About Us
We help you find information about chronic infections
It all began with two friends that both have had medical problems and both have found a cure abroad. Today medicine is developing in a fast and accelerating rate all over the world. The mission of Silent Gene is to make information about new and effective tests and treatments available over national borders to help persons with difficult to cure diseases find treatment.
Infection Sherpa is a non profit organisation making information of treatments more accessible to people, and improving healthcare access and treatment for chronic infection diseases. As part of our commitment to supporting the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we are aligned with SDG 3, which aims to ensure good health and well-being for all. By providing affordable and high-quality medical services, we contribute to the promotion of good health and well-being and the UN's goal of reducing the global burden of disease while enhancing care quality for all.
Chronic infection are complex and often debilitating illnesses that Infection Sherpa is working towards reducing the burden of, on individuals and communities. By improving access to diagnostic testing, medication and personalised treatment plans, we are helping to also reduce the global burden of these diseases, improve healthcare access and enhance care quality for all. Through partnerships with leading laboratories and clinics, we provide information on the latest tests and treatments.
Overall, Infection Sharpas's commitment to improving healthcare access and treatment for chronic infections aligns with the UN's Sustainable Development Goal 3 of ensuring good health and well-being for all. We are proud to contribute to the SDGs and will continue to work towards creating a more sustainable and equitable future for all.
Arnulf v. Zedtwitz-Liebenstein
Founder
Harald Hynell, M. Sc.
Founder
“My friend helped me find a treatment in Germany that cured me from Lyme decease after 14 years of infection. With Infection Sherpa I hope to help others find a cure just as I did”
— Harald Hynell, co-founder of Infection Sherpa
Here is my story
Just before Christmas 2007 I suddenly became ill with symtoms like irregular heartbeats, cognitive impairment (brain fog), nausea, memory loss and mood swings. I also suffered from muscle pain, neck and back pain and I slept up to 14 hours a day but woke up 1-2 times an hour.
At this time I had a private health insurance that helped me find a physician working with infection diseases that, after a blood test (Borrelia IgG 1.94 Positiv, Borrelia IgM 0.14 Negativ, Normal is < 0.5), diagnosed me as having a Borreliosis infection in my central nervous system and gave me three weeks of Doxyferm.
Over the next year my irregular heartbeats gradually went away but the rest of my symtoms remained the same more or less.
During the next 14 years I met many different physicians, most of them found that I did’t have Lyme disease but without offering any other explanation for my symtoms. Some tried to help me find a specialist but I never found one in Sweden that wanted or could help me.
My condition had many not-so-good effects on both my personal and professional life, so in 2021 a good friend of mine had had enough and started to look abroad for solutions. As my friend is a native German speaker he focused on investigating clinics in Germany and came up with a short list of clinics specialised in Lyme disease. Some of them treating Lyme with long-term antibiotic treatments and some with other alternative therapies.
My first choice landed on BioMedical Clinic Speyer, a German clinic that had a lot of information on their internet site that confirmed my own general findings regarding Lyme disease. This led me to believe that the clinic had a good understanding of the challenges around Lyme disease. This clinic offered a therapy that I hadn’t heard about before: SOT. Supportive Oligonucleotide Therapy.
After some research on SOT and an online consultation with a physician, I traveled to Germany to take the PaldiSpot test from Biocentaur and a general DNA health test from DNAHealth. The results from PaldiSpot, showed that the PCR-test indicated the presence of Borrelia mayonii cells in my blood sample.
Blood drawn at my visit in Germany was sent to the RGCC lab that made a SOT that they sent back to the German clinic.
End of November 2021 I traveled to the clinic in Germany to get the SOT intravenously and then back to Sweden, where I started, by the recommendation of a friend, to enter the severity of my symtoms in a log book.
By the end of February I found that most of my symtoms were gone.
No more brain fog. No more nausea. No more memory loss. It feels like it had all been a dream. But the strange thing is that I can’t remember how I was before I got sick. I can’t remember that I ever was like I’m now. For example I wake up in the morning with energy. Can’t remember that ever happening before. I’m not a morning person. Surreal feeling. First my personality changed because of the Lyme disease and now I don’t know if I can’t remember how I used to be or if I have changed.
With all this new energy I contacted the clinic in Germany and asked if I could help them to get in contact with other Lyme patients in Sweden. This has developed to a co-operation that help people find SOT treatments. Today we are helping people all over Europe to find a clinic that can cure them from different tick-borne diseases.
I want other patients suffering like I did to experience the same feeling as I had when finally after all those years, to be healthy again.