Surviving Lyme: How Mary Lyn Hammer Turned Research Into Recovery

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Health, Extracellularvesicles, Crisprcas9, 3dbioprinting, Medicine, Cancer, Health & Fitness, Biotech, Bioscience, Microbiome, Ketogenicdiets

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

For many Lyme disease survivors, the healing journey is long, complicated, and often isolating — marked by misdiagnoses, skepticism from doctors, and years of relentless symptoms that strip away energy, clarity, and quality of life. So, where can you turn for help when you feel like you’re dying and the doctors can’t figure out why you’re so sick?

Mary Lyn Hammer, author of Over My Dead Body: What I Learned During My Decade-long Journey to Heal from Lyme Disease and Coinfections, joins us to share what she’s learned while navigating the maze of Lyme disease…

This conversation covers:

The symptoms of Lyme disease and why they can be hard to identify.
How Lyme can transfer to babies in utero.
The role that God plays in Mary Lyn’s life path.

Mary Lyn is a researcher, author, and entrepreneur who turned her personal health battles into a mission to help others. A single parent who survived Lyme disease and a life-threatening blood infection, she used her investigative skills to uncover solutions for healing and to share them with others through her book.

For decades, she was a leading voice in the student loan industry, analyzing U.S. Department of Education data to expose inaccuracies and influence federal policy. Today, through her company ChampionforLife.com, she provides resources and supplements that support her own recovery, offering hope and guidance to those seeking health and wholeness.

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Keep up with Mary Lyn Hammer socials here:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hmr_tym/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/8hmr1tym8

X : https://x.com/marylynhammer

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thelymecrusher

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LymeCrusher

🛍️ Recommended Books from This Episode:

📖 Over My Dead Body – A gripping memoir detailing a near-death experience and the methods that saved the author’s life.
👉 Get it here

📘 Recovery from Lyme Disease – A comprehensive guide to healing from Lyme disease through natural approaches and targeted treatments.
👉 Try it here

📙 Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons – An eye-opening investigation into the origins of Lyme disease and its connection to biological warfare.
👉 Shop now

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0:28.6	Here come the geniuses.
0:30.3	This is the Finding Genius podcast with Richard Jacobs.
0:37.3	Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Teen News podcast.
0:41.0	My guest today is Mary Lynn Hammer.
0:42.7	She is by Mary Lynn.
0:43.8	She's a health and wellness advocate, author, and Lyme disease, and blood infection
0:47.9	survivor.
0:48.8	She had a new death experience from it.
0:50.3	It was so bad for what her bio was saying it took years of, you know, misdioses ineffective treatments so she took control of it in her healing journey herself and has come to a much better place she has a book called over my dead body which details in your death experience and the methods that saved her life so welcome mary limb thanks for coming thank you very much pleasure being here yeah If you don't mind, I mean, I guess we'll go to your history. What happened?
1:14.6	You know, how did you contract Lyme and a blood infection? What happens to you?
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