Lyme disease has been around for thousands of years. In fact, the oldest evidence for it was found in a 5300-year old ice mummy, which contained traces of the bacterium that causes Lyme. So would you believe that it’s only been recognized in the US for roughly half a...
While traditional antibiotic approaches work well for many people with Lyme disease, up to 20% have symptoms that persist after treatment. But although chronic Lyme – also known as post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PLTDS) – can seem mysterious (even...
“The world is facing a crisis of antibiotic resistance,” writes Dr. Robert Rowen in a paper just published in the journal Medical Gas Research. Thousands of patients die yearly in the USA from infections that have failed to respond to anti-infectives. Alarms have been...
As if one Lyme-causing bacterium wasn’t tricky enough – what with its multiple forms stimulating an array of symptoms that easily mimic other conditions – it seems there’s another microbe capable of triggering the same disease. Meet Borrelia mayonii, named after the...
Once upon a time, Lyme disease was considered an east coast thing – and something you could only get from hiking in the woods (as if ticks – the bugs whose bite causes Lyme – never ventured elsewhere). Once upon a time, it was thought that a bulls-eye rash was the...
What does healing from Lyme disease look like? Here’s how it looked for entertainer Debbie Gibson this past spring in Chile: All of us here in the office were honored to be a part of her process and elated to see her amazing recovery from the struggle she describes...
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