July 8, 2025

I’ve spent much of my career studying cognitive decline. Before I specialized in Lyme disease, I taught medical students about dementia. I ran programs evaluating memory loss in older adults. So when I say that Lyme disease and dementia can be confused, I don’t say it lightly. One of my patients was referred to me […]

Too many patients with persistent Lyme disease are told, “You’re fine,” when they clearly aren’t. Their fatigue, brain fog, joint pain, and autonomic issues are dismissed or misattributed—and the longer that goes on, the more trust in the system erodes. But what if we approached persistent Lyme the way we approach other chronic illnesses? With