I am Sarah Vaughter from the health & beauty self-help site www.owndoc.com and I have suffered from Lyme neuroborreliosis since the mid nineties. I am a nutritionist and “health blogger”. My husband John has a Chemistry Ph.D and contributes greatly to our medical literature research.

I was lucky to make it to the new millenium, but since I started to take more of my treatment into my own hands, my health has slowly improved from regular trips to the cardiology ward and several years of thinking woukd succumb to the disease, to a level where I can do long hikes and use my brain the way I was more or less accustomed to.

I have spent years doing medical literature research on Lyme disease and chronic neurological syndromes such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Multiple Sclerosis. I went through many medical studies, often having to purchase them from online publishers. I corresponded with doctors, microbiologists and patients.

After more than a decade, I have come to the conclusion that many chronic, incurable brain diseases without officially known cause are in fact caused by infections. Infections with a special type of bacteria: Spirochetes. It is not a new idea and it certainly isn’t mine. It is based on microscopic findings by dozens of researchers, starting more than a hundred years ago. The idea is becoming incresasingly popular due to the emergence of new evidence.

My current view is that a large number of ALS cases – perhaps even the majority – are caused by an infection of the Borrelia spirochete, an insidious bacterium that multiplies so slowly that it often takes years to experience strong symptoms. Such a view is extremely controversial except amongst Lyme activists but I have collected enough supporting evidence to present it on this ALS website with many freely accessible articles. We also published a downloadable book, that also includes the stories of dozens of ALS patients that were diagnosed with Lyme and ultimately cured or died.The book is intended as a consise presentation of all arguments, suitable to make a case to a medical specialist or possibly help a family member with ALS to exclude Lyme disease.  The proceeds go to the upkeep of this site and further research and articles.

It is important not to give false hope to ALS patients. The name of this site is “ALS-Cure” but I only think a cure or a slow reversal of symptoms is attainable when treatment starts at an early stage. Especially deteriorated bulbar ALS patients may have no chance of survival, even when the best antibiotic therapy is administered. The reason for this is that often, severe cases of Lyme neuroborreliosis appear to be incurable, no matter how agressive the treatment. Catastrophic “dieoff” reactions are likely responsible for the early deaths commonly observed in bulbar ALS patients who participated in medical trials with antibiotics.

Our goal is to increase awareness that Lyme disease can mimic ALS, that Lyme neuroborreliosis is commonly misdiagnosed as ALS because Lyme tests are hardly ever done, that ALS is a symptom, not a disease unto itself and that ALS patients are usually not tested for Lyme – but they should. We also stress that Lyme testing is notoriously unreliable, and treatment is often sub-par. In short. If you have been diagnosed with ALS, there is a good chance you have Lyme disease instead.

Business address

Vaughter Wellness
Zürcherstrasse 161
CH-8010 Zürich
Switzerland