Lyme Disease - Ticked Off and Fed Up (TOFU), Inc.

The following is a video entitled Under Our Skin. Open Eye Pictures production company has granted us permission to post the video for you to view. Here is a description directly from that website on what the video contains:

"An infectious film about microbes, money and medicine.

One of the most controversial illnesses in the history of medicine, Lyme disease may be the fastest growing infectious disease in the United States. Yet each year thousands are misdiagnosed - many of them told that their symptoms are "all in their head." This upcoming documentary investigates the shocking human, medical, and political dimensions of Lyme disease, an emerging epidemic destroying countless numbers of lives. A case study of the dangers of the confluence of money and medicine, the film brings into focus a haunting picture of our healthcare system and its inability to cope with a biological terror under our skin."

The film can be viewed at: www.youtube.com/openeyepictures

Their website is: www.underourskin.com

We were very impressed by this film, although we hope that viewers will realize that major coinfections are an equally important part of our problems with chronic Lyme disease. The most incredible part of this film, from our perspective, is the research of Alan MacDonald, M.D., who found Lyme Spirochetes in approximately 80% of Alzheimer brains which he was allowed to use from Harvard Medical School. So, are Alzheimer patients being misdiagnosed? Our question is whether it makes more sense that President Ronald Reagan, who rode horses almost every day (another tick haven), had Lyme disease which affected his brain? In addition, Dr. Alan MacDonald discusses how many people who are diagnosed with ALS, MS, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatique would actually test positively for the Lyme Spirochete? (When we say "test" here, we mean that Dr. MacDonald actually takes the time to use a microscope to visually determine the existence of B. Burgdorferi, which most of our usual Lyme tests don't bother to do.) We view this as a major indictment of the medical and pharmaceutical industry, since we are obviously being placed in different "cubby holes" in order to separate us and not allow appropriate treatment or funding for Lyme disease!

TOFU, Inc. hopes to schedule a viewing of this film in the Gettysburg, Pennsylvania area, as well as other areas in 2009, for the benefit of the public. Stay tuned to our Events link - we will update information as it becomes available.

Reviews by Beth Accomando:

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2009/jul/07/food-inc-and-under-our-skin/

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2009/jul/09/under-our-skin-2/

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