Lyme Disease: The Symptoms, Tests, and Treatments Doctors Miss

What if the fatigue, brain fog, joint pain, or mysterious symptoms you've been chasing for years weren't caused by stress, aging, or burnout—but by a tick bite you never even noticed? Lyme disease is one of the most misunderstood illnesses in medicine. But Lyme is rarely just one infection—it's often part of a much bigger picture involving co-infections, immune dysfunction, inflammation, gut health, and environmental triggers. In today's episode, I walk through a functional medicine approach to Lyme disease and tick-borne illness, including: Why Lyme disease is so often missed—and the hidden role of co-infections like Babesia, Bartonella, Ehrlichia, and Anaplasma The limitations of conventional testing and treatment, and how functional medicine looks beyond the infection to understand why some people recover while others remain chronically ill The role of herbs, antibiotics, gut repair, detoxification, immune support, and mitochondrial health in a comprehensive recovery plan What the latest evidence says about emerging therapies like ozone, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and hyperthermia—as well as practical strategies to prevent tick-borne illness in the first place Lyme disease isn't always just an infection—it's often a whole-body disruption. By addressing the underlying drivers of inflammation, immune dysfunction, gut health, and cellular resilience alongside the infection itself, you give your body the best chance to heal and recover. Resources Mentioned: Track your metabolic health with Function Health: https://functionhealth.com/mark (Use code MARK2026 for $50 off your membership.) Have a question you’d love answered on Office Hours? Submit it here (0:00) Introduction to Lyme disease, overview, and Dr. Hyman's experience (4:13) Functional medicine's approach and comprehensive treatment strategies (10:51) Innovative therapies for Lyme disease (14:08) Managing die-off reactions and restoring gut health (17:18) Supporting the immune and nervous systems; prevention strategies (19:29) Future research, persistent symptoms, and conclusion (21:15) Alzheimer's disease, neuroinflammation, and call to action

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• 0:00Dr. Mark Hyman?

  What if the fatigue, brain fog, joint pain, or these mysterious symptoms you've been chasing for years, don't chase back to stress, aging, or burnout, but to a tick bite you don't even remember? Nearly half a million Americans are diagnosed and treated for Lyme disease every year, and it remains one of the most misunderstood illnesses in medicine. And many people never see the bullseye rash. Others are told it's all in their head. And for some, the symptoms persist long after treatment ends. Today, we're going deep on what Lyme is and what its co-infections are and why they're so often missed. And most importantly, how we diagnose and treat them comprehensively from a functional medicine perspective. We're going to cover herbs, supplements, the roles and the limits of antibiotics, and a few innovative therapies

• 0:46Dr. Mark Hyman?

  that are generating real interest, that I think need a lot more research, but that are, I think, hopeful and promising. And I've used a number of patients with success, including things like ozone, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and hyperthermia, which is inducing a temperature fever with honest caveats that each one deserves. Now, if you're worried about prevention, you're newly diagnosed or you're still searching for answers after years, this one's for you. So let's dive in. This episode was brought to you by Function. Get access to over 160 lab tests annually at functionhealth.com/marc. What is Lyme disease really? And why it's rarely just a thing by itself? It's usually a part of a complex dysfunction in your body. Lyme disease is an infection that's primarily caused by a corkscrew-type bacteria

• 1:30Dr. Mark Hyman?

  or bacterium called Borrelia burgdorfi. It's transmitted through the bite of an infected blackleg or deer tick. Now, part of what makes it so tricky is that the bite usually goes unnoticed. These ticks can be the size of a poppy seed, and most people never remember being bitten. Now, early on, Lyme can look just like the flu. Fatigue, chills, fever, headaches, muscle and joint aches. And I saw a lot of these people in Antarctica when I used to work in the emergency room there, and they'd come in with acute Lyme. It was pretty classic. But most people never get that. Some people get a classic presentation, but many people don't. Some people get the classic bullseye rash. But here's a big myth I want to bust. Most people don't get that rash, and not every rash looks textbook. No rash does not mean no Lyme disease.

• 2:15Dr. Mark Hyman?

  As it spreads, Lyme can reach everywhere in the body: the joints, nervous system, the heart, your immune system. You can get migrating joint pain, brain fog, sleep disruption, nerve pain, palpitations, and a bone deep fatigue that sleep doesn't touch. I personally had Lyme disease, and I've had one of the co-infections called Babesia. It's awful, and I had most of those symptoms, and they're not fun. Now, here's the part conventional medicine often misses. And it certainly missed it in me. I often, you know, use my own healing as a way of helping others because I've learned what works and what doesn't. But, you know, conventional medicine often misses that the ticks rarely carry just one organism. A single bite can deliver lots of co-infections. So doctors, "Oh, I'll check for Lyme, but that's fine." But they miss all these infections

• 3:00Dr. Mark Hyman?

  that you might actually not have Lyme. You might have Babesia or Bartonella or Ehrlichia, Anaplasma, or Mycoplasma. These can dominate the picture. Babesia, which is a malaria-like parasite, I had that one. It brings air hunger, night sweats, chills, and a heavy, can't-catch-my-breath fatigue. I mean, just so deep fatigue. Bartonella, another one, often shows up as anxiety, or rage, or mood swings, or other weird neuropsychiatric symptoms. It can have foot pain. It's worse in the morning. It can cause stretch mark-like skin stria or skin lesions. Ehrlichia and Anaplasma can look more like a severe flu, sometimes with low blood counts. That's why two people with tick-borne illnesses can look completely different, and why so many people get passed from specialist to specialist without a clear answer.

• 3:46Dr. Mark Hyman?

  Now, their symptoms don't fit in one box. So how do we diagnose this? Well, this is where functional medicine thinks differently. Chronic Lyme is almost never just Borrelia or Lyme. It's a web of overlapping drivers: multiple infections, immune dysfunction, inflammation, environmental toxins, mold, I had that, food sensitivities, nutritional deficiencies, mitochondrial dysfunction, hormonal imbalances, sleep and autonomic problems, and gut dysfunction. Pretty much everything. In real, I always think of like syphilis as a diagnosis we learned in medical school that causes everything. Lyme disease isn't like that. It just causes everything. It's also Asperich. It's also this squirrely, kind of curly bacterium, which is like syphilis. But it's not sexually transmitted, although sometimes people say it can't be, but that's another topic.

• 4:31Dr. Mark Hyman?

  Now, these infections rarely travel alone, which is exactly why a single-cause, single-drug model often falls short and fails to get these people better. A careful symptom inventory is really important across all these symptoms. It often tells me more than any one test. Now, in testing, I'll be honest about the limitations. The standard two-tier approach was something called an Aliza test, followed by Western blot. It's designed for surveillance. It's not for catching every case. It misses early infection. It misses patients who don't actually mount an antibody response. So I read carefully. The IgM and IgE bans, including species-specific bans that strict CDC criteria live out, I pay attention to all of that. And when the picture warrants it, I use specialty labs like hygienics or infectolabs or galaxy diagnostics that test more broadly.

• 5:15Dr. Mark Hyman?

  And I test specifically for co-infections, like Babesia. I use a smear. I use something called PCR, which measures for the actual organism DNA, for antibodies as well. And I remember also that there are different species. For example, Babesia has Babesia donkani and Babesia microtii. So you've got to check for all the species. There's lots of Borrelia species. It gets quite complicated. So you really need a doctor who knows what they're doing. Bartonella, very hard to capture on antibody testing. And Anaplasma or Ehrlichia are important. But again, the tests are not perfect. A test result is only the beginning. From a functional medicine lens, I'm also assessing the whole terrain: inflammatory markers, cytokines, immune function, looking for mold, mycotoxin exposures, looking for heavy metals, looking for nutrient status, hormones, mitochondrial function.

• 6:00Dr. Mark Hyman?

  Because the real question isn't only, is Borrelia present or Lyme? It's why is this person's body unable to recover? Treating Lyme and co-infections is important. Now, there's a comprehensive approach. I want to go through here. And it's not the same for everybody, so it's very personalized. I want to be far more thorough than we go to in the usual conversation about Lyme because Lyme is rarely one drug for a few weeks, which is what traditional medicine believes, right? Just take doxycycline for three weeks, you're done. That's it. Doesn't work usually, unless you have acute Lyme. Then it usually works. Conventional medicine asks the essential first question: How do we eliminate the infection? And it's right to do that, okay? But functional medicine adds a second question: Why are two people exposed to the same organism having such different outcomes?

• 6:45Dr. Mark Hyman?

  One recovers in weeks. The other is struggling for years. The answer usually lives in the whole system. So we treat on several fronts at once. We reduce the infectious burden, right? For early localized Lyme, that's conventional antibiotics, doxycycline, amoxicillin, cefiroxine. They're generally effective and well worth using. I mean, I'm definitely down on a box for this if you get it early. Caught early, a focused course is often curative. I never want anyone to skip appropriate treatment for acute Lyme. Really important. "Don't go, I'm going to take herbs for that." Don't do that. It's too serious on the other end. And this is, now, this is where I part ways with a purely conventional approach. It's when we deal with chronic persistent illnesses, which people, many people in traditional medicine don't even believe exist. Chronic Lyme, they think, doesn't even exist. It does.

• 7:30Dr. Mark Hyman?

  I had it. Trust me, I know it does. And I've treated hundreds and not thousands of patients with it. Now, here, I lean far less on long, escalating rounds of antibiotics and far more on a broad integrative strategy. And part of the reason is biology. Borrelia doesn't only live as the familiar spiral. Under stress, it shifts into a dormant, round-body form, and it hides inside biofilms where antibiotics really struggle to reach it. And where repeated, prolonged courses of antibiotics often disappoint, mold disrupting your gut, your microbiome in the process. So they cause side effects, and they don't really work. So for persistent disease, I think in terms of a layered arsenal with antibiotics is one tool among many rather than the whole plant. Co-infections still need targeted treatment because while clearing the Borrelia,

• 8:15Dr. Mark Hyman?

  or as important, while ignoring the Babesia or Bartonella, that's going to stall your treatment. You've got to deal with all the infections. Here, both worlds have something to offer. Babesia, the prescription antibiotics, like atoguquone with erisromycin, which is what I took, alongside herbal antiparasitics like Cryptoleptis or artemisin, which I also took, did help. Bartonella, also antibiotics can be helpful, such as antibiotics like rifampin and azithromycin, and botanicals like seda, acuta, and other ones that are very helpful we can use. Ehrlichia and Anaplasma, they're the clearest case for a short course of targeted antibiotic therapy, usually doxycycline. Then I lean on herbs, herbal antimicrobial therapies. This is often the backbone of persistent Lyme care, and it's earned its place. It really can help.

• 9:01Dr. Mark Hyman?

  Several botanicals have real anti-Borrelia data. A Johns Hopkins lab tested herbs against the persistent phase of Borrelia and found some outperformed standard antibiotics in the dish. Now, most strikingly, Cryptoleptis alongside with Japanese knotweed, which is a source of resveratrol, cat's ca, Chinese skullcap, sweet wormwood or artemisia, which is actually used for malaria in Africa, and black walnut. All these are very helpful, and they're well-known anchors in herbal anti-tick-borne infection protocols. And they usually shine for people who can't tolerate antibiotics or who need gentler, a longer arc with far less collateral damage to the gut. Look, when it comes to your daily habits, your skin tells the truth. The late nights, the stress, it will surface.

• 9:46Dr. Mark Hyman?

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• 10:31Dr. Mark Hyman?

  I also use biofilm disruptors because these bugs hide in your cells. You've got to break through the biofilms in your system: lumbar kinase, seropeptase, nater kinase, monolorein, and acetylcysteine. These crack open the bacteria's hiding places so these antimicrobials and the herbal ones or the regular ones can actually reach these bugs. There's often other therapies which I've used myself and I'm often using patients successfully, but I use them with caution. They need a lot more research. There's three things that come up. These are oxidative therapies. Oxidation is what actually your body used to kill infections. So your body makes hydrogen peroxide in your cells. Your body makes ozone inside your cells. It's how it kills infections. That's what your body does naturally. Fever, your body has fever.

• 11:15Dr. Mark Hyman?

  This is how your body works and it's sort of amplifying these natural processes in your body. And three of these therapies are, I think, worth considering. They come up a lot in the Lyme world. I just want to talk about them because they, people are talking about them and you should know at least my perspective. They have a promise, but they also have some caveats about them, warnings. First is ozone therapy. This is medical ozone. If you read the FDA's website, it says ozone's dangerous. Yes, it's deadly if you breathe it in, so don't do that. But medical ozone is delivered by drawing blood, mixing with ozone and returning it to the body. And it basically is an oxidative therapy. It's used by a lot of integrated practitioners for its effect on infections, pathogens, supports immune function, helps oxygen utilization. And some patients report

• 12:00Dr. Mark Hyman?

  meaningful improvement. I certainly found it helpful. But I'll be straight with you. There's no rigorous clinical trial evidence on this for Lyme disease, really. It isn't the standard care and it must be done if you're going to do it with a properly trained practitioner. And if it's done wrong, it can be quite harmful. So I view it as something reasonable to explore with an experienced clinician, but not a proven cure. And then there's hyperbaric oxygen therapy. This is used in traditional medicine to deal with resistant infections and wound healing. It is a traditional medical therapy. And this is a situation where you breathe in high concentration oxygen under increased pressure. The rationale is kind of appealing. Borrelia prefers a low oxygen environment, so, and also the tick infections. So saturating

• 12:43Dr. Mark Hyman?

  the tissues with oxygen may make the environment inhospitable to the tick infections. It also can calm inflammation. It can support healing, especially for a lot of neurological symptoms. The research in Lyme is limited, mostly small, so I hold it loosely. But that said, hyperbaric oxygen therapy or H-Bot is well established and generally safe for other conditions. The main risks are being, you know, ear and sinus bar trauma from the pressure, just like scuba diving. For some patients, it's a helpful piece of the puzzle. The next big one is hyperthermia. This is the oldest idea in the book. The fever is one of the body's own antimicrobial strategies and Borrelia is heat sensitive. Approaches range from gentle infrasana, which I use comfortably for circulation, detox support, overall resilience, and medical whole-body

• 13:25Dr. Mark Hyman?

  hypothermia in specialized clinics, which raises core temperature substantially. The gentle end of it is low risk and supportive. The aggressive end carries real cardiovascular risk. It demands close medical supervision, has limited controlled evidence, so I would approach it with caution and expert oversight, never casually. But if you are quite sick and you're not getting better from anything else, it is, it is a hail Mary. The threat connecting all of these three is that they're adjuncts, not magic bullets, and used thoughtfully inside a comprehensive plan, under skilled care, they may help. Used as a standalone shortcut, probably not a good idea. The next thing to think about is what we call a die-off reaction, or the Hertz-Heimer reaction. This is not uncommon when you're killing bacteria. We saw this first with syphilis when we would

• 14:10Dr. Mark Hyman?

  give antibiotics like penicillin. You'd see the body go into a kind of a terrible inflammatory reaction. People would get quite sick from the treatment. This happened to me. You know, I killed the bugs with antibiotics. I often feel quite ill and there's a way to manage that. So how do you manage that? Is the microbes die, their breakdown products flood the system, the symptoms can temporarily flare. It's called the Hertz-Heimer reaction. Not designed to push harder. It's designed to support drainage and detoxification. And the fundamentals do most of the work. Stay hydrated, have regular bowel movements, lots of fiber, liver support, foods, herbs, movement, sweating through general exercise, sauna. On top of that, I lean on something called glutathione, which is either oral or liposomal, sometimes IV or nebulized

• 14:54Dr. Mark Hyman?

  for neurologic symptoms. That's an important molecule of detoxification in your body. And acetylcysteine also supports glutathione, alpha-lipoic acid, milk thistle, other binders like charcoal when mold or heavy toxins are in play. That can be helpful. But just remember, going low and slow beats going fast and crashing every time. The next thing you want to focus on is restoring the gut. Roughly 70% of the immune system lives in and around the gut. Most Lyme patients arrive with it in disarray from the infection, from chronic inflammation, from all the antibiotics that you might have taken, or any antibiotics they've taken in their past. And when the gut's leaky and the microbiome is depleted, the immune system gets more reactive. Inflammation climbs, nutrient absorption falls, recovery stalls. So it's important to rebuild

• 15:37Dr. Mark Hyman?

  the gut. Targeted probiotics, saccharomyces is especially important. They call saccharomyces boulardii is especially important when antibiotics are being taken because it helps reduce the yeast overgrowth, prebiotic fibers, glutamine, lots of other things that can help the gut barrier, repair of leaky gut, removing foods that drive inflammation, gluten, dairy, things like that. Healing the gut, really important. When you do that, other symptoms can quietly start to improve. The next thing we want to do is calm inflammation. Inflammation is supposed to be the immune system response. That's okay. The problem is when it won't switch off. Even after when the infection is addressed, a stuck inflammatory response can keep generating fatigue, joint pain, brain fog, and poor sleep. Nutrition is the most powerful lever. A whole foods anti-inflammatory pattern,

• 16:21Dr. Mark Hyman?

  rich in vegetables, quality protein, healthy fats, phytonutrients with plenty of omega-3s, and stable blood sugar is really important. And then there's, there's other supplements that can be helpful. Curcumin, risperidol, these are anti-inflammatory. Special things called specialized pro-resolve and mediators are really great. They can help the body actively resolve inflammation rather than just suppress it. Also, rebuilding cellular energy is really important. This is mitochondria. The complaint I hear most isn't tiredness, it's exhaustion. The kind that sleep doesn't fix. That makes thinking, working, exercising just feel impossible. Now, under prolonged immune stress, the mitochondria, these tiny little engines inside your cells, they falter. So I support them directly with things like CoQ10 or ubiquinol, NAD+

• 17:05Dr. Mark Hyman?

  precursors like NR or NMN, acetylcholinine, D-ribose, magnesium, B vitamins, something called PQQ, alongside deeper work on sleep, stress physiology, and inflammation. If you don't restore the body's ability to make energy, recovery stays incomplete. The next thing you want to do is modulate the immune system and the nervous system. Two pieces I never skip. First, immune system support and modulation. It's like vitamin D, vitamin C, zinc, medicinal mushrooms like maitake and reishi and so forth, and increasingly low dose naltrexone, which can gently recalibrate an immune system that's either overwhelmed or stuck. And second, you want to work on the nervous system. Chronic infection holds the body in a sustained danger

• 17:50Dr. Mark Hyman?

  state. In a dysregulated threat sensing nervous system, perpetuates inflammation and the symptoms long after the bugs are handled. Things like vagal toning, breath work, limbic retraining, sleep, and stress work aren't extras. They're part of the medicine. And that's what comprehensive looks like. We're not just killing a bug. We're rebuilding a person. And as far as ticks go, prevention is still the best medicine. With all that said, all the things we just talked about, the best treatment for Lyme is never getting it. And tick exposure isn't just for deep woods. People get bitten in their own backyards, gardening, walking the dog at the park. There's a few high-yield habits. Wear long sleeves and pants in brushy areas. Tuck

• 18:33Dr. Mark Hyman?

  your pants in your socks. Now, I know it's unfashionable, but it's very effective. Stay on cleared trails. Use an EPA-approved repellent. And then do a tick check after any time outdoors. Check your scalp, your underarms, your waistline, behind your knees, your groin, anywhere clothing fits snug, because they like to hide there. Check your kids and your dogs too. If you find one attached, don't panic. Transmission usually takes hours, so proper removal matters. Grasp it with a fine-tipped tweezers right at the skin, pull straight up with steady pressure, don't twist or squeeze, and then clean the area with alcohol. And here's the functional medicine layer. You can't control every exposure, but you can improve the host. Sleep, a nutrient dense anti-inflammatory diet, regular movement, stress management, and a healthy microbiome

• 19:18Dr. Mark Hyman?

  won't make you immune, but they build the strongest possible terrain for your body to meet a challenge and to recover from it. Now, where is the science heading? And what's life after treatment? Well, there's reason for real optimism here. The federal government is now investing heavily in tick-borne disease research. And public-private efforts like LIMEX are pulling scientists, clinicians, technologists, and patients together to push on better diagnostics, including AI tools that can spot the subtle overlapping patterns Lyme is famous for hiding behind. The goal isn't to replace clinicians. It's to give us sharper tools for earlier, more accurate diagnosis. And then there's the hardest group. The people who do everything right and

• 20:00Dr. Mark Hyman?

  still don't fully recover. Persistent fatigue, cognitive trouble, pain, sleep problems. We still don't fully understand why, although immune changes, lingering inflammation, unaddressed co-infections, nervous system dysfunction, and metabolic disruption all appear to play a role. The bottom line, when it comes to Lyme, prevent what you can and diagnose early when you can't. But recovery is rarely just about killing the infection. A functional medicine approach treats the whole person. Clearing the infections and co-infections, calming inflammation, restoring the gut, rebuilding the energy, supporting detoxification, and steadying the immune and the nervous systems. And reaching for antibiotics when they fit and for herbs and well-chosen integrative therapies when they serve the bigger goal. Now, if you spend

• 20:42Dr. Mark Hyman?

  time outdoors, take prevention seriously. If you're struggling with unexplained symptoms, get a comprehensive evaluation from someone who knows tick-borne illness. And remember, you are the CEO of your own health. Healing means looking past the diagnosis to understand and work with your own unique biology. If you enjoyed today's episode, don't miss my upcoming conversation with Lyme disease expert, We dive into why so many people stay sick and we look at the hidden drivers of chronic illness and a whole new way of thinking about inflammation and recovery and healing. It drops this Wednesday and until then, here's a preview of what's to come.

• 21:14Speaker 01

  In fact, you know, I recently published an article in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease Reports, and we can get to this just briefly about I reversed for the first time ever in the world, the most sensitive and specific biomarker for Alzheimer's PTW 217. So again, we're dealing with neuroinflammation, but with it to come from in my patient, it was coming from multiple MCID factors. It was Lyme, she had exposure to babesia bartonella, she had heavy metal, she had metabolic syndrome, she had food allergies. We need to treat it all, but interestingly enough, we were finding that when we treated the Lyme disease with the nine weeks of Dapsone combination therapy, and she was sick for 15 years, by the way, with positive rheumatoid factors, with joint pain, some cognitive issues which she didn't think were bad, completely reversed PTW 217.

• 21:58Speaker 01

  Now, what's interesting is that the Cochrane report, which came out about one week before my article got released, said, hey, we have no good things to treat Alzheimer's at this point. The article comes out one week later, and what I did is I proved the hypothesis, right? We're in the middle of an Alzheimer's epidemic where the NIH said that 42% of people over 55 years old are now going to become demented.

• 22:19Dr. Mark Hyman?

  Right.

• 22:20Speaker 01

  I mean, it is really frightening, especially when they say we don't have answers. So there was always, they looked at autopsy studies of Alzheimer's patients and they would find biofilms, amyloid and phosphorylated tau in the brains. So there was an association, but they couldn't say causation. This is the first time I proved causation by completely reversing this biomarker PTW 217 with this nine week protocol. And this woman was, by the way, was sick for 15 years.

• 22:43Dr. Mark Hyman?

  And the symptoms got better.

• 22:44Speaker 01

  Her symptoms, her joint pain got better, rheumatoid factor reversed because it wasn't rheumatoid arthritis, it was from the Lyme bacteria driving rheumatoid factors.

• 22:52Dr. Mark Hyman?

  What about her memory? Did it get better?

• 22:54Speaker 01

  It also improved. She thought it was her meditation that was keeping her stable and she noticed after she was done, it's like, oh my God, I'm so much clearer. I, by the way, have a second patient, I just did the same, I haven't published it yet. We reversed his beta amyloid ratios with Dapsone. So here, so here we have an Alzheimer's epidemic where I found that all 16 MCID factors are associated with it. The Cochrane report is saying, hey, we don't have anything good out there to treat. And the drugs that are used for it, lecanumab, dinanumab, they lowered phosphorylated tau by 23% in almost seven years. I lowered it by 63% in nine weeks.

• 23:27Dr. Mark Hyman?

  Yeah.

• 23:28Speaker 01

  And that was because it was the infection driving the amyloid and the phosphorylated tau. And unfortunately, you go to a neurologist, they're not even going to check you for Lyme disease or bartonella mold when you have Alzheimer's disease.

• 23:39Dr. Mark Hyman?

  And it's important to find out. I mean, people think, you know, Alzheimer's is one of those things, there's nothing to do for it because of the bad drug, you know, debacle we have in terms of poor drugs and drugs that don't really work based on billions of dollars of research and hundreds and hundreds of studies. But, but what you're saying is using this approach, which is looking at root causes, looking at treating the whole system, peeling all the layers of the onion, you can actually start to see changes in these people. And I've seen the same thing in my practice and Dale Bredesen, who's quoting, quote on your book also has done this. And, you know, for us out there doing it, we sound a little bit like quacks because well, we're reversing Alzheimer's. Well, it isn't really, Alzheimer's is just a symptom.

• 24:17Speaker 01

  It's neuroinflammation.

• 24:18Dr. Mark Hyman?

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• 25:03Dr. Mark Hyman?

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