Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Lyme Disease: The 3 Bs! What Doctors Aren't Telling You! #shorts

3 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Short YouTube clip (by Robert Whitfield MD) reframing Lyme disease as a more complex chronic illness involving multiple infections rather than only Borrelia. Speaker emphasizes three commonly encountered pathogens in clinic—"the three Bs": Borrelia burgdorferi, Bartonella, and Babesiosis—and notes vectors (primarily ticks; speaker also mentions cats as a vector for Bartonella). The speaker states these organisms cause different physical and systemic symptoms.

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Thank you so much. Thank you so much for the invitation. So when we think of Lyme disease, right, we traditionally think of joint pain, muscle pain after a tick bite and a rash, okay? But what we know is that it's bigger than Lyme disease. We call it more complex chronic illness because you're thinking about multiple different infections. The primary vector that we know is a tick bite. Okay? But we are finding out that cats are also a vector of one of the co infections, bartonella. All right. And then you also have babesiosis. We have Borrelia, which is what we traditionally learned about in school, and other CO infections as well. All right. But most commonly in my practice, I call it the three Bs. So that's Borrelia, burferi, bartonella and babesiosis. Now the good thing, the good thing about these organisms is that they cause different kind of physical symptoms as well as systemic symptoms.