989 to a whopping case of what today would be termed 'chronic fatigue syndrome', I was fortunate that my primary care doctor knew to refer me to an ear, nose and throat specialist who knew there were blood tests that would show there was something awry in my body, so I was never routed to mental health providers. However, after I got well, I realized that I'd let too many people require too many things of me and there WAS a psychological / mind component to it.

When I had a relapse in the mid 90s and allopathic medicine couldn't see the cause (it turns out there WAS evidence in the MRI and spinal 'tap' they did, they just didn't know about virus' creating the things that were evidence, as an environmental medicine specialist would know in 2012 when I showed the results from 1995), I figured out on my own that foods seemed a likely cause or contributor and sought out an integrative/ environmental MD who said (I'm paraphrasing from my recollection)

Today, I believe his opinion was rather skewed to see the MANY physical causes and he didn't at all talk about the mental/behavioral aspect and set me up to ALSO work in those areas on myself, but he was an MD and focusing on the physical in our work together on my health. It ultimately is mind/body/spirit wholeness that must be well for ultimate wellness, and hence all can contribute to lack of wellness, a.k.a. illness.

I suggest people study about 'the system', because until a person understands how the system works that funds conventional research in the United States and other places in the world, you'll never understand why there the information I present below in comment about a 2012 study is a BIG DEAL. You might say "only three cases they studied, I want evidence-based medicine with a study with way more participants than that."

It was, in my opinion, a huge undertaking/ task to do the study that these four individuals provided in 2012 in the Internet information. It is similar to how there are growing Indy Internet news websites which have a different mix of information than what a person gets from the mainstream media, which is part of 'the system'. I think that Marianne Williamson's May 2013 speech at MAM in Venice (those are the keywords you need here at Lumigrate, I have covered it) is a great overview, and the resource I route people to has transcribed it so you can look it over (faster for most) in addition to having the video there to view in 20 minutes.

From August 2013 -- on Morgellons Disease (MD) inspired by a 2008 ABC Nighline segment

I was fascinated by how medical researchers at Oklahoma State University, and their local police department's crime lab in Tulsa, were making headway on not only the baffling skin aspect, which is perhaps the primary 'outward' symptom of Morgellon's Disease (MD), as well as studying the neurologic features that appear in various combinations with various patients.

Back in 2008 when ABC's Nightline spent 11 minutes or so covering the subject of Morgellon's disease, I reflect fondly on what I was doing that night -- which was working to create a website to put this type of information on; truthful information about what leads people to be well, or not well/ill, and integrative and functional approaches rather than allopathic medicine that 'the system' has created to be in the majority in our lifetimes in the past. It would be many years before I saw anything about Morgellon's disease. Hard to believe, someday, when we 'all have it' and / or all have heard of it ... 'it' being Morgellon's disease (MD).

At that time the buzz word for many was 'fibromyalgia', and today it's perhaps something new getting added to the buzz mix: Morgellon's. There's an overlapping feature that is a hallmark of both: 'brain fog'. Morgellon's disease (MD) also affects gait/mobility and other neurologically-driven functions. You'll notice in recent years an uptick in awareness and education and treatment related to 'chronic lyme disease'; they are the 'overlapping conditions', along with some others. If you stick with the content at Lumigrate long enough, you'll see that essentially we come to seeing that most everything is interrelated; we actually can simplify things and say we all have 'it'/ 'the stuff' as I call it, and it all has one underlying basic, root cause, with many things interplaying. And an effective treatment that's been found by an alleged layresearcher; in 2015 I am editing this topic to lead people through the information that's been progressing on Lumigrate every day. And increasingly, I've been steeping with people talking about Morgellon's disease (MD).

Functional medicine dictates that you look for the underlying causes for conditions and address that as well as, if needed, the current symptoms. Allopathic medicine generally addresses the symptoms and doesn't look for the underlying cause or causes and so people end up not only getting a label put upon them that has 'no cure', but they're not made aware of the real reasons for them to be out of the natural wellness state.

Often, allopathic medicine is therefore 'missing the boat' compared to what many others believe, particularly the patients who have conditions that are being told it's of a psychiatric CAUSE. Clearly if a person has a disturbing medical condition that affects their neurology they ALSO might have behavioral issues to address, but that is not the 'cause', it's actually a symptom, or 'effect.'

The segment I am so appreciative I found Internet searching and bring to you here for learning, aired January 16, 2008, and spent 11 minutes on the controversial and mysterious condition known as Morgellon's disease (MD). They included the history of how the name came to be dug up and revitalized after several hundreds of years. It's a great tale of a researcher mother rolling up her sleeves to help her son, and how a proactive advocate with professional background can start the ball rolling that can help thousands of people already. Here is the link at YouTube, please watch it when you have 11 minutes and want to watch a great video segment: www.youtube.com/watch [7].

For those who prefer to read, I will provide the following overview. Note, some names they didn't put on the screen so I have spelled them phonetically and even left a ________ in case my hearing is better some day. (Nothing to be concerned about, just tinnitus like so many other people have been complaining about increasingly.....

.. very much part of what people are having from all the environmental chems 'n' EMs, which have increased dramatically in recent years due to the gadgetry we use for electronics and appliances as well as the geoengineering program.)

Searching on NIH, using search words Morgellon's Disease, lead me to a link that basically said 'you're at CDC's rare disorders area so email us at this link for help OR follow this link ... (and also Mayo Clinic has information at their website)....

So I am sharing the link that I took from there so you can see the information the NIH 'ran with' and continues to post to this day, after the research was completed that was covered in the 2008 Nightline segment.

(Basically, the official source at the link, above is telling people there's nothing found in the lesions. It's a mental disorder. As I've presented here, there are people finding things in these lesions, and credibly so.

I wanted to link to what a favorite website of mine, Barium Blues (because of barium being a major component in chemtrails), has to say about Morgellon's Disease (MD). They have FABULOUS information about Morgellon's disease. And are a very old website, too. Interesting history, the woman who created it had a stroke at a relatively young age and she was home recovering and needed a project to keep her occupied and Barium Blues is what came from it. I've always been intrigued by what had gotten her into this realm of information, did they suspect her health issues stemmed from something in the chemtrails, or that the chemtrails and electromagnetics were to address something that ultimately had something to do with her having a stroke? There wasn't much I could find online about her, aside from that she appeared to be alive and with a low profile. (Back in 2013/14 when I found Barium Blues when focusing on learning about the geoengineering / chems 'n' EMs).

The emerging disease called Morgellons is caused by nano machines which are believed to receive specific microwave, EMF and ELF signals and information. To what end is not known. The symptoms include open skin lesions from which colored or plain fibers emerge. Some fibers withstand temperatures in excess of 1400 F. Morgellons nano machines are commonly found in all body fluids and orifices, and are believed to routinely achieve total body systemic penetration. Morgellons nano machines seem to have some kind of hive or 'group intelligence.'

There is strong evidence linking Chemtrail aerosol fibers to Morgellons fibers. There are more than 10,000 families who report that they suffer from this disease [10], but it is believed that the actual number may be much higher. Many of these reports involve multiple family members, including numerous children suffering the effects of the disease.

You'll see that they link to Rense's website and you'll find this description there (more paragraphs added by me for our tired brained YOUsers to read more readily and comprehend better):

YOUser of Lumigrate -- put on detective hats and get your magnifying glasses out, roll up your sleeves. And think. Ask questions. Be discerning. Use all your abilities, and develop your 'gut' like a good detective does. This is tricky stuff to navigate taking all our abilities. I hope the information I set YOUsers up with here makes it easier and faster to get to quality information and then be on your way knowing what YOU believe, and will take action on.

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Mardy Ross

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A Chemical and Light Microscopy Study of M.D., published 2012

March 2012 article about a study performed and written up with the four collaborators you see here, with their institutions on MD (Morgellons Disease), and you will see in the "Discussion" that the findings lead them to focus on ticks as the culprit. Please read the information above related to the 'overlapping' conditions.

From:

http://www.omicsonline.org/2155-9554/2155-9554-3-140.php [13]

(and you'll be encouraged to go there to see the photos which drop out when copying and pasting the article here for YOUsers' ease). Thanks to those whose intellectual properties policies are open access, it helps the people get to the information that can benefit them. I bolded the conclusions area, near the bottom for ease of Lumigrate readers as well, but please venture to the source (which is a clinical and scientific dermatology resource) to see the article with the photos and get a feel for that Intenet resource in terms of it being a source you'd trust as part of your medical information. I did, and found meritous of including on Lumigrate.

Morgellons Disease: A Chemical and Light Microscopic Study

Marianne J. Middelveen^{1 [14]}, Elizabeth H. Rasmussen^{2 [15]}, Douglas G. Kahn^{3 [16]} and Raphael B. Stricker^{1 [14]* [17]}

¹International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society, Bethesda, MD

²College of Health Sciences, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

³Department of Pathology, Olive View - UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, California

^*Corresponding author:

Raphael B. Stricker, MD
450 Sutter Street, Suite 1504
San Francisco, CA 94108, USA
Tel: (415)399-1035
Fax: (415) 399-1057
E-mail: rstricker@usmamed.com

Received January 27, 2012; Accepted March 12, 2012; Published March 16, 2012

Citation: Middelveen MJ, Rasmussen EH, Kahn DG, Stricker RB (2012) Morgellons Disease: A Chemical and Light Microscopic Study. J Clin Exp Dermatol Res 3:140. doi:10.4172/2155-9554.1000140

Copyright: © 2012 Middelveen MJ, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract

Morgellons disease is an emerging multisystem illness characterized by unexplained dermopathy and unusual skinassociated filament production. Despite evidence demonstrating that an infectious process is involved and that lesions are not self-inflicted, many medical practitioners continue to claim that this illness is delusional. We present relevant clinical observations combined with chemical and light microscopic studies of material collected from three patients with Morgellons disease. Our study demonstrates that Morgellons disease is not delusional and that skin lesions with unusual fibers are not self-inflicted or psychogenic. We provide chemical, light microscopic and immunohistological evidence that filaments associated with this condition originate from human epithelial cells, supporting the hypothesis that the fibers are composed of keratin and are products of keratinocytes.

Keywords

Morgellons disease; Digital dermatitis; Lyme disease; Borrelia burgdorferi; Spirochetes; Keratin

Introduction

Morgellons disease (MD) is an emerging dermatological disorder and multisystem illness. The disease is characterized by unexplained dermopathy associated with formation of unusual filaments found both subcutaneously and emerging from spontaneously appearing, slow-healing skin lesions [1 [18]]. Filaments associated with MD appear beneath unbroken skin [1 [18],2 [19]], thus demonstrating that they are not self-implanted. Filaments have been observed protruding from and attached to a matrix of epithelial cells [3 [20]]. This finding demonstrates that the filaments are of human cellular origin and are not textile fibers. These filaments have not been matched with known textile fibers, and dye-extracting solvents have failed to release coloration; the fibers are also very strong and heat resistant [4 [21],5 [22]]. MD filaments are physically and chemically consistent with keratin, a biofiber produced in the epithelium by keratinocytes. A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed that these filaments have a protein composition that is consistent with keratin [6 [23]].

Lyme disease-like symptoms in MD such as neurological disorders and joint pain are evidence of systemic involvement [1 [18],2 [24],7 [25]] . Objective clinical evidence of disease has been demonstrated by its association with peripheral neuropathy, delayed capillary refill, decreased body temperature, tachycardia, elevated pro-inflammatory markers, cytokine release, selective immune deficiency and elevated insulin levels, suggesting that an infectious process is involved [8 [26],9 [27]]. Patients may demonstrate abnormal laboratory findings indicative of low-grade anemia, endocrine dysfunction, immune dysfunction and inflammation [8 [26],10 [28]]. Patients with MD are predominantly seroreactive toBorrelia burgdorferi (Bb) antigens, suggesting a likelihood of Lyme borreliosis or related spirochetal infection [1 [18],10 [28]]. Patients also demonstrate a higher than expected percentage of positive laboratory findings for other tick-borne diseases, suggesting the possible involvement of coinfecting pathogens [10 [28]].

The observation of unusual filaments forming in lesions is not unique to humans afflicted with MD. Similarities between MD and bovine digital dermatitis (BDD) have been described [3 [20]]. BDD is an emerging disease afflicting cattle and is characteristically associated with unusual filament formation in skin above the hooves [11 [29]]. Latestage proliferative lesions demonstrate elongation of keratinocytes, hyperkeratosis, and proliferation of long keratin filaments [12 [30]-14 [31]]. Consistent detection of spirochetes associated with lesions is evidence of spirochetal etiologic involvement [15 [32]-20 [33]]. Experimental induction of lesions with tissue homogenates [21 [34]] and pure cultured treponemes [22 [35]] supports a role for spirochetes as primary etiologic agents.

Like BDD, MD is associated with apparent spirochetal infection and unusual filament production [3 [20]]. A comparison between BDD and MD suggests that the unusual fibers seen in MD patients may result from hyperkeratosis and filament production as described in BDD. It appears that MD fibers are likewise composed of keratin produced by keratinocytes, a phenomenon that has been demonstrated in BDD [3 [20]]. The following three case studies provide further evidence supporting this hypothesis.

Materials and Methods

Human and bovine samples

Three patients meeting the clinical criteria for Morgellons disease collected calluses, scabs, filaments, and other dermatological debris and submitted the material for microscopic examination. The collected samples were examined by bright-field microscopy at 100x magnification. Specimens were illuminated either superior or posterior to the specimen. Some specimens were also illuminated with ultraviolet (UV) light.

Biopsies from cattle with BDD were kindly provided by Dr. Dorte Dopfer, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. Biopsy material from proliferative late stage BDD was examined for comparison to MD samples with 8x magnification under a dissecting microscope. This material was also tested for fluorescence under UV light.

For the chemical experiments, samples of normal hair, filaments from Cases 1 and 2 and BDD fibers were studied for reactivity to three caustic agents: sodium hypochlorite 12%, sodium hydroxide 10%, and potassium hydroxide 10%. Each sample was suspended in 150 μl of the chemical solution for up to two hours, and serial light microscopy was performed at 0, 1, 10, 30, 60 and 120 minutes. Dissolution of fibers was assessed by fraying, loss of shape and/or disintegration at each timepoint.

For the immunohistological experiments, filament samples from Cases 1 and 2 were stained for keratin using monoclonal antibodies. Briefly, formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded filaments were incubated with monoclonal antibodies AE1/AE3 (Dako North America Inc, Carpinteria, CA) and AE5/AE6 (Cell Marque Corporation, Rocklin, CA) directed against cytokeratins 1/3 and 5/6, respectively, using the Envision^®+ Dual-Link System-HRP (Dako) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. The samples were stained using a horseradish peroxidase label, and the brown staining of keratin was visualized under light microscopy.

Clinical Observations

Case 1

The patient is a 72-year-old grandmother and former fashion model who developed painful lesions on her hands while working in her garden in San Antonio, Texas, in 1994. The lesions were punctate with ragged edges and healed slowly, leaving visible scarring. Fibers were observed in the lesions and under intact skin on her hands using a 60x handheld microscope. Topical steroids had no effect. The patient also noted the onset of fatigue, joint pain and muscle aches, and systemic steroid treatment exacerbated these symptoms without any improvement in the skin lesions. Medical evaluation was negative for autoimmune or infectious diseases, and neuropsychiatric evaluation was entirely normal. Biopsy of a lesion demonstrated hyperkeratosis and parakeratosis with no visible organisms or evidence of vasculitis. However “textile fibers” were noted in the dermal layer of the biopsy specimen.

In 2001, after numerous visits to dermatologists and other medical specialists and treatment with topical emollients and antiinflammatory medications, the patient had persistent skin lesions on her hands, fatigue and musculoskeletal pain. Despite the use of gloves to avoid scratching, her lesions persisted and she was unable to work in her garden or hold her grandchildren due to pain in her hands and joints. She recalled numerous tickbites but never saw an erythema migrans (EM) rash, and she was found to have positive testing for B. burgdorferi, Babesia microti and Bartonella henselae. She was treated with antimicrobial medications and her fatigue and musculoskeletal pain improved significantly. However her skin lesions persisted. She received anti-parasitic medication, and the lesions improved to the point that she could once again do gardening. The lesions persist but are “manageable” (Figure 1A [36]).

Figure 1A: Lesions on hands of Case 1 following extensive antimicrobial treatment. Note erythematous base with ragged edges.

Case 2

The patient is a 49-year-old registered nurse who had numerous tickbites while hiking, camping and horseback riding in Missouri, Texas and Northern California over more than a decade. She never saw an EM rash. In 1997 while living in San Francisco she developed painful lesions on her face, trunk and extremities. The lesions were punctate with ragged edges. Some lesions healed slowly, leaving visible scarring, while others did not heal at all, and fibers that were resistant to extraction were observed within several lesions. Fibers were also observed under intact skin using a 60x handheld microscope. Topical steroids had no effect. Biopsy of a lesion on her leg revealed hyperkeratosis and parakeratosis without evidence of infection or vasculitis. However, “textile fibers” were noted in the dermal layer of the biopsy specimen. She also developed fatigue and musculoskeletal pain, and systemic steroid treatment exacerbated these symptoms without any improvement in the skin lesions. Medical evaluation was negative for autoimmune or infectious diseases, and neuropsychiatric evaluation was completely normal.

Because of persistent fatigue, musculoskeletal pain and her history of tick exposure, the patient was evaluated for Lyme disease in 2004 and had positive testing for B. burgdorferi and Ehrlichia chafeensis. Antibiotic therapy led to improvement in the fatigue and musculoskeletal pain, but the skin lesions persisted. She received antiparasitic medication and her skin lesions improved somewhat, but new lesions appeared and healing lesions caused painful scarring. She has received intermittent courses of antibiotics over the past six years, and her skin lesions continue to wax and wane (Figure 1B [37]).

Figure 1B: Lesions on back of Case 2. Note punctate appearance of open lesions and scarred appearance after healing. Lesions occur in locations that could not be easily reached by the patient.

Case 3

The patient is a 47-year-old business manager who was in excellent health until he developed a “bullseye” rash, fever, chills, severe headache, musculoskeletal pain and malaise after hiking in the woods near Atlanta, Georgia, in 1995. He had pulled ticks off his dog, which also became ill at the same time. He was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and treated with pain medications, but by 2000 he had become progressively disabled by muscle pain and fatigue. In 2002 he developed crawling sensations on his head, face, groin and other body areas where there was hair. The sensations were accompanied by painful skin lesions. He was diagnosed with folliculitis and put on a topical antibiotic, which made his skin symptoms worse. He began to notice painful fibers coming out of the skin on his face, head and other hirsute areas, and he could not sleep because the fibers were so painful. He extracted fibers from his facial lesions, but new ones appeared. He was diagnosed with trichotillomania and delusional parasitosis.

He went to several dermatologists and was treated with topical lindane and oral cephalexin without benefit. Treatment with oral ketoconazole and fluconazole provided marginal improvement in the crawling sensations and skin lesions. A scalp biopsy demonstrated increased numbers of catagen and telogen follicles with fragmented hair fibers and inner root sheath consistent with trichotillomania. There were no visible organisms or evidence of vasculitis. Medical evaluation was negative for autoimmune or infectious diseases, and neuropsychiatric evaluation revealed reactive depression. He was treated with antidepressants without benefit. Finally in 2005 a physician noted fibers under his skin using a 60x hand-held microscope. Testing for Lyme disease was indeterminate in 2006, and treatment with doxycycline was given for one month without benefit. The patient continues to suffer from crawling sensations, skin lesions, musculoskeletal pain, disabling fatigue and depression. He is reluctant to see any more physicians about his skin condition (Figure 1C [38]).

Figure 1C: Head of Case 3 photographed at disease onset in 2002 (top) and during disease flare in 2011 (bottom). Note punctate lesions with ragged edges in bottom picture. Patient shaved his head in effort to decrease pain from scalp lesions.

Results

MD Microscopic observations

Case 1: Microscopic examination revealed a wide range of filaments in various stages of formation ranging from early stages that demonstrated either single or clusters of hyaline, tentacle-like projections with tapered ends (tentacle diameter approximately 5 μm) to macroscopic masses or mats of tangled fibers (approximately 1 mm diameter) (Figures 2A [39]-2H [40]). Floral-like formations of early-stage filaments were observed in some samples that were collected on different dates and years (Figure 2A [39]). These structures had tapered ends with bases originating at a central point and were found in groups anchored to a dried dermal matrix. The reverse side of some of these specimens revealed a layer of pavement epithelial cells (Figure 2B [41]). Epithelial matrices anchoring longer hyaline fibers were observed, suggesting that as the tentacle-like projections increase in length individual fibers may become tangled, or clumped (Figure 2C [42]). Various structures composed of clumps, strings, and nest-like balls of hyaline filaments were observed and some of these were glued together by clotted or dried exudate (Figure 2D [43]). This suggests that tangled filaments may eventually separate from the supporting epithelial matrix and form balls and other tangled structures.

Figure 2A: Fibers from Case 1. Note floral appearance of fibers (100x magnification).

Figure 2B: Pavement epithelium on underside of floral fibers shown in Case 2A (100x magnification).

Figure 2C: Hyaline fibers forming macroscopic masses in finger webbing from Case 1 (50x magnification).

Figure 2D: Clumps of hyaline filaments surrounding clotted or dried exudate from Case 1 (100x magnification).

Some samples revealed raised unidentified papules protruding from dried epithelial tissue that might be abnormal hair follicles. Long isolated colored filaments, filament fragments, balls, and clumps of fibers (red, blue, black and green) were also observed, but were not attached to or growing from epithelial tissue. Many of these colored filaments had bulb-like ends (50 μm diameter) that looked very much like those found in hair follicles (Figure 2E [44]).

Figure 2E: Blue filament with bulb-like ends (50 μm diameter) similar to a hair follicle from Case 1 (100x magnification).

Many fibers displayed iridescence under bright-field microscopy and were fluorescent under UV lighting. Hyaline or white fibers fluoresced brightly, as did blue fibers (Figure 2F [45]). Red and green fibers displayed striking iridescence (Figure 2G [46], Figure 2H [40]) but fluoresced with less intensity than the blue and white fibers. This suggests that melanin pigments may be associated with red and green filaments. Early floral-shaped clusters were brightly fluorescent. Human hair was not fluorescent nor was normal skin. Color intensity and hue of the red and blue filaments was influenced by the color spectrum of the illuminating light. This property and the presence of iridescence suggests that a structural component is involved in the unusual colors seen in Morgellons fibers.

Figure 2F: Bluish fluorescence of fibers under UV lighting from Case 1 (100x magnification).

Figure 2G: Iridescence of a green fiber from Case 1 (100x magnification).

Figure 2H: Striking iridescence of a red fiber from Case 1 (100x magnification).

Case 2: Microscopic examination of scab material revealed scab detritus imbedded with long filaments of various colors (Figures 3A [47]- 3D [48]). Hyaline, red, blue, and light purple fibers were observed (10-40 μm diameter) (Figure 3A [47], Figure 3B [49]). One sample revealed fibers tangled around a hair and these fibers may have been associated with the hair follicle (Figure 3C [50]). Smaller, pale purple fibers (10 μm diameter) appeared to form a mesh around the follicle. Some samples revealed fibers that lay beneath or penetrated dermal tissue Figure 3D [48].

Figure 3A: Red and blue fibers in skin samples from Case 2 (100x magnification).

Figure 3B: Red and blue fibers embedded in skin from Case 2 (100x magnification).

Figure 3C: Fibers tangled around a hair (larger black shaft to right of figure) in Case 2 (100x magnification).

Figure 3D: Fibers penetrating dermal tissue from Case 2 (100x magnification).

Case 3: Microscopic examination was performed with particular attention to hair follicles, as the patient had reported unusual filament formation associated with the follicles. Microscopy revealed abnormalities of the follicular bulbs and the hair associated with these follicles that indicated abnormal functioning of follicular keratinocytes (Figures 4A [51]-4D [52]). Many follicles contained malformed bulbs with distorted shapes, and some follicles had two or more hairs branching from a single inner root sheath (Figure 4A [51]). Filaments stemming from the bulb end were found in some follicles and these appeared as rootlike growths (Figure 4B [53]). Transparent filaments were observed that stemmed from cells within the inner root sheath (Figure 4C [54]). On some hairs red or blue colored filaments branched from the shaft (Figure 4D [52]). Many hairs were flattened or tape-like on cross-section rather than concentric. These hairs were similar in appearance to Morgellons filaments.

Figure 4A: Hair follicle from Case 3 showing two hairs branching from a single inner root sheath (100x magnification).

Figure 4B: Hair follicle from Case 3 showing filaments stemming from bulb end (100x magnification).

Figure 4C: Hair follicle from Case 3 showing transparent filaments stemming from the inner root sheath (100x magnification).

Figure 4D: Hair follicle from Case 3 showing blue fiber (top) and red fiber (bottom) branching from the hair shaft (top, 100x magnification; bottom, 200x magnification).

BDD Microscopic observations

Biopsies from late proliferative stage BDD lesions were examined microscopically for comparison (Figures 5A [55]-5D [56]). Although the scale of filaments was much larger, the BDD filaments (roughly ten times larger) were similar in appearance compared to the specimens observed in Case 1 (Figure 5A [55],Figure 5B [57]). Filaments were macroscopic, opaque and dirty white in color, ranging in size from less than 0.5 mm in diameter to about 1 mm in diameter. In cross section filaments appeared to originate beneath the stratum corneum (Figure 5C [58]). Longer filaments were close to 1 mm in length. The BDD filaments demonstrated fluorescence under UV light (Figure 5D [56]).

Figure 5A: Bovine digital dermatitis (BDD) sample showing coarse fibers (8x magnification).

Figure 5B: BDD sample showing floral fibers (8x magnification). Note similarity to MD floral fibers from Case 1 (Figure 2A).

Figure 5C: Cross section of BDD sample showing coarse fibers that originate beneath the stratum corneum (8x magnification).

Figure 5D: BDD sample showing coarse fibers with fluorescence under UV lighting (8x magnification).

Chemical Experiments

Samples of normal hair, colored filaments and dermal material from Cases 1 and 2, and BDD fibers were subjected to immersion in caustic agents. Duplicate experiments with each caustic agent were performed on each sample. Results of the experiments are shown in (Table 1 [59]) Normal hair and patient filaments began to fray after incubation for 1 minute, and the patient filaments had completely disintegrated after incubation for 120 minutes in 12% sodium hypochlorite. Normal hair was still visible at this timepoint. In contrast, patient filaments began to fray at 1 minute in 10% sodium hydroxide but were still visible after 120 minutes, similar to normal hair. The hair and patient filaments were more resistant to 10% potassium hydroxide, with visible fraying beginning at 10 minutes and fibers still visible at 120 minutes. Although the larger BDD fibers appeared to be more resistant to the chemicals, fraying and shape change similar to the human samples was evident at 120 minutes with each caustic agent.

Table 1: Dissolution of Morgellons filaments and BDD fibers in caustic reagents.

Keratin immunostaining

The results of keratin immunostaining experiments are shown in Figure 6 [60]. The MD filaments from Case 1 stained strongly with the “pankeratin” antibody AE1/AE3 directed against cytokeratin 1/3. In contrast, the filaments stained weakly with the more restrictive antibody AE5/AE6 directed against cytokeratin 5/6. Staining with AE1/ AE3 was seen over the length of the fiber, while staining with AE5/ AE6 was only detected in the outermost scale. Melanin pigmentation was not seen in the fibers. No staining was detected with an irrelevant monoclonal antibody, and similar positive keratin staining with AE1/ AE3 was detected in MD fibers from Case 2 (data not shown).

Figure 6: Keratin immunostaining of fiber from Case 1. Immunostaining was performed as described in Methods section. Top: Staining with anti-CK AE1/ AE3. Bottom: Staining with anti-CK AE5/AE6 (200x magnification).

Discussion

Our three patients had features of MD that are commonly described in the medical literature, including insidious onset, dermatological signs and systemic symptoms, lack of response to immunosuppressive treatment and association with tickborne diseases [1 [18]-3 [20]]. Case 1 had skin lesions confined to the hands (Figure 1A [36]), while Cases 2 and 3 had disseminated skin lesions over the head, trunk and extremities (Figures 1B [37] and 1C [38]). In addition, Case 3 had symptoms associated primarily with hair follicles, and a sensation of change in hair composition and texture is often reported by Morgellons patients [1 [18],10 [28]]. These MD patterns have been recognized in prior studies [1 [18],2 [19]] and we propose a classification of localized MD versus disseminated MD based on the distribution of the dermopathy. Although the reason for this dermopathy distribution is unknown, the location of skin lesions may be related to the cell of origin of the fibers seen in lesions or under the skin, as discussed below. Further study of the dermopathy distribution in MD is warranted.

The present study demonstrates Morgellons filaments that clearly originate from a layer of pavement epithelial cells visibly held together by desmosomes (Figure 2 [61]). The predominant cells found in pavement epithelial tissue are keratinocytes. We also noted MD fibers that clearly originate from the inner root sheaths of hair follicles (Figures 2 [61]-4 [62]), and keratinocytes are the predominant cell type in this tissue. Keratinocytes produce the biofiber keratin. A cross section of BDD filaments likewise demonstrates filament origin from cells beneath the stratum corneum (Figure 5 [63]), consistent with descriptions in the literature of growth from keratinocytes [14 [31],19 [24]]. Thus MD filaments and BDD filaments appear to be similar in formation at the cellular level, both originating from keratinocytes in the stratum spinosum or stratum basale. MD differs from BDD, however, in that MD filaments appear to originate from follicular keratinocytes as well as epidermal keratinocytes. Both MD filaments and BDD filaments fluoresce in UV light (Figures 2 [61]-5 [63]). We have also shown for the first time that MD filaments contain keratin (Figure 6 [60]), and keratin staining was positive using a “pankeratin” monoclonal antibody but negative with a more restricted keratin ligand. This observation indicates that the fibers originate from specific tissues that require further characterization.

The observation that MD fibers are found beneath unbroken skin, may grow from an epidermal matrix and are associated with hair follicles suggests that they are not self-implanted textile fibers [1 [18]-3 [20]]. The filament formation described in MD is associated with a high likelihood of Bb infection [1 [18],10 [28]]. BDD in cattle is associated with hyperkeratosis, keratin filament formation and spirochetal infection [12 [30]-20 [33]]. Hyperkeratosis and excessive keratin production associated with chronic inflammation has been demonstrated in humans with cholesteatoma [23 [64],24 [65]],and alterations in keratinocyte expression of HLA markers and tissue enzymes have been reported in association with Bb infection [25 [66],26 [67]]. These observations suggest that hyperkeratosis and keratin filament production associated with spirochetal infection is a plausible explanation for the clinical and microscopic findings in MD.

Hyaline and colored filaments from the three case studies demonstrate iridescence and an appearance consistent with keratin. Red, blue, purple and black are colors found in keratin and are associated with structural coloring and/or melanin production [27 [68]-30 [69]]. Clusters of early filaments described in Case 1 demonstrate that fibers are anchored and growing from a basal epithelial cell matrix. They are clearly biological and human in nature and are not implanted textile fibers. Various growth stages of fibers attached to epidermal matrices have been observed. These range from early filaments isolated or in clusters (that are only a few μm in diameter and 10 μm long) to long tangled mats (with fibers 10 μm or wider in diameter and several hundred μm long). Similar filament structures have previously been reported and photographed in MD [31 [70]]. Textile fibers have never been produced in this manner, and the suggestion that these unusual formations are manufactured textile fibers is not credible.

Longer fibers with tapered ends anchored to a cellular matrix were observed in Case 1, demonstrating filament evolution. Colored fibers were often found near larger hair follicles or appeared to have follicular bulb-like ends, suggesting an association with hair follicles and follicular keratinocytes. Our chemical studies suggest that MD filaments and BDD fibers react to caustic agents in a manner similar to normal hair, although MD filaments appeared to be more susceptible and BDD fibers less susceptible to the caustic agents Table 1 [59]. In preliminary studies using scanning electron microscopy, the presence of scales on a blue filament indicated that this specimen was a fine hair (D’Alba L and Shawkey MD, unpublished observation, December 2011). This finding suggests that some of the colored fibers of follicular origin may in fact be modified hairs. Differences between the keratinocytes found in the inner root sheath of hair follicles and keratinocytes found in the basal skin layer may account for the differences of location, structure, coloring and size of fibers seen in this study [32 [71],33 [72]]. The effect of spirochetes on keratinocyte function may also play a role in altered keratin production associated with MD and BDD [22 [35],25 [66],26 [67]].

In conclusion, MD lesions were not caused by self-mutilation or delusions in the three cases presented here. The photographic evidence clearly demonstrates that the unusual fibers or filaments described in this study are not self-implanted textile fibers. All three patients had symptoms and laboratory findings consistent with systemic illness and indicative of tickborne disease. Neuropsychiatric testing was normal in two cases and influenced by the disease in the third case, and all three patients were examined by a medical practitioner who confirmed the presence of fibers underneath unbroken skin compatible with a diagnosis of MD.

We have demonstrated that filaments found in MD patients have chemical, physical and immunohistological features of keratin. The presence of individual filaments attached to epithelial tissue is consistent with keratin and suggests that the filaments are produced by keratinocytes. Morgellons filaments have been photographed growing from pavement epithelial cells, and this process resembles the evolution of filaments seen in BDD. Because BDD is a disease in which spirochetes have been identified as primary etiologic agents, and spirochetal sero-reactivity has been associated with MD, it is reasonable to assume that spirochetal infection plays an important role in MD filament production. Further immunohistological and electron microscopy studies are needed to solve the mystery of Morgellons filaments.

Conflict of Interest Statement

RBS serves without compensation on the medical advisory panel for QMedRx Inc. He has no financial ties to the company. MJM, EHR and RBS serve without compensation on the scientific advisory panel of the Charles E. Holman Foundation. DGK has no conflicts to declare.

Acknowledgements

The authors thank Drs. Gordon Atkins, Robert Bransfield, Dorte Dopfer, Alan MacDonald, Peter Mayne, Deryck Read, Matthew Shawkey, Janet Sperling, Ginger Savely, Michael Sweeney and Randy Wymore for helpful discussion. We thank Dr. Robert B. Allan for technical support and Lorraine Johnson for manuscript review, and we are grateful to Harriet Bishop, Cindy Casey and Lee Laskowsky for providing first-hand information about Morgellons disease.

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One of my favorite five minute videos on this subject is an excerpt from the documentary about Lyme, titled Under Our Skin. Here's the link for YouTube and as I frequently do to streamline things for YOUsers at Lumigrate who prefer to read, want to glance something over before they decide to catch a ride on the link to 'see the sites' I suggest they go out to from here, I've typed up an overview:

www.youtube.com/watch [101]

Alan MacDonald, MD Clip, Lyme Disease, Alzheimers

The spirochete that causes Lyme disease is Borrelia burgdorferi and related borrelia

The model he has used to develop his theory is the syphilis model, to understand all the various things that Lyme can do.

He shows a copy of big green book from 1945 - Stokes' Modern Clinical Syphilology, WB Saunders, Publisher. (Adding this in April 2014 -- He's said in another interview when it was used in medical programs in the past it was affectionately referred to as 'the green monster' because of how much information it contains'.) He flips through and shares that there are sections on manifestations in the skin, bone, in dead babies, the brain and particularly dementia.

"General paresis" is a carbon copy of "dementia", the diseases are essentially exactly the same.

If a (syphilis) spirochete could cause dementia, why couldn't the borellia spirochete, over a long, long, long period of time, cause Alzheimer's disease?

The study he performed: he extracted DNA from tissues from 10 brains that were supplied by the Harvard University Brain Bank -- patients who had Alzheimers. He found DNA of the spirochete (Borrelia burgdorferi) in 7 out of 10 of the specimens -- 'that's incredible!'

"The results of the experiment could not have been predicted in anybody's imagination" Dr MacDonald states.

When 7 of 10 brains gave essentially the same thing --- part spirochetal and part human, linked up in one molecule -- "I about fell off my chair", he says.

Shown, published by Elsevier, written by Dr MacDonald is his paper Plaques of Alzheimer's disease originated from cysts of Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease spirochete.

"If my dream comes true some day, that will redefine the practice of medicine, and that will redefine the lives of millions of people."

Since spirochetes are the cause of neurodegenerative diseases in syphilis, could it be that this spirochetal infection is partly or wholely responsible for some of the neurodegenerative diseases in this century?

Alzheimer's Disease

Lou Gherig's Disease/ALS

Parkinson's Disease

MS / Multiple Sclerosis

---these are named conditions for which no cause is now known.

Interviewed is Deitrich Klinghardt, MD of Seattle, Washington:

He states they have not had a single patient in the last five years with MS, ALS, Parkinson's that did NOT test positive for borrelia burgdorferi -- "not a single one".

Lastly in this segment from Under Our Skin, an interview with David Martz, MD of Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Dr Martz was diagnosed about 3 years prior with ALS. His neurologist told him that without the dx of LD and antibiotics for treatment, he would have died within a couple of years just like anyone else with ALS, with the usual decline in function. So he started on high doses of antibiotics just to see what would happen. To their amazement, within a month he was much improved. Two years into treatment, if he stops the antibiotics he loses stamina again and he's not full back to 'his old self', but the change is absolutely dramatic.

---- I thought it would be of value to edit this in at this spot, I hope it has helped YOUsers reading this topic about Morgellons thought to be related to Lyme in terms of underlying cause or contributing factor.

A resource that takes the information presented above about Morgellons and weaves it in with other information AND is more current AND focused on Morgellons, related to this type of information is Holman Foundation and a link for their August 2012 update is: www.thecehf.org/morgellons-disease-research-update-august-2012.html [102]

And from May 13, 2010, a study that I liked that was the first to look at a number of people who had found fibers and study their background/histories and come up with conclusions related to findings. A very high percentage tested positive for Lyme -- but this was perhaps a very limited scope of testing, and if a more comprehensive battery would have been able to have been performed, would testing have found all had something that can come from ticks?

Many had substance abuse histories but reported being recovered at the time of the study, many also were treated for thyroid disorder, many were on antidepressants (which is the conventional approach when someone has 'brain fog', instead of seeing that it's an energy crisis of the brain or from other causes, the 'treat the symptom' approach of allopathic medicine, which is paid for by the insurance or payor system that most people get their health care from addresses it that way.)

My thought is: We have a great deal of information at Lumigrate such as the topic on "Load Theory" by Dr Spurlock, and then all the information about thyroid, fluoride, nutrition, supplementation, food allergies that most people aren't aware of to the 10 most commonly consumed foods -- did all these things lower susceptibility in people who eventually developed the outward skin symptoms ... ?

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3047951/ [103]

Morgellons disease: Analysis of a population with clinically confirmed microscopic subcutaneous fibers of unknown etiology.

By Virginia R. Savely

TBD Medical Associates, San Francisco, CA, USA

and Raphael B. Stricker

International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society, Bethesda, MD, USA

(Correspondence contact is RB Stricker at a San Francisco CA address/phone/fax)

ADDITIONAL NOTE FROM JUNE 2014: NOW THAT I'VE ADDED INFORMATION IN THE FORUMS ABOUT PYROLE DISORDER (PD)/ PYROLURIA -- the aspect involved in this study with the participants having a high rate of previous substance abuse histories, might lead one to look at PD as an underlying factor as well. Search our search bar for those keywords or here's the link. This affects 10% of the overall population and the MAJORITY of people with some types of disorders yet is relatively unknown even within those who study outside the conventional box of medicine! www.lumigrate.com/forum/pyroluria-kryptopyrroluria-kpu-or-hemopyrrollactamuria-hmu-many-names-causes-connections [104]

And to help people connect the dots on how this 'all works', a search on "Morgellons Disease, WebMD" brought this, below, to the top of the list ... and I encourage everyone who is wanting to learn or refine their 'rope skills' with how these systems work and are interrelated -- WedMD with conventional / allopathic approaches and they provide a view of things that is, like the 'outside the box' providers, in accordance with their overall beliefs and 'relationships with other organizations'.

Remember: "follow the money", look at who's funding WebMD, think about why WebMD might be having the content it has, and if you're wanting to consider it's information whole-heartedly or with filters. I have had many people when I tell them about Lumigrate say 'oh, like WebMD' and I have to say 'well, kind of, except they're much bigger and well-funded and everyone knows about them, Lumigrate is grass roots and so far only funded by me, directed in content by me, and very few people know about it as a result. BUT those who do, our YOUsers, have a valuable resource at their fingertips).

The Internet is THE BEST TOOL to help you learn, just remember to consider the sources, follow the money, and most of all learn about the systems at play that related to your health, as much as you possibly can. Particularly if you have a condition that YOU BELIEVE is not being addressed by the type of provider or system you are consulting with for assistance. There are TONS of messages in the media now to 'don't Google for medical information' -- why would you think that would be? Keep thinking, keep learning, and talk to people you know to have discussions about it. Even start a discussion group online or by phone or in person, if you have a disabling condition that you're trying to sort out what's what and who to trust.

www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/morgellons-disease-what-is-it [105]

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Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! is my motto. I'm Mardy Ross, and I founded Lumigrate in 2008 after a career as an occupational therapist with a background in health education and environmental research program administration. Today I function as the desk clerk for short questions people have, as well as 'concierge' services offered for those who want a thorough exploration of their health history and direction to resources likely to progress their health according to their goals. Contact Us comes to me, so please do if you have questions or comments. Lumigrate is "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" for increasing numbers of people. Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate [11] and Facebook. (There is my personal page and several Lumigrate pages. For those interested in "groovy" local education and networking for those uniquely talented LumiGRATE experts located in my own back yard, "LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley" is a Facebook page to join. (Many who have joined are beyond our area but like to see the Groovy information! We not only have FUN, we are learning about other providers we can be referring patients to and 'wearing a groove' to each other's doors -- or websites/home offices!) By covering some of the things we do, including case examples, it reinforces the concepts at Lumigrate.com as well as making YOU feel that you're part of a community. Which you ARE at Lumigrate!

Mon, 01/13/2014 - 2:34pm

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Mardy Ross

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Want to return to the Environmental Wellness/Illness MD Topic?

... here's the link to get you from here to the environmental wellness/illness topic if that's where you came in from to find this thread ....

www.lumigrate.com/forum/morgellons-disease-it-skin-your-head-topic-lumigrate-leads-yousers-answers-and-overlapping-con [110]

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Tue, 02/11/2014 - 3:37pm

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Mardy Ross

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Controversy about Morgellons abounds.

Somewhere along the lines of my studying about chemtrails, which lead to my learning that's just one small facet of 'geoengineering', I learned about Morgellons and was realizing how the symptoms sounded a lot like 'the overlapping conditions' of chronic Lyme disease, and fibromyalgia, which has underlying causes to do with many things pulling the body, mind, spirit away from wellness.

In my many hours and days and weeks of reading around and viewing videos to learn about this new frontier of health information (geoengineering and things related for wellness), I saw information that was interesting to me, though I'm wanting to clearly say up front that I'm not saying I'm on board with it, just that I 'noticed' it and it was interesting enough that I made a mental note and now am passing it on here:

The recent rise in information about chronic Lyme has been orchestrated in order to draw attention away from the Morgellons information and basically herd everyone to seeing bugs that bear the bacteria as the culprit, and get the monkey off he backs, or the limelight off the faces of, the other offenders.

I want to point the way to the Load Theory topic on Lumigrate from Dr Spurlock. The title is "Are You Loaded?" -- yes, we try to keep it light around here because the subject matter is so heavy, really. It's really ideal for anyone to read and start with that topic if they're concerned about the overall of how their genes and the current loads we put upon them, offset but the things we do to help them, result in our being well or NOT.

People who have Morgellons, as I've now gotten to know some, can benefit from learning about the overlapping conditions and the information we have at Lumigrate, I believe, such as the information in the forum that Dr Spurlock typically provides new topics he provides in (though he adds comments around in other pertinent topics in other forums as well). It has seemed to me that they've felt that since they had a symptom that was of the skin, it seemed apparent to them that they were invided by something from the air.

When they learn that there is a lot of information circulating about it having to do with foods that might have particles in them, they seem to then look in that direction. Pretty soon, they're digging and digging for information about what caused the problem and not seeing the forest through the trees. NOT REALIZING you have millions of others with 'kissing cousin disorders', and your plight has been one that tens of millions of Americans have gone through, and tens of millions more 'and beyond'.

Ultimately, if a person is well and wants to stay well, or they're ill and they want to get well or closer to it, the information they need is the same. And it's presented at Lumigrate -- it's extensive, what we offer now, but I also don't clutter things up with 'the news cycle' and adding something new three times a week so that you have to dig around to find key information. We've worked to have our informatioin focused on what the typical person with chronic illness would want to know and that goes back to our launch with the videos that were on topics to do with supplements and disease prevention, the missed and mis-diagnosing of hypthyroidism, food allergies of the IgG kind (not IgE but we covered the difference), full barrel syndrome causing chronic illness and how to drain the barred, which means detoxification and cleansing.

We also launched with a video addressing resistance to changing lifestyle, and another psychologist presented about health models and why the conventional allopathic model frustrates patients and leads to so many cracks they slip through. Videos were a time investment and some didn't want that on their hard drive so I have focused since on using other providers and a mix of videos and written/readable materials to suggest to people; our current experts are all national and not local, and all work with people across the US (and sometimes beyond). But the key to it is making the difficult changes in lifestyle.

It ALL adds up, what you do that's benefial is a positive, what you do that's hard on your body will detract from that -- and most people in the US are teetering. Many have hit the bottom or are just barely bounding up from the bottom -- do you remember how it was if you were on a teeter totter with someone lighter than you? You had to adjust where you sat and put your weight more forward. Same with health, you can affect where you are wellness/illness-wise by what you 'do'. Foods and drinks are a main player, but I've recently added information at Lumigrate related to the health effects of electromagnetics.

Mind, body, spirit -- many things affect us positively and negatively in all three basic areas utilized by integrative medicine. And environmental medicine specialists who are detective doctors related to what the overlapping conditions are caused by, and what to do about it, have been studying these things for many years, and have successful treatment approaches. Naturopathic doctors are, generally, environmental medicine specialists as welll, simply by the nature of their type of medical training.

I hope if you suspect you have Morgellons, or have one of the other overlapping conditions already diagnosed, this helps connect some dots for you, and that you find the overall information at Lumigrate helpful and will tell others about us, that's how we grow and can help light the path to health and well-being for them, as well.

I would imagine people interested in Morgellons (and other similar conditions) will want to see our foods forum, which is in a section in the forums about nutrition overall (which includes supplementation, and that includes information about water that has been fluoridated to supplement what is naturally in the water, which is another controversial subject that would be good to study for those with chronic illness or wanting to stay chronically well, as I jokingly say. Here's the link for your ease if you wish to go:

www.lumigrate.com/forums/preventive-medicine-concepts/nutrition/food [112]

There is also a very simple five minute video from Marty Ross, MD of six steps for diet for people with Lyme disease (and the related conditions if that's how a person identifies themselves -- fibromyalgia, MS, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, etc.). Funny 'coincidence' on the name, eh? The link is: 6 Practical Diet Recommendations from Marty Ross, MD - Whether You Have a Bug-Borne Disease (or Know It) or NOT [113]

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YouTube video from PotentNews dot com: GMODisease Suggested Term

This is a 36 minute video that I felt had a lot of pertinent information and people interviewed, which gives ideas for YOUsers to follow and possibly save time, energy, money resources in learning MORE from here.

I'll also provide some overview and summary and the minutes/seconds that it's from in the video, below, so YOUsers can peruse quickly or have things readable if that's of benefit.

youtu.be/hf7QqOm7eG4 [115]

This is what is at YouTube as description:

Published on Nov 29, 2012

(PotentNews.com) As many of us now know, a vast amount of airplanes are currently spraying most of the Earth's population with aluminum, barium, strontium, etc. Less discussed components of the spray programs include lab-created synthetic life-forms and other biological materials such as red blood cells, fungus, and self-replicating nano-fibers. Massive and diverse geo-engineering operations are indeed occurring. Moreover, a peculiar syndrome called Morgellons has emerged and has now been linked to these eugenics/transhumanist operations.

While this is alarming, humanity should at some point face the ugly details of this dilemma. This is an agenda partly involving a nano-technology infestation in our bodies. Potent News Blast #10 seeks to shed some light on this often neglected issue.

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sources, related links, and HEALTH/MITIGATION & PETITION info found at "Morgellons Syndrome And What You Can Do About It" via http://potentnews.com/2012/11/29/morg... [116]

I didn't say I like EVERYTHING about this video -- they open with an interviewer interviewing someone and they don't say who they're interviewing, but it's the guy from a Morgellons website, so you'll see that. This is what's in the video (basically).

From his view, Morgellons syndrome is the result of industrialization - fungal overload ... pathogen overload. The body produces "artifacts" of some kind. Sometimes the materials are plantlike, or "non Earthly" insect " he says. "Something I'd not believe if I wasn't in their house witnessing it. It's like scince fiction channel come to life." This seemed unbelievable to the interviewee when he learned of it.

Question: Why is it covered up? Morgellons was reported over 20 years ago... According to Dr. Caroline Carter, who is testing people via hair analysis in Cyprus, and finding 8 of 10 tested have it -- children to the elderly. She states it should be called Genetically Modified Organism Disease, or GMOD.

Interviewee: says he's totally aligned with that. He states there are a lot of people who like finding declassified information and he has a report from 2004 that talks about the nano technology of unmanned "smartdust".

Video is at 3 minutes

Some of the components of smart dust is being found in what's coming out of people' bodies who have GMOD/MD. MEMS (Microscopic Electromechanical Sensors). They go at 3:45 to what appears to be the military channel or something like that. "The work horses of any world weather control system .. They're MEMS" (cue to 3:45 if you're interested in this section).

4:20ish --- Phoenix woman shooting a video holding something to block the sun from the lens of the video camera, to show what's in the air. She reports she's looking for particles and fibers falling out of the sky after two days of intensive chemtrailing that caused 'whiteout situation". She then shows her pool and that there is something apparently falling from the sky and breaking the surface of the water but there's no rain showing on the flagstone immediately next to the pool. It's funny -- she was on the phone and 'noticed' that and you can hear her saying she just had to get that recorded.

6:00 it breaks to a new guy talking and different video. A 'weather report' it's been unseasonably warm, 80 degrees, and you see on the ground snow .. but it's kind of odd looking. It's like white beard hairs sprinkled on grass was my thought. He's at 8,000 feet in the Colorado Rockies (which is what elevation I grew up at and the video later shows what looks very much like what I'm very familiar with) and at the end he says it's 29 degrees. He reports he 'noticed' weird snow when there was a little snow, which was not occurring frequently. (Which is very unusual .. drought-like for that area.) I loved several of his quotes:

"This stuff takes the cake." (after he'd prefaced it with his noticing the snow was 'weird'
"It's like snowfiber" not snowflake
"What the hell, guys?" .. and "Fiberish looking crap.. bizarre".. AND he gets very good video of it falling on his sleeve and shoulder before it melts from his body heat ... So now we are at 7":25 for those wanting to cue to the point in the video....

8" -- Woman with an (German?) accent, again not identified who she is (which I don't particularly like, as I've said... ) showing short hairlike things on fingertips and talking about her symptoms, which includes a feeling like electricity is buzzing through her... and she talks about 'electrosensitivity'. So far we've not seen one face, by the way ... no names aside from website reference for one interviewee ...... and in my opinion, this portion made this video start to "make me say hmmm..." and not in a good way. This interview, for me, didn't feel very substantial and could actually be picked apart. So .. why put it in the video? (WHO KNOWS, right?)

Smartdust -- an 'irridescent glitter' in the air not like regular household dust or dust you'd see outside in the past, naturally, which doesn't reflect back. "All life forms.. have been exposed."

28-29 minutes in they go onto chemwebbing as a focus, with a chap from the UK , who filed on July 7, 2012 and showed a field of grass after 3 days of no wind. The trail he walked in is visible when he turns with the video camera.

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Fri, 06/13/2014 - 12:23pm

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Mardy Ross

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From Positive Health, Tammy R's "The M Word" You Never Heard

From an integrative medicine website, PositiveHealth dot com, an article by a woman I've had the pleasure to get to know via Facebook interactions, Tammy. I think it's interesting she used the same terminology I did in years past when writing about why Oprah never had fibromyalgia as a topic on her show, so I called it 'the F word'. But in Tammy's case it's 'the M word'. There are some AWESOME graphics that are pictures worth a thousands words and then photos too. And you get to see Tammy before and now. She's in the process of getting things turned around so I wish her well and thank her for being part of the education team out here on the Internet sharing what we know and helping others learn. For my YOUsers at Lumigrate, I am grateful. ~ Mardy

www.positivehealth.com/article/environmental/morgellon-the-m-word-you-ve-never-heard-of-and-lesions-that-persist [118]

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Mon, 06/16/2014 - 4:52pm

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Mardy Ross

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Annual Conference 2 DVD Set from CEHF Morgellon's Foundation

From Richard Longland, on Facebook today: "If you know people with Morgellon's, you know it's a horrible disease for so many reasons. Surreal, painful, perplexing. The CEHF Morgellon's Foundation just released their annual conference on a 2 DVD set:

http://www.thecehf.org/cehf-merchandise.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=june [120]

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Fri, 06/20/2014 - 9:32am

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Mardy Ross

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NIH dot gov at PubMed, Dermal filaments of MD study

A publication of a study which supports what I'd added, above with the small sample size, and indicating borrelia / Lyme / spirochetes are involved as a contributing factor, underlying factor, cause, etc. Essentially the same group of people collaborating on both, so I hope to find more from other researchers that substantiate this finding associating it with an infectious process.

Characterization and evolution of dermal filaments from patients with Morgellons disease.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23326202 [122]

Clin Cosmet Investig Dermatol. 2013;6:1-21. doi: 10.2147/CCID.S39017. Epub 2013 Jan 8.

Middelveen MJ, Mayne PJ, Kahn DG, Stricker RB.
Author information

Abstract
Morgellons disease is an emerging skin disease characterized by formation of dermal filaments associated with multisystemic symptoms and tick-borne illness. Some clinicians hypothesize that these often colorful dermal filaments are textile fibers, either self-implanted by patients or accidentally adhering to lesions, and conclude that patients with this disease have delusions of infestation. We present histological observations and electron microscopic imaging from representative Morgellons disease samples revealing that dermal filaments in these cases are keratin and collagen in composition and result from proliferation and activation of keratinocytes and fibroblasts in the epidermis. Spirochetes were detected in the dermatological specimens from our study patients, providing evidence that Morgellons disease is associated with an infectious process.

KEYWORDS:
Borrelia burgdorferi, Lyme disease, Morgellons disease, collagen, digital dermatitis, fibroblasts, keratin, keratinocytes, spirochetes
PMID: 23326202 [PubMed] PMCID: PMC3544355 Free PMC Article

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Mon, 09/01/2014 - 2:03pm

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Mardy Ross

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f1000Research dot com also publishes study re: spirochetal inf'n

f1000research.com/articles/2-25/v1 [124]

Middelveen MJ, Burugu D, Poruri A et al. Association of spirochetal infection with Morgellons disease [v1; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/8g [125]] F1000Research 2013, 2:25 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.2-25.v1 [126])Copyright: © 2013 Middelveen MJ et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence [127], which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Competing interests:
RBS serves without compensation on the medical advisory panel for QMedRx Inc. He has no financial ties to the company. MJM serves without compensation on the scientific advisory panel of the Charles E. Holman Foundation. PJM and RBS serve without compensation on the medical advisory panel of the Charles E. Holman Foundation. DB, AP, JB, ES and DGK have no conflicts to declare.
First published: 28 Jan 2013, 2:25 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.2-25.v1 [126])First indexed: 03 Apr 2013, 2:25 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.2-25.v1 [126])Latest published: 28 Jan 2013, 2:25 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.2-25.v1 [126])

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Thu, 02/05/2015 - 8:50pm

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Mardy Ross

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Morgellon's Disease, GMOs, Glyphosate, Genes/Dr Stephanie Seneff

I have become such a fan of Dr Stephanie Seneff, PhD (Senior Researcher at MIT, where she's said on other podcasts at this same source (OneRadioNetwork) that MIT's hands are not tied relative to the research area she's in because they don't have any funding from Monsanto, however, many other places are tied because they get funding from Monsanto so this is groundbreaking research she is doing). I enjoy listening to her speak, she's pleasant and speaks clearly and seems really humble and non ego-driven .. 'healthy' I might say, in a holistic / whole person way.

I think if I had to pick ONE podcast or video interview to get people started on right now for a variety of topics, I'd suggest this one. So I'm going to sprinkle this link around the forums of Lumigrate where it applies. She mentioned Morgellons which made me take notice as very rarely do you hear that mentioned. And it was BEFORE she mentioned chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia even! But within the same part of the interview. Again, the overlapping disorders with common causes or similar, and then same or similar things to be doing to address the issues to reverse symptoms back towards wellness. So if you're interested in Morgellons (and the others and the overall) I cannot more HIGHLY recommend LISTENING to this. I did while I was making dinner and it didn't even take as long as my dinner took to prepare and get underway cooking.

I loved that I was making something with onions and garlic (as has become my new normal over the years) when she mentioned onions and garlic (as sulfur is something she focuses on a great deal and you'll know WHY when you listen). I'll also post the information that they set up at the website this is from so you can see what they 'billed' as highlights. They have a sulfur supplement that Patrick the host has said elsewhere is the only thing they've had not ONE single complaint of problems from taking so he was particularly interested in the sulfur information it sounded. He's just always interested and I really like the way he conducts interviews.

oneradionetwork.com/health/stephanie-seneff-ph-d-chemicals-glyphosates-gmos-path-health-found-organic-diet-september-15-2014/ [129]

THE MORNING SHOW
with
Patrick Timpone

Stephanie Seneff, Ph. D

Chemicals, Glyphosates & GMOs: The Path to Health Is Found Through An Organic Diet

[130]Stephanie Seneff is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. She received the B.S. degree in Biophysics in 1968, the M.S. and E.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1980, and the Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1985, all from MIT. For over three decades, her research interests have always been at the intersection of biology and computation developing a computational model for the human auditory system, understanding human language so as to develop algorithms and systems for human computer interactions, as well as applying natural language processing (NLP) techniques to gene predictions. She has published over 170 refereed articles on these subjects, and has been invited to give keynote speeches at several international conferences. She has also supervised numerous Master’s and PhD theses at MIT. In 2012, Dr. Seneff was elected Fellow of the International Speech and Communication Association (ISCA).

In recent years, Dr. Seneff has focused her research interests back towards biology. She is concentrating mainly on the relationship between nutrition and health. Since 2011, she has written 10 papers (7 as first author) in various medical and health-related journals on topics such as modern day diseases (e.g., Alzheimer, autism, cardiovascular diseases), analysis and search of databases of drug side effects using NLP techniques, and the impact of nutritional deficiencies and environmental toxins on human health.

Click here to read Dr. Seneff’s research [131]

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Mardy Ross

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Canadian Layman Researcher Tony Pantalleresco, Pro Health Guide

Morgellons, and what he believes is causing it and how, is presented at the following link in a very easy to understand way, (MP3 / podcast) in the first 20 minutes of the interview at OneRadioNetwork from July 8, 2013.

I find it so ironic that this was about the time I learned of 'Morgellons' after realizing chemtrails were occurring over CW Colorado, Grand Junction, where I was fortunate to be with time and outside to be observing things. And a mind that was well enough (and body (brain) and spirit, whole) to 'wake up'. I then started studying, I knew it was of the UTMOST importance to understand at a very gut level. I wish I knew of OneRadioNetwork then, it would have saved me SO MUCH EFFORT in figuring things out but now that I DO, I bring it to YOU. (YOUsers of Lumigrate).

It's not just what's in the air from chemtrails, it's from other sources, namely SUPPLEMENTS, and other tablets that he identifies (he says aspirin but I don't know, he maybe meant pain relievers that are not aspirin, I'm not sure. Either way he points out things to be scrutinizing in terms of what you consume. It all adds up is what he's saying, and when a person gets enough in the body then it starts making things that come out of the body through the skin. Nanoparticles are in all kinds of things. Know about nanoparticles, and he has his opinion very clearly stated here.

oneradionetwork.com/health/tony-pantalleresco-your-health-has-to-be-in-your-own-hands-july-8-2013/ [133]

Also at OneRadioNetwork, in 2014, focused on Morgellons and Lyme:

oneradionetwork.com/health/marianne-middelveen-looking-morgellons-disease-september-2-2014/ [134]

and what's said there: as you see, they start by crediting Tony Pantalleresco.....

We’ve heard about Morgellons disease from our regular guest, Tony Pantalleresco. What is this mystery illness and where did it come from? This is what The Charles E. Holman Morgellons Disease Foundation has to say about it on it’s website [135]:

“… is a multi-symptom disease that is just now starting to be researched and understood. Morgellons has a real physical pathology … despite of the fact that the exact cause is not known.” – Randy S Wymore, PhD

“…is an emerging multisystem illness characterized by the presence of filamentous fibers of undetermined composition, both in lesions and subdermal. The etiology of Morgellons disease is unknown.” – Marianne J. Middelveen, MDes, and Raphael B. Stricker, MD

“… Morgellons patients looked ill with neurological symptoms, which included confusion, difficulty walking and controlling their feet (foot drop), and a sagging mouth when speaking…” – Rhonda Casey, DO

“… disease of unknown pathology characterized by sensations of crawling, biting and stinging, disfiguring lesions and unusual fibers coming out of the skin, usually, quickly dismissed by physicians as DOP (Delusions of Parasitosis)…” – Ginger Savely, DNP

Show Highlights:

-What are the little fibers made of found in the skin of sufferers of Morgellons? Believe it or not, the body is actually making them. Marianne explains why the body produces too much collagen and keratin

-The connection between Lyme disease and Morgellons

-Why is Lyme disease such a controversial topic?

-Marianne details her symptoms of Lyme disease

and more!

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Tue, 02/10/2015 - 8:29pm

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Mardy Ross

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Morgellon's Disease and Copper / Lesions Healing per Tony P ...

The second Monday of the month is Tony Pantalleresco; Feb 9, 2015 - Tony's again on OneRadioNetwork

http://oneradionetwork.com/health/tony-pantalleresco-poisoni... [137]

Soy - the most poisonous food you can eat.

UN Study

British

FDA Study

Soy is in the poison plant database.

Cannot break the proteins, and they're difficult to break down.

Thymus, thyroid --- now we'll spray glyphosates on the soy and that gets uptaken.

Nano silver is discussed

Chemtrail fallout with the aluminum was discussed related to soy. TVP, soy lecithin, artificial flavor --- glyphosate can be in all of these. The animals do break it down before they eat. Irrational, over-emotion, they get into some spiritual things that he thinks aren't working well for them. Look at the labels and stay away from anything that has soy, he suggests. Deforming effect on pigs has been reported, and pigs and goats have some of the most robust digestive systems. Soy-free chicken feed is available in Patrick's area of central Texas he mentions.

Lecithin is good for various reasons, and Tony brings up a resource and goes over all the good things. He has a database of things he can pull up at a whim with the references and resources on it but he doesn't disclose what they are and instead suggests people look for "benefits of soy lecithin' and looking at the different sources of lecithin -- one is egg as the source. ... they both don't like the NOW brand that is on Patrick's site being in plastic not glass. 99.9% DMSO in glass they have in Patrick's store.

Tony discusses the way he mixes things up to get into the liver. He suggests people stay away from fish oils for the oil vitamins. He believes people are being told to take excessive amounts of vitamin D.

Solgar has a good vitamin E, but the good ones are few and far between, and most are soy. So he recommends taking oils in quantities he mentions.

Polymers are in the gel caps so puncture the capsule and spit the capsule out .

It's unethical and a 'snow job' of what some companies are doing and if they're doing these practices, don't support them. If the company does NOT put soy in a product, it will be listed in the 'does not include' portion of the label.

Vitamin C, E, zinc, selenium and copper are the big things he focuses on.

Sharon won't put on the OneRadioNetwork the video that they refer people to go watch on Tony's YouTube because his 'salt of the Earth language', as Tony called it. Patrick was good humored about how he said that they were not into putting that kind of language on their website.

Herbsplusbeadworks is Tony's website.

About copper -- so easy to get overdosed. Tony thinks that was not valid.

Look at his glyphosate link at his website or see his YouTube

Glyphosate ends up causing brain damage. Without copper and zinc you cannot produce

fungi, mold, algae, virus ---

it's the best viruside you can use, it's better than silver, and the body requires copper (it does not require silver). He takes 20mg of copper a day for 3 months and says he makes his own. Get copper wire from anywhere, put it in a glass jar and put it equinine aspirin, and then you pour that into a glass container. It will reverse RA. He explains why. Floaters in the eyes is discussed with using copper. Use liquid chloraphyl has copper in it, Bernard Jensen's is the one he uses -- get the newer version of it, and there's another company but he can't read the labels on his Internet search.

Copper deficiency will result in grey hair. Pain is another symptom due to the shrinking of the skin with age. Copper can concentrate in certain areas of the body and vision may seem dull and that will change with

Parasites, worms, virus', copper takes them out.

Polio was cured by forms of copper. The vaccines created the immune systems to go down as time went on from those vaccinated. Why did we go this route? Then the 'danger, danger' about copper he does not think is relevant/ accurate.

If you have a Morgellons issue, tape Scotch tape over the area, and repeat the process and look at what's there, then put copper on the skin and it's amazing how fast it will heal the lesions.

Grounding using tin foil, as Mr Stetzer had said on another episode, and get copper wire or copper brillo / scouring pads, and put your feet on that and see what happens. The calves and frontal shins will relax in about five minutes. Best time to do it is at bedtimes. Do it around all the electronic equipment in his studio.

Tony reveals some of the things he's done to experiment on wellness on himself that ended up with problems and how he resolves them.

Get copper wire or make a weave out of it for your feet. Copper screens in your home are recommended by builders who are aware of EMFs. Copper wire is $3 a pound but if you make a finished product made with copper it's extremely expensive.

Part 2 --- Caller / email questions

Caller says the label for his new brand of vitamin C included soy lecithin, Live On brand, that everyone's 'wild about' right now. Until the consumer starts writing to the companies and says they don't want this 'stuff', and until they can use sunflower instead of soy, and be blunt. The only way to hurt a corporation is to let them know you won't buy it due to the reasons stated, nothing will change. Patrick has the same brand in his house. They talked about getting the word out to others who would be interested in that brand having soy lecithin.

Caller asks about Vitamin D and asks how much he should take. Get lanolin, rub it on your skin and get some sun -- if you get a lot of sun you don't even need to do the lanolin. The caller is around 80 on D, based on the numbers, Tony thinks that the caller doesn't need more D supplementally. Eating real butter has vitamin D in it too. How far north you are, or south, is a factor in needing to supplement.

Emails they moved onto. Keep the answers short and sweet and don't use the s word, unless it's 'stuff'.

How concerted an effort it was with the current measles issue. The way it's across various kinds of media, mainstream and social, television and radio, and around the US. If you still think today that vaccines are going to do what the industry has alleged at this point ... They discussed how we all got measles as kids and is it a detox thing that people benefit from. Just get some vitamin A as Tony says, to not get measles. If your kid isn't infected with the vaccine, there is a chance others will get measles passed to them.

Diet is a big player -- grains of any kind -- eliminate them. It's causing a whole host of issues from the glyphosates. We're living in nanotechnology and nanobiology, it's not the 70s. You can get a vitamin A deficiency. Leave soy and rice alone.

Shakes when at rest is asked about (per an emailer's question), and the man also has a droopy eye lid. Tony thinks it might be a B1 deficiency, and suggested it and MSM. Almond oil, wheat germ oil he was strongly suggesting ... (and many other details).

How to remove fluoride in drinking water, Tony said reverse osmosis is the easiest way.

Lead in bone was brought up by an emailer. Could this be affecting osteoporosis. Copper was suggested, and phosphorus is needed for calcium uptake in the bone. Other factors such as if they're eating grains and soy and things that will strip the body of nutrients. Add bacteria and sulfur and minerals to the system is what Tony says is the only way to flush out the colon. When the colon starts working properly, then health symptoms start to reverse.

Question was about pasteurized dairy products when it's kever and yogurt as long as it has 3.2% fat at least, and the cultures. If you can make your own, that's better. When you buy probiotics, you can manipulate and ferment, and save a little of what you're consuming and it will keep on producing the bacteria over and over. Sour cream, cottage cheese -- these are fermented foods.

Repair of neurological issues are discussed by a caller from Utah who thought that the gentleman's symptoms brought up earlier with the tremor might indicate a stroke.

Inflammation in finger joints were asked about, and about diet. Tony said 'copper', go onto his YouTube and find the video about it. Starch and acylacylic acid should be all that is in aspirin and if you cannot find that, he gives a resource to purchase from. TSP or sunflower lecithin will also be of benefit and he gives the reasons why.

Chloraphyl at any nutrition house should be obtainable. Liquid chloraphyl will have copper in it. Nature's Way has something in it that he doesn't like. But read the labels. Making a topical mix for pain was talked about too.

Take aspirin with magnesium will help with the negative effects on the stomach from taking aspirin / acylacylic acid. (Magnesium buffers the stomach.)

He talks about something he mixes up to help with leg circulation for on the airplane.

Titanium dioxide in tablets (or anything) contributes to testicular cancer, Tony said.

10-20 at most 30 mg of zinc for women is what he suggested. 1 to 3 mg of copper with it was what he suggested.

Look for the source of things, how it's extracted, etc...

Next caller ... she hears her pulse in her left ear. May be low phosphorus.

PPL of colloidal silver will lose it's potency ... baking soda and citric acid he adds to his.

$400 gadgets to make silver with gadgets sold by people is something Tony is annoyed by. You have to tweek and play with it at home; Tony'll show on YouTube some things but it's intended to just get people started.

An email from someone with a persistent sinus infection was discussed and since Tony's been into turpentine lately the emailer inquires about doing that in a neti pot. Now, this is a good thing the emailer is asking but this is why people need to NOT be hearing 'tips' and running with the ball without doing their homework.

Tony says with sinus to look at if any grains being eating ... is there glyphosate poisoning going on that affects the GI. He suggests lugol iodine, which is different than what Patrick talks up for iodine he recognizes, and then Tony makes a 'respiratory forumula' for people. He has had to change the forumula over the years, as what he originally got people going on quit working.

They discuss asthma and what Tony would use or suggests. This includes things to put in nebulizers, humidifiers, taking orally. Related to lugol's iodine, Tony talks about how to get a 'basic indicator' from topical application on the skin and how long before it absorbs, and then he says 'you can get your iodine checked'. This is how I'd had providers do it -- the lugols' was just a 'screen' but they saw a lot of correlation with what was found with testing.

Tony uses laser on crystals.

He reminds people that they

particulate matter has translocated into your cells. The wifi and radio frequencies get ahold of you when there's something in you to activate. So if you strip the body and de-nano-particle your body, using borax and baking soda in the bathtub, Tony suggests. He also talked about the vitamins, minerals, fat-based nutrients like CoQ10, vitamin A, etc. and on and on (again, go LISTEN, do the homework of hearing all he says and whether you find it valid for YOU as a source of information).

Acid / alkaline is discussed. Sleeping with your body detoxing, things are going to be coming out of you in the morning. The color of urine is discussed. How he makes an alkalizing drink is discussed and why he's done this mix. The health food industry isn't that healthy and it's designed to sell products. The pharmacy industry owns nutraceuticals.

A mother emailed in about a son with problems, they were in Toronto so he recommended how to address side effects of chemo treatments, focused on gelatin. Don't buy it at the store (look at ingredients and what all's in the 'jell-oh'. Let him eat as much as he wants, he gives tips on making it tasty. Don't give the child any kind of juice or fruit that's high in sugar ... watermellon, dates, bananas, etc.

Floride and chlorine out of bath water -- borax, he'll use 1/2 a cup to get the radiation from the chemtrails and every other day bathe in this and other things he puts in the mix. He goes into detail of what all he puts into his bathing solution and WHY. "There's a means to my madness", but borax alone will help, and then add some baking soda and epsom salts they agreed was a better 'start' without going into all the things Tony does personally.

Pennies before 1982, a caller said, are copper (going back to what was discussed, above, about copper and tin/aluminum foil. 6x4 feet sheet of copper mesh in Canada is $600, Tony said.

Another email question - endocrine disrupting chemicals, a bacterial infection .. an overload of a lot of things causes cancer. Ms. H. Clark and what she believed about cancer is discussed.

Tony had a healer from NC call him a week ago, and she'd been checking out his YouTubes -- they are finding things in the blood tests that they have never seen before and they have no idea what it is, doing live blood droplet analysis. He explained about bio-nano affliction of Morgellons and how not to use any kind of zapper with people who have Morgellons. It is bio-nano-biofilm poison, a binary attack. Tony thought he had Lyme and he ran current through his body and realized it was Morgellons. A lot of people who believe they have Lyme have this bio-nano-biofilm affliction that he doesn't like to have called Morgellons. He talks about all the people finding his site who are with Morgellons symptoms.

Colloidal silver used to be used in the eyes of newborns in case there were STDs with the mother, Tony said. (He said elsewhere on another interview at this resource that they used to give babies after birth some butter because of the collostrum and probiotic that would be in cow's fat/butter.)

Patrick talks about people using their sulfur they sell, and Tony says it converts to DMSO.

23 and Me testing is asked in another email. Tony likes the concept but at this point in time, genomics -- where you test the genes and then figure what you need based on the findings is a good idea and it might give you a better idea of things but he wasn't that knowledgeable about it. With the chemtrails now he thinks it might be a good idea.

They got through ALL the emails. Shucks, they talked about because Patrick doesn't allow Tony to swear like a sailor, or as Tony puts it, he's a salt of the Earth person. He talks about how everyone in the street talks like he does. He suggests people watch the glyphosate video on YouTube, just search his name there or HerbsPlusBeadworks is the YouTube channel.

independz@yahoo.com [138] is Tony's email address.

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Wed, 03/04/2015 - 4:17pm

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Mardy Ross

Title: LumiGRATE Poster - Top of the Totem Pole

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Research shows contact with algae, fungi, water molds, lichen

This is just a clip from an early study done by Sticker, Savely, et al at SUNY. http://www.morgellons.org/category/for-physicians [140]

This assemblage of organisms, and associated bacterial populations, is common in soil and aquatic environments where cryptobiotic soils are present and/or in environments where nutrient rich conditions promote the development of algae blooms.

Dermal contact with a water source and/or inhalation of aerial dust containing cyanobacteria and algae may lead to the progressive colonization of organisms that are capable of feeding on or consuming these photosynthetic producers, thus contributing to the wide range of symptoms reported by Morgellons sufferers....

I recommend taking the link to a topic that's finding a lot of readers in 2015, about a man with a microscope and camera -- Steve, his images, his Facebook group, his protocol.... I focused a majority of my efforts in the early half of 2015 on this information and bringing it to Lumigrate.

You will find a group of people who are the epitome of Lumigrate's YOU! Model, who have done what I suggest to people to find health solutions which is put in the time and energy /effort to STUDY and then they opted to try his protocol and found that it worked. Some then became avid researchers about finding more about WHY and they've continued to bring that to the group. This comment was inspired by what a group member had shared there that had a wonderful conversation ensue after.

Here's the link to the thread at Lumigrate.... www.lumigrate.com/forum/steve-his-images-his-protocol-and-facebook-group-community-and-other-resources-chronic-illness#comment-2812 [141]

(You'll be at a comment I created there yesterday when they had a PDF with photos and one page protocol created by one of the group leaders, so scroll up from there to see the protocol and the whole thread starting from the top.)

On July 5, 2015 this is what was shared, as an example:

A woman in the group said "I call Morgellon's disease 'an overdose of nanotechnology'.

Steve responded: ..." after watching this set of bacteria through a microscope for quite a while, I'm going to agree with you."

Steve, in his comments in the group, which are not always straightforward, which unfortunately translates into my not being able to have things as clarified as I'd like in what I have on Lumigrate, has stated that chemtrails are aimed at the giant sulphur bacteria (GSB) that has the ability to horizontal gene transfer and cause a lot of replication in short time, creating hybrids of things and a lot of very, very bizarro stuff.

If you don't like sci fi, like me, sorry; we're in a sci fi reality. So I really suggest people go to the thread I link to immediately above here and follow what I add on there. It's extensive and the highest read topic of all time so far at Lumigrate!

I'd like to weave in at this point as I'm editing this on July 5, 2015 that we're now under the timeframe of the long-awaited Jade Helm training exercises being done in some western states by the military (and naturally others). Could it be that the bacteria that Steve got onto Facebook about in 2014, with his passionate appeals and stories of his losing his health in his mid 50's, about 7 years before he started the group, where his research started due to his background with microscope repair and photography professionally has something to do with why the power that be are preparing for civil unrest?

Is it possible that, as I've covered on Lumigrate yesterday on the thread about Steve's work, the Ancient Aliens show on H2 (History channel) 'pushing' information during this high volume time for viewers that apprears to me to be what they REALLY want us seeing ... which includes something about Morgellon's disease (MD), with photo included that basically looks like the one Steve slid into his group's timeline and discussion in late November 2014 without anyone saying much of anything, focusing on cyanobacteria at that time, and not having him switch gears totally off of cyanobacteria and onto giant sulphur bacteria until spring of 2015, just before all the 'mold' push in mainstream that started in April (Oz in April, Suzanne Somers after than, the BulletProof's Dave Asprey in June) is part of the well-orchestrated and system-controlled 'disclosure'.

Could it be that we're being 'groomed' to believe that ETs / aliens from outer space have brought to the Earth over time many things that have been aimed at manipulating the population? It sure seems that way to me. And what to believe? WHAT YOU CAN FIGURE OUT AND VERIFY. Do I see sparkles ? Yes, I do, in the lint in people's dryers. Those I've worked with this year sometimes have said 'I just noticed glitter on my arm'. Have I taken that and put it under a microscope? Not yet. But I plan to. To find the microscope and a person with the mind that wants to look into this information WITH ME, is on the list of things I'm doing. Along with many other demands like everyone has for our base needs to do with food, shelter, and fuel.

But I have tuned my gut in, and I have collaborated with someone who has tuned their spiritual powers up overall in their adult life in order to get another opinion. My gut has told me that this information from Steve and his group is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT for me to study, learn and cover at Lumigrate, bringing to our YOUsers.

Live and learn. Learn and live better! ~~ Mardy

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Tue, 03/17/2015 - 11:26pm

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Mardy Ross

Title: LumiGRATE Poster - Top of the Totem Pole

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New in 2015, More Research Connecting to Lyme/Borrelia

www.biomedcentral.com/1471-5945/15/1 [143]

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Wed, 03/18/2015 - 12:05pm

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Mardy Ross

Title: LumiGRATE Poster - Top of the Totem Pole

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Posts: 2032

Hexagonal particles commonly seen coming out of those w/"Morg"

Once again, I credit this comment I'm adding on and resources to the incredible people on Facebook in some of the groups I found my way to in recent months and years that are absolutely doing incredible 'work' in presenting what occurs with them and how they're going about reversing symptoms and ultimately, hopefully, finding the underlying causes to SOLVE the problems.

I saw a woman posting a photo of a fingernail and finger over a towel with a little hexagonal item on the nail .... presumably she'd found it coming out of her body somewhere and that was the surface she had it on to take a photo. "I'm now officially part of the club" she said.

This was interesting because it's a group about Morgellons, something many wouldn't think I 'have', but how do I know if I have it or not? Maybe I've had things coming out of me that were what people have with Morgellons and I never realized it --- I'm not the most observant person for one thing. And I didn't even become 'aware' and then somewhat 'educated' about Morgellons until the last two years. Some experts on the subject say 'we ALL have this stuff IN US .. we ALL have Morgellons'. And others only 'identify' with Morgellons being when you have lesions with things coming out of the lesions. So it's up to each of us to decide what we're going to believe, then take action (or no action) based on that.

In order to help YOUsers of Lumigrate learn more about it, here's the link that one of the members of the groups provided as a resource about the hexagonal particles that commonly come out. Many report theirs were typically red and blue, or gold and etc.; someone on the thread I'm relating about on Facebook said 'with yours being white and mine being red and blue, we were very patriotic'. Others say they could see letters and numbers etched on them and got so freaked out they threw the microscope away.

Naturally, you have to get to know these sources and what is posting and WHO is posting. Not everyone who is posting on things online is legitimately who they say they are, we know there are a lot of paid and unpaid people who are online and 'skewing' what people see in conversations, on a variety of topics.

Basically, if the organizations I call 'the monkeys' have reason to have people be confused about something and not able to get out of the 'monkeybusiness', such as to find out WHY they have a condition and WHAT to do to REVERSE symptoms, then you have the possibility of having what are called paid trolls / shills monkeying around on conversations. But when you hear the same thing over and over or find someone who is reputable and who alleges they shot the photo that shows something they're relating occurred to them, you tend to start 'beliving it's true', crazy as it may sound.

That is what I've found in my increasing time that I am seeing information about Morgellons. I thank those who have self-identified with "Morgellons" as a condition to the extent they've struggled with the lesions and other symptoms that affect how you think and feel physically and function, and who have gone to the expense of time, energy and money to have posted the things they have that have contributed to my education. Which I then present to our YOUsers of Lumigrate (some of it, when I think it's appropriate).

Live and learn. Learn and live better! ~~ Mardy

morgellonsresearchgroup.com/morg-hex-artv1/ [145]

Here's a comment from what you'll see under the topic at the link ^, which suggests another website as well, relative to the hexagons:

The mystery of these Hexagons remain most interesting. For the past several years, I have noticed them exiting the skin from my forearms and hands. They seem to glow like bright silver and appear as a miniscule printed Y shape until observed under a microscope whereupon they appear as a Hexagon. They are difficult to capture. I retrieve them using a piece of clear tape, and plaster them onto a slide. Colors vary from maroon to blue. On occasion, they have appeared
twenty at a time!

Although they have been located in the environment, I believe they all originate in the body. On the website “Morgellons Exposed” there appears a photo of the Hexagons producing beneath the skin. I trust the person who submitted the photo. Is there no end to this mystery?

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Sat, 03/28/2015 - 11:40pm

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Mardy Ross

Title: LumiGRATE Poster - Top of the Totem Pole

Joined: Feb 16 2009

Posts: 2032

Another Resource from Research - Mounting Evidence

f1000research.com/articles/2-25/v1 [124]

What you'll find for the conclusion:

This report demonstrates the presence of Borrelia spirochetes in dermatological samples collected from four MD patients who were seroreactive to Borrelia burgdorferi antigens. The findings suggest that MD has a spirochetal etiology and raises the possibility that this emerging dermopathy may be a manifestation of Lyme disease in a subgroup of tickborne disease patients. The demonstration of an infectious agent associated with MD contradicts the belief that patients with this disease suffer from a factitious or delusional illness. Although our sample size was small, our study indicates that, at least in some patients, MD appears to be an important emerging infectious disease. Further research is needed to assure the correct diagnosis and define the optimal treatment for this spirochetal infection so that MD patients are not stigmatized with a diagnosis of mental illness.

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Tue, 03/31/2015 - 10:10pm

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Mardy Ross

Title: LumiGRATE Poster - Top of the Totem Pole

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Posts: 2032

Cyanobacteria as Cause of Morgellons per 2007 SUNY Study

Current Morgellons research at a laboratory in Massachusetts shows that individuals affected by Morgellons disease have been in contact with soil and/or water containing cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), algae, aquatic fungi, water molds and lichen (algae and fungi). This assemblage of organisms, and associated bacterial populations, is common in soil and aquatic environments where cryptobiotic soils are present and/or in environments where nutrient rich conditions promote the development of algae blooms.
http://www.morgellons.org/category/for-physicians [148]

Please use the Search bar at Lumigrate to look for more information about cyanobacteria -- it turns out there's a man named Steve Beddingfield on the East Coast of the US (North Carolina) who had Morgellons and became very unwell. He started researching .. and came up with theories about cyanobacteria being the cause of basically all the unwellness in people and many other things. He went on to learn more, and also talks a lot now about 'giant sulphur bacteria'. Things are symbiotic and interplay, it's fascinating but not easy to study.

He came up with a protocol and in the last year or so increasing numbers of people are learning of it and if they feel it is appropriate for them, doing the protocol. There has been unique enthusiasm in the group on Facebook that is a very supportive community. So you can use Steve's Images as a search word as well as cyanobacteria. (Added in, the blog tab has a blog from mid May I provided links from to the topics about this, titled about what I want all mothers and others to know, that's a good starting point too).

Many separate 'labeled' skin conditions have been found to respond to the protocol he has provided, or there is research presented that I provide at Lumigrate topics via one of his primary former administrators in the group that shows the chemical in the OTC veterinary medicine in the protocol is similar to chemicals patented but not so far developed and marketed which were shown in mainsteam research to have benefit.

Little things like the fungus that causes tinea versacolor (as the chemical is antifungal, antiviral, antimicrobial, antitumeric (tumors), and antiparasitic), which has been an increasing feature on my skin as I spent more time on this environmentally damaged planet with symptoms of environmental illness, to dark 'age spots'. A paradigm shift, but allegedly Tractor Supply's #1 selling product is now this common medication, and WalMart has started carrying it too. Many protocols use it, the word is out. So I was sure to have the word at Lumigrate for our YOUsers.

Live and learn. Learn and live better! ~ Mardy

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Mon, 07/06/2015 - 10:15pm

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Mardy Ross

Title: LumiGRATE Poster - Top of the Totem Pole

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Rense as a Resource ... That Goes Deep! (Pun Not Intended)

At this link (vaccineresistancemovement.org/ [150] ), I found the following information:

rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rensemorgellons7.mp3 [151]

Morgellons researchers Dr Hildegaard Stanninger and Dr Karjoom have announced the finding of self replicating nano machines “running wild” in the bodies of Morgellons victims.
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rensemorgellons7.mp3 [151]

The Rense website is one that really turned me off when I found it when I 'went down the rabbit hole' in 2013 -- it was just 'too far out there' from what I believed was the reality we were operating under. It's old and bold visually and overwhelms my brain: Advertisements, etc. But it is something today I believe is a valuable resource worth 'wading through' and important for me to include for the Lumigrate YOUsers to at least take a look at and decide if it's for YOU or not at this point in time in your learning.

A little to get you going what you'll find listening to this mp3:

Fiber, meteorite, or Morgellons project is discussed by Dr Hildy as the interviewere called her. They took photographs of the specimen, then a micrograph. They had over 121 fly specimens and one fly had a growth coming out of it's head. The data they're going to discuss is at Rense

Morgellons Featured Story Box near the top, project FMM is what you can click on, the interviewer said. It took his webmaster over 24 hours to put the information on Rense, he said.

They differentiated and looked only at things that had fiber. Was the specimen enough of a tiber to withstand the testing --- a scanning electron microscope, and eventually it went to other laboratories to do more testing to find out what the chemical composition was if they could get something out of them.

Within moments of the MP3, Dr HS explains how there was no cell membrane found in these, so they were man-made. It's like an asbestos fiber, it's a material that are nano-materials, nano-tubes, nano-fibers.

You will here them refer to the Morgellons area of the website, which I didn't find all that easily. Here's the link, there are a TON of resources here for those wishing information on Morgellons.

www.rense.com/Datapages/morgdat1.htm [152]

The FMM information they refer to, above, is at this link: www.rense.com/morgphase/phase2_1.htm [153]

And one that caught my eye based on what I've covered in 2015 about Steve Beddingfield's research and allegations / theories is this: www.rense.com/general72/alien.htm [154] Here's part of what you'll find there:

Life forms so alien that scientists may simply not have recognised evidence of their existence could inhabit the Earth, according to a leading scientist.

Dr. Tom Gold, emeritus professor of astronomy at Cornell University in America, believes that organisms based on silicon - completely unrelated to all the carbon-based life man has encountered so far - may live at great depths.

In a forthcoming book he will suggest that scientists should take the possibility more seriously. Gold, who is a member of the Royal Society, previously predicted that vast amounts of more conventional bacteria live miles down within the Earth's crust. Scientists initially dismissed the idea, but many now agree with him.

"So long as nobody suspects there could be silicon-based life, we may just not be clever enough to identify it," he said last week.

Rocks bearing signs of silicon-based organisms may already be sitting in laboratories, he believes, with their significance overlooked.

Every known living organism, from bacteria to mankind, is based on the chemistry of carbon, which forms the complex molecules such as DNA that are central to our existence. Scientists believe that if extraterrestrial life is found, the chances are that it, too, will be carbon-based.

Silicon has many chemical similarities to carbon, prompting scholars and science fiction writers to dream up new life forms. Huge "space slugs" that can swallow space ships appear in the film The Empire Strikes Back; in an episode of Star Trek a rock-like alien attacked Captain Kirk's crew; and killer parasites based on silicon surfaced in The X-Files when scientists explored the interior of a volcano.

Gold's life forms, if they exist, would most likely be micro-organisms capable of withstanding enormous pressures and temperatures, living in tiny pores inside rock deep within the Earth's crust. They could draw energy from dissolved gases and surrounding minerals.

Gold's ideas, which centre on an alternative explanation for oil and mineral deposits, will be published in his book, The Deep Hot Biosphere, in January.

"It is speculative but logical that there could be a large bio-chemical system very deep down which works better at high temperatures and pressures," he said.

Others are sceptical. Dr Harold Klein, who headed the Viking lander project team that searched for signs of life on Mars in the 1970s, pointed out that silicon was far inferior to carbon at forming the complex polymers crucial for life.

"I personally doubt the idea of silicon-based life. If we do find organisms far down inside the Earth, I'd bet they'd be carbon-based," he said.

Nevertheless, he urges future missions to Mars to carry an instrument to test for non-carbon-based organisms - just in case. It is possible that the chemistry of silicon is altered sufficiently by the great temperatures and pressures deep in the Earth to make it more suited to forming complex molecules, according to David Noever, a research scientist at Nasa's new Astrobiology Institute.

He said some scientists at the American space agency were treating the idea of silicon-based organisms seriously, particularly with a view to searching for extraterrestrial life.

"It's almost naive to assume all life must be carbon-based; I could possibly make good cases for life based on both silicon and phosphorus," he said.

Silicon is used by some carbon-based single-cell organisms called diatoms to form protective shells, according to Dr David Williams, a diatom researcher at the Natural History Museum in London. But diatoms are still fundamentally carbon-based.

However, bizarre organisms have been found in recent years deep in the Earth's crust. Steve Jones, professor of genetics at University College London, said: "There's an unknown universe down there that has already produced organisms with metabolisms so strange that, by comparison, man and mushrooms are almost identical, so God knows what else they'll find."

Microbes have been found living on the ocean floor at depths and temperatures where life was previously thought unsustainable.

Without knowing what silicon-based life forms might be like, said Dr Harry Elderfield, an earth scientist at Cambridge University, it is almost impossible to predict how scientists could even test for them.

Yet Gold has been described by Stephen Jay Gould, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as one of the most iconoclastic scientists - but one who is often right.

Yes, that's where the 'deep' comes in in the title to this comment.

Here's the link to the blog where I set people up to find basically all the threads on Lumigrate to get started on looking into what Steve Beddingfield's research lead me to believe this year. www.lumigrate.com/blog/what-i-want-every-mother-and-others-know-then-go-there-cause-all-problems-presented-emerging-re [155]

Live and learn. Learn and live better! ~ Mardy

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Fri, 05/06/2016 - 4:50pm

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Mardy Ross

Title: LumiGRATE Poster - Top of the Totem Pole

Joined: Feb 16 2009

Posts: 2032

An Initiative via Alfred Lambremont Webre re: Chemtrails

Clearly I've been working on adding new information to this thread for YOUsers studying what I select as key things to look into if you're learning your way around the Morgellons information. The more time that has gone on, lower in this list, the more time I've had to process what a lot of people say, and look for the credible sources that make sense. NOT THAT THIS IS EASY FOR MY HEAD TO MAKE SENSE OF, it's not, I struggle to comprehend how far from reality I had been lead by the mainstream education, media and society. Yes, I was a mainstream person who's ventured to the line, crossed over, and now continue to expand the 'box' which I call, and share, as 'best information to operate off of for well-being'.

I thought I'd share a bit of my history on this subject here.

^ Me, 2013, at a reunion in July, middle of the month. I'd 'noticed' chemtrailing planes x10 go over at about 6:30pm on the evening of June 1, 2013 -- the moment I'll never forget. Converging in a pattern going south.

See the red eye in the picture of me, above? I'd given in and gone to the optometrist just before this so I was getting whatever expensive prescription she'd recommended. I'd used it in the past for the same diagnosed condition, "allergic conjunctivitis", which ONLY happened in the past when I was around cigar smoke, and I'd been around cigar smoke more in 2008-10 than ever before and had NO PROBLEM with my eyes. In the past with the same medication provided in 2013, the conjunctivitis cleared it up in a day or two.

But in 2013 -- I used the whole bottle and it was improved a bit, but not 'well'. $200 for the time with the prescriber and the medicated eye drops. I'd take copies of the above photo to her and show her. She looked baffled and didn't say much. I showed it to her receptionist who said "I'd noticed that what was coming out of planes now is turning into clouds and it didn't used to do that'. I started thinking perhaps I should start giving my money to these types of people who were 'noticing' what was going on and seeming to not be brain dead.

The symptoms went away when I took a bottle (over the course of a month, doing all the doses and taking it seriously) of natural anti bacterial, anti fungal product from a health food store which contained oil of oregano and other things. I would give $85 for three sessions over the course of a year with a man who was aware of chemtrails via his neighbor activist in Utah, who'd do dark field microscopy on a drop of my blood.

What he called rod form bacteria were found in the second visit, which is when I started taking the natural antibiotic / fungal product, and it was no more evidence on my third and final visit. I'm grateful for having had the money and the provider expertise to help me at that time. But he wasn't telling me anything about what was causing it and what to do about it, I was going to have to go it alone on the Internet, including Facebook and YouTube. So I'm doing my best to provide content here that will help YOU. I help people learn individually or in small groups they wish to form, as well as helping them find strategies to carry out what they're wanting to do after learning, forming opinions, and deciding what action to take. Find my info updated at the About Tab at Lumigrate, or at the blog tab, the top pinned post is about me as Mardy Poppins.

I've messaged with Mr Webre to follow up on something in his talk with Alex Hunter, as Alex pointed out his own physical symptoms he attributes to these programs, and then they discussed Alfred Webre's. I'd noticed that he varied a great deal when talking on videos, stammering a great deal sometimes and not others. Everyone in this layer of knowledge or belief ends up realizing they're very afflicted and affected, and it can be targeted. I'm not going to elaborate on that, I just wanted to mention it. I think this interview with Alex Hunter would be a very good place for people to learn. I encourage taking the links and learning from it.

These types of lesions started appearing on my lower legs, below the knee, at the ankle and above, in 2013, when I'd be in contact with grass, brush, etc. This was unusual. There would be punctate wounds which would form and not heal the way things would have with other wounds. The scars were pronounced in terms of being with a darkish color to them, not my usual lack of pigment in a scar area.

So I'll turn my attention now to this quote:

"Morgellons and the red wine test and many other Morgellons-related phenomena of chemtrails are mentioned here. Morgellons and chemtrails are as related as cancer and cigarette smoking!" ~~ Alfred Lambremont Webre, May 6, 2016 (in a Facebook Morgellons-related group, where the admin is saying to go talk about chemtrails somewhere else, don't post about them, it'll be removed --- it's to be about Morgellons. Hundreds of Facebook groups now about chemtrails..... So I grabbed this to place it here (with Mr. Webre's advanced knowledge I was going to be including his initiative on Lumigrate.com).

I am reminded by his mention of the red wine swish and spit test of how I'd learned of that early on then found information calling it a hoax, but then I'd steep in groups on Facebook where some very dedicated, real people were handing out becoming more knowledgeable with others. I became convinced that the good information was about the red wine test, and the disinformation was the anti-red wine test. But naturally YOU be the judge after you've learned, processed and decided.

This is what he was posting, and this is what I would have just flipped out over having in 2013 when I was realizing what chemtrails were, and wanting to get active about it with those in my community. One well-known community leader said to me then and recently "Mardy, what are you going to DO about it, though". I don't have the abilities Mr. Webre does for getting these types of things in motion, but I do have Lumigrate with it's ability to catch attention of learners on various topics they're Searching about. And so, without further elaboration, I bring you his post:

"Alex Hunter: MayDay! Halt Chemtrails, Stop Morgellons and Save Earth & Humanity"

By Alfred Lambremont Webre, NewsInsideOut

ACCESS FULL ARTICLE, LINKS & CONTACTS:
https://newsinsideout.com/…/alex-hunter-mayday-halt-chemtr…/ [157]

WATCH INTERVIEW ON YOU TUBE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbN3nThGs9Q [158]

VANCOUVER, BC – Alex Hunter is a Vancouver activist known as “Captain Chemtrail” because of his command of the full range of the covert technology of chemtrails to terraform Earth and humanity into a remote controlled species commanded by a Controller Matrix and in turn by AI Artificial Intelligence.

A Planetary Emergency “MayDay” Call

In this exclusive May Day [May 1, 2016] interview with NewsInsideOut.com [159]’s Alfred Lambremont Webre, Alex Hunter issues a planetary emergency “MayDay” call and launches a new community-based and globally aware program to halt chemtrails and in the process save help Earth and humanity from DNA extinction to an AI Artificial Intelligence DNA-based, Soul-less species.

Among the topics Alex Hunter covers in this interview showing that Chemtrails play a vital role in technetronic, genetic, AI Artificial Intelligence, and planetary terraforming warfare in that Chemtrails:

“deploy ‘smart’dust/nanotech which enables the criminally insane cabal to target political people, groups, populations or any combination therein via the technetronic/’smart’grid

“deploy trace amounts of chemical, biochemical, biological, advanced biological and genetic warfare which can then be triggered and/or exacerbated/multiplied to a near fatal or fatal level in the desired target(s) in whichever combinations they so choose.

“the aggressively accelerated and upgraded deployment of chemtrails, ‘smart’dust. ‘smart’meter, ‘smart’grid and biochemically addictive ‘smart’ technologies worldwide

“the role of weaponised mediSIN, Vaccinations of mass destruction (seedrcarley.com [160]), the medical mafia and the techniques used to weaponise our family members, clan and coiuntryfolk against us via the pre and particularly the post secondary educational system including but in no way limited to self entitlement, indoctrination/entrainment, brainwashing, vocational compartmentalisation, mind control and in many cases blackmail and terrorisation to keep the minions playing their respective vocational roles in the machine currently culling and controlling Humanity.

“the development and transfer of the MK Ultra behavioural sciences, techniques and technologies into the GWEN, TETRA, WiFi, telecommunications, ‘smart’meter and electrical power ‘smart’grid

“Delphi Technique, Consensus Creation, Tavistock/Common Purpose and other such constructs and techniques of social control which exploit our tribal instincts to be “popular” and to belong to the majority and how I have been subsequently labelled “negative, apocalyptic, depressing and (now) pushy” for telling the Brutal Truth about the diabolical NWO Agenda and all of these subsequent mechanisms, technologies and techniques that get all of us/those around us targeted and processed for reporting on them

MayDay! Adopt & Enforce the Model Statute to save the Earth and Humanity at the Local, Municipal, State, Provincial, National, Federal, Regional, & International level.

In discussing solutions during the interview, Alex Hunter and Host Alfred Lambremont Webre discuss how the US Department of Defense intervened after Oct. 2001 to force the evisceration of HR 2977, introduced by former Rep Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and designed to ban chemtrails and all new physics principles DEW weaponry of Transhumanist Agenda and AI Artificial Intelligence.

A new Model Statute has now been developed banning AI Artificial Intelligence/directed energy technologies to entrain or torture humans
See:
http://exopolitics.blogs.com/…/model-statute-banning-ai-art… [161]

You can take this Model Statute to your local City Council for adaption and adoption!

Adoption and enforcement of this Model Statute throughout the world can stop the chemtrails, the Transhumanist Agenda and pathogenic AI Artificial Intelligence.

Chemtrails are an attempt to prevent human consciousness expansion into Unity Consciousness

One insight that emerged as well is that Chemtrails are an attempt to prevent planetary holographic teleportation from a time space duality consciousness “I win-You lose” 3rd density to a Unity Consciousness Love-based 4/5th density that is beginning with the initiation of a new 25,800 year “Great Year” or “Yuga”. Estimates for the beginning of these new cycles ranges from December 21, 2012 to 2025 and beyond. Expose Chemtrails and Chemtrails will fail. Density Ascension is underway and inevitable.

Resources

MayDay! Halt Chemtrails and save Earth & humanity
Adopt & Enforce the Model Statute to save the Earth and Humanity at the Local, Municipal, State, Provincial, National, Federal, Regional, & International level.

ACCESS FULL ARTICLE, LINKS & CONTACTS:
https://newsinsideout.com/…/alex-hunter-mayday-halt-chemtr…/ [162]
ACCESS FULL ARTICLE, LINKS & CONTACTS

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Mardy Ross

Title: LumiGRATE Poster - Top of the Totem Pole

Joined: Feb 16 2009

Posts: 2032

Joni Mitchell Biography-Her Description is Out of This World

I saw on Facebook shares of yet another topic about Joni Mitchell and Morgellons Disease, and I figured it was yet another story that was saying that she had it but hadn't offically come out with disclosing it, etc. ... the proverbial 'cry wolf' scenario.

Then someone messaged me the link on Facebook and, when I had time, I went and looked and was pleased to see this was NEWS -- a biography that's new out in October covers the details. Clearly they'd sent out the pre-release copies to various places to get the marketing buzz on social media (and the interrelated Internet in general).

Naturally, I wanted to add that onto this thread at Lumigrate, so I selected the following offering from the many choices I had when Searching on "name, condition, month, year" (a little reSearch tip for YOUsers). I selected this link to share on Lumigrate www.littlethings.com/joni-mitchell-morgellons-disease/ [164] .

I encourage you to go as the photographs are great, as well as the other information, but the highlight of the article is the quote from the book of her description of Morgellons Disease:

In her new biography, Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell, by David Yaffe, the star explains:

I have this weird, incurable disease that seems like it’s from outer space. Morgellons is a slow, unpredictable killer — a terrorist disease: it will blow up one of your organs, leaving you in bed for a year… Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm: they cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral.

She also revealed that the disease has left her housebound, unable to go out and enjoy her life.

Morgellons, which has left Joni feeling like she’s being “eaten alive,” is not only scary, it’s also something of a mystery illness.

I personally believe that she was taking a safe path in this revelation, but she was also speaking volumes -- 'seems like it's from outer space' -- about which of the afore-mentioned theories I've provided on this thread she believes in.

I also wanted to mention that there was also a link provided in my Search that stated that Dr. Joe Mercola had said that Joni Mitchell was cured of Morgellons. It was at a website called 'nexttop dot org' but it would not pull up for me and I'm not having any difficulties with anything related to getting websites accessed from my computer at this time. I had felt that there was a 'smoke signal' sent kind of like 'in code' from the Mercola website a couple or few years ago -- as if to say 'we've been infiltrated, you can't trust us anymore completely'. And I'll share with you so you can decide what you think: They had posted on April 1st of whatever year it was, an article about something far fetched and someone had even called in and brought it up when Dr Stephanie Seneff was on an interview at One Radio Network. The caller sounded like they were not up to anything underhanded or troll-like to me.

But nobody would think that Mercola would have a topic that was a sham for April Fools Day that didn't at the end say April Fools or something to make people just hitting the topic and not thinking about that 1April is Fools Day. It just at the time struck me as 'odd'. And then I got to seeing other things that happened with what products he sold and then he is currently or recently in a kerfufle with the lead-testing and lead-awareness and education activist Tamara Rubin over findings she's made claims about product/s of his.

I just felt this was worthy of mentioning here -- I've mentioned it elsewhere on topics at Lumigrate in the forums as well.

Joni Mitchell. Robin Williams. John Ritter. Morgellons, Lewy bodies disease, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, respectively. I use these names all the time when finding someone who was 'unaware' of a condition that's not that often known about, despite how common they really are -- people just don't know. Often people don't know they have a condition and if they seek out attention from a provider they're dismissed or misdiagnosed. Robin Williams was misdiagnosed with Parkinsons and on autopsy it was shown it was Lewy bodies disease. John Ritter had the vascular form of EDS and did not know his aorta was going to rupture, which is just ONE REASON why it's important to know if you have EDS.

I hope if YOU or someone you are researching on behalf of has Morgellons, and YOU are finding this and are using Lumigrate -- thus being a YOUser -- it's helping in your pursuit of information and solutions.

Live and Learn. Learn and live better! ~~ Mardy

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Morgellon's Disease: What You See on the Outside with the Skin and What's Going on Inside

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THE MORNING SHOW with Patrick Timpone

Stephanie Seneff, Ph. D

Chemicals, Glyphosates & GMOs: The Path to Health Is Found Through An Organic Diet

Click here to read Dr. Seneff’s research [131]

We’ve heard about Morgellons disease from our regular guest, Tony Pantalleresco. What is this mystery illness and where did it come from? This is what The Charles E. Holman Morgellons Disease Foundation has to say about it on it’s website [135]:

Show Highlights:

-What are the little fibers made of found in the skin of sufferers of Morgellons? Believe it or not, the body is actually making them. Marianne explains why the body produces too much collagen and keratin

-The connection between Lyme disease and Morgellons

-Why is Lyme disease such a controversial topic?

-Marianne details her symptoms of Lyme disease

and more!

"Alex Hunter: MayDay! Halt Chemtrails, Stop Morgellons and Save Earth & Humanity"

THE MORNING SHOW
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