Just Wondering...

It fascinates me that Lyme disease seems to be a domestic problem, although wild animals are carriers they don't seem to suffer from the symptoms of the disease. I have been looking and looking for, at the very least, a theoretical reason, today I found a possible connection...

"Wild animals generally make more vitamin C than domesticated animals"

(Levy, 2006).

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Interesting article: http://lymephotos.com/

The research in the above linked article points to a connection between vitamin C and Lyme disease... it also suggests the use of salt... which causes me to wonder... where do wild animals get their sodium in nature? I know that people put out salt licks, but those salt licks are not available for all wild animals. What are natural sources of sodium available to all wild animals?

Here is another article stating that wild animals have relatively high levels of vitamin c, generally...

"This automatic ability to adequately step up vitamin C production in the face of stress explains why so many wild animals tend to live healthy for their entire life spans until it is time to die. Conversely, generally vitamin C-depleted human beings will typically spend at least half of their lifetimes coping with one or more chronic diseases. Dogs and cats are generally somewhat healthier than people, but their limited vitamin C-synthesizing ability is eventually overwhelmed as they grow older and face greater cumulative toxic stresses, resulting in more disease than seen in wild animals. Even the rabbit, which can produce roughly five times as much vitamin C internally as the dog or cat, can be malnourished to the point of eventually dying from what appears to be a metabolic condition closely akin to scurvy" (Findlay, 1921). http://www.tomlevymd.com/book_preview/chapter1.html