What’s Living Inside You Could Be Why You’re Sick | Dr. Bill Rawls

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Dr. Josh Axe

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🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Lyme disease is one of the most misunderstood and misdiagnosed conditions in modern medicine, and millions may have it without even knowing. In this episode, Dr. Josh Axe sits down with Dr. Bill Rawls, a physician who nearly lost everything to chronic Lyme, to expose why antibiotics often fail, how stealth microbes wreak havoc on the body, and what it really takes to heal at the cellular level. If you’ve been struggling with mysterious symptoms or want the truth about chronic illness, this conversation could change everything. Watch The Dr. Josh Axe Show every Monday & Thursday on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@drjoshaxe?sub_confirmation=1 🎧 Early Access! Our listeners enjoy every episode before anyone else! Tune in below and join our exclusive group of listeners → Spotify: https://bit.ly/DrJoshAxeSpotify Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3JDvWcS Pre-order my NEW BOOK, The Biblio Diet → https://bit.ly/4oPEP3t Watch my free training on how to naturally balance your blood sugar and reverse your symptoms → DrAxeDiabetesClass.com Discover practical steps you can take today to start healing your thyroid naturally → DrAxeThyroidClass.com If you’re ready to start feeling like yourself again and balance your hormones, take my free class → DrAxeHormoneClass.com Uncover what’s really going on in your body with advanced biomarker testing for hormones, thyroid, and metabolism— plus a 1-hour consultation with a Senior Health Advisor! → MyBloodWork.com CONNECT WITH DR. JOSH AXE Instagram→ https://www.instagram.com/drjoshaxe/ Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/DrJoshAxe/ TikTok → https://www.tiktok.com/@thedrjoshaxeshow/ X → https://x.com/drjoshaxe/ LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshaxe Website → http://thehealthinstitute.com Sign up for my newsletter → https://bit.ly/4oE9Jf3 Ask Dr. Axe → http://speakpipe.com/drjoshaxe CONNECT WITH DR. BILL RAWLS Instagram→ https://www.instagram.com/rawlsmd/?hl=en Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/rawlsmd/ X → https://x.com/rawlsmd Website → https://rawlsmd.com/resources/ DISCLAIMER This content is strictly the opinion of Dr. Josh Axe and is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended to provide medical advice or to take the place of medical advice or treatment from a personal physician. All viewers of this content are advised to consult their doctors or qualified health professionals regarding specific health questions. Neither Dr. Axe nor the publisher of this content takes responsibility for possible health consequences of any person or persons reading or following the information in this educational content. All viewers of this content, especially those taking prescription or over-the-counter medications, should consult their physicians before beginning any nutrition, supplement or lifestyle program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	About 90 to 95% of people who identified with chronic Lyme disease did not remember becoming
0:09.0	ill around the time of a tick bike.
0:12.0	Wow.
0:13.0	So they were like me.
0:14.0	Now, why is that?
0:15.0	Yeah, because...
0:17.0	People aren't one day waking up and saying, I'm sick.
0:20.0	It's a slow progression all of a sudden over a course of a year.
0:23.3	So we realize this, wow, I feel like I'm aging too quickly.
0:27.0	My body's falling apart, you know, and that's the sort of thing that you're talking about there, right?
0:31.7	Yeah, same thing with me.
0:32.9	You know, it wasn't like I just suddenly got sick.
0:35.7	Yeah, it was over years that it just, my ability to
0:40.6	function was gradually compromised to the point that I just said. Think about it from the cellular
0:45.8	point of view. I mean, you've got every cell in the body bombarding the brain with distress
0:50.7	signals. You know, all your cells are in turmoil. They're being attacked by microbes.
0:54.8	Everything is a mess. And your brain is just on fire. We haven't made any new antibiotics since I graduated
1:00.8	from medical school in 1985. Talk about antibiotics for a minute. It's the most prescribed medication
1:07.5	for Lyme disease today. Borrelia, the Lyme bacteria, the spiroche, in its most active phase,
1:14.6	doubles every 12 to 24 hours. It's really, really slow, and that's the defense mechanism. So antibiotics,
1:20.9	even an acute illness, aren't going to work as well. Most people don't have just one microbe affecting them. It's multiple. And there
1:29.3	was a study I read recently on, this was shocking because I'd not read this before. One of the single
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