Lyme Ninja Radio - Lyme Disease & Related Health Topics

After Hurricane Katrina, Brenna Faulk and her family moved from Louisiana to Montana. She was sick off and on for several years, deteriorating rapidly after coming down with what she thought was strep throat, but she never got better. This sent her to a series of doctors, first to her local doctors, then out to the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Az, and finally out to a doctor in California, who prescrib...

Dave Skidmore was bitten in 2009 and noticed the bulls-eye rash after a family excursion. Although he was treated right away, his symptoms reappeared after his prescribed 20 days of doxycycline. This began a seemingly enless series of doctors visits that lasted two years before he was properly diagnosed. As a result of his struggles with Lyme and his frustration with being unable to receive proper...

Episode 12 features Katrina Starzhynskaya. Katrina is a Bestselling Author, Founder of Health Mastery Retreat, Public Speaker, and a serial entrepreneur. Katrina is also a Yoga and Fitness Instructor, Tennis Player, and a Model. After being undiagnosed, misdiagnosed, and finally diagnosed with Lyme disease, Katrina realized that Western Medicine had failed her and medical doctors had no clue how t...

Episode 11 features Charlotte Therese Björnström, founder of The Worldwide Lyme Protest. Charlotte been ill with Lyme Disease for about 25 years. After battling with the Swedish health care system, she started a grass roots initiative to promote Lyme Disease awareness. She saw there were thousands of people suffering around the world and had a dream to take the initiative much further than the Sca...

Episode 9 features Mara Williams, NP author of Nature's Dirty Needle. Mara s a board certified nurse practitioner. With 30 years as a health care provider, she has developed an expertise in functional, nutritional medicine; blending pharmaceuticals with nutraceuticals, utilizing science and nutrition to its best advantage to get the optimal effect and outcome. She is a Lyme advocate, speaker, auth...

Episode 10 features Greg Lee, M.Ac., L.Ac. acupuncturist and Lyme specialist, founder of Two Frogs Healing Center and GoodbyeLyme.com. He has been treating Lyme for 15 years, using his experience in acupuncture, Chinese Herbs, Craniosacral technique, and Suffi Healing to help people conquer their disease.

Episode 8 features Peter Aquilina, owner and founder of Deer Defence located in Seymour, CT. In 1998, Peter got interested in Lyme and other tick borne diseases and has been a pioneer in the deer abatement. Not only does Peter sell fencing, but he understands the psychology of deer, what attracts them to your neighborhood and why they feel safe and protected from their predators the closer they ar...

Episode 7 features Eva Sapi, Ph. D. an associate professor of Biology and Environmental Science at New Haven University. She joined the University of New Haven faculty in 2001. Sapi grew up in Hungary and earned her Ph. D. in genetics at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest before coming to the United States for postdoctoral training in molecular biology at the Yale University’s School of Medicine...

Episode 6 Features Jenny Rush. After a number of years of chronic Lyme disease she experienced a shift of allegiance from mind to heart, and her journey took a left turn through illness and into a vibrant life of well being. It was sometimes a bumpy and messy trip through the illness, but the silent wow of a transformed life experience made it rich. It became clear along the path that the most pow...

Episode #5 features Dr. Alan B. MacDonald, a pathologist who has participated in research activities related to tick-borne diseases since 1981. He was the first investigator to publish images of Borrelia spirochetes without regular corkscrew shape in 1987. He obtained his Doctor of Medicine from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in New York City, and now works as a rese...

Note: this episode is published in three parts. This is part three of three. Episode 4 features Karen Smith and Lisa Hilton, the founders of International Red Shoe Day. They met through their work with World Wide Lyme Disease Protest raising awareness and recognition of Lyme as a global disease. Right now they are organizing The World Wide Red Shoe Day for those who have died from Chronic Lyme dis...

Note: this episode is published in three parts. This is part two of three. Episode 4 features Karen Smith and Lisa Hilton, the founders of International Red Shoe Day. They met through their work with World Wide Lyme Disease Protest raising awareness and recognition of Lyme as a global disease. Right now they are organizing The World Wide Red Shoe Day for those who have died from Chronic Lyme disea...

Note: this episode is published in three parts. This is part one of three. Episode 4 features Karen Smith and Lisa Hilton, the founders of International Red Shoe Day. They met through their work with World Wide Lyme Disease Protest raising awareness and recognition of Lyme as a global disease. Right now they are organizing The World Wide Red Shoe Day for those who have died from Chronic Lyme disea...

Episode 3 Features Dr. Sara Jernigan who for the past 17 years has made remedies that help the body overcome lyme disease, bacterial infections, viral infections, yeast-infections, allergies, toxins and hundreds of other symptoms. Dr. Sara and her family personally harvests from the wild the primary herbs she uses in her neutraceuticals from over 600 acres in Kansas. Dr. Sara wants people who have...

Episode 2 Features Debi Collins a Chittenango, NY resident who became a Lyme patient advocate after being infected with Lyme disease and Bartonella. She co-founded CNY Lyme Support in January 2011 along with three others whose lives had been affected by Lyme disease. They meet on the first Sunday of the month at Sullivan Free Library in Chittenango. Sometimes it seems like you need Ninja skills to...

Episode 1 Features Heather Perretta. Author of The Backyard Naturalist blog, she talks about her struggles with Lyme Disease and her road to recovery. Sometimes it seems like you need Ninja skills to defeat Lyme disease. Join acupuncturist Mackay Rippey as he brings you interviews with interesting and informative people who are using their unique skills to deal with Lyme and other tick born diseas...