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Dr. Casey Kelley: From Lyme & Mold to Optimum Health

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Bay Area Lyme Leading the Way Series

In a powerful Ticktective™ episode, host Dana Parish sits down with Casey Kelley, MD, Founder and Medical Director of Case Integrative Health, to unpack the complex world of Lyme disease, mold toxicity, environmental illness, and whole-body healing. Dr. Kelley had her own health journey with chronic fatigue, POTS, and other symptoms that led her to specialize in Lyme, tick-borne diseases, mold illness, long COVID, and other complex chronic illnesses. She brings clarity, compassion, and years of integrative and functional medicine experience to help patients understand what’s driving persistent symptoms and what true recovery can look like.

“The nervous system is utterly important to healing. And that entire system gets really thrown off with chronic infections exactly the same way that trauma with a capital T will cause dysfunction in the system.”

– Casey Kelley, MD

Dr. Casey Kelley: From Lyme & Mold to Optimum Health

By Bay Area Lyme Foundation

Casey Kelley, MD

Dr. Casey Kelley, MD, is a board-certified family medicine physician and one of the first to earn certification in integrative medicine. Founder and medical director of Case Integrative Health in Chicago, she specializes in functional medicine to address root causes of chronic conditions like Lyme disease and mold toxicity. A graduate of Ohio State University College of Medicine (2007), she completed residency at St. Joseph Hospital, lectures nationally on integrative topics, and serves on faculty at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine.

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Dr. Jyotsna Shah: Inside IGeneX’s Game-Changing Lyme Test

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Jyotsna Shah, PhD

Dr. Jyotsna Shah is an immunologist and molecular biologist with over 40 years of experience in diagnostic tools for tick-borne diseases. She holds a Ph.D. in diagnostic immunology from the University of Nairobi and conducted postdoctoral work at Harvard University. Shah joined IGeneX in 1997, becoming Laboratory Director in 2003 and now serving as President and CEO.

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Dr. Joe Burrascano: A Masterclass on Tick-Borne Illness

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Dr. Joe Burrascano

Dr. Joseph J. Burrascano Jr., a pioneer in the field of Lyme, began his practice in East Hampton, NY, in 1981, where he identified and detailed the clinical aspects of Lyme in a high-prevalence area. Renowned for his groundbreaking diagnostic and treatment guidelines since 1984, he has advised the CDC, NIH, and U.S. Senate, authored extensive publications, and is a founding member of ILADS, continuing to educate globally.

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The Lyme-Mold Connection: An Incredible Guide to Healing

By Bay Area Lyme Foundation

Bay Area Lyme Quick Bites Series

“I think I prevented a lot of chronic Lyme cases by doing adequate early treatment. But I had a subset of patients who just were not getting better. These cases had either a current or a past exposure to mold.”

– Jill Crista, ND

In this latest episode of Ticktective^™, our host, Dana Parish, talks with Dr. Jill Crista, a leading expert on the diagnosis and treatment of toxic mold exposure and illness. Dr. Crista started her practice in southern Wisconsin, which is often in the top five states for Lyme disease cases, even though Lyme is often thought of as a Northeast issue.

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Parish and Crista discuss the complex nature of mold toxicity, including its impact on the immune system, the brain, and various organ systems. Crista emphasizes the importance of identifying the underlying causes of mold exposure, such as water damage and poor indoor air quality, rather than just addressing the symptoms.

Dr Jill Crista: The Lyme-Mold Connection: An Incredible Guide to Healing

By Bay Area Lyme Foundation

Dr. Jill Crista

Dr. Jill Crista is a pioneering naturopathic doctor, best-selling author, devoted educator, and creative innovator. Her superpower is to make complex medical concepts simple and digestible for the average person. Dr. Jill focuses on conditions that cause injury to the brain and nervous system, including mold, PANS and PANDAS, Lyme disease, and concussion.

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Dr. Neil Nathan: When You’re Not Getting Better: Bestselling Author & Chronic Illness Expert Has Answers!

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Dr. Neil Nathan

Dr. Neil Nathan is a renowned physician and bestselling author specializing in the treatment of chronic illness, particularly those related to environmental toxins, vector-borne infections, and complex systemic disorders. With decades of experience in clinical practice, he focuses on understanding the impact of toxins on health and is dedicated to helping patients recover from illnesses that conventional medicine often struggles to address. His bestselling book, “Toxic: Heal Your Body from Mold Toxicity, Lyme Disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, and Other Chronic Environmental Illnesses,” provides a comprehensive guide to recognizing, diagnosing, and treating various chronic conditions linked to environmental factors.

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Pathogens & Persistence: The Chronic Disease Drivers

By Bay Area Lyme Foundation

Dr. Steven Phillips

Steven E. Phillips, MD, is a Yale-trained expert on zoonotic infections and coauthor of the book CHRONIC. He specializes in treating medicine’s most complex cases, which include Lyme & other vector-borne disease and Long COVID. Additionally, he has served as an expert for the states of CT, NY, RI, and VT, providing testimony during their respective public hearings, which resulted in changes to existing healthcare laws. Dr. Phillips has been a longstanding public face of the Lyme pandemic. He is currently spearheading a drug development effort to bring the public a durable, effective treatment for some of these infections, which will hopefully change how we treat a range of rheumatologic and neurologic illnesses. Dr. Phillips also sits on the Bay Area Lyme Foundation’s scientific advisory board.

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The Toxic Truth: Mold, Lyme, and Helping Gwyneth Paltrow Get Well

By Bay Area Lyme Foundation

Mike Rubino

Michael is an air quality expert, author, and founder of HomeCleanse, a go-to source for information, services, and products to create healthier living through cleaner indoor air. A specialist in working with people who are immunocompromised or have acute and sustained reactions to mold exposure, Michael’s scientific understanding has enabled him to create change, via alternative remediation.

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Dr. Akiko Iwasaki, Voted TIME100 Most Influential Person in Health, Discusses the Battle Against Infectious Disease

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Akiko Iwasaki, PhD

Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, is a Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale University, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in Canada and her postdoctoral training from the National Institutes of Health. Her research focuses on the mechanisms of immune defense against viruses at the mucosal surfaces, and the development of mucosal vaccine strategies. She is the co-Lead Investigator of the Yale COVID-19 Recovery Study, which aims to determine the changes in the immune response of people with long COVID after vaccination. Dr. Iwasaki also leads multiple other studies to interrogate the pathobiology of long COVID, both in patients, and through developing animal models of long COVID. Dr. Iwasaki was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018, to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019, to the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2021, and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.

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