Lyme Ninja Radio - Lyme Disease & Related Health Topics

Mari doesn’t know when or where she contracted Lyme disease. To make matters worse, she is terrified of bugs and screams when she sees one. Her main symptoms are overwhelming fatigue that has forced her to withdrawal from university to focus on on her health. I’m sure you will enjoy listening to Mari as much as I did.

Bill Harris has discovered a way to meditate as deeply as a Buddhist monk without spending years of training. Nearly two million people in 193 countries have used Bill’s programs to improve their health and happiness. Bill began teaching personal growth trainings in 1979 and since then has been involved in personal development for over thirty-five years. In his role as Director of Centerpointe Res...

Jason Earle What if your Brain Fog isn’t caused by a Lyme infection? Jason teaches us the nuts and bolts of determining if your house is toxic with mold. Mold toxicity can present exactly like Lyme disease. It’s important to know the difference. Jason is the founder of 1-800-GOT-MOLD. Jason Earle was misdiagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis when he was 4 years old. Additional testing found asthma, pneumo...

Dr. Jolene Ross is a licensed psychologist, and received a Ph. D. in Counseling Psychology from Boston College in 1985. Dr. Ross studied Quantitative EEG Analysis and its application to neurofeedback with K.H. Wong, Ph. D., who was associated with Harvard’s Epilepsy and Applied Neurophysiology Unit, Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Boston. She is the founder and director of Advanced Neurother...

Psychiatrist Robert C. Bransfield, MD explains how lyme is often mistaken for psychiatric problems and how inflammation caused by b. Burgdorferi damages your nervous system. Dr. Bransfield offers himself as a resource to help your physician understand the neurological component of Lyme. Dr. Bransfield is a board certified psychiatrist who graduated from Rutgers and the George Washington School of...

Jessica Labbe worked in Radio for 15 years, but the constant stress she was under was ruining her health and well-being. She started practicing yoga to cope, and eventually retired from Radio to concentrate on her health. When she moved from Vermont back to New Hampshire, she enrolled in a yoga teacher training program with YOGA New Hampshire. She is also certified to teach ChildLight Yoga, Yin Yo...

Alia Thabit first started dancing when she was sixteen, when she attended a belly dance class just down her street in Brooklyn NY. These classes sparked a passion that would inspire her for the next for decades. Alia has danced on three continents, six countries, and fifteen states, and presented seminars with international stars. In 2007 she discovered Sufi Master Dunya McPherson, who taught medi...

Valerie Lopata began training for the Pilates Method of Body Conditioning in 1998. In 2001 she received her certification and opened her studio, Bodywise Pure Pilates. She has continued her pilates education and most recently was one of five certified Pilates instructors to be chosen to work under Alycea Ungaro of Real Pilates NYC in 2013. Valerie brings with her 17 years of experience working wit...

Jenny Lelwica Buttaccio, OTR/L, is an Occupational Therapist and certified Pilates instructor whose life was transformed by Lyme Disease, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Interstitial Cystitis. She is creator of the DVD, New Dawn Pilates: pilates-inspired exercises adapted for people with pelvic pain. Jenny is a health and wellness advocate and blogger who writes about her personal healing journey wit...

Dan De Lion is an Earth Herbalist, Forager, Musician, and Teacher dedicated to working with Nature. He teaches through Return to Nature, providing classes, lectures, and seminars on wild food foraging, mushroom identification, herbal medicine making, as well as primitive and survival skills with a focus on wild foods and forest medicines. Dan grew up in a life full of exposure to plants in the her...

Lena Prisco moved to Martha’s Vineyard with her partner Arlene in 2007. At first she continued to work as vice president for the pharmaceutical company Paraxel, but soon took a job closer to home as a Lab Technician at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. In 2011 Lena became the Hospital’s Lab Director, where she took steps to bring Lyme Disease testing in-house. In 2011, the lab did 301,580 tests Sinc...

Jerry Simons graduated with honors in 1993 from Stony Brook’s Health Science Center with a Bachelor of Science degree in Cardio-Respiratory Sciences. He graduated from the Cornell Medical College Physician Assistant Program in 1995. Upon graduation he began to work for Dr. Joseph Burrascano in East Hampton, New York. After Dr. Burrascano retired 11 years later, Jerry began working at The Morrison...

Logan McCulloch contracted Lyme Disease on a camping trip to Mammoth Cave National Park in 2011. One morning he woke up to find more that 20 tiny deer tick nymphs. It became clear he became infected though he was not properly diagnosed until November. With the resources and information provided by the Lyme disease internet community, he found his way to the nearest Lyme Literate Medical Doctor (LL...

Katina is a graduate of Duke University and The Stillpoint School of Integrative Life Healing. After 5 years of misdiagnosis and 5 more years of treatments, Katina has overcome chronic Lyme disease. She is on a nationwide Lyme awareness campaign with her recovery memoir and guide, “Out of the Woods; Healing Lyme Disease – Body, Mind & Spirit,” an award finalist for 2011 Best Book in Health with US...

Dr. Matthew Edlund is an internationally recognized expert on rest, biological clocks, performance, and sleep. His previous books include “The Body Clock Advantage”, “Designed to Last”, and “Psychological Time and Mental Illness.” His new book, “The Power of Rest”, shows that rest is a skill that rebuilds, renews, and rewires mind and body, and can increase productivity, health and pleasure. He ha...

Dr. Donna Embree is the Director of the International College of BioEnergetic Medicine and President of BioEnergetic Resources. Her 20 years of clinical experience helped her create a system for creating sustainable results in healing chronic illness. Other practitioner became aware of her success in treating patients, and her role as a teacher and mentor to these people inspired her to create the...

In 2009 Karen came down with a case of Bells Palsy, after months of ineffective treatment and trips to specialists, a suggestion that her symptoms might be due to an underlying autoimmune disorder inspired her to do more research and the discovery of Lyme and Lyme symptoms in July 2010. Nowadays Karen is working to help the people of Australia learn about Lyme disease and other invisible illnesses...

Katie Polk was a marine and extreme sport athlete. She became infected with Lyme Disease, and was sick for about 5 years. She says that having Lyme disease completely transformed her life. As she says on her blog “From the struggle, I have become a better mother, a better friend, a better listener, more observant, less judgmental, and I have total balance in my life. The gift I want to share with...

Jason Boritz is a Filmmaker, Writer, Empowerment Coach and Entrepreneur. You can find his recent book, "The Ultimate Transformation", on his journey through Lyme Disease on Amazon.

Dr Richard Horowitz is a board certified internist in private practice in Hyde Park, N.Y. He is medical director of the Hudson Valley Healing Arts Center, an integrative medical center which combines both classical and complementary approaches in the treatment of Lyme Disease and other tick-borne disorders. He has treated over 12,000 Chronic Lyme disease patients in the last 28 years, with patient...

Dr. Bush was studying to be an engineer when a time volunteering at the Philippines ignited his passion for medicine. Zach Bush completed pre-med training and his baccalaureate degree in Spanish at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1997 and completed medical school in 2002 at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. Following medical school he and his family moved to Charl...

Dan Wolff is the president and founder of TickEase, Inc., a products manufacturing company whose mission is to provide safe and effective tools for removing and repelling ticks, facilitating tick testing and educating the public for the prevention of tick-borne illnesses like Lyme disease. TickEase is a proud preferred prevention partner of the University of Rhode Island’s TickEncounter Resource C...

Alison Perch was very young when she contracted Lyme. As a child she started suffering from migraines and by the time she was in 7th grade her neurological symptoms forced her out of school. For years she had a laundry list of physical and neurological symptoms that kept getting worse throughout her teens and into her 20s. She was 27 when she was finally diagnosed with Lyme Disease. And spent year...

Aaron's wife, Sarah had been suffering from undiagnosed Lyme disease for 18 years. They have experienced first hand the toll Lyme disease takes on families and relationships. Aaron was inspired by the Lyme Ninja Radio podcast, and has made his own called Lyme Voice. Dedicated to those who are suffering and living with Lyme Disease, they explore the often complex social and emotional aspects of Lym...

Alix Mayer earned an MBA at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern, and spent nearly a decade in research and strategy for Fortune 100 companies. She spent 18 years with undiagnosed Lyme Disease. Throughout the 1990s, Alix had been managing strange symptoms until a series of travel vaccinations left her severely disabled. She was sleeping for 15-16 hours a day, and suffered from...