Immune boosters

Various medications and supplements have been described as “immune boosters” - substances which are stated as activating the immune response.

There are several reasons why a Marshall Protocol (MP) patient should be hesitant to use these substances:

1. Very few MP patients need any kind of an increase in immune response. In fact, most patients need to slow their immune response.
2. The molecular actions of immune boosters including the ways in which the substances interact with the nuclear receptors is relatively unknown. These substances may interfere with the MP medications.
3. Many have limited evidence of efficacy.

• allergy shots (immunotherapy)
• gamma-Globulins
• glyconutrients (D-mannose, D-ribose)

Some researchers have concluded that Borrelia burgdorferi use sugars as part of their metabolism, which would mean that consuming glyconutrients benefits bacteria.

An effort to determine which carbohydrates Borrelia burgdorferi consumes revealed that the organism utilizes the monosaccharides glucose, mannose and N-acetylglucosamine, as well as the disaccharides maltose and chitobiose.

Robert Bradford et al.¹