I have friends or strangers who do excellent work in test tubes or mice. Fascinating.
But many don’t realize that some treatments that kill an infection in the lab have trivial or no effect in a 120-pound woman or 190-pound man, as the herb or medicine dilutes in stool and 9-12 pints of blood, while flowing through 60,000 miles of tubing.
Good studies.
But decades ago, I had “treatment failure” patients when no one in my state had expertise in Lyme, Babesia and Bartonella, so we used what made sense without a 20,000-person randomized, blinded study.
And we saw what worked for Babesia using the gold standard, a repeated 30 plus minute stained blood smear. We accounted for variations in the blood, and our results remained clear.
Despite laboratory test tube effectiveness, repeated Babesia smears in the same people showed no effect on huge dose of Artemisia annua, artemisinin, 10 ml/day of atovaquone [yellow paint], or 500 mg/day of azithromycin (Z-pack) taken for months.
LAB TESTS VS HUMAN BODY TESTING.
You decide.