User's Guide to Treating Lyme Disease

by James Gormley, Caren Feingold Tishfield

Lyme disease is caused by a bacterial infection transmitted by a tick bite and is best treated early with antibiotics. However, many people suffer from chronic relapsing Lyme disease, which can cause a variety of physical and psychiatric symptoms: recurrent fever, fatigue, muscle and joint stiffness, poor coordination, lightheadedness, mood swings, and depression. In the User's Guide, health authors James Gormley and Caren Feingold Tishfield, R.D., explain how to best avoid Lyme disease and how to benefit from safe treatments.

86 pages, Paperback

First published July 6, 2006

About the author

James J. Gormley is an award-winning health journalist, medical editor and author who has taken on anti-supplement attorneys on FOX-TV's "Good Day New York” and supplement-bashing critics in testimony before the New York City Council.

As Editor-in-Chief of Better Nutrition magazine (1995 to 2002), he helped change the editorial landscape of health magazine coverage in the U.S. by pioneering science-centered coverage.

From 2002 to 2006, James headed up regulatory and scientific affairs for Nutrition 21, where he managed global regulatory submissions of dietary supplement ingredients to over 20 European food standards agencies and Health Canada.

In addition to having served as a U.S. delegate to an Oldways Conference on cross-cultural food issues in Beijing, China in 2001, he attended 2005 FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius meetings in Paris and Rome as part of the U.S. trade delegation.

From 2006 to 2008, James was the Editorial Director of the Vitamin Retailer magazine group, where, in his monthly editorials, he regularly shined a light on supplement misinformation.

James has been an unflagging crusader for both consumers and the responsible core of the supplement industry, and has always sought to build bridges between the natural industry and consumers.

He is the Vice President and Senior Policy Advisor of Citizens for Health and a Scientific Advisory Board member of the Natural Health Research Institute.

Many supplement thought leaders eagerly await his "Global Regulations" column for Nutritional Outlook magazine, andhis blog posts for Virgo Publishing’s SupplySide Community, while consumers look forward to his commentaries on “The Gormley Files” health-politics blog.

James' newest health-politics book is "Health At Gunpoint: The FDA's Silent War Against Health Freedom" (Square One Publishers, 2013). His five previous books include the "User’s Guide to Brain-Boosting Supplements."

Reviews

[Suzan Lemont · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was excited to get this small, compact booklet in the hopes that it would provide a more comprehensive resource than what I had already discovered on my own (and give some back up to things I had found but wasn't sure how widely used they are in the medical community at the moment). What is in there is fine and good, except for the section on homeopathy (which is very short, as are most of the sections), and I say this because after reading a thorough description of how it's supposed to work and the results of several meta studies on homeopathy I finally and decisively have come to the conclusion that it doesn't work based on the way it's described to work. It may have a measurable placebo effect, not to be discounted, but I would not include it in any reliable healing protocol for a serious disease such as Lyme.

The other disappointment was that monolaurin is given absolutely no mention at all, and this is what largely helped me to get my Lyme under control/eradicate it as far as I think it's possible without undergoing the horrible effects of intravenous antibiotic application. It's a compact and potentially useful little book for those just beginning their journey towards health after experiencing Lyme, but not that enlightening for those of us who have been digging and researching and trying things for years. I might give it 3 1/2 stars if this were an option but I can't see my way to giving 4.

[Jody · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is really user friendly and boils down a lot of information into a very lucid booklet. I've gotten some very good tips on supplements and different ways to deal with various symptoms. If you or a loved one has Lyme, I highly recommend this as a quick overview on holistic approaches. I carry it in my purse when I'm in the vitamin section as a reference.