Integrative Lyme Solutions with Dr. Karlfeldt

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 p...

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 tak...

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 infect...

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 tre...

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 dow...

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...

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...

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 bo...

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 trigger...

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 do...

What if the fatigue, brain fog, and infections you've been fighting for years all trace back to the same root - a gut that never had a chance to recover? In this episode of Integrative Lyme Solutions, Dr. K sits down with Donna Gates, author of The Body Ecology Diet and founder of Body Ecology, to cover a lot of ground: long COVID, Lyme disease, candida, biofilms, autism, and why fermented foods d...

What if you passed a disease to your children before they were even born, and didn't find out until decades later? In this episode of Integrative Lyme Solutions, Dr. K sits down with Isabel Rose, chair of Mothers Against Lyme and board member of Project Lyme, to talk about congenital Lyme disease, what it is, why most OBs are unprepared for it, and what testing and treatment during pregnancy actua...

Twenty-five years of being dismissed, misdiagnosed, and told it was all in her head. By the time Elena Herning finally got answers, she had lost her home, her belongings, her ability to drive, and very nearly her life. In this episode of Integrative Cancer Solutions, Dr. K sits down with Elena Herning, patient advocate and TruDOSE™ ambassador, to trace her harrowing journey through undiagnosed Lym...

What if the illness that took everything from you, your career, your identity, your ability to bake a birthday cake, turned out to be the thing that finally saved your life? In this episode of Integrative Lyme Solutions, Dr. K sits down with Cara Pacific Campbell, patient advocate and author of Upspiraling, to trace her journey from high-powered corporate executive to bedridden with Lyme disease,...

What happens when your country's medical system refuses to believe you have the disease that's destroying your life? In this episode of Integrative Lyme Solutions, Dr. K sits down with Lachlan Onegin-Ward, a marine biologist and wildlife conservationist from Australia who contracted Lyme disease after being bitten by 17 ticks on a snake-spotting trip south of Sydney. What followed was a years-long...

Still struggling with fatigue, brain fog, and anxiety even after Lyme treatment? This is a special re-release of an important episode originally recorded in 2025 that we felt needed to be brought back. More patients than ever are dealing with stalled healing journeys, and one of the most overlooked reasons is mold toxicity. In this episode of Integrative Lyme Solutions, Dr. Michael Karlfeldt break...

Why do so many Lyme patients test negative while feeling anything but healthy? This is a special re-release of a powerful episode originally recorded in 2025. We felt it was too important not to bring back, especially as more people continue to struggle with confusing lab results and unanswered symptoms. The insights shared here are just as relevant today, if not more, and deserve to be heard agai...

What happens when Lyme disease is repeatedly dismissed even when the symptoms are clear? In this episode of Integrative Lyme Solutions, Dr. K speaks with Lyme advocate Amy Rose, who spent more than eight years searching for answers after being infected by a tick bite in 2008. Within days she developed severe flu-like symptoms and later discovered a large bullseye rash on her shoulder. Despite thes...

What if Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue, and even psychiatric symptoms are not random but driven by hidden infections? In this episode of Integrative Lyme Solutions, Dr. K sits down with research scientist and Lyme survivor Nikki Schultek to explore the infection hypothesis behind chronic disease. After battling years of misdiagnosed symptoms including asthma flares, interstitial...

What happens when Lyme disease goes undiagnosed for 15 years — and the emotional toll becomes just as devastating as the physical symptoms? In this episode of Integrative Lyme Solutions, Dr. K sits down with Susan Pogorzelski, author of The Last Letter: A Novel and founder of the Lyme Brave Foundation. Susan shares her 30-year journey through misdiagnosis, neurological decline, co-infections like...

Is chronic babesiosis finally getting the scientific attention it deserves? In this episode of Integrative Lyme Solutions, Dr. K sits down with Dr. Geoff Dow, CEO & President of Sixty Degrees Pharmaceuticals, to discuss a groundbreaking clinical trial targeting chronic babesiosis — a common and often overlooked Lyme co-infection. Originally developed for malaria prevention, the drug Tafenoquin...

Can Lyme disease begin before birth — and could it be driving neurodevelopmental conditions like autism, ADHD, and anxiety? In this episode of Integrative Lyme Solutions, Dr. K is joined by Dr. Somer DelSignore, a leading pediatric integrative clinician, to explore the overlooked science of congenital Lyme and in utero transmission of vector-borne infections. Dr. DelSignore explains how infections...

Why do so many Lyme patients stay sick — even after treating infections, detoxing, and “doing everything right”? In this episode of Integrative Lyme Solutions, Dr. K sits down with functional and environmental medicine pioneer Dr. Kelly McCann to explore why Lyme disease, mold toxicity, and Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) are rarely just infections — and why true healing requires addressing t...

What happens when your body is shutting down—but every scan, lab, and specialist says they “can’t find anything”? In this episode, we unpack the reality of Lyme-related neurological illness, the emotional toll of chronic disease, and what it takes to keep moving forward when healing isn’t linear. We’re joined by Dr. Kristi Hellenbrand, DC, chiropractor and author of Let Me Tell You a Secret…She Ma...

Dr. Eric Gordon—Medical Director at Gordon Medical Associates and President of the Gordon Medical Research Center—joins Dr. Karlfeldt for a wide-ranging conversation on what it really takes to help “end-of-the-line” patients with complex, chronic illness. With 45+ years of clinical experience and deep involvement in research on ME/CFS, Lyme disease, and autoimmune conditions, Dr. Gordon offers a g...