From Family Lyme Experience to Leadership at the Bay Area Lyme Foundation with David Walsey

This is episode 83 of the Love, Hope, Lyme podcast. This podcast does not replace medical care. If you're struggling with Lyme symptoms, please seek proper medical care. The pdf of Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivors Need to Know is always free for chronic Lyme survivors. Reach out to Fred Diamond on social media for your copy. 🤔 Why are Lyme patients still being misdiagnosed, dismissed, or forced to spend years searching for answers? On this episode of the Love, Hope, Lyme Podcast, Fred Diamond speaks with David Walsey, Executive Director of the Bay Area Lyme Foundation, about his family's deeply personal Lyme journey and how it ultimately led him to one of the leading Lyme research organizations in the country. We discuss: 💚 Why Lyme disease remains so difficult to diagnose 💚 The growing importance of co-infections like Bartonella and Babesia 💚 New advances in Lyme diagnostics and treatment research 💚 Why many patients still feel "gaslighted" by the medical system 💚 How AI and biomarker research may change the future of Lyme care 💚 Why David is optimistic about where Lyme research is headed David also shares powerful insight from his family's nearly 10-year journey navigating tick-borne illness and what he believes Lyme patients and families need to know right now. If you or someone you love has been impacted by Lyme disease, this is an important and hopeful conversation.