The Root Cause Hiding Behind One Family’s Alzheimer’s Diagnosis with Nicole Bell
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- Ask the root cause question, even in the hardest cases. Nicole’s husband was handed an early onset Alzheimer’s diagnosis and a plan to simply track his decline. Her engineer’s instinct to keep asking why is what surfaced the tick borne infections underneath, Lyme along with Bartonella and Babesia.
- How and where you test matters. Standard tick borne testing missed it at first, and Nicole is candid that detection in this space is still improving. Her point is not that a test guarantees an answer, it is that the wrong test can wrongly close the door.
- Think vectors, not just ticks. Bartonella can travel through fleas and lice, not only tick bites, so Nicole encourages people to look honestly at their own exposure history, a pet adoption, an infestation, time spent outdoors, before deciding the risk does not apply to
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