Lyme Ninja Radio - Lyme Disease & Related Health Topics

Greg Lee is the driving force behind the Lyme Research & Healing Center, GoodbyeLyme.com, and the creator of the Essential Oils for Stopping Lyme Disease Training. He is a world expert on using Chinese herbs, essential oils and alternative medicines and treatments for healing incredibly persistent Lyme disease and multiple chronic infections.

Jennifer Platt is a Doctor of Public Health and the CEO and Founder of TickWarriors which sells all-natural eco-friendly pest control that kills ticks, chiggers, mosquitoes, and other pests.

She is also the Co-Founder of Tick-borne Conditions United, a nonprofit whose mission is to provide reliable, accurate online education about tick-borne conditions such as Alpha Gal Syndrome.

Jennifer Platt is a Doctor of Public Health and the CEO and Founder of TickWarriors which sells all-natural eco-friendly pest control that kills ticks, chiggers, mosquitoes, and other pests.

She is also the Co-Founder of Tick-borne Conditions United, a nonprofit whose mission is to provide reliable, accurate online education about tick-borne conditions such as Alpha Gal Syndrome.

In this episode you will learn three things:

1) What Mast Cell Activation Syndrome is and what it does to your body

2) How it can exascerbate and interfere with treating Lyme Disease

3) What Dr. Tania Dempsey does to treat Lyme Disease

Dr. Tania Dempsey is an expert in chronic disease, autoimmune disorders and mast cell activation syndrome. Dr. Dempsey received her MD from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and her BS degree from Cornell University.

Dr. Dempsey uses integrative medicine to get to the patient's root cause(s) of their illness. Her purpose is to understand why people get sick and to help patients understand their body. Her practice, Armonk Integrative Medicine, is in Purchase NY.

In this episode you will learn three things:

The dangers of using doxycycline as an antibiotic

The time limit before Lyme Disease becomes chronic.

The best tests for diagnosing different types of tick borne infections.

Holly Ahern is an associate professor of microbiology at SUNY Adirondack who runs an undergraduate research lab. When Holly Ahern found out several years ago that her daughter’s mysterious illness was Lyme disease, she quickly immersed herself in the subject.

Dr. Ahern has become an advocate for developing a broader understanding of Lyme disease – one aimed at treating the chronic symptoms commonly reported by patients who were misdiagnosed or received inadequate treatment in the disease’s early stages.

In this episode you will learn three things:

The dangers of using doxycycline as an antibiotic

The time limit before Lyme Disease becomes chronic.

The best tests for diagnosing different types of tick borne infections.

Holly Ahern is an associate professor of microbiology at SUNY Adirondack who runs an undergraduate research lab. When Holly Ahern found out several years ago that her daughter’s mysterious illness was Lyme disease, she quickly immersed herself in the subject.

Dr. Ahern has become an advocate for developing a broader understanding of Lyme disease – one aimed at treating the chronic symptoms commonly reported by patients who were misdiagnosed or received inadequate treatment in the disease’s early stages.

In this episode you will learn three things:

1) What ticks carry Alpha - Gal

2) How this allergy is different from protein allergies

3)What Tick Borne Conditions United is doing to educate physicians

Beth Carrison was diagnosed with two tick-borne conditions, Lyme Disease and Alpha-gal Syndrome (aka the red meat allergy). She has been managing food allergies and Lyme disease, both her own and her families, since 1996. In 2018, Ms. Carrison co-founded Tick-Borne Conditions United (TBC United), with Dr. Jennifer Platt, and has been working with the federal Tick Borne Disease Working Group since 2019.

(From the Tick-borne United website. )

In this episode you will learn three things:

1) What ticks carry Alpha - Gal

2) How this allergy is different from protein allergies

3)What Tick Borne Conditions United is doing to educate physicians

Beth Carrison was diagnosed with two tick-borne conditions, Lyme Disease and Alpha-gal Syndrome (aka the red meat allergy). She has been managing food allergies and Lyme disease, both her own and her families, since 1996. In 2018, Ms. Carrison co-founded Tick-Borne Conditions United (TBC United), with Dr. Jennifer Platt, and has been working with the federal Tick Borne Disease Working Group since 2019.

(From the Tick-borne United website. )

In this episode you will learn three things:

1) What makes people with Lyme Disease want to help others.

2) Why setting up a support network is crucial to healing.

3) How sharing your experience and take years off of someone’s suffering.

Wana is a social media site that was created with the desire to help chronically ill people come together, find support, and share info on treatments and managing symptoms. Evan was inspired to create Wana after helping a friend get a Lyme diagnosis and realizing that he had sped her through 4 years of being sick and looking for an answer simply by sharing his own Lyme symptoms.

In this episode you will learn three things:

1) What makes people with Lyme Disease want to help others.

2) Why setting up a support network is crucial to healing.

3) How sharing your experience and take years off of someone’s suffering.

Wana is a social media site that was created with the desire to help chronically ill people come together, find support, and share info on treatments and managing symptoms. Evan was inspired to create Wana after helping a friend get a Lyme diagnosis and realizing that he had sped her through 4 years of being sick and looking for an answer simply by sharing his own Lyme symptoms.