The Team Using Psychedelics to Treat Lyme Disease

Cases of Lyme disease have increased year by year due to climate change and expanding tick habitats. Unfortunately, this also means an increase in a condition known as post-treatment Lyme disease, where the illness persists after the initial infection is gone. Not a lot is known about post-treatment Lyme, but there is headway being made on how to treat it. To discuss his work in the field, host Dr. Samantha Yammine speaks with Dr. John Aucott, the director of the Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Research Center.

Before that, Sam looks into a study that explores a unique way of treating cancer in a hard-to-reach part of the eye. Later, she explores new research explaining why Mercury is much smaller than previously thought and why it’s still shrinking.

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