Research Funded by Bay Area Lyme Foundation Identifies New Investigational Therapy Regimen Capable of Irreversibly Damaging Lyme Bacteria in Laboratory Tests 

Tim Haystead, PhD
By Bay Area Lyme Foundation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Research Funded by Bay Area Lyme Foundation Identifies New Investigational Therapy Regimen Capable of Irreversibly Damaging Lyme Bacteria in Laboratory Tests   Inspired by research that targets cancer tumors, these new findings in Lyme could also lead to novel R&D strategies for other diseases  PORTOLA VALLEY, Calif. November 1, 2023—Bay Area Lyme…

Stealth Invader: Unveiling Lyme’s Hidden Past

Kris Newby
By Bay Area Lyme Foundation

Ticktective Podcast Transcript   In this interview, author/filmmaker, Kris Newby, explains the murky history behind the US government’s involvement with Lyme disease and continued efforts to hide how the military’s bioweapons programs caused the spread of tick-borne pathogens. She explains how alliances between pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, university-based research teams, and the government led to…

A Broader Definition of Health Through Ancestral Learning, Diet and Better Understanding of the Human Body

Chris Kresser
By Bay Area Lyme Foundation

Ticktective Podcast Transcript   In this podcast episode, host Lia Gaertner interviews Chris Kresser, a renowned expert in functional medicine and ancestral health. Kresser shares his personal health journey, which involved struggling with chronic illness and eventually finding his way to functional medicine. He discusses the importance of zooming in and zooming out in managing…

Infectious Minds: Unraveling the Link Between Infections & Psychiatric Disorders

Robert Bransfield, MD
By Bay Area Lyme Foundation

Ticktective Podcast Transcript   In this interview, psychiatrist Dr. Robert Bransfield explains the links between neuropsychiatric disorders and infections. He recounts his successes treating patients who repeatedly fail to respond to conventional interventions. Dr. Bransfield describes how clinical diagnoses of infection, along with correct administration and interpretation of testing, plus treating patients with antibiotics can,…

Foundational Work Scores Results

John Aucott, MD
By Bay Area Lyme Foundation

BAL 10-year Anniversary Series   10 Years of Collaboration Bringing Hope: How Dr. John Aucott’s Relationship with Bay Area Lyme Helped Get Groundbreaking Biobanks Launched to Fuel the Research Engine of Lyme Disease Investigations   In this blog, part of our 10-year anniversary blog series, we talk with John Aucott, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine…

How to Diagnose if Lyme Disease is Affecting the Heart and How to Best Treat It

Adrian Baranchuk, MD
By Bay Area Lyme Foundation

Ticktective Podcast Transcript   Dr. Adrian Baranchuk, Professor of Medicine at Queen’s University in the Division of Cardiology in Ontario, Canada discusses his screening process for identifying Lyme infections in the heart and how to treat these patients without unnecessary pacemakers. He has published research and spoken on the topic of Lyme carditis at numerous…

On the Front Lines of Lyme Treatment: A Conversation with Pioneer Kenneth Liegner, MD

Kenneth Liegner, MD
By Bay Area Lyme Foundation

Ticktective Podcast Transcript   In this conversation between Ticktective™ host Dana Parish and pioneering physician Kenneth Liegner, MD, the discussion focuses on how Dr. Liegner, frustrated and perplexed by the lack of options for persistent/chronic Lyme, came to prescribe disulfiram—a drug intended to treat alcoholics—as an off-label therapeutic for his Lyme patients. He recounts what…

ALL ABOUT KIDS WITH LYME, PANS, MOLD ILLNESS

DAna Parish interviews Dr Charlotte Mao
By Bay Area Lyme Foundation

Ticktective Podcast Transcript   In this conversation between Ticktective™ host Dana Parish and Harvard-trained pediatric infectious diseases specialist Charlotte Mao, MD, the discussion focuses on how Dr. Mao gradually moved away from the narrow view of Lyme disease and began to champion understanding and therapeutics for children suffering from persistent Lyme. They explore tick-borne diseases…