DNA Connexions: Hunting for Strains and Biofilms linked to Lyme Disease, Chronic Lyme Disease, and other Harmful Biofilms Lyme is a disease of the muscle, not the blood. Many think the disease is of the blood but this is a mistake. Lyme travels through the blood by a bite from an insect that last bit an infected animal or person (like a bad blood transfusion) through tick, mosquito, sand fly, flea, spider, etc. The only other way (and more rare) is through an organ transplant, a blood transfusion, or in utero (fetus) of an infected human. No wonder Lyme and other harmful biofilms are so difficult, if not impossible, to detect through the blood. As blood tests are designed to detect a response to the immune’s system harmful invader, toxin, bacteria, or organism. If the lyme is chronic and harboring in the muscle, tissue, and joints of the individual a blood test might now show because the immune system has been hacked and programmed to coexist alongside the lyme. DNA Connexions Lab offers a test designed to detect lyme and other harmful biofilms through a urine sample .The lab provides a take home kit to your doctor (complete with directions) and the patient takes home the kit and ships out to the lab when complete. Then, your doctor will take the results and interpret them alongside the lab, and share with you. Patients can take the kit test at the doctors office, however it is not recommended because the patient needs to do some light exercise (about 15-20 minutes of brisk walking) and then some deep tissue massage (a massage roller works too). Doing so allows the muscle to secrete the biofilms and toxins which is removed via your urine. The urine sample will show the lab if any of the harmful biofilms (lyme or others) are present, that may have been hiding in your blood samples. What goes in the body must come out, so often these urine tests give labs and your doctors more information than the average blood test. As you will note above, the highlighted strain is one still active or newly in remission, that the body is still removing. The Duncani strain, per our previous post, did not show in this most recent lab which is wonderful news as the absence of the biofilm shows that the strain is in remission and not effecting the body anymore. Healing is POSSIBLE, when we are given the right tools and information and specialists to guide us in recovery. Wishing you all a speedy recovery and clear road to remission as well. Manja!