Lyme Disease (Borreliosis)
Preventing Tick Bites By Wearing Gaiters
Ticks are nasty! Their bites can cause untold misery. The infections they transmit can cause disability and even death. We know too many people who have experienced bouts of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fev…
Are Tick-Borne Illnesses More of a Problem?
Summertime is tick season. As soon as temperatures start to climb, ticks come out of hibernation. That’s bad news for pets and people who like to get out into nature. Tick-borne illnesses have doubl…
How Can You Prevent Tick Bites?
As we move into summertime and look forward to outdoor activities such as biking, hiking and camping, a lot of people start to worry about Lyme disease. While this infection can be serious, it is not …
Show 1380: Avoiding Lyme and Other Tick-Borne Di…
In this episode, two experts draw on the latest research about avoiding Lyme disease and other infections that may be transmitted through tick bites. Why are these conditions so difficult to diagnose?…
Show 1322: Herbs for Healing and Optimal Wellnes…
In this episode of our nationally syndicated radio show, we talk with two physicians who have looked closely at the research on using herbs for healing. Sometimes, people dismiss the medicines we can …
Does It Make Sense to Order Your Own Laboratory …
At one time, only physicians could order laboratory tests such as thyroid-stimulating hormone or cholesterol. Now, however, many companies offer lab tests direct to consumers using the internet. Does …
Show 1341: Lessons Learned from Long Illness
You may not have thought much about long illness, but chances are you know someone who is suffering with one. The CDC estimates that some chronic condition afflicts as many as one in six American adul…
Do You Have Chronic Lyme Disease?
Lyme disease is caused by a pathogen called Borrelia burgdorferi that is transmitted through tick bites. Prompt treatment with antibiotics often leads to a complete cure. Some people, however, develop…
Show 1290: Approaches for Managing Chronic Pain …
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 50 million American suffer from debilitating chronic pain. Despite that number, in 2016 the agency issued stringent guideline…
A New Way to Prevent Lyme Disease
Tick bites can transmit a variety of serious diseases, including Lyme disease. A specific germ causes this infection. It is a spirochete in the genus Borrelia. In the US, B. burgdorferi is usually r…
Is There Lyme Disease in Your County?
Headlines this week report that Lyme disease cases are surging. Insurance claims between 2007 and 2021 for this tick-borne infection increased nearly fourfold in rural areas. The black-legged ticks th…
Warning: This Will Be a Bad Summer for Lyme Dise…
This may be an especially bad summer for Lyme disease, according to disease ecologists. The tick-borne infection caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi was named Lyme disease after Old Lyme Conn…
Show 1272: How Your Eyes Reveal Your Health
You may have heard that the eyes are the window to the soul. That could be difficult to prove, but scientists have now shown that the eyes offer significant clues to your overall health. Most exciting…
Show 1245: Overcoming Chronic Lyme and Post-COVI…
The COVID-19 pandemic has been raging through the world for more than a year. More than 455,000 people have died in the US, but the vast majority of people who become infected survive. Unfortunately, …
Do You Need a New Insect Repellent?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worries about diseases carried by mosquitoes and ticks like chikungunya, dengue fever, Zika, Lyme disease or Rocky Mountain spotted fever. The best way t…
Show 1205: How Do Patients’ Stories Shape …
How do doctors figure out what is wrong with a person and how they can be treated effectively? Traditionally, medicine has put great emphasis on the patient’s history, which usually means the patien…
Show 1204: How Brain Function Affects Mental Ill…
Mental health problems cause widespread disability in today’s world. Large numbers of people suffer with depression or severe anxiety. While these ailments are real, we may not be considering their …
Can You Kill Lyme Bacteria with Essential Oils?
Lyme disease can sometimes be hard to treat because the bacteria that cause it, Borrelia burgdorferi, can go dormant. When Lyme bacteria are not actively reproducing, antibiotics can’t kill them. Es…
Show 1128: What You Need to Know About Tick-Born…
If you’ve spent time out in the woods this summer, or if you hope to hike or bike outside, you need to know about ticks. Ticks are not just icky; they can also carry dangerous diseases. In fact, tic…
The Right Clothes Can Protect You from Ticks
Avoiding tick-borne diseases starts with preventing tick bites to the extent possible. Outdoor enthusiasts are turning to a new tactic: the right clothes, which are those coated with permethrin. Testi…
Will Coconut Oil Protect You from Mosquitoes and…
Preventing bites from mosquitoes and ticks could mean side-stepping a serious infection such as West Nile virus or Lyme disease. So it's no wonder people are on the lookout for ways to avoid these bit…
Ticks and Mosquitoes Responsible for More Diseas…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that diseases carried by ticks and mosquitoes are becoming far more common. New data from 2004 to 2016 shows that such vector-borne diseases…
Show 1081: What Do You Need to Know About Lyme D…
There's been a big increase in mouse populations in many places over the past year. As a result, the number of ticks is booming, and you have a greater chance of being bitten when you go outside. Coul…
Giant Generic Drug Scandal: Companies Accused of…
We have long suspected that something was rotten within the generic drug industry. Put aside questions about substandard factories in China and India or fraudulent test results. The latest bombshell t…
What Is the New Cause of Lyme Disease?
Scientists at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota have identified a new type of bacteria as a cause of Lyme disease. For decades, Lyme disease has been associated with infection with the bacteria Borrelia …
Why Does the Medical Establishment Get Defensive…
In early July of 2013, Jane Brody, a respected health journalist for the New York Times, wrote in her Personal Health column an article titled "When Lyme Disease Lasts and Lasts." In it she described …
CDC Drastically Increases Lyme Disease Estimate
Lyme disease is far more common than most public health officials realized. Until this week, the CDC estimated that between 20,000 and 30,000 Americans were infected with the bacteria that causes Lyme…
CDC Admits Lyme Rate Is 1000% Higher Than Expect…
The CDC is catching up with something that patients have known for a long time, ie, that Lyme disease is more common than most health professionals have realized. This week the Centers for Disease Con…
Tick-Borne Disease More Common
Add another serious disease to the list of tick-borne infections. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that babesiosis has become 20 times more common in the Lower Hudson V…