Show 1380: Avoiding Lyme and Other Tick-Borne Diseases (Archive)

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

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

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, two experts draw on the latest research about avoiding Lyme disease and other infections that may be transmitted through tick bites. Why are these conditions so difficult to diagnose? Most importantly, how can people with lingering symptoms from Lyme get help and start to feel better? We consider both conventional and alternative […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Graydon.
0:01.5	And I'm Terry Graydon.
0:03.0	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at
0:11.5	People's Pharmacy.com.
0:14.9	Half a million people will come down with Lyme disease this year.
0:19.4	How can you avoid tick-borne diseases this summer?
0:23.2	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:33.8	Lime disease can cause debilitating symptoms. People with long lime may suffer headaches, neck stiffness,
0:41.3	rashes, joint pain, heart palpitations, dizziness, or brain fog. If that sounds a bit like
0:48.4	long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome, you're not wrong. We'll talk about a variety of tick-borne diseases with two experts who'll tell us how we can
0:58.5	develop strategies to deal with persistent symptoms.
1:02.5	Coming up on the people's pharmacy, avoiding Lyme and other tick-borne diseases.
1:17.1	In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines,
1:22.2	the Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Company produces over-the-counter medicines and dietary supplements for the Japanese market.
1:24.8	In the last few weeks, it has had to recall three products containing
1:29.4	Benikoji, the Japanese version of red yeast rice. The reports are alarming with more than 100
1:36.4	hospitalizations and five deaths associated with these products. The company has not yet
1:42.0	determined what contamination is responsible. Some of the deaths were due to kidney failure, and red yeast rice sometimes produces citronin,
1:50.0	a compound that's toxic to kidneys.
1:53.0	However, the company claims it found no trace of citronin in the recalled products.
1:58.0	It did find puberulic acid, a toxic compound made by blue mold
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