Dr. Jeffrey Gladden explains that early diagnosis of Borrelia (Lyme disease) is critical to successful treatment. Catching it within the first few weeks lets clinicians start antibiotics or herbal protocols before the body struggles to mount an immune response. Delays, genetic factors, or environmental conditions can prevent the infection from clearing.
So I always tell people the first key, your best shot, is getting an accurate diagnosis quickly. In order to have that, you have to have an idea that you have Borrelia and not Bartonella, Babesia, the flu, COVID, and you have to catch it early. And so if you catch it early, and the first varies from person to person, but certainly the earlier the better, within the first couple of weeks even, and you can have appropriate therapy. For some people, it's antibiotics. For others, herbal regimens work. And you buy your body time to mount an immune response in a supportive environment and then you're capable of mounting that immune response, right? Those that resolve it will, will mount an effective specific antibody response, okay, that, that allows them to develop the antibodies that are needed to help clear the pathogen. And because they don't get these danger signals amplified, either due to delay of diagnosis and treatment or genetic predisposition or environmental issues, they will go on and clear the infection. Exactly. But the problem is— and you caught it in what I was saying— there's so many if-then statements there, right? That the system is rigged.
