Podcasts featuring LymeLight Foundation
Episode 2: Congenital Lyme Disease with LymeLight Foundation’s Phyllis Bedford
The Lyme+ Podcast host, Kenzie, sits down with Phyllis, co-founder and Executive Director of the Lymelight Foundation, to discuss congenital Lyme disease. From mother to mother, what do you need to know? Lyme+ explores Phyllis’s personal journey, from her experience with Lyme during pregnancy to the establishment of the LymeLight Foundation.
LymeLight Presents
The Role of Mold Toxicity in Patients With Lyme Disease
An Online Webinar Presented by
Dr. Neil Nathan, MD
February 4, 2025 : 4PM PT / 7PM ET
Patients who have Lyme disease and co-infections frequently also have mold toxicity. The symptoms of Lyme and mold toxicity overlap greatly, and more often than people realize, it is the mold toxicity that is keeping patients sick. It is increasingly important to check all Lyme patients for mold toxicity and treat when appropriate, and we will discuss this in some detail.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Neil Nathan, MD has been practicing medicine for over 50 years, has been Board Certified in Family Practice and Pain Management, is a Founding Diplomate of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine and a Founding Diplomate of ISEAI. He has written several books, including Healing is Possible: New Hope for Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Persistent Pain, and Other Chronic Illnesses and On Hope and Healing: For Those Who Have Fallen Through the Medical Cracks. He has hosted an internationally syndicated radio program/podcast on Voice America called The Cutting Edge of Health and Wellness Today. He has been working to bring an awareness that mold toxicity is a major contributing factor for patients with chronic illness and lectures internationally on this subject which led to the publication of his ebook, Mold and Mycotoxins: Current Evaluation and Treatment, 2016, (now updated to 2022), and then to his best-selling book Toxic: Heal Your Body from Mold Toxicity, Lyme Disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities and Chronic Environmental Illness.
Winter of 2021 saw the publication of Energetic Diagnosis, a discussion of the value of intuition and energetic devices as an aid to both diagnosis and treatment of medical illness. His newest book was released in April 2024, The Sensitive Patient’s Healing Guide.
He can be contacted most easily through his website NeilNathanMD.com, through which consultations are available. He is currently providing mentorship in the treatment of chronic inflammatory illness to approximately 200 physicians, with Jill Crista, ND and for those interested in mentorship, please use the website to register.
Dr. Nathan has been treating chronic complex medical illnesses for 30 years now, and Lyme disease for the past 20 years. As his practice has evolved, he finds himself increasingly treating the patients who have become so sensitive and toxic that they can no longer tolerate their usual treatments, and his major current interest is in finding unique ways of helping them to recover.
Navigating Pregnancy and Lyme Disease: From Conception to Postpartum Care
An Online Webinar Presented by
Dr. Jennifer Sugden, ND and Yvonne Sorenson, PA-C
September 10, 2024 : 3PM PT / 6PM ET
This in-depth discussion will cover the often overlooked aspects of Lyme and pregnancy, including whether Lyme transmits to your baby if you are in remission during pregnancy, what testing options you have available during pregnancy, what’s next once your baby is born, and more. An open Q&A will follow the presentation.
Speaker Bios:
Jennifer Sugden, ND
Jennifer Sugden, ND is a licensed Naturopath in both Oregon and California. Although it can be a cliche in this field to say that she treats the whole person, mind, body, spirit – that is exactly what she does.
Dr. Sugden initially received her undergraduate degree in Chemistry and went on to earn a doctorate from the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland Oregon in 2003. Her focus was primary care with 3 years in midwifery as well before moving to California in 2012. She is very well versed in infertility, prenatal care, and postnatal care and how it may relate to Lyme and tick-borne illness. Upon moving to California, she quickly joined a clinic that focused on chronic complex illness and has enjoyed the challenge of these cases over the past 11 years.
There is not a single case in 21 years that was the same, even with the same diagnosis. We each walk our own unique path in life, and it is only through truly listening to a case that she can understand the details of that path and help support each patient on to a much easier and more beautiful trail.
Yvonne Sorenson, PA-C
Yvonne Sorenson, PA-C received her Masters in Physician Assistant Studies (MPAS) at Touro University in Henderson, NV. Since joining Pacific Frontier Medical in June 2007, she has been trained by Dr. Steven Harris and continues to work closely with him and everyone at the practice. Yvonne has become very knowledgeable in the methodologies and treatment protocols of Lyme disease and tick-borne co-infections, as well as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Fibromyalgia, Biotoxin Illness, Autistic Spectrum Disorder, and Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS).
She attends the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS) Scientific Conference every year, and is continuously expanding her knowledge around new and upcoming treatment protocols.
PANS: Tick-borne Infections as Triggers of Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome
An Online Webinar Presented by
Dr. Daniel A. Kinderlehrer, MD
May 8, 2024 : 5PM PT / 8PM ET
While many associate Lyme disease with joint pain and flu-like symptoms, psychiatric symptoms can mask the clinical picture. Anxiety, depression, OCD, eating disorders and psychosis are diagnosed as a primary condition when an underlying infection is the root cause. Dr. Kinderlehrer will present the spectrum of neuropsychiatric illnesses associated with these infections, explain the underlying pathophysiology, and explore appropriate diagnostic and treatment strategies.
Speaker Bio:
Daniel Kinderlehrer, MD is a nationally recognized physician with expertise in the fields of nutrition, allergy, environmental medicine, Lyme disease, and the healing of the mind-body-spirit as a unified whole. He co-founded the New England Center for Holistic Medicine in Newbury, Massachusetts, and has taught extensively, including practitioner training courses at the Omega Institute, The National Institute of Behavioral Medicine and the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society. He created and organized the Lyme Fundamentals course which is presented annual at the International Lyme and Associated Diseases conferences. He is the author of several review articles in medical journals and the Lyme Times. His integrated medical practice in Denver, Colorado focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of tick-borne disease.
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