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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

TIMBERLAKE, TICKS, AND THE TRUTH ABOUT LYME

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Pop icon Justin Timberlake’s recent Lyme disease diagnosis is shining a spotlight on a condition mainstream medicine still refuses to fully acknowledge in its chronic form. Del sits down with Lyme-literate physician Dr. James Neuenschwander to break down the ongoing controversy—why standard testing often fails, why so many patients are misdiagnosed or dismissed, and how a comprehensive, integrative approach combining antibiotics, detox, immune modulation, and herbal therapies is giving hope to those battling chronic Lyme.

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0:00.0

We're talking about, you know, gain of function and, you know, what happened in the Wuhan lab with the COVID virus.

0:08.9

But there's a long told story of another illness that a lot of people say was gain of function, that it was built in a lab just off in an island, just off the coast of Lyme, Connecticut.

0:20.2

It was made to be, you know, handed out

0:23.2

by ticks. And then if you caught one, oh my God, God forbid that happens, maybe a lifetime of

0:29.8

issues. Well, Lyme disease for very long time, even when I was on the doctors, was said to

0:35.6

not exist. But now it's getting some serious limelight because a superstar is speaking out.

0:41.9

Take a look at this.

0:43.4

It has been called the silent epidemic Lyme disease back in the spotlight after Justin

0:48.3

Timberlake announced he has a debilitating case.

0:51.4

Singer Justin Timberlake says that he's been diagnosed with Lyme disease.

0:55.4

Justin Timberlake revealed today he has been battling Lyme disease. In an Instagram post, he wrote,

1:00.2

if you've experienced this disease or know someone who has, then you're aware living with this

1:05.3

can be relentlessly debilitating both mentally and physically. He's been feeling a massive amount of nerve pain and, quote,

1:12.6

crazy fatigue or sickness while he was performing.

1:14.6

For most, the illness is easily treated with antibiotics, but for some, about 5 to 15% of people,

1:20.6

symptoms can linger for months or even years.

1:23.6

Trouble focusing, or brain fog, chronic joint pain, even mental health symptoms, you know,

1:28.3

problems with anxiety or depression.

1:30.3

You may have inflammation of the heart muscle, heart block or electrical problems with the

1:34.3

heart, neurologic changes, neuropathies, even meningitis.

1:38.3

This is most often transmitted in the United States by the deer tick in areas like the Northeast.

1:43.3

We see Lyme disease in a lot of parts of the country.

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