Lyme Blog Posts
PATHOBIOME PERSPECTIVES: Do your eyes hold the key to brain fog?
Pathobiome Perspectives is an interview series exploring the role of infections in chronic neurological and psychiatric conditions—including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Lyme disease, and long COVID. By…
PATHOBIOME PERSPECTIVES: How microbes like Lyme may trigger Alzheimer’s
Pathobiome Perspectives is an interview series exploring the role of infections in chronic neurological and psychiatric conditions—including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Lyme disease, and long COVID. By…
PODCAST: “Doesn’t It Kill You?” — the Lyme lyric that stops a room cold
By Fred Diamond If you’ve ever struggled to explain what chronic Lyme disease really feels like with the confusion, the disappearing health, the disbelief from…
Lyme disease isn’t just physical symptoms. It can also hijack your brain.
By Kaitlyn Oleinik My Lyme journey didn’t begin with a catastrophic moment. It began subtly–too subtly. Years before my symptoms exploded, a family member spotted a…
The morning I couldn’t walk–and what finally healed me
by Dr. Melanie Stein The morning my legs wouldn’t move changed everything I thought I knew about health. Full-body tremors tore through me. I couldn’t…
PATHOBIOME PERSPECTIVES: Brain fog in chronic Lyme and long COVID
Pathobiome Perspectives is an interview series exploring the role of infections in chronic neurological and psychiatric conditions—including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Lyme disease, and long COVID. Recorded…
PATHOBIOME PERSPECTIVES: New interview series premiers Nov. 11
The AlzPI and PCOM Symposium is an annual interdisciplinary event focused on exploring the role of infections and the microbiome in chronic neurological and psychiatric…
PODCAST: Lyme Warrior and the quiet power of not giving up
By Fred Diamond When Lauren Lovejoy, founder of Lyme Warrior, joined me on the Love, Hope, Lyme podcast this week, she shared a story that…
Navigating disability insurance for Lyme disease
By Edward Dabdoub Lyme disease can cause serious and lasting impairments that make it impossible to work full-time. Yet, because symptoms of Lyme disease are…
PODCAST: The geography of denialism and the “no Lyme here” myth
By Fred Diamond Unfortunately, people suffering from the mysterious, lingering symptoms of Lyme disease have probably heard a familiar refrain from their medical practitioners: “You…
Titanium and tenacity: one woman’s fight for Lyme patients everywhere
Meghan Bradshaw gave the following speech at a recent fundraising dinner held by the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Educational Foundation. ILADEF is the educational…
Targeting Lyme at the genetic level: SOT’s emerging role
This is Part Two of a series on Supportive Oligonucleotide Therapy (SOT), a form of antisense oligonucleotide therapy. SOT is a personalized, gene-silencing treatment designed…