Steven Phillips, M.D. is a renowned Yale-trained physician, author, international lecturer, and media go-to expert. Well-published in the medical literature, he has treated over 20,000 patients with complex, chronic illness from nearly 20 countries. Phillips experienced firsthand the nightmare of an undiagnosed, serious infection after nearly dying from his own “mystery illness,” and having to save his own life when 25 doctors could not.
Here are the questions we will ask Dr. Phillips: What is Lyme+? What is your own story of Lyme? You say that many infections are categorized as Lyme, how do we separate them? Are there good tests for Lyme+? Is it treatable? Is there hope for hundreds of thousands of patients of Lyme+? How can an infection cause autoimmune disorders? What is the role of Th1 and Th2 system in this context? Why does it become chronic? Do I have a vector borne infection? We are seeing the same issue with COVID Is COVID becoming similarly mismanaged? How should patients approach their chronic Lyme+? Is there hope? How do people get help from you? Do you train other doctors with your protocol? Do they reach out to you? On page 63 you write: Despite my repeatedly negative brucellosis testing at U.S. labs, I shared with my Lyme doctor my ideas for an aggressive combination antibiotic treatment against this infection. Nothing else was working, so my doctor agreed to the plan, and by the second month of treatment I started to improve.