Jody Levy is a 42-year-old artist, designer and serial entrepreneur from Detroit, Michigan. She is the founder and co-founded of several successful businesses, including LabElymental, The Milk Cleanse, NeuroPraxis and WTRMLN WTR.

Ms. Levy’s Lyme journey began when she heard the call to leave Michigan to attend college in upstate New York. A tick bite during her freshman year transformed her life from “amazing and full of magic” to 18 years of health and diagnostic labor.

Although she achieved a high level of professional success, undiagnosed Lyme robbed her of the energy to enjoy a full life. Her neurological symptoms progressed to a point where she “could not remember the name of her close friend and brother-in-law.”

While attending a party, she was approached by a friend who shared with her his secret to his remission from Lyme. He told Ms. Levy that healing was available through Dr. Linda Lancaster and her Harmonic Healing Milk Cleanse.

The 8-day Milk Cleanse resolved all Ms. Levy’s Lyme symptoms and allowed her to fully return to work and to her social life. Achieving remission inspired Ms. Levy to build a business to make the Milk Cleanse available to the world.

If you would like to know more about how The Milk Cleanse can help you on your healing journey, then tune in now!

Grace and Jessica Snajder are the dynamic mother-daughter founders of Partner in Lyme. The Connecticut based non-profit organization offers financial, emotional, and spiritual support to people diagnosed with Lyme disease.

The Snajder family’s journey with Lyme began when Grace suffered “headaches, light sensitivity, sound sensitivity, and loss of the ability to read and do math” after falling while snowboarding. The rapid change in Grace’s health came as a surprise because she wore a helmet and “never hit [her] head.”

Grace’s plan to attend college, attend Bible school, and perform mission work “rebuilding homes damaged by natural disasters” was halted by her illness. Her parents responded to their daughter’s expanding symptoms by searching for and scheduling appointments with an array of over 10 health care providers.

Grace was diagnosed with Lyme disease after her mom, Jessica, requested and reviewed a copy of blood work ordered by a primary care physician. Her treatment plan was built by a Naturopathic Doctor prescribing antibiotics, massage therapy, antioxidant juicing, chlorella, and the Rawls MD Vital Plan Restore Kit.

Grace did not find relief from all the treatment tools recommended by her doctors and located by her parents. For example, an infrared sauna treatment did not offer relief and turned out to be “too harsh for [her].”

If you would like to know more about how the Snajder family sold an ineffective treatment tool and used the money to start a Lyme disease non-profit, then tune in now!

Kelsey Watkins is a 28-year-old wife and mother on leave from her career as a utility company office manager. She and her family reside in Meyersville, Maryland.

Ms. Watkins’ health challenges began with fainting spells when she would “go from sitting to standing.” At the age of 19, she would faint “upwards of 5 times per day.” Her primary care physician and cardiologist diagnosed her with POTS, prescribed her medication, and told her to “eat more salt.”

Her symptoms stabilized until the birth of her children. She developed headaches, gut issues, and rashes after the birth of her first child. Following the challenging birth of her second child, her symptoms migrated to “extreme psychiatric and neurological issues, brain fog, and memory loss.”

Fearing she was not healthy enough to care for her children, she sought diagnostic and treatment assistance from 10 doctors. In that process, she battled medical gas lighting and misdiagnosis until her health “went from 100 to 0 very quickly.”

Eventually a primary care physician suspected her diverse and migrating symptoms may have been caused by Lyme disease. Ms. Watkins located a Lyme Literate Medical Doctor (LLMD) to evaluate the PCP’s forecast and was diagnosed after a positive blood test.

A Lyme diagnosis offered Ms. Watkins the opportunity to build a healing plan that included antibiotics, traditional Chinese medicine, and SOT (Supportive Oligonucleotide Therapy).

If you would like to learn more about how a young mother overcame gas lighting and years of misdiagnosis to discover “game changing” SOT therapy, then tune in now!

Peter Owen is a 63-year-old geologist, photographer and entrepreneur from Melbourne Victoria, Australia. He is a founding member of the TICNA (Tick-Borne Community Network Australia) public education group and President of the Conquering Chronic Illness patient support group.

While recovering from a badly broken leg from a fall at his home, Mr. Owen began to feel incredible pain all over his body. Beginning with headaches, shoulder pain, and neck pain his symptoms expanded and migrated to include fatigue, panic attacks, and brain fog.

Mr. Owen was misdiagnosed with MECFS after he was examined and treated by 30 doctors over 18 years. Despite an official government “there is no Lyme dogma in Australia,” Mr. Owen’s general practitioner sent his 50 most afflicted patients for IGeneX blood testing and Mr. Owen’s tested positive for Lyme disease. His IGeneX lab results were confirmed by a follow up test from the German Infectolab.

The lab tests provoked Mr. Owen to join Lyme Facebook groups and research Lyme and tick infection treatment on his own because “there is no such thing as an LLMD in Australia.” His journey required him to overcome “disbelief and denial by doctors, family and friends” while exploring treatment options.

If you would like to learn more about how an Australian Lyme disease activist is standing up swimming against the tide of an official government policy that denies the existence of Lyme disease, then tune in now!

PS Debbie form Two Alpha Gals special guest co-hosted this interview with Rich from Tick Boot Camp!

Jessica Jensen is a 31-year-old alternative and holistic health services teacher/ coach from Hillsboro, New Hampshire.

Ms. Jensen’s Lyme disease journey began while she was working to “coordinate chaos” as a preschool teacher. Her initial symptoms included migraines, body pain, stomach pain and fatigue. She sought treatment from 20 doctors over 6 years before she was diagnosed with Lyme disease.

The lengthy diagnostic and treatment journey pilfered Ms. Jensen’s financial resources. To restart healing, she had to overcome a self-limiting belief that healing requires a large budget.

Today, Ms. Jensen is resourcefully on the road to recovering her health. She has returned to her teaching roots by assisting patients to learn how to coordinate the chaos of Lyme disease.

If you would like to learn how Jessica Jensen learned and is now teaching how to heal from Lyme, then tune in now!

Kirstan O’Neil is a 24-year-old small business owner from Northwest Florida. She runs an RV resort with her family and helps manage the day-to-day operations of the business.

Prior to contracting Lyme disease, Kirstan had a very active and enjoyable life. She regularly went to the gym, enjoyed cooking and gardening with her grandma, and started working with her family at a young age.

At the age of 12, Ms. O’Neil contracted Lyme disease and developed a “strep-like cold,” nosebleeds, swollen glands on her neck, joint pain, chest pain, and bad urinary tract infections (UTIs). Doctors dismissed her symptoms and misdiagnosed her with things like Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), “hormonal issues,” and acid reflux.

Unfortunately, as time went on, Ms. O’Neil developed even more severe symptoms like debilitating migraines. She had to “fight back the tears” to just leave the house with her family because of excruciating pain.

Ms. O’Neil was finally diagnosed with Lyme disease at the age of 23 after seeing many different doctors. She treated Lyme disease using a variety of herbal formulas from Byron White, but first detoxed her body from extremely high levels of heavy metals and candida using a successful regimen we’ve never discussed on the Tick Boot Camp Podcast.

If you would like to learn how a young woman from Florida never gave up after doctors dismissed her symptoms for years and how she fought for her health and a proper diagnosis, then tune in now!

PS Candice form Two Alpha Gals special guest co-hosted this interview with Matt from Tick Boot Camp!

Claeren Smets is a 33-year-old holistic life coach, pain reset therapist, yoga and meditation docent from Antwerp, Belgium.

Ms. Smets was an internationally ranked combat athlete excelling in Judo and boxing. She studied sports education and fitness instruction in university and worked as a high school teacher upon graduation.

At the age of 27, the uber fit Ms. Smets began to feel fatigued and suffered numerous sports injuries. Her energy levels continued to decline and she felt like she “had the flu all the time.” Her swiftly declining health caused her to suffer job loss and loss of independence requiring her to move “back to [her] parents’ home.”

She was diagnosed with Lyme disease after she followed an acupuncturist’s recommendation that she explore a Lyme disease diagnosis. She tested positive for Lyme disease in testing prescribed by her family doctor.

If you would like to learn how a combat athlete had to abandon her warrior spirit and discover a growth mindset before she could heal from Lyme disease, then tune in now!

Nicole Oliveira is a 35-year-old marketing, advertising and brand professional from Charlotte, North Carolina. She lived and worked for most of her life in the eastern US Lyme belt states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York.

The Oliveira family’s Lyme disease journey began with a “bullseye rash” discovered by Nicole’s mother at the age of 4. Ms. Oliveira was treated with a short course of antibiotics and remained healthy until the age of 11 when she developed chronic migraine headaches.

Ms. Oliveira’s Lyme disease relapse went undiagnosed for one year because her pediatrician dismissed her symptoms and accused her of “making it up… [due to the] anxiety of attending a new school for 6th grade.” Unfortunately, this wasn’t the last time she was “dismissed by a healthcare professional.”

At the age of 27, she again began to suffer a health decline. Trained and empowered by her parents, who had been her “biggest health advocates” during her childhood, Ms. Oliveira listened to her body, took control of her doctors, and rebuilt her health and her life.

Today, Ms. Oliveira is working, engaged to be married and “preparing [her] body to be as healthy as it can be to hopefully have a baby in the near(ish) future”. If you would like to learn more about how a young woman overcame childhood Lyme disease and medical gaslighting by becoming the CEO of her health, then tune in now!

Laura Arnal is a 47-year-old Lyme disease health coach, author, patient advocate, and co-founder of the PREFACE group (Patient Resource Facilitator Europe). She is the author of the French language book titled “I Overcome Lyme Disease” (J’ai sumonte la Maladie de Lyme - Editions Odile Jacob).

Ms. Arnal was born, raised, and educated in France. In 2009, she, her husband, and their 3 children moved to Germany “to discover another culture.” Shortly after the move to Germany, the Arnal family “decided to take a trip from New York to Boston with an RV. An extraordinary adventure for Europeans!”

During the tour of the northeastern US, they “visited friends living at Yale” University, located near Lyme, Connecticut. The day after spending an afternoon in the friends’ Connecticut garden, Ms. Arnal felt “strange and tired.” She initially attributed the symptoms to “jet lag” and when the symptoms persisted for several days and then weeks, she concluded she “caught a virus” on the flight from Europe.

Ms. Arnal’s health steadily declined for 5 years resulting in visits to 69 doctors in 3 countries before she was diagnosed with Lyme disease by a German Internist. “This doctor made this diagnosis by my detailed medical history …[and] by listening precisely to my symptoms.”

After securing a diagnosis, Ms. Arnal joined several Lyme disease social media groups to seek advice about how to find a Lyme Literate Medical Doctor (LLMD). After building and sorting the list of social recommended LLMDs, she treated with the famous Lyme pioneer Dr. Daniel Cameron (Tick Boot Camp Podcast episode 233).

If you would like to learn more about how a French patriot living in Germany crossed international borders in 2 continents to heal from Lyme disease, then tune in now!

Lauren Kingsly is a 21-year-old author, speaker, and student at the University of Chicago. She was born and raised on the American east coast in Morristown, New Jersey.

By the age of 15, her physical, neurological, and psychological symptoms were cataclysmic. She was wheelchair bound, unable to form clear sentences, and suffering from hallucinations.

Ms. Kingsly was such a “train wreck” that her hallucination experience became “oddly comforting” to her. She was consistently visited by a “man [with] a youthful glow… [and a] slender build… that reminded [her] of someone [she] used to be close to, whose name [she] couldn’t recall.”

To add insult to injury, Ms. Kingsly was misdiagnosed with “psychological issues,” Schizophrenia, IBS, SIBO, and psychosomatic disorders by 7 doctors from New York, New Jersey, and Florida. Finally, she was diagnosed and treated for Lyme disease by her “superhero” Doctor Kristine Gedroic whom she credits with saving her “from the yard of sleeping souls.”

If you would like to learn more about how a young woman utilized her antifragile mindset to overcome life threatening Lyme disease and swap a wheelchair and hallucinations for authorship and acceptance to one of the top colleges in the world, then tune in now.