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October - November 201OurBerkshireTimes

Pumpkin and Wolf Pineby Ann Getsinger, Artist

Ann has beencreatively workingin the Berkshires for

decades painting,drawing, andsculpting. Her homeand studio is in NewMarlborough, MA,

but she also has a strong connection tothe coast of Maine. Using a stream ofconsciousness process, her work takesa narrative form, leaving space for theunconscious and the conscious to unfold insurprising ways. Her work is widely collected.Visit www.anngetsinger.com.

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animal talk

PET AWARENESS EVENTS

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ROASTED PORK & KUMQUATS

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This months cover illustration, Pumpkin and Wolf Pine, byAnn Getsinger, is a 40" x 32" oil on linen. Signed, limited

edition prints of the painting are available. Contact the

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Anew local history book reveals the

intriguing characters and accom-plished citizens who have made

the Southern Berkshires such a remarkableplace. Legendary Locals of the Southern Berk-shires shares the stories of unique individu-als, past and present, who have had a last-ing impact on the community, the nation,and the world. Vintage images coupledwith stories and anecdotes researched bylocal author Gary Leveille provide a fasci-nating history of the area.

Southern Berkshire County is a magicalplace, said Leveille. The special synergythat exists here between people and placehas inspired remarkable residents forcenturies.

What exactly are the Southern Berkshiresas dened in Legendary Locals? Leveille ex-plained that nowadays school districts areoften used as boundary markers becausecitizens are linked, socially and nancially,by these districts. So the geographic scopeof the book includes towns within the

Southern Berkshire Regional School Dis-trict, Berkshire Hills Regional School Dis-trict, and Farmington River Regional SchoolDistrict. Fascinating folks from Great Bar-rington, Stockbridge, West Stockbridge,Shefeld, Alford, Egremont, Mt. Washing-ton, Monterey, New Marlboro, Otis, Tyr-ingham, and Sandiseld are included.

It is hard to pick favorites, Leveilleremarked. Every town in South Berk-shire has been home to an amazing arrayof movers and shakers. Anson Jones wasa poor boy born and raised in Great Bar-rington who went on to be president of acountry the Republic of Texas, before itwas annexed to the United States. CyrusField from Stockbridge changed the worldas father of the transatlantic communica-tions cable.

Shefeld was home to the amazing Bar-nard brothers who had remarkable ca-reers in the elds of education and the

military. Egremont is home to Acad

award winning producer and dirCynthia Wade. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma livTyringham. Unsung heroes are also ored. Farmers, teachers, policemen, voteers, and shopkeepers are not forgoThe list goes on and on. More thanpeople are featured and scores mormentioned.

For example, novelist Catharine Sedgwas an amazingly popular author from1820s through the 1850s. Her books with womens issues long before theject became part of pop culture. Buthe latter part of the nineteenth censtuffy Victorian critics dismissed her ing as inconsequential, and she was foten. It wasnt until the Womens Moveof the 1960s that Sedgwick again berecognized as a visionary.

Even rebels, rogues, and rascals their own chapter. Gil Belcher, a legencriminal in the 1700s, was the only cterfeiter in the nation to have a park na

after him Belcher Square in Great rington. Henry Huntington foundedof this countrys rst nudist coloniethe Otis/Sandiseld line. Eccentric werman Levi Beebe offered surprisinglcurate forecasts to big city newspafrom his perch atop Beartown MounAnd the Hermit of Hartsville claimworld record as a 40-year-long insom

Legendary Locals of the Southern Berkis available at local bookstores and mother locations throughout the BerkshFor more information, you may cothe author directly at his email [email protected].

~Author Gary Leveille is a writer, editor

cator, photographer, and local historian

resides in the Southern Berkshires. He has

ten several other books, most recently the

selling Old Route 7: Along the Berkshire Hig

Around Great Barrington, and Eye of Shawen

Egremont history.

legendary localsLOCAL AUTHOR CELEBRATES NOTABLE RESIDENTS

USING SPECTACULAR, VINTAGE IMAGES


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Sun, Oct. 12, 10 am-4pmCrestfallen Tourney, food,and demonstrations.

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Before PhotoshopDate:Saturday, September 27 through October 25, 2014

Place:Knox Gallery, Monterey Library,

452 Main Street, Monterey, MA - 413-528-3795

Price:Free

Before Photoshop is a retrospective exhibit of 35mm photography

by artist Jean Germain. All the special effects are created without

a computer without Photoshop.

Visit Knox Gallery on Facebook for more information.

About the Artist

Harvest Festival - Berkshire Botanical Garden

Date:Sunday, October 12, 2014, 10am-5pm

Place:Berkshire Botanical Garden, Intersection of Routes 102

and 183, Stockbridge, MA - 413-298-3926

Price:Adults $5, Children under 12 free

Celebrate autumn with popular family activities, continuous

live entertainment, 113 food and craft vendors, educational

workshops, a far mers market, silent auction and numerous tag

sales, a spectacular plant and bulb sale, Hall of Pumpkins, and a

Haunted House. Garden parking is free.

www.berkshirebotanica l.org

GBRSS Holiday Handcraft Fair

Date:November 15, 2014, 10am-4pm. Rain or shine.

Place:Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School, 35 West Plain

Road, Great Barrington, MA - 413-528-4015

Price:Free parking and admission.

The Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School (GBRSS) invites thecommunity to the 42nd annual Holiday Handcraft Fair a creative

welcome to the holiday season with family fun such as puppet

shows, hayrides, candle dipping, and novel gifts to choose and

make, the GBRSS Holiday Handcraft Fair celebrates the joys of a

handmade holiday. Highlights include outdoor carnival games and

the childrens craft room where children can make gifts themselves,

as well as jump-rope making. Get a jump on holiday shopping at

the silent auction, holiday rafe, or the Country Store, which offers

one-of-a-kind gifts and handmade treats, plus lunch, warm drinks,

and gourmet desserts. www.gbrss.org

Wonderful Thingshas thelargest selection of yarnunique handcrafted gifts in the Berkshires OwHarry and Debbie Sano invite you to visit their store locat 232 Stockbridge Road, Great Barrington, MA Celebrtheir forty-second year! Gift Certificates Free kni

lessons (413) 528-2473, www.wonderful-things.com

Jean Germain began her career as an artist

after retiring from teaching in elementary

schools. Her images have been published inmagazines and newspapers as well as hanging

in private and public collections. Her book,

Jazz From Row Six, shown at left, was the

winner of the Best Music Book Award at the

Paris Book Festival. See more of Jeans work at

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Celebrating our 40th year as anindependent bookstore. Thank you!

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Meadow Farm Markethas the air of down-to-earth htality. Patrons are welcome to enjoy their lunches at the picnibles or relax in beautifully crafted Adirondak chairs just outsidfront door. Stop in to shop for pretty mums and pumpkins, hsoups, home-baked pies and sweet breads, apples, local mapleup, and more. Open year round, this winter our farm markeoffer Christmas trees, wreaths, and delicious holiday treats.

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Bousquet Mountain was vBest in the Berkshiresdownhill skiing by the BerkEagle Readers Poll in 2013 and 2Our ski lodge will be packed truckloads of bargains with up percent off all of your winter spneeds from Ski In Ski Shop in braham. The ski sale is Saturday,

tober 18, from 9am to 4pm and Sunday, October 19, from 1to 4pm. Season pass specials include unlimited day and nigh

ing in a family-friendly atmosphere. They offer affordable sepasses for adults, juniors, and children (perfect for holiday gi

Bousquet Mountain is known for great value, offering affordtickets. Their Thursday Night Owl Special every Thursday eveis only $10. Day lift tickets are only $25 midweek/nonholidaynight tickets are $20 from 3 to 9pm. Bousquets rustic atmospand convenient central location provides the perfect locationyour special event, holiday party, anniversary, or wedding.

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best in the berkshires27TH ANNUAL SKI SALE OCTOBER 18 & 19

You already know aboutThe Bookloftsincredible reaselection but did you know that we have the largest stion of Berkshire books available anywhere? We also c

e-readers, scarves, totes, and other great holiday gift itemssure to visit our newest store, Shaker Mill Books, on DStreet in West Stockbridge (next to the old mill), as well asGreat Barrington store at 332 Stockbridge Road (Route 7).Bookloft has been an independent bookstore since 1974.

holiday gifts

101 Dan Fox Drive, Pittseld, MA

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October 18 & 19

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take and bake pizzaWIN OVER YOUR HOLIDAY GUESTS WITH HOLIDAY PLATTERS

F rom chop to roast, and nose-to-tail, The Meat Market is theBerkshires premier butcher shop andcafe, providing a broad selection of lo-cal and sustainable meats. Sourcing well-raised whole animals from small localfarms, the chefs and butchers at TheMeat Market produce classic and exotic

cuts, roasts, and steaks, as well as hand-crafting charcuterie, curedand smoked meats, sausages, prepared foods, and lunches.

Looking for heritage-breed turkeys or pork? Grass-fed beef andlamb? Dry-aged prime rib? The Meat Market has you covered!What better way to celebrate the holiday season than with a boardof house-made pate de campagne, dry-cured salami, and pro-sciutto, all sourced and crafted in the heart of the Berkshires?

Open for lunch and retail Wednesdays through Sundays, theirbutchers are more than happy to custom-cut anything you needto make your holidays absolutely perfect. Advance orders arestrongly recommended for holiday orders, as supplies of the seasonalclassics are limited.

from chops to roastsTHE BERKSHIRES' PREMIER BUTCHER SHOP AND CAFE

NORTH EGREMON

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We offer a full line of groceries and sp

Let us help you with your holiday nee

Monday-Thursday: 6a-6p

Friday-Saturday: 6a-7p Sunday: 6a-Photo by John Phelan

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Call (413) 528-4796

Warm & Friendly ServiceThe historic North Egremont Country Store, located in thebucolic town of North Egremont near Prospect Lake, offers aconvenient way to purchase many of the items you need to entertain

your holiday guests including SoCo ice cream, Monterey Chevre,liquor, beer, and wine (including organic), local pure honey and ma-ple syrup, staples like milk, and much more (even Lotto tickets, andshing bait and accessories). They also make excellent sandwichesand coffee, and serve delicious croissants, bagels, and donuts.

200th anniversaryNEWLY EXPANDED DELI - FOOD MENU

413-528-2022 www.themeatmarketgb.co

Our mission is to offer a beautiful selection of local, grass fed

and sustainably raised fresh cuts of meat, charcuterie, an

salumi made from traditional recipes. We believe that eatin

local foods is a denitive way to support physical health, ou

farming community, and the earth.

Taste, Quality, Service,and Respect for the Environment

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Locally owned and operated, The Public Market is ready

to help you win over those last-minute guests. Their teamcan put together a wonderful meal try a Coleman NaturalRotisserie Chicken or a meat-and-cheese platter. No morecold, soggy, cardboard-tasting pizzas! Stop in to get anassortment of Take and Bake pizzas. Choose the toppingsand choose the time to bake them in your own oven. Come seewhats cooking in West Stockbridge for the holidays!

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327 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY 12075|518-672-7500

Hawthorne Valley FarmEvery season is a great time to visit!Farm Store Full-line natural foods store open 7 days a week

Take a walking tour and visit our animals and gardens

Fall Festival October 12 Hay rides, pumpkin carving, pie baking contest,square dancing, childrens activities, and more!

Yuletide Fair December 6 Artisan vendors, puppet shows & activities

for children

Located in beautiful Columbia County, just two miles east

of the Taconic State Parkway at the Harlemville/Philmont exit.

slow-roasted pork with kumquatsTENDER AND TASTY MEAT WITH A UNIQUE CITRUS FLAVOR

Courtesy of Jim Gop of The Meat Market

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Ingredients

Coarse salt3 T organic light brown sugar2 T nely grated fresh ginger2 tsp whole cloves, crushed into a coarse powder2 tsp powdered mustard1 skin-on, bone-in pork shoulder from The Meat Market1 can (12 ounces) Big Elm IPA1 pint kumquats (about 10 ounces), halved2 T Berkshire Wildower Honey

DirectionsCombine cup salt, sugar, ginger, cloves, and mustard powderin a small bowl.

Using a sharp knife or a razor blade, score the skin of the pork(take care to just cut into the skin and not the meat) on the topand sides in a diamond pattern at -inch intervals.

Transfer the pork to a baking dish and rub spice mixture into thescored skin. Refrigerate, loosely covered, overnight.

Remove the pork from the refrigerator and preheat oven to 3

Pat skin dry and pour beer and 1

cups of water into the bdish and wrap the entire dish in foil. Carefully transfer the poyour oven and roast until meat is tender when pierced with a about 3 hours and 15 minutes. Remove foil from pork.

Toss kumquats with honey. Add to baking dish, turning toRoast until tender and lightly caramelized, about 30 minutecrease oven temperature to 425F. Roast until pork skin is and dark brown, 8 to 10 minutes. Letpork rest, tented with foil, for 45minutes before carving. Servewith kumquats in pan juices.~The Meat Market, visit www.

themeatmarketgb.com. See ad

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home, garden & landscape

Somewhere, buried deep in the depthsof the memory graveyard known as mymoms basement, there is a box markedLEAVES. Inside are hundreds of fall

leaves that, as a kid, I collected and then forcedmy mom to preserve for me. Who knows howmany countless hours that poor woman spenteach autumn ironing dead leaves between piecesof wax paper. Not that I wasnt selective youhad to be a pretty special leaf to make the cut,displaying either pure perfection or a aw soawesome that it deserved eternity. Some of these

treasures would be cut out and made into book-marks, ornaments, note cards, or drink coastersthat I would give out as Christmas gifts, but a lotended up being tossed into that box because, one,I would always make way too many and, two, mymom couldnt ever come to terms with throwinganything I made away. A tradition she continueseven now when Im well into my thirties.

I thought the whole thing was magic. The wax pa-per, for sure, but also the process of the changingof the leaves in general. Even at our youngest, the

color palette that comes with every fall resonatedinside of us, stirring emotion and imagination. Ithink one of the reasons that the phenomenon ofautumn is so captivating year after year isnt justbecause its beautiful, which indeed it is, but be-cause it still conjures that same spark of wonderinside of us.

Of course, its not magic. Its boring old sci-ence but that doesnt make it any less amazing.The truth is, the vibrant colors that we see dot-ting our hillsides have, in some part, been thereall season long. Leaves dont exactly change

color so much as they lose a color. That colorof course being the green that we see all sum-mer long. In the summer months, trees (andmost plants) use the process of photosynthesisto convert sunlight, carbon dioxide, and waterinto oxygen and glucose a type of sugarthat the plant uses as food. Trees use theirleaves to capture those elements (light, rain,

and carbon dioxide) and the leaves contain achemical chlorophyll that makes the processof photosynthesis possible. It just so happensthat the chlorophyll, more often than not, has avery dominant green pigment.

When the days start to get shorter and sunlightbecomes less available, not only do people startshutting down their vacation homes, but treesstart shutting down their sugar factories. Thechlorophyll in a leaf, with all of its green pigment,fades away and reveals the yellows, oranges, reds,

and browns that were there all along.

The color that remains is what we see in the fall,and it is a common design tool gardeners use toadd interest to a landscape. There are many thingsto consider when choosing a tree for your homegarden, one of those being fall color. Put thebright yellow autumn foliage of the Gingko Bilobaagainst the reds of the Red Maple and the orangesof Witch Hazel, and youll have a color display thatcould rival any summer garden. Some plants areeven named after their fall color, like the invasive

burning bush that is so prevalent in this area andsimply stunning this time of year. Its not so rarefor a plants greatest attribute to be its fall display.

We all know that some fall shows are betterthan others and the potency of that yellow andred is dependent on external factors. In general,the best fall foliage occurs in years when wevehad a warm, wet spring, a summer thats not toohot or dry, and a fall that has plenty of warm sun-ny days and cool nights. If we are really lucky,we get to experience it most years here in theBerkshires where people from all over pour into

the region to see the amazing colors paintingour gorgeous hillsides. Like most things, its justbetter in the Berkshires!

~ Brian Cruey is the Marketing and Communications

Manager for the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stock-

bridge, MA, www.berkshirebotanical.org, and a contributing

writer for Rural Intelligence, www.ruralintelligence.com.

autumn's magicTHE HOW AND WHY BEHIND FALL FOLIAGE

By Brian Cruey

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Whether you prefer contemporary, historic, or traditional, a neigh-borhood house or a grand estate, youre likely to nd a home thatts your wish list, thanks to the wide range of architectural stylesin the Berkshires.

Begin at the beginning, in the 1730s, when settlers movedhere from Connecticut and eastern Massachusetts, bringing hefty

post-and-beam construction methods with them. They built withmassive rst-growth timbers and mortise-and-tenon joinery. Withonly replaces for heating, they capitalized upon the suns pas-sive solar benets by orienting the longest facade of their housesto the south, and they often insulated with thick, dense woodenplanks that spanned the distance between the foundation sills andthe roof eaves. Be they humble vernacular Capes or grand center-hall Georgian manses, these homes built before the AmericanRevolution are the true Colonials, and they have spawned morethan two centuries of imitations. By 1790, in the early years ofthe new nation, the Federal style emerged: more rened than itspredecessors and embellished in wealthy circles with French wall-papers and yes! wall-to-wall carpeting.

During the nineteenth century, railroads and emerging indus-tries stimulated an era of new building. Starting in about 1825,wealthy merchants and farmers alike adopted the bold Greek Re-vival style (the last of the Neoclassical era) and transitioned tolighter wood-frame construction. By 1850, with pattern booksfueling popular trends across the country, the Victorian era tookhold, bringing with it the Gothic Revival, Tudor, and Queen Annestyles, the uniquely American front porch, ornate gingerbreadtrim, turrets and towers, sh-scale shingles, and finally centralheating. By the 1880s, reacting with a not invented here attitudeto imported Victorian styles, American architects created Colo-

nial Revival and Shingle Style homes. By the 1890s, the extenof water and sewer lines into new areas of existing towns hto spread these styles into newly developed neighborhoods. marking Americas Gilded Age, the grand Colonial RevivaShingle Style mansions known as Berkshire Cottages becgetaways for wealthy families eeing hot urban summers.

The twentieth century brought more of these, along witBungalow and Craftsman designs, and contemporary architeemerged in the 1920s and 30s with the advent of the single-ranch house offering indoor-outdoor living. Modernism didreally catch on until the 1950s, when the end of World Wthe GI Bill, newfound prosperity, building techniques, and mrials yielded a new boom. The years that followed brought uraised ranch, the split level, the A-frame, soaring walls of and steel, and the modern timber-frame, which evolved eighteenth century post-and-beam construction.

In the twenty-rst century, were sure to see more atteto energy efciency, more modular homes and more green bing, even as we see contemporary architects push the envelope

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along with Hadley Milliken, the biodynamic farming and garden-ing teacher at the school.

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phy nurturing the land so farming is a closed circle, a wholeecosystem includes the child in that circle, says teacher Hadley

Milliken. I worked with early childhood campers over the sum-mer who transformed the vegetable garden, and have already had

that full circle experience, from planting seeds to harvesting fruitand eating it for snack.

Experiential learning is central to Waldorf education, developed

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Waldorf education was recognized last year by the Captain PlanetFoundations Green School Award as exemplary in transform-

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As the seasons change, the extended school community gathersfor Michaelmas festival in the elds and gardens at GBRSS to

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celebrate the success of the schools Green Initiative, a camplaunched this spring to help fund the farming and gardening

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The challenges and symptoms that

people with chronic Lyme and coin-fections deal with was discussedin part one of this article in the August-September issue of Our BerkshireTimesmagazine (archived for viewing at www.OurBerkshireTimes.com). When confront-ing these challenges, Katina Makris, authorof the book Out of the Woods: Healing LymeDisease, Body, Mind & Spirit, aptly relays thefrustration of many sufferers by saying,How long have I waited for an answer tothis misery? How depressed, despairing,broken, and frantic have I been? How many

doctors have shrugged me off without ananswer or even an insight into my state ofprofound sickness? . . . Why did so manypeople disregard my pleas for help? Why ischronic Lyme Disease so overlooked? Whydont doctors know about these specialtytests [IGeneX Labs among others]?

Aside from the political issues, the an-swer to these questions lies in part in thefact that standard Lyme and coinfectiontesting is woefully inaccurate and these in-fections can mimic other diseases, making

a clear diagnosis a challenge. Good medi-cal detective work is needed and manypractitioners simply do not have the time,patience, or knowledge. Because of this,symptoms are often passed shamefullyover as being all in your head.

I know from rsthand experiencethat chronic Lyme disease is not all in yourhead, and it can indeed play havoc withyour health and your life. I have been deal-ing with a longstanding Lyme and Myco-plasma infection for more than 10 yearsthat was repeatedly misdiagnosed.

We live in a Lyme-endemic area, so ifyou have not been feeling right and are notsatised with the answers you have been get-ting, trust your instincts and start doing yourown research. Begin by answering the symp-tom questionnaire at www.cangetbetter.com.Then, get a proper diagnoses by making anappointment, if you are able, to see a Lyme-literate doctor like Dr. Ronald Stram (www.stramcenter.com), or Dr. Richard Horowitz(www.cangetbetter.com).

Whether you choose to do antibiotics,

a different type of therapy, or a combina-tion of both, understand that rebuildingthe foundation of your health and immunesystem is imperative to regain your health,as is a good detoxication program.

We will offer detoxication tips in theDecember-January issue of Our Berkshire-Times, but in the meantime it is worth men-tioning that infrared sauna therapy can beextremely helpful. Quality EMF-protectedsaunas are pricey, but you can purchase rea-sonably priced sessions or packages fromEnlighten Sauna Therapy in South Egre-

mont (see ad page 21), at Hydro Healthof Western Massachusetts in Pittsfield (incombination with other detox therapies)www.hydrohealthwesternmass.com, and atthe Stram Center for Integrative Medicine(see ad page 23).

Id like to share an informative articleby Dr. Chris Decker, a naturopathic physi-cian with ofces in Vermont and Massachu-setts, followed by some local success stories.

Lyme Disease by Dr. Chris DeckerIve treated many people with Lymedisease over the years, and I consider myselfa Lyme-literate physician. Ive seen lots ofpeople whove suffered greatly from thisillness, people who have seen many prac-titioners, and who have tried everythingfrom multiple, high-dose, long-term antibi-otic regimens to complex herbal protocols,sometimes exhausting their bank accountswithout ever really recovering their health.In my opinion we desperately need to re-vise how we think about Lyme disease.

In naturopathic medicine we have aconstruct called the therapeutic order.In terms of treating disease, the therapeu-tic order basically tells us what to do andwhen to do it. Confronted with an illnesslike Lyme disease, we have several options,as Ive described. Another option is simplyto start with the basics.

Hippocrates is said to have remarkedthat all diseases begin in the gut. Thismakes sense, because some 80 percent

of our immune system resides there. W

were dealing with infection, its totally wthe action is. Therefore, as we may sufood is an important medicine. Because can shore up our GI tract, we simultanestrengthen our immunity. And thats wbig things start to happen. For one tLyme symptoms start to fall by the way

I see this time and again in my tice, even in cases of longstanding chLyme. A healthy gut means far lessceptibility to the inuences of infectioexplains why some people can spend days gardening and picking ticks off t

selves by the gross and yet not get while others can be literally disabled single exposure to the same disease. Itpossibly explains why mention of Lymso conspicuously absent from the mcal literature historically. Its not that Lwasnt around 5,300-year-old Otzi thMan had it, and its probably conside

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older even than that. Whats changed isthat we are now subsisting on a diet un-like anything weve ever eaten before in

the whole of our human history. We nowhave food sensitivities and leaky, dysbioticguts, and we are forced to deal with an un-precedented level of toxicity that is all butubiquitous. Its daunting, and we have littleroom for error, but if we play our cardsright, we can see to it theres hope.

I can personally attest to this, havinghad Lyme myself some years back. It wasa long time ago, but I remember it like itwas yesterday. After a few months of an-tibiotics that gave me little but diarrheafor my trouble, and after several popular

herbal protocols likewise offered no re-lief, I decided to see if the GAPS diet (byDr. Natasha Campbell-McBride), word ofwhich had recently come to the US, mighthelp. GAPS is essentially the paleo dietwith a big emphasis on lots of gut-healingbone broths and probiotic foods. I thoughtif I ate this way for a few months, Id bein good enough shape to go back to usingsome herbs again without getting too muchof a die-off reaction. Instead, to my pleas-ant and great surprise, after four months

I found I didnt have any symptoms left!Just like that! I didnt even need the oth-er protocols. And when I implemented asimilar strategy in my practice, I began tohave very good success with treating Lyme,which became no longer such a notoriouslydifcult disease to treat.

Ive since discovered that not every-one makes a clean break from their symp-toms. Although many do, Im grateful tohave an herbal pharmacopoeia at my dis-posal. The plants are potent medicine, andthey do indeed accomplish their task. My

point is only that we need to use them withjudicious timing. Even antibiotics can servetheir purpose, being useful on occasion topalliate intolerable symptoms (and, I shouldmention, typically being the treatment ofchoice very early on after a bite from an in-fected tick or other biting insect). But thedeep healing of the gut, the rst step in thetherapeutic order, is, I have found, always atthe heart of the successful protocol.

Id like to say a word about lab testing

for Borrelia infection. Testing for Lymvery inaccurate. Although tests like the Wern blot are useful for many other kind

infection, Lyme has a way of breakinrules owing to its peculiar pathophysioand the Western blot results in a largecentage of false negatives. The ELISAenzyme-linked assay that is the screetest for Lyme, has an accuracy not mbetter than a coin toss. Ive had patabsolutely debilitated from longstanLyme who never, not once, had a potest. Yet they clearly had the diseaseresponded to treatment for it. Some like IGeneX in Palo Alto, CA (www.igcom), take testing to a level of thoro

ness beyond what most mainstream ventional labs accomplish, but when said and done, Lyme is oftentimes a nosis of clinical symptomatology.

To conclude, Id like to share you these words about Lyme disease Natasha Campbell-McBride, author ofand Psychology Syndrome (www.doctor-nacom), as it was her great book, inteven with my studies of paleo/primaWeston Price-type nutritional phiphies, all with their own brilliant aut

and scholars, that have helped so muc

By Dr. Campbell-McBrideBorrelia has been in tence for a long time, pbly longer than us, humYet Lyme disease hacome so common oncently despite the factcontact with wild an

is very minimal in our modern urbapopulations. So, what happened? A verthing happened in the recent few dec

our immune systems got compromiseour modern life-styles and the environwhich we, humans, have created. Whenimmune system is not working properlybecome susceptible to all sorts of infecwhich used to be harmless.

People who suffer from chronitigue, bromyalgia, peripheral neuropautoimmunity and other degenerative ditions, recently blamed on Lyme disare immune-compromised. The fact

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Borrelia has been discovered by our science does not mean thatit is the answer to these problems: when the immune system isdisabled, all sorts of microbes can be at work, many of whichwe have not even discovered yet. And indeed antibiotic treatmentfor Borrelia does not eradicate chronic degenerative conditions,despite the fact that tests may show that this bacterium is gone.Very powerful antibiotics are used to treat Lyme disease, often in-

travenously and long-term. Antibiotics are not harmless! Healthybodily ora is the most essential factor in keeping your immunityhealthy. Antibiotics will destroy that factor very effectively, mak-ing your immune system even more disabled, making you evenmore vulnerable to Borrelia or any other pathogen.

So, if you suffer from a chronic degenerative conditionand had a positive test for Lyme disease, dont rush to haveantibiotics. What you need to rush to do is to restore your im-mune system. Number one intervention is the food you eat!If you have digestive symptoms, follow the GAPS NutritionalProtocol. If your digestion is OK, follow the Weston A Price-type diet. As your immune system starts working again, it willdeal with Borrelia and lots of other microbes, which you dont

even need to know about. A good percent of people who testpositive for Borrelia have no symptoms and are healthy andwell. Why? Because their immune systems are working prop-erly! And make no mistake: a well-functioning human immunesystem is innitely cleverer than any doctor or scientist!

The only exception is a fresh Borrelia infection from a re-cent tick bite which manifested with typical symptoms of a freshBorrelia infection. A course of antibiotics in this situation is sen-sible. While taking antibiotics take all the essential steps to boostyour immunity with diet and protect your gut ora with a goodquality probiotic. Following the GAPS diet or the WAPF-type dietwill restore your immune system long-term.

The question about eradicating Borrelia: why eradicate? Ifsomebody did a study of testing everybody for this parasite, theymay nd that the majority of the population has it, just as themajority of the population has H pylori in their stomachs. Wedo know that about 70 to 80 percent of people who test positivefor H pylori are healthy and have no symptoms. Should we try toeradicate H pylori in all of them, exposing them to powerful an-tibiotics? Absolutely not! Vast majority of microbes on this plan-et are not our enemies, they are our friends! What every one ofus has to do is to nd a balance, a harmony between the myriadof microbes living on us and inside us and our immune systems.So, focus on feeding, nourishing, and nurturing your immunesystem, rather than killing, attacking, or eradicating anything.

~ Dr. Chris Decker is a licensed naturopathic physician, homeo-

path, and certied GAPS practitioner with ofces in Brattleboro, Ver-

mont, and Florence, Massachusetts, where she maintains a full-service

practice that includes clinical nutrition, homeopathy, and, in Vermont,

laboratory diagnostics. www.drchrisdecker.com

Local Lyme Disease Success StoriesThe following people have experienced Lyme disease/coinfec-tions and were kind enough to share the information and wisdomthey discovered as they found their way back to health.

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and spiritual wounds is critical because until we free up that energphysical body can only go so far.

Marisa Marinelli of Becket, MA,who is now in radiant hwas previously diagnosed with a chronic Lyme infection bring misdiagnosed for years). She experienced extreme paher lower back and hip and at times stiffness up her entire

and neck. In her 20s, Marisa would wake up mornings withculty breathing and feeling like she was in a straitjacket. Sheexperienced depression, memory loss, slight twitches, hair and bowel distress. For her therapy Marisa choose to take aplement called MMS (Master Miracle Solution) as well as troot and burdock root (in supplement and whole form) indition to a macrobiotic diet. In a process of 6 to 8 weeks her symptoms disappeared. Marisa also felt she had good reworking with a chiropractor in NYC who did alternative theron her nervous system. Marisa says, I found it was crucial to all types of sugar (including fruits). In my most severe times, it trigger a are instantly. I follow a general plant-based diet practicing

robiotics for the past 10 years. I believe if I was not already doing ssymptoms would have been much worse. Go to www.kushiinstitute.o

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James Schumacher of Great Barrington, MA,who isin good health, nally tested positive for Ehrlichiosis (a Lcoinfection), but not Lyme, in 2011. For ve years priohad been experiencing extreme fatigue, brain fog, joint aand depression. James chose to use Stephen H. Buhners hal protocol (www.buhnerhealinglyme.com) for eight mowith modest improvement, and then did it again for a

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Bettina Zumdick from Lee, MA,who is now in good health,experienced terrible pain and stiffness in most joints for aboutve months before she tested clearly positive for Lyme. Herdoctors did not believe she had Lyme and did not want to giveher the test, but Bettina insisted and was proven right. She choseto use a custom-designed macrobiotic diet as her primary ther-apy with teasel root extract, Japanese knotweed, and stingingnettle tea. You can nd out more about her book, AuthenticFoods, at www.bettinazumdick.com.

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