Lyme Ninja Radio - Lyme Disease & Related Health Topics

Donna Kelley lives in the Sierra foothills, home of the big pines and cedars of Volcano, California. She loves and enjoys hiking and bicycling especially in Yosemite. Donna has been a student of health and nutrition since 2004, and earned a Master’s Degree in Holistic Nutrition with highest honors in 2010 from Clayton College of Natural Health. She has been a proud member of the National Associati...

Glenn the Geek as he is known, started podcasting in 2008 with the launch of the Horse Radio Network. Since then, Horse Radio Network has now grown to eight shows with tens of thousands of listeners from around the world. Glenn hosts several of the shows on the network including the Stable Scoop Radio Show, the 2010 Radio Show, Tack and Habit and Horse Tip Daily.

Flourish Partners CEO, Helen McCormack, has more than 17 years’ experience in the healthcare industry and currently owns three successful businesses. Her career in sales and business management allowed her to develop medical and commercial knowledge in many therapeutic areas, one of them being infectious disease and immunology.  Helen is a third level graduate in business and marketing (UCL) and i...

Holly Ahern, Ph. D. is an associate professor of microbiology at SUNY Adirondack who runs an undergraduate research lab. She first encountered Lyme disease when her daughter, a highly ranked competitive swimmer, became ill with “a weird set of symptoms” in her senior year of high school. When Holly Ahern found out that her daughter’s mysterious illness was Lyme disease, she quickly immersed hersel...

Paula Jackson Jones is the President and Co-founder of Midcoast Lyme Disease Support & Education, a non-profit 501c3 organization that serves the needs of Midcoast Maine's Lyme community since 2014.

Lori Dennis, MA, RP is a psychotherapist in the Toronto area and the author of Lyme Madness scheduled to be published in the fall of 2016 - it’s a memoir and cautionary tale about chronic Lyme disease. The story is driven by her son's illness and their harrowing journey - from a cascade of acute symptoms to the many missteps toward diagnosis to the various stages and shades of hard-won healing. Lo...

The Best of Lyme Ninja Radio Scott’s journey to becoming the 'better health guy’ began in 1997 when he became violently ill. He says on his website "Overnight, my body was ravaged by an unknown illness.” After many months of baffling doctors, he was diagnosed with parasitic infections, Candida, leaky gut syndrome and severe food allergies. Recovering took two years of working constantly with his d...

Amy Tiehel was working in Los Angeles in tv/film production and transitioning into acting when in 2008 she started falling ill monthly. These monthly illnesses became progressively worse until she was practically bed-ridden once a month. She became suddenly and dramatically sick the day after her 40th birthday party. Her health continued to worsen until she couldn’t take care of herself anymore, a...

Stacey Starkell Is a mother in Iowa who went to the internet for information after her son developed a blinking motor tick. Her son’s pediatrician, while willing, was not lyme literate, and after weeks of worsening physical and neurological symptoms, Stacey drove her son three hours to a Lyme Literate Doctor, where he was finally diagnosed. Today he is on an herbal protocol, is almost symptom free...

Jake Hollander is the son of Katina Makris, (who has also been on this show) A senior in highschool, Jake was diagnosed with Lyme Disease and has had to take time off school to heal from several relapses. Currently he is out on the west coast perfecting his golf game.

Kay Ehlers is a stay at home mom whose oldest son’s behavior changed dramatically when he was four. OCD behavior, speech impairments, and aggressive behavior sent her online in an effort to figure out what was wrong with her son. Much research and a trip to a specialist in Chicago later, she suspected her son had PANDAS which is a pediatric strep infection that includes severe neurological symptom...

Dorothy's new book, When Your Child Has Lyme Disease: A Parent's Survival Guide, grew out of her experience with Lyme disease activism. Written with psychotherapist Sandra Berenbaum, LCSW, it is geared towards helping families navigate the difficult waters of dealing with Lyme disease and all that it entails. Dorothy Kupcha Leland was a published author when in 2005 her daughter became so disabled...

Dr. Kate, as her patients know her, graduated from McMaster University with an honors BSc in Biology and completed her professional training at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in Toronto, class of 2002. Dr. Kate is a Canadian expert in natural medicine and a contributing editor to several health-related publications. Born and raised on Montreal’s West Island, Kate now makes her home...

Earthing is the science of healing by literally grounding to the Earth. Martin Zucker has been writing about health, nutrition, and fitness for more than thirty years. During that time he has written a dozen book and hundreds of magazine articles. He is a former Associated Press foreign correspondent. Alix Mayer spent 18 years with undiagnosed Lyme Disease. She was forced to leave her job as a glo...

Lyme disease attacks the mind and spirit as well as the body. In his book, A Beautiful Medicine, David Mercier walks us through a process to bring healing to the entire body, mind and spirit. His writing reminded my of my early training as an acupuncturist and how truly revolutionary this holistic outlook still is today. Especially for people with Lyme Disease. David Mercier is a seminar leader, s...

Eva Sapi is an Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Science at New Haven University. She joined the University of New Haven faculty in 2001. Professor Sapi grew up in Hungary and earned her Ph. D. in genetics before coming to the United States for postdoctoral training in molecular biology at the Yale University’s School of Medicine. Dr. Sapi researches Lyme Disease, Pathogenic Biofilm...

Stephanie Seneff is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. She received the B.S. degrees from M.I.T. in Biophysics in 1968, the M.S. and E.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1980, and the Ph. D degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1985. Her research has concentrated on the intersection of biology and computation. In...

Leslie Hodge was hiking in North Carolina in 2005 when she found a tick embedded in her. After several weeks of flu-like symptoms she found a rash on her arm. Her doctor identified it as a bullseye rash and immediately put her on antibiotics. Her symptoms were primarily a deep exhaustion, a ‘perpetual cold,’ high blood pressure, and a weakened immune system. Her recovery has taken ten years of har...

Erin Murphy became symptomatic in highschool with fatigue, depression, and anxiety. When she attended college she studied psychology and then neuroscience in an attempt to understand what was happening to her. She eventually turned to nutrition to try and control her symptoms and attended Maryland University of Integrative Health to recieve her Masters in Nutrition. Her journey to health has been...

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 diseases.

Joanie Blaxter is a nutritional consultant and her business is called Follow Your Gut. She is a weekly contributor to the Kelly The Kitchen Kop website. Joanie has worked as an educator in the natural foods and products industry giving her an insider's view into:  • Organic farming and livestock practices    • Production and processing animal foods, including dairy products • Supplement manufactu...

Ariane Resnick, author of the The Bone Broth Miracle, is an expert in health, nutrition, cooking and has battled her way back to health from Lyme disease. Originally a raw food vegan, Ariane began exploring bone broth because her clients began asking for it. As she cooked broth more often, Ariane became intrigued about the science behind broth's reputation as a powerful super food. She also began...

Karen Diggs is a Certified Nutrition Consultant & Therapeutic Chef and inventor of the Kraut Source. After graduating from the California Culinary Academy, Karen got on a jet and flew off to Hong Kong.  There, she worked as a chef for the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, and also helped to open two eateries in that magnificent city of 7 million people (crowded into 426 square miles). In 2004, while washin...

Erica's Lyme symptoms started after she received a flu shot for her work as a nurse. Since then, it's been a strange trip inside the medical system trying to get a Lyme diagnosis and treatment.

Georgia has been dealing with strange symptoms on and off for the past 30 years. She was able to manage them through diet and alternative health methods until they abruptly became much more severe, leading to hospitalizations, emergency room visits, and multiple doctors visits. She was finally diagnosed with Lyme disease two months ago.