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892 - What Does Lyme Disease Do To Your Body? | Dr. Tania Dempsey

Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Many have heard of Lyme Disease, but did you know it’s just one of many other vector-borne illnesses? I sit down with Dr. Tania Dempsey to discuss vector infections as well as the best testing and treatment options.

 

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Timestamps

00:00 Intro 

02:59 What is and is not Lyme disease

04:04 Vector-borne infections

09:23 Approaches to treatment

14:21 Symptoms of vector-borne infections

20:57 Efficacy of testing 

33:05 Tests we recommended

39:09 Exploring treatment options

46:35 Hyperbaric Oxygen and IV Ozone

52:40 Vitamin IVs

57:10 Methylene Blue

01:05:29: Lumbrokinase

01:08:10 Finding the right care



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  • Tick-Borne Disease Diagnostics and Surveillance Methods

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  • Empirical validation of the Horowitz MIDS Questionnaire for Lyme disease

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0:00.0

Welcome to Dr. Rucho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best.

0:14.8

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0:22.2

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0:25.6

Hey, everyone. I had a great conversation today with Dr. Tanya Dempsey.

0:29.6

She's a medical doctor, and she specializes in Lyme co-infections and also mass cell activation syndrome.

0:41.3

She's been on a podcast in the past to discuss the mass cell, but I wanted to drill down today into Lyme and to co-infections

0:47.3

because I have a growing suspicion in part due to my own personal experience

0:52.3

that this may be something that flies under the radar for

0:56.7

some people and is what's causing their fatigue, their insomnia, their brain fog, their joint

1:04.2

or muscle pain, and perhaps even in some cases, some of their digestive symptoms like food

1:09.7

reactivity. However, it's also something

1:13.1

that can be kind of a wastebasket diagnosis where people are just offered this very

1:17.8

vaguely and it can be mishandled and miscommunicated in my opinion and lead to unnecessary

1:24.2

fear and suffering. So the correct perspective, one that's open-minded but also a little bit circumspect,

1:32.2

is what I feel Tanya brings to this conversation, which is why I'm excited to share the

1:37.6

discussion with you today.

1:39.2

So with that, I'll now go to my discussion with Dr. Dempsey.

1:44.6

Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the show. Today, I have a special treat, Dr. Tanya Dempsey, who, you know,

1:50.7

Tani, I really appreciate your work and your perspective. I'll, I guess, circle back to why in a moment,

1:55.6

but welcome to the show, welcome back to the show, I should say. Yeah, that's right. I was on a few years ago, I think. I'm happy to be back. Thank you. It's good to have you back. And, you know, obviously,

2:05.7

I knew of you through the MCAS community, Afrin, Weinstock. I believe that was the main topic.

2:13.2

Last time that we spoke was MCAS. And we just happened to be on a panel together in Austin,

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