Show 1003: From Lyme to Alpha-Gal: The Latest on Tick-Borne Diseases

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Tick-borne diseases are extremely widespread, but they seem to be difficult to diagnose and hard to treat. Science has now recognized many more conditions that result from tick bites than were known even a decade ago. Lyme Disease: The diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease, caused by Borrelia burgdorferi and transmitted by a deer tick […]

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joe Graydon.
0:02.3	I'm Terry Graydon.
0:03.8	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines.
0:10.2	This podcast is brought to you by Redux Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream.
0:16.0	800-345-7339 on the web at utter cream.com.
0:21.6	More than a dozen diseases are transmitted by tick bites.
0:34.6	Why are conditions like Lyme disease and bartonelosis so controversial?
0:39.8	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:50.3	Two years ago, the CDC acknowledged that the number of Americans with Lyme disease is 10 times higher than earlier estimates.
0:58.9	The agency went from 30,000 cases a year to 300,000.
1:03.6	Lyme disease is not the only debilitating infection that can be spread through tick bites.
1:09.4	Bartonella often goes undiagnosed and untreated.
1:13.3	Alpha-gal allergy is another mysterious condition associated with tick bites.
1:17.8	Coming up on the people's pharmacy, an update on diagnosis and treatment of tick-borne diseases from Lyme to Alpha-Gal allergy.
1:26.3	First, this news.
1:30.2	In the people's pharmacy health headlines, testosterone may not be as bad for men's hearts as
1:36.9	public health authorities have cautioned. The FDA recently warned that men who use testosterone
1:42.8	replacement therapy are at higher risk for heart
1:46.0	attacks and strokes, but two new studies contradict that conclusion. In one study, the records of
1:52.5	83,000 men treated at the VA hospital in Kansas City between 1999 and 2014 were analyzed. The men had been diagnosed with low levels of testosterone.
2:04.0	Some of them had been prescribed replacement therapy to bring the hormone into a normal range.
2:09.9	The average follow-up time was more than five years.
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