Lyme Ninja Radio - Fight Lyme Disease Like A Ninja

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 manufacturing She’s helped thousands of people and also is the Ventura County chapter leader of the Weston A. Price Foundation.

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 modifying her diet to include some broth and other animal based foods.

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 washing dishes in her kitchen, Karen had an epiphany!  The epiphany went something  like this: “Wow, maybe it’s good to combine cooking with nutrition?!”  After all, didn’t someone from long ago say ” Let food by thy medicine and medicine by thy food”?  (It was Hippocrates who said that, by the way.) So, Karen went back to school and obtained her certification as a Nutrition Consultant in 2006 from Bauman College. Now, Karen merges her deep and innate culinary skills with her knowledge of holistic nutrition to help individuals achieve optimal health through detoxification and weight loss workshops, therapeutic cooking

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.

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 Research Institute, Bill is the creator of The Holosync Solution™ program, designed to induce deep meditative states, creating many significant mental and emotional health benefits. Bill Harris is a Certified Trainer of Neuro Linguistic Programming. He is a long time student of contemporary psychology, Eastern philosophy, the physical sciences and chaos theory.

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, pneumonia, and multiple severe allergies. However when he was 12, and he and his family moved, his allergies and asthma disappeared almost instantly. He says it is clear to him he lived in a home with a chronically damp environment, and though at the time the medical community had not widely accepted mold as triggers for asthma attacks and allergies, the mold in his childhood home had probably made him hypersensitive. Without the constant exposure to mold he became “extraordinarily healthy.” His early childhood experiences gave him a passion for learning how to protect people from mold. After years of working with indust

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 Neurotherapy, a wellness clinic that utilizes behavioral medicine applications such as quantitative EEG analysis and neurofeedback. She works with individuals and families challenged with neuro-cognitive, neuro-emotional, and neuro-developmental disorders.

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 Medicine, and finished his psychiatric residency training at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital. He first became interested in the link between infections and mental health 20 years ago when a patient referred to him by an infectious disease doctor improved tremendously after she went back on antibiotics. He has been a past president of ILADS and the NJ psychiatric association, and currently owns a private practice in Red Bank, New Jersey.

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 Yoga and yoga therapy. She has a yoga studio in Manchester New Hampshire called Jeca Yoga where she and 6 other yogis offer classes that help achieve gentle restoration through yoga movement.

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 meditation through dance which brought a whole new level of spiritual connection to her dance. She teaches dancers to listen to their body, and promote healing through the power of breath, Oriental dance, and intuitive movement.

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 with clients young and old, from professional dancers and athletes to those new to fitness programs.

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 with the support of her husband, Tom, and two senior beagles, Seven and Caylie. Her work can also be seen online at Mind Body Green, Lupus Chick, Suffering the Silence and as an exercise contributor in the book The Proactive Patient by Gaye and Andrew Sandlar. From her blog Lymeroad.com

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 herb and vegetable garden which his mother grew. He began mushroom hunting at 20 years old, and soon realized that wild plants could also be foraged, and received his formal herbalist training in 2010 from Heart Stone herbal school in Van Etten, NY. That same year, he started his business Return to Nature as a vehicle for sharing his passion for herbal medicine and his outreach to build a community with a deeper expression of Nature as a continual and abundant provider of nourishment, medicine and spiritual connection. In his herbal and spiritual explorations, he has also traveled across the world, to India, South

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 Since then she has expanded the lab to better serve physicians and the people who live on Martha’s Vineyard. Last year she co-founded the Vineyard Center for Clinical Research, which aims to improve Lyme Disease diagnosis. She also works on expanding the Lyme disease research infrastructure through data collection, trials, urging people to report their cases of Lyme to the CDC.

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 Center as well as at East Hampton Urgent Care. While at Dr. Burrascano’s office, Jerry helped launch the ILADS Physician Training Program and was asked to work with the growing Empire State Lyme Association where he gives lectures and visits support groups. Soon after, he was recruited to be featured on a local monthly TV program about tick-borne infections and was asked by CALDA to author the “From the Expert” series for the Lyme Times. He has kept up with the field by attending regular CMEs including ILADS lectures as well as immune system seminars. He is a frequent local, state and national lecturer on medica

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 (LLMD) in a neighboring state. He began intensive treatment that helped him recover “a good part” of his health, though challenges and deficits remained. In response, Logan made a choice that many people might find surprising: to undertake a six-month hike of the Appalachian Trail, in the name of Lyme disease awareness. He began hiking south from Mt. Katadin in July 2013. He sold his home and left his career as an executive at the Red Cross. During that hike he started the Lyme Warrior Movement, dedicated to Sharing inspirational stories and encouraging collaboration on shared goals and objectives. McCulloch says,

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 USA Book News and winner of “50 Authors You Should be Reading” by the Authors Show. She is was asked to host a live weekly radio show, with a 300 station worldwide syndicate, “Lyme Light Radio with Katina Makris”, which launched in June 2013. She is currently a board member of Be Tick Ready, a Lyme education group, the host of "Lyme-Light Radio with Katina” on WBLQ 1230 AM, Westerly, RI, which is partnered with the Dr. Pat Show. She also works as a Spiritual healer and Lyme disease counselor.

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 has worked as an Ivy League medical school professor, syndicated newspaper health columnist, hospital medical director, chief of a sleep lab, and vice president of an Asian Art museum. He trained in internal medicine at University of California, San Diego and Massachusetts General Hospital; in occupational and public health at the Harvard School of Public Health; in sleep medicine at Brown; and in psychiatry at N.Y.U. – Bellevue. Dr. Edlund is currently the director of the Center for Circadian Medicine