LymeSci Blog

Lonnie Marcum

is a Licensed Physical Therapist, with a dual degree in health administration and physical therapy. She has a passion for helping people heal from illness and injury by treating the whole body. She became active in the Lyme community after her daughter was diagnosed with tick-borne diseases in 2013. She now devotes much time to learning about Lyme and related conditions, and sharing that knowledge via social media. Her blog, LymeSci, seeks to help patients understand the science of tick-borne diseases and new developments in research.

LYME SCI: Please, Santa, a few requests for the Lyme community….

DEC

2017

Worlds AIDS Day was a huge milestone for HIV, and a huge testament for what science and medicine can accomplish, when they put their minds together. It also got me thinking about my wish list for Lyme disease. December 1st, the National Institutes of Health put out the following... Read More »

LYME SCI: My live-tweets from Day One of ILADS 2017

NOV

2017

My twitter-finger was working overtime last weekend at the International Lyme and Associated Diseases conference in Boston. Here’s a running list of what I tweeted the first day, Nov. 10. Stay tuned for tweets from Day 2 and 3. LymeSci is written by Lonnie Marcum, a... Read More »

LYME SCI: Podcast features Lorraine Johnson on MyLymeData

NOV

2017

LymeDisease.org’s Lorraine Johnson recently joined Cindy Kennedy on the “Living with Lyme” podcast. Cindy describes Lorraine as a “hero” of the Lyme community, stating: “She is the wind behind the wings of change. She has her fingers on the pulse of all new information and she is... Read More »

LYME SCI: Might essential oils cure Lyme disease? A tantalizing premise

OCT

2017

A group of researchers has recently identified several essential oils, derived from common spice or culinary herbs, that have better antimicrobial activity against the bacteria that causes Lyme disease than some antibiotics. The study screened a panel of 34 essential oils, and... Read More »

LYME SCI: Zoonotic diseases spread from animals to people

OCT

2017

What do the following recent news stories have in common? Child who visited county fair is Michigan’s first swine flu case of 2017 Hantavirus confirmed in Reno, Nevada Rabies found in dead raccoon in North Carolina Lyme disease risk remains high into fall and winter in... Read More »

LYME SCI: Is it fibromyalgia–or Lyme disease?

OCT

2017

When Lady Gaga recently revealed a diagnosis of fibromyalgia—a set of symptoms characterized by widespread pain that is frequently accompanied by fatigue, sleep disturbances, memory issues and mood changes—I thought of another famous singer, Kris Kristofferson. The Country Music... Read More »

LYME SCI: What’s the story about stevia?

SEP

2017

There has been a great deal of information circulating the internet about the use of stevia as a “cure” for Lyme disease. I’d like to try and clear up a few things. Many news articles have referred to laboratory research published by Dr. Eva Sapi of New Haven University, on the... Read More »

LYME SCI: The dangerous link between Lyme disease and teen suicide

SEP

2017

This week, September 10-16, is National Suicide Prevention Week in the United States. It comes not long after release of a new study demonstrating a link between Lyme disease and an increased risk for suicide. At a time when the suicide rate for teenagers is increasing, and the... Read More »

LYME SCI: Do sleeper cells hold key to “turning off” Borrelia?

SEP

2017

A recent article* about “sleeper cells,” co-authored by researchers at New York Medical College and the CDC, acknowledges something many Lyme researchers have suspected for decades. Namely, that Borrelia, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, has well-developed mechanisms of... Read More »