Ross Douthat
speaker
328 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2022
last heard Mar 2022
Ross Douthat’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
And then climate change in theory widens the terrain for ticks, but also reduces winter, which means you have more ticks because fewer ticks die in a warmer winter.
And so you get larger numbers of ticks in places where it's already endemic.
If you look at a map of Lyme in the US, there's the northeastern hotspot.
There's another hotspot in
in the Minnesota, Wisconsin part of the Midwest, then it sort of skips over Ohio and Michigan, interestingly.
And you've got a lot of cases in Virginia and then tapers out as you go south, but it's spreading everywhere, even places like Texas and California that have very few cases, have had more cases over the last ten or fifteen years.
When I set out to write the book, I felt like there was a version of the book that I thought would be maximally persuasive to someone disinclined to believe in chronic Lyme disease.
And that would be a book that just focused on the core treatment, which really is the main way that I think I got better, which is taking mixtures of antibiotics over
A long period of time, following the general protocols that these outsider doctors lay out.
I want to convince the skeptical that that part of it is real and the medical system should take this seriously.
But I also wanted to tell a story that was true not only to my own experience, but I think the general experience of a lot of people who have these kind of chronic illnesses, which is that.
When you're this sick, meaning that you feel like your life has just been stolen from you and there's no way to get it back, your cost-benefit risk-reward calculus changes dramatically.
And you basically become willing to try anything.
And then within the communities of the chronically ill, you have these anecdotal testimonies around things that are much more fringe than taking three antibiotics instead of one for
For nine months instead of two months.
Ozone therapy, just a whole range of things.
And I didn't try all of them.
But the two I tried that did seem to have reactions that were a lot like the reactions when I took antibiotics were this therapy where a chiropractor put magnets on the affected areas of my body while I lay on her table.
You would do sort of a 45-minute session.
And there
Showing 181–200 of 328 · page 10 of 17
← Previous
Next →