If you’ve been following a strict gluten-free diet, but continue to suffer from lingering neurological symptoms, you may need to explore the possibility that you have Lyme disease. In fact, there are many parallels between celiac disease and Lyme, and the Gluten Free RN has called in an expert to discuss the similarities between the two disorders and why a gluten-free diet is part of the proper treatment for both.
Dr. Usha Honeyman, a chiropractic and naturopathic physician out of Corvallis, Oregon, joins Nadine to explain the fundamentals of Lyme disease. She shares her best advice around prevention and treatment, exploring why it can be difficult to get an accurate diagnosis.
Nadine and Usha also cover the inflammation of the gut that plagues both celiac and Lyme patients, the neurological component of Lyme disease, and the relationship between Lyme and illnesses like MS, Parkinson’s and ALS. Listen in to understand what can happen when Lyme goes untreated and how antibiotics coupled with a gluten-free diet may restore your health!
The fundamentals of Lyme disease
How to prevent Lyme infection
How the political controversy in medicine has led to conflicting information around Lyme disease
The treatment for Lyme disease
Why Dr. Honeyman advises Lyme patients to go gluten-free
The neurological component of Lyme disease
The alpha-gal reaction in Lyme patients in the Southeast US
The strange gait and lower-face movement in Lyme patients
The importance of having a Lyme-literate doctor
The consequences of untreated Lyme disease
The three forms of Borrelia
Resources:
Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar—Your Brain’s Silent Killers by David Perlmutter
International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society
‘Your Skin on Gluten’ on YouTube
Melodies of the Danube Gluten-Free Cruise with Nadine
Dough Nation: A Nurse's Memoir of Celiac Disease from Missed Diagnosis to Food and Health Activism