Today we review my progress on healing my sore knee. It’s going OK, but now I’m off the bike until Sunday! My chiropractor thinks I need more down time. And then I’ll have to go slow and easy when I get back! But I want to heal so I can get in some good fall […]

PHOOEY. I did a dance video that included jumping, and sprained my knee. Now, with all that great fitness I got over the summer, I have to back off on my exercise. I can do light spinning and swimming. I’m also going to the chiropractor and acupuncturist, taking natural anti-inflammatories and stuff to rebuild my […]

Today is 9/11, so we talked about our hearts going out to those who perished, survivors, people who became gravely ill and even died from inhaling toxins during the firefighting and search and rescue efforts. We talked about how blessed we are that in our country this is not an everyday occurrence and yet we […]

Today we checked in with Ron who is mostly well, and is trying to dial in his thyroid dose. We are still waiting to see if his thyroiditis was chronic, genetic and set off by the Lyme, or if it was an acute thyroiditis caused by the Lyme which will ultimately resolve. We’ll only know […]

Today I found out that Whole Foods CEO John Mackey is not a huge fan of pseudo-meat products. There were some ingredients of vegan “hamburgers”, and some are better than others. They might have beans and vegetables, or they may have refined coconut oil and GMO canola oil. If you’re vegan, probably better to make […]

We had a good talk about the contagion of gun violence, how it’s a health hazard and a public health issue, how nutritional status can affect the likelihood of people to be violent. Also, statistics for gun violence in other countries. Important, sad, sobering.

We checked in with Ron again to see how he’s doing with his unfortunate Lyme and Hashimoto’s, and the reality is he’s got good days and bad days, but seeming to get some more of the good days. This is a long haul! I’m going to have to check his thyroid hormone levels to see […]

MORE stuff about Ron and his Lyme and Hashimoto’s, and also the incidence of Lyme in the state of CT by county. New London has the highest incidence, but we wonder if it’s underreported elsewhere. Ron makes the point that there is a lot of effort put into West Nile Virus which has an incidence […]

Update on Ron’s Lyme: turns out he has Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and is frankly hypothyroid! So, we prescribed him 50 mcg levothyroxine and will play with the dose to get it right. Then we discovered that he has a Lyme coinfection: babesiosis! He will be getting a week of atovaquone and azithromycin for that, and also […]

This week, we once again did an update on Ron’s Lyme treatment because we changed some things, and we talked about how we were going to handle his supplements based on his symptoms. We talked about the importance of binders and substances to carry the Lyme toxins and remnants of killed bacteria out of the […]