Integrative Lyme Solutions with Dr. Karlfeldt

By Dr. Michael KarlfeldtAlternative Health Health & Fitness Nutrition

Integrative Lyme Solutions with Dr. Karlfeldt episodes

November 02Why Your Lyme Treatment Isn't Working Yet | Dr. Jenna Saxton
Why do so many people with chronic Lyme disease stay stuck, even after doing everything their doctor asks?
In this episode of Integrative Lyme Solutions, Dr. K talks with Dr. Jenna Saxton, DO, principal practitioner at Roots Integrative Medicine in Marble Falls, Texas, about why Borrelia is rarely the whole story.
She explains why mold often has to be cleared first, why she doesn't want patients powering through a herx, and why she gives a regimen twelve weeks before switching. If you've been cycling through Lyme protocols without lasting progress, start here.
Key Takeaways
Chronic Lyme is rarely just Borrelia: Babesia, Bartonella and co-infections
Mold and Lyme: why clearing mold first helps the body fight tick-borne infection
Herxheimer reactions: why she lowers the dose instead of powering through
Lyme treatment timeline: why she gives a regimen 12 weeks before switching
Post-Lyme recovery: rebuilding mitochondria, the nervous system and immunity
Schedule a Free 15-Min Cancer/Lyme Consultation at The Karlfeldt Center: 208-338-8902
Resources Mentioned:

Roots Integrative Medicine - https://rootsintegrativemedicine.com
Horowitz MSIDS Questionnaire - https://cangetbetter.com
IGeneX - https://igenex.com
Vibrant Wellness - https://vibrant-wellness.com
T Labs ILADS (International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society) - https://www.ilads.org
Celwel - https://celwel.com
Medical Disclaimer: This content is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or replace professional medical advice. Always consult your physician or qualified healthcare provider regarding any medical condition or treatment decisions.
35 min
October 26Why Some Recover From Lyme and Others Don't | Dr. Liz Graves
Is your Lyme brain fog coming from the infection, or from a gut that can't make the neurotransmitters your brain runs on?

On Integrative Lyme Solutions, Dr. K talks with Dr. Liz Graves, DC, a chiropractor and metabolic health expert with nearly two decades in practice and the founder of Back 2 Real Food, about the body Lyme lands in.

She covers how to protect your gut while on doxycycline, why taking the same probiotic for years can backfire, and her 300-year rule for eating real food. If Lyme treatment hasn't cleared your fog, start here.

Key Takeaways:
Lyme brain fog: why the gut and the infection often both need treatment
Doxycycline and gut health: probiotics, binders and gut lining support
Probiotics for years and no change? Why diversity beats a single strain
Seed oils, cell membranes and the 300-year rule for eating real food
Elimination diets, carnivore and vegan: why no diet should be forever
Schedule a Free 15-Min Cancer/Lyme Consultation at The Karlfeldt Center: 208-338-8902

Resources:
Back 2 Real Food - https://www.back2realfood.com/
Gut Zoomer by Vibrant Wellness - https://vibrant-wellness.com/tests/gut-zoomer
Tiny Health - https://www.tinyhealth.com
Medical Disclaimer: This content is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or replace professional medical advice. Always consult your physician or qualified healthcare provider regarding any medical condition or treatment decisions.
32 min
October 19I Treated Lyme With Viruses Already Inside Me | Dr. Chris Molda
Can the viruses already inside you help fight chronic Lyme disease?
In this episode of Integrative Lyme Solutions, Dr. K talks with Dr. Chris Molda, a licensed chiropractor who ran a functional wellness practice for 20+ years until black mold, COVID, parasites and Lyme took him down in 2021.
He explains how high-dose zeolite and phage therapy, which switches on viruses already living inside infections like Borrelia, worked when standard protocols barely moved the needle. If you're cycling through supplements without lasting relief, start here.
Key Takeaways:
Chronic Lyme, mold and parasites cut his work to one day a week
Negative Lyme test? Why he treated Lyme anyway and felt a shift in 24 hours
Zeolite detox: 60+ grams a day to catch toxins and ease detox reactions
Phage therapy for Lyme: switching on viruses already inside the infection
Schedule a Free 15-Min Cancer/Lyme Consultation at The Karlfeldt Center: 208-338-8902

Resources:

Dr. Chris Molda - https://drmolda.com/
Lyme Made Simple - https://lymemadesimple.com
Medical Disclaimer: This content is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or replace professional medical advice. Always consult your physician or qualified healthcare provider regarding any medical condition or treatment decisions.
44 min
October 12Dr. Marie Matheson | Mold, Lyme Disease and Microdosing GLP-1 for Chronic Illness
What if the reason your Lyme treatment stopped working has nothing to do with Lyme at all?
In this episode of Integrative Lyme Solutions, Dr. K sits down with Dr. Marie Matheson, a naturopathic doctor and co-founder of BioHeal Ottawa, who has spent twenty years treating complex chronic illness. Dr. Matheson traces her path back to a tick bite in her own family, and to the moment, a decade into treating Lyme disease, when she realized a stuck subset of her patients were not failing to improve because of Lyme. They were living with mold.
She explains why she now estimates 80 to 90 percent of her Lyme patients are also dealing with mold toxicity, and why treating the mold often has to come before Lyme treatment can work at all. The conversation moves into microdosing tirzepatide, a GLP-1 GIP peptide she prescribes at a fraction of the standard weight loss dose to calm mast cell activation, joint pain and brain inflammation in her chronic illness patients, along with the detox precautions she builds in when a patient starts losing weight quickly on a GLP-1. If you have been stuck in Lyme disease treatment with no clear answer for why you are not improving, this conversation gives you a place to look you may not have considered.
Key Takeaways:
Why Dr. Matheson now believes 80 to 90 percent of her Lyme disease patients are also dealing with hidden mold toxicity
Microdosing tirzepatide, a GLP-1 GIP peptide, for mast cell activation, joint pain and brain inflammation in Lyme patients
The Goldilocks dose: why 0.33 to 2 milligrams of a GLP-1 outperforms standard weight loss doses for complex chronic illness
Why fat tissue stores toxins, and the liver detox and drainage protocol needed before rapid weight loss on a GLP-1
Why Dr. Matheson starts empirical treatment for Lyme and Babesia before lab results even come back

Schedule a Free 15-Min Cancer/Lyme Consultation at The Karlfeldt Center: 208-338-8902

Resources:
BioHeal Ottawa - https://biohealottawa.com
Pure Peptide Collective - https://www.purepeptidecollective.com

Medical Disclaimer: This content is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or replace professional medical advice. Always consult your physician or qualified healthcare provider regarding any medical condition or treatment decisions.
36 min
October 05 Dr. Richard Horowitz | Lyme, Alzheimer's and the 16 Hidden Causes of Chronic Illness
What if the chronic fatigue, brain fog, or unexplained pain you've been living with for years traces back to something your doctor never tested for?
In this episode of Integrative Lyme Solutions, Dr. K sits down with Dr. Richard Horowitz, a physician who has treated over 13,000 chronically ill patients across four decades, to talk about his new book, Ending Chronic Illness. Dr. Horowitz breaks down the 16-point MSIDS model, a framework connecting chronic Lyme disease to Alzheimer's, autoimmune conditions, long COVID, ADHD, and dozens of other diagnoses through a single shared driver: chronic inflammation. He shares how patients written off by conventional medicine walked, talked, and thought clearly again once the real source of their illness was identified.
This conversation covers the Dapsone protocol for biofilm-forming Lyme bacteria, a groundbreaking case reversing an Alzheimer's biomarker by 63 percent, and why Dr. Horowitz believes the current one-disease, one-drug model is failing patients with complex chronic illness. If you or someone you love has been chasing answers without success, this episode offers a new way to look at the problem.
Key Takeaways:

0:00 Introduction
2:01 Why Dr. Horowitz wrote Ending Chronic Illness
9:15 The 16-point MSIDS model explained
10:54 The wheelchair patient who turned out to have babesia
24:48 Reversing an Alzheimer's biomarker by 63 percent in nine weeks
32:24 Inside the Dapsone protocol and required testing
38:00 Free resources: the Medical Detective Substack and Lyme questionnaire

Schedule a Free 15-Min Cancer/Lyme Consultation at The Karlfeldt Center: 208-338-8902

Resources:

Get Dr. Richard Horowitz’s new book - https://cangetbetter.com/ending-chronic-illness/
Medical Detective Substack - https://medicaldetective.substack.com
Lyme Questionnaire - https://cangetbetter.com
IGeneX Lyme Testing - https://igenex.com

Medical Disclaimer: This content is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or replace professional medical advice. Always consult your physician or qualified healthcare provider regarding any medical condition or treatment decisions.
47 min
September 14Dr. Tom Cowan | Lyme Disease, Antibody Testing and the Contagion Myth
What if the test that diagnosed your Lyme disease, and the theory behind it, was never actually proven in the first place?
In this episode of Integrative Lyme Solutions, Dr. K sits down with Dr. Thomas Cowan, a physician and author of The Contagion Myth, for a conversation that questions one of the most basic assumptions in the Lyme disease world: that borrelia has actually been shown to cause the illness. Dr. Cowan spent years as an ER doctor before turning his attention to what he calls the unexamined foundations of modern medicine, and in this conversation he walks through why he believes the original Lyme research, the antibody tests built on it, and even the concept of an immune system itself don't hold up to the kind of scrutiny any other medical claim would require.
They get into the 1980s study that first linked spirochetes to Lyme disease, why Dr. Cowan says antibody tests can't be trusted to identify anything specific, and what he does instead when a patient walks in exhausted, in pain, and carrying a diagnosis that hasn't made them any better. If you've ever been told you have chronic Lyme disease and felt like the label explained less than it promised, this conversation offers a different way to think about what's actually happening in your body.

Key Takeaways:
Why Dr. Thomas Cowan argues the original Lyme disease study never proved borrelia causes the illness
The case against Lyme antibody testing: why a positive IgG or IgM result may not mean what patients are told it means
Why long-term antibiotic use, not lingering infection, may explain chronic Lyme disease symptoms for some patients
Dr. Cowan's approach to chronic illness: treating a patient's health history instead of the Lyme disease label
Why there is no clinical definition of Lyme disease, and what that means for anyone diagnosing themselves off a bullseye rash or brain fog
Schedule a Free 15-Min Cancer/Lyme Consultation at The Karlfeldt Center: 208-338-8902

Resources:

The New Biology Clinic - https://newbiologyclinic.com/

Medical Disclaimer: This content is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or replace professional medical advice. Always consult your physician or qualified healthcare provider regarding any medical condition or treatment decisions.
46 min
August 24 Linda Fraas | Fibromyalgia Symptoms, Root Causes & Natural Pain Management Without Medication
What if the fatigue, pain, and brain fog you have been told is just stress or aging actually has a name, and a path forward? In this episode of Integrative Lyme Solutions, Dr. K sits down with Linda Fraas, a former occupational therapist turned certified fibromyalgia health coach, who was diagnosed with fibromyalgia herself after nearly 30 years of treating patients with chronic conditions. Linda shares what it actually felt like to be dismissed by a physical therapist who told her the pain was all in her head, and how she went from carrying heavy equipment through daily flare ups to walking two and a half miles several times a week on zero fibromyalgia medication.

The conversation breaks down what fibromyalgia is, why it is still so hard to diagnose, and the tools that helped Linda reclaim her life: energy conservation, sleep hygiene, an anti-inflammatory diet, gentle daily movement, and a functional medicine approach that looks past a normal blood panel to catch what is actually driving the flare ups. If you or someone you love has been told there is nothing more that can be done for their pain, this episode offers a different way forward.

Key Takeaways:
0:00 Introduction
1:11 From occupational therapist to living with fibromyalgia herself
3:29 What fibromyalgia actually is and why it is so hard to diagnose
6:34 A physical therapist told her the pain was all in her head
8:43 The phone battery analogy for a fibromyalgia flare up
14:27 The diet and movement changes that got her off all medication
25:54 Why functional medicine digs deeper than a normal blood panel

Schedule a Free 15-Min Cancer/Lyme Consultation at The Karlfeldt Center: 208-338-8902

Resources Mentioned:
Torchlight Vitality (Linda Fraas coaching) - https://www.torchlightvitality.com
Contact Linda - [email protected]

Medical Disclaimer: This content is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or replace professional medical advice. Always consult your physician or qualified healthcare provider regarding any medical condition or treatment decisions.
30 min
August 10 Mo Pritzker | How She Reversed Lyme Disease Using Neuroplasticity, Not Antibiotics
What if the missing piece in your Lyme recovery isn't another antibiotic protocol, but your brain itself?
In this episode of Integrative Lyme Solutions, Dr. K sits down with Mo Pritzker, Co-Founder of re-origin, who spent two years cycling through doctors and alternative treatments for Lyme disease before finally getting better, only to relapse even harder. It wasn't until a doctor handed her a book on neuroplasticity that everything shifted. Mo shares how brain retraining calmed her dysregulated limbic system, helped her body return to homeostasis, and led to being Lyme free for ten years, including a Lyme test that eventually came back negative.
This conversation goes beyond killing the pathogen and into what actually keeps people stuck: a nervous system stuck in survival mode. Mo breaks down the "pause" technique she uses to interrupt negative thought loops, why healing chronic illness is as much a crisis of the whole person as it is a physical one, and why community and coaching were just as critical to her recovery as any protocol. If you're navigating Lyme disease and feel like you've tried everything, this episode offers a piece of the puzzle you may not have considered yet.
Key Takeaways:

0:00 Introduction
1:11 From serial entrepreneur to sudden health collapse
3:07 The perfect storm that broke her body down
9:20 A doctor handed her a book that changed everything
11:24 Why neuroplasticity worked when other therapies didn't
17:35 How her brain turned a positive Lyme test negative
25:27 The pause technique for breaking negative thought loops
34:01 Where to find the re-origin community

Schedule a Free 15-Min Cancer/Lyme Consultation at The Karlfeldt Center: 208-338-8902

Resources:

re-origin - https://www.re-origin.com/
The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge - https://normandoidge.com/

Medical Disclaimer: This content is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or replace professional medical advice. Always consult your physician or qualified healthcare provider regarding any medical condition or treatment decisions.
38 min
July 27 Dr. Scott McMahon | Chronic Lyme, mold illness and the CIRS connection doctors miss
What if the reason your Lyme treatment isn't working has nothing to do with the infection itself?
In this episode of Integrative Lyme Solutions, Dr. K talks with pediatrician Dr. Scott McMahon, Medical Director at Moldco, about the immune system reaction that keeps so many chronic Lyme patients sick long after the bacteria are gone. Dr. McMahon explains how dead pathogen fragments can keep triggering the innate immune system, why standard labs like CBC and CRP almost always miss it, and which specific markers (TGF-beta 1, MMP9, C4a) tell the real story. He also walks through his treatment approach with binders, a low-amylose diet, and VIP peptide therapy, and shares data from his work on children with recurrent headaches, stomach issues, and PANS/PANDAS whose symptoms resolved once the underlying inflammatory response was addressed.
This conversation covers what chronic inflammatory response syndrome (CIRS) is, why it so often overlaps with Lyme and mold illness, and how the hypothalamus, blood-brain barrier, and autonomic nervous system get pulled into the mix. If you've been treating the infection but still aren't getting better, this episode explains the piece that's likely missing.

Key Takeaways:

0:00 Introduction
0:53 Immune response drives chronic Lyme symptoms
2:53 Key labs standard testing misses
6:30 Dead pathogen fragments trigger the immune system
9:33 Binders, diet and VIP reset the response
16:57 Kids' unexplained symptoms trace back to CIRS
30:00 CIRS disrupts the blood-brain barrier and hormones
35:26 Low-cost telehealth model closes the access gap

Schedule a Free 15-Min Cancer/Lyme Consultation at The Karlfeldt Center: 208-338-8902

Resources:

Moldco - https://www.moldco.com
Surviving Mold (Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker) - https://www.survivingmold.com
IncellDx (Dr. Bruce Patterson) - https://www.incelldx.com
Klinghardt Institute (Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt) - https://klinghardtinstitute.com/

Medical Disclaimer: This content is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or replace professional medical advice. Always consult your physician or qualified healthcare provider regarding any medical condition or treatment decisions.
43 min
July 13 Dr. Jonathan Streit | Why Killing Lyme Isn't the Answer: Terrain Theory, Microglial Activation & the BioRestorative Method
What happens when every antibiotic, every protocol, every specialist leaves your loved one worse, not better? For Dr. Jonathan Streit, that wasn't a hypothetical. It was his wife, wasting away, while he carried her to the bathroom and raised a toddler. That breaking point became the foundation of everything he now does for Lyme patients.

In this episode of Integrative Lyme Solutions, Dr. K sits down with Dr. Jonathan Streit to unpack why killing the infection is only part of the picture, and often the wrong place to start. They dig into his BioRestorative Method, which targets six interconnected systems including the autonomic nervous system, gut microbiome, and neuroplastic retraining. Dr. Streit also introduces a concept most Lyme-literate practitioners aren't talking about: microglial activation, the brain's immune response that can keep you sick long after the infection is gone. If you've done everything right and still don't feel well, this episode may finally explain why.
Key Takeaways:

0:00 Introduction
1:36 How Dr. Streit's wife's battle with Lyme changed his entire career path
8:07 Why eight rounds of antibiotics made her worse and the moment he said "we're done"
10:49 The BioRestorative Method's six-system approach to healing Lyme
14:31 Why Dr. Streit doesn't believe in the Herxheimer reaction
17:03 Tailored protocols over stock supplements and why cookie-cutter Lyme treatment fails
25:00 Silent Spark: how microglial activation keeps you sick after the infection clears
29:27 Why limbic retraining programs have limited results without addressing microglial activation

Schedule a Free 15-Min Cancer/Lyme Consultation at The Karlfeldt Center: 208-338-8902

Resources:

Silent Spark by Dr. Jonathan Streit - https://a.co/d/00rWB06X
Angels and the Assassin by Donna Jackson Nakazawa - https://a.co/d/0hwOML6O
IFM (Institute for Functional Medicine) - https://www.ifm.org
DNRS (Dynamic Neural Retraining System) - https://www.retrainingthebrain.com
Gupta Program - https://www.guptaprogram.com
Primal Trust - https://www.primaltrust.org

Medical Disclaimer: This content is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or replace professional medical advice. Always consult your physician or qualified healthcare provider regarding any medical condition or treatment decisions.
36 min