Living with Lyme disease can feel overwhelming. The symptoms often come and go, and the journey to recovery can be confusing. I want you to know that you are not alone. Here in Franklin, TN, expert care is available to help you navigate this complex illness with compassion and expertise. As a Lyme disease specialist Franklin, I’m committed to guiding you toward lasting health and renewed vitality. Understanding Lyme Disease: What You Need to Know Lyme disease is caused by a b

Mold toxicity receives little attention from conventional medicine, whether you’re going through medical school, visiting a primary care provider, or running to a specialist. As a result, not only is this common condition ignored, but many myths have grown up around it.  Such myths are propagated because no one takes the time to read the actual studies from clinical medicine or the agricultural world.  Taking time to read this blog or the article it is based on will dispel ma

The Unseen Consequences of COVID While few of us want to think about COVID again, recent research suggests it may be stealing more from us than just energy and daily function. Long COVID might be weakening our immune defenses, creating openings for new infections or reactivating latent infections. Many of us have wondered why we seem to be getting sick more often than before having COVID. This concern is shared by those who had COVID and those who received the preventive mRNA

Innovation deserves recognition, especially when it involves a bright new idea applied to an old problem like Lyme disease.  While I am not a big fan of Duke University- I graduated from University of Kentucky-, I have to give these Duke scientists credit for their pharmaceutical engineering.  By connecting a transport molecule to a light activated “berserker” molecule, they created a stealth warhead capable of destroying Lyme bacteria from the inside out.  After sneaking the

While none of us enjoy hearing the newest, slightly-longer-than-four-letter curse word—COVID—research into the pathophysiology of both acute and chronic COVID illness has provided an unexpected benefit: it has helped us better understand Lyme disease. Clinical experience in both adult and pediatric functional medicine clinics confirms what the research is now revealing, COVID and Lyme disease activate many of the same inflammatory pathways. In some patients, COVID infection,