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katrinab
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i live in massachusetts and want to have a workup for mitochondria disorders and damage. can anyone direct me to a good mito doc in my area? i was thinking boston was the place, but there is at least five docs to choose from

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Keebler
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Your LLMD should be able to help guide you. However, since lyme CAUSES mitochondria problems, that is where to begin. Mostly,

* address infection(s) that target mitochondria

* support the mithochondria with key nutrients.

You can search the web for organizations to learn more about mitochondria but they will not usually be lyme literate.

A muscle biopsy is a key diagnositic tool but, really, may be unnecessary - quite frankly, IMO, if one has lyme, they have mitochondrial dysfunction / damage.

Most LLMDs can very quickly determine if a patient needs mitochondrial support (we all do) so that we can achieve REPAIR as the infection(s) are treated.

MYHILL's information here discusses testing, etc. And there are many support links here, too:

http://flash.lymenet.org/scripts/ultimatebb.cgi/topic/1/116377?#000000

Mitochondria disorders
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Keebler
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http://biochemgen.ucsd.edu/mmdc/ep-3-10.pdf

The Spectrum of Mitochondrial Disease

8-page pdf.

See especially pages 7 � 8 regarding treatment (It is solely nutritionally based)

Author: Robert K. Naviaux, MD, PhD,

founder and co-director of the Mitochondrial & Metabolic Disease Center (MMDC) at the Universtity of California, San Diego. . . .

Link to the author's organization:

http://biochemgen.ucsd.edu/mmdc/brochure.htm

The Mitochondrial and Metabolic Disease Center

University of California San Diego

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Wondering if the author just might be familiar with lyme, a cross search from Google for:

Naviaux, borrelia

brings up a few hits for a RK Naviaux (sure looks like one & the same but you'd want to confirm that).

One particular search result relating to lyme in autism might be worth a look to see what he has to say there.

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An other site with good information (from New Zealand), unrelated to above author:

http://www.nzmito.org.nz/medical-information/how-is-it-diagnosed/

How is it diagnosed?

. . . clinical diagnosis . . . .
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