Lyme Patients Are Not Crazy How does such a tiny bacterium in such a tiny insect cause so many trouble? Lyme disease, like other biotoxin illnesses, inflicts a myriad array of symptoms. When Borrelia burgdorferi arrives in the bloodstream, fresh from a tick or some other blood-biting insect, it brings symptoms and disruptions to practically…
While government agencies like the CDC have to admit that the cases of acute Lyme disease are increasing, we come across a lot of online debate over whether Post Treatment Lyme Disease (PTLD) is real or not. Many of those online opinions are dismissed as not credible for various reasons, but when the mainstream medical…
Biohacking may not help those with complex chronic illness. Like many other areas of life, Medicine is divided into camps or approaches with different names and different camps work better for different issues. That makes some sense for why you should see a GI for gut problems versus a neurologist for brain issues, but it…
News headlines are intentionally designed to get attention, and the fact that the Centers for Disease Control just quietly, yet openly, acknowledged the existence of chronic Lyme and other chronic conditions should get your attention. My first reaction upon seeing the Facebook headline was to doubt the article’s truth- at least until I saw the…
Babesiosis rates are rising about 9% per year according to the fringe university called Penn State, and once again a mainline university points out what we already know. This parasite travels inside ticks along with other diseases like Lyme, ehrlichia, anaplasma, and others, ultimately infecting red blood cells after a tick bite. Most of the…
(Although originally published over 1 year ago, in the midst of the 2024 summer, it is good to remember articles like these when ticks are crawling up your leg.) We live in an age where the news, including medical research reports, can be spun in so many different directions to hide the truth that we…
Innovation deserves recognition, especially when it involves a bright new idea applied to an old problem like Lyme disease. While I am not a big fan of Duke University- I graduated from University of Kentucky-, I have to give these Duke scientists credit for their pharmaceutical engineering. By connecting a transport molecule to a light…
We live in an age where the news, including medical research reports, can be spun in so many different directions to hide the truth that we all know. Researchers reported that a “notably small percentage of children took longer than six months to recover from Lyme disease” but their definition of “notably small percentage” is…
Medical research would seem to hinge on the brand-new therapies coming out of major research labs pouring millions of dollars into the latest and greatest. Research into using an “out-dated” therapy like methylene blue would seem a waste of time. It now appears that the glory of those days has passed as we move into…
Welcome to our special series sharing insights and recent research from the MEDMAPS 2023 Spring Conference attended by Dr. Potter. MAPS stands for Medical Academy for Pediatric Special Needs and arose from the original Defeat Autism Now organization initially serving parents and providers caring for children with autism spectrum disorder). This Spring Conference focused not…