Lyme Lessons

I believe the MSIDS model is going to be a road map for people with chronic diseases who are not getting better with standard medical therapy. I'm creating an MSIDS app right now for people to use the 16-point model to figure out why they're ill and how they can get better. And then I believe we need to open up centers for chronic disease—I call them Chronic Disease Centers of Excellence—which I will hopefully be opening up in the next few years. We need to get to the source of the problems if we're going to be dealing with these epidemics of chronic diseases that are now affecting the 21st century. We're looking at epidemics of autism, Alzheimer's, cancer, Lyme disease. The incidence of Alzheimer's is expected to triple in the next 30 years; it's going to break the health-care bank. To have guidelines that say "we don't know what's wrong with you," as we have today with Lyme disease in our health-care system—that's unacceptable. We can do better than that.