About this episode

The episode discusses the connection between Lyme disease and Alzheimer's, featuring insights from Dr. Richard Horowitz on chronic illness and the MSIDS model.

What if some people diagnosed with chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, autoimmune disease, anxiety, or even early Alzheimer's are actually dealing with an underlying infection that was never properly identified? Today, I'm sharing my conversation with Dr. Richard Horowitz, a board-certified internist who has treated more than 13,000 patients with Lyme and tick-borne disease over the last four decades, many of whom had already seen countless doctors and collected diagnoses like chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, depression, anxiety, multiple sclerosis, and early dementia before discovering Lyme may have been part of the picture. Dr. Horowitz calls Lyme "the great imitator" because its symptoms can overlap with so many other conditions, and since 2016, Dr. Horowitz has published 11 papers on treatment approaches. In one of his latest studies, he and his colleagues explored a possible connection between Lyme disease and Alzheimer's biomarkers, reporting major improvements in certain inflammatory and cognitive-related markers after treatment. We discuss his broader "MSIDS" model, which looks at chronic illness through a much wider lens. Instead of looking for one single cause, the…

People in this episode

Host: Ari Whitten

Guest: Dr. Richard Horowitz

Topics covered

• Lyme disease
• Alzheimer's
• chronic illness
• MSIDS model
• tick-borne diseases
• cognitive health

Keywords

• Lyme disease
• Alzheimer's
• chronic fatigue
• fibromyalgia
• MSIDS protocol
• cognitive health
• tick-borne diseases
• autoimmune disease

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MSIDS Protocol, Lyme disease, Alzheimer's, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, anxiety, depression, early dementia

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