Lyme Disease: The Symptoms, Tests, and Treatments Doctors Miss

0:00What if the fatigue, brain fog, joint pain, or these mysterious symptoms you've been chasing for years don't trace back to stress, aging, or burnout, but to a tick bite you don't even remember?

0:12Nearly half a million Americans are diagnosed and treated for Lyme disease every year, and it remains one of the most misunderstood illnesses in medicine.

0:19Now many people never see the bullseye rash.

0:21Others are told it's all in their head.

0:23And for some, the symptoms persist long after treatment ends.

0:28Today we're going deep on what Lyme is and what its co-infections are and why they're so often missed.

0:34And most importantly, how we diagnose and treat them comprehensively from a functional medicine perspective.

0:40We're going to cover herbs, supplements, the roles and the limits of antibiotics, and a few innovative therapies that are generating real interest that I think need a lot more research, but that are, I think, hopeful and promising.

0:52And I've used a number of patients with success, including things like ozone, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and hyperthermia, which is inducing a temperature of fever, with honest caveats that each one deserves.