The Lyme Specialist, Denver, CO (2026)

Our mission is to offer assistance to individuals world-wide battling Lyme disease and multi-system illnesses, providing trusted information on, integrative therapies, and hyperthermia as successful treatment options. I am Licensed Integrative Nutritionist, and Certified Mold Practitioner, specializing in tick-borne diseases, hyperthermia, environmental toxins, gut health, and inflammatory issues.

At the Lyme Specialist
we guide both local and long-distance clients through addressing various factors that are causing their symptoms. We look for these answers through exploring mold mycotoxins, methylation issues, heavy metals, tick-borne infections, candida, cell membrane repair, parasites, nervous system regulation, diet, and gut flora. We also partner with in-patient hospitals that offer hyperthermia treatment for people with tick-borne infections and cancer. The Lyme Specialist is here to hold your hand through this experience. As a liaison between the doctors at these hospitals and the patients, we can assist in all your scheduling needs, and help you navigate which hospital is the best for you to receive treatment. Our hope is to support people in their healing journey by educating them about integrative medicine and hyperthermia as a successful treatment option. It does get better.

09/08/2026

🍂 PSA: Tick Season Isn’t Over Just Because Summer Is

Cooler weather, changing leaves, fall hikes… and unfortunately, ticks.

One of the biggest misconceptions about ticks is that once summer ends, tick season ends with it.

But depending on where you live, ticks can remain active well into the fall and many species can be active all year.

So no, I’m not giving up my fall hikes. 🥾🍁 I’m just bringing my tick-prevention routine with me.

A few precautions I take:

🧦 Wear long pants and tuck them into socks when hiking through higher-risk areas

🌿 Stay toward the center of trails and avoid brushing against tall grass, leaf litter, and dense vegetation

👕 Consider permethrin-treated clothing and gear

🦟 Use an EPA-registered tick repellent appropriate for you

🔍 Do a thorough tick check when you get home (especially around the scalp, hairline, behind the ears, armpits, waistline, groin, and behind the knees)

🚿 Shower soon after coming indoors and check clothing and gear

🐕 Don’t forget to check your pets, too
And remember: tick prevention isn’t about being afraid of the outdoors. It’s about knowing how to enjoy it more safely.

I’ll be soaking up every bit of fall I can, with a little extra tick awareness along for the hike. 🍂🥾

09/01/2026

Shout Out To All MY Mast Cell Girlies!

This week we get to explore Mexico City, and today we climbed the pyramids of Teotihuacán. There’s something fitting about climbing an ancient pyramid. A structure built layer by layer, meant to connect earth with something greater, and thinking about how much healing can feel the same way.

You don’t get to the top all at once.
You listen to your body.
You rest when you need to.
You keep going when you can.
And sometimes you turn around and realize just how far you’ve come.

A day in the life of a mast cell girly: electrolytes, antihistamines, nervous system regulation… and apparently climbing pyramids now. 😂

Today was a good reminder that wellness isn’t always about feeling perfect everyday. Sometimes it’s simply having a body that lets you experience a little more of life than you could before.

And today, we are on top of the world!

08/26/2026

🎒 Back-to-School Doesn’t Just Mean New Teachers and Homework...

For some children (and teachers), returning to school can also mean returning to an environment that may contain hidden water damage, mold, poor ventilation, or other indoor air quality concerns.

If your child seems healthy all summer but develops symptoms a few weeks after school starts, it may be worth considering whether the school environment is contributing.

Some signs to watch for include:
🍎 Fatigue or needing unusually long naps after school
🍎 Brain fog or difficulty concentrating
🍎 Frequent headaches
🍎 Sinus congestion or chronic cough
🍎 Increased allergy or asthma symptoms
🍎 Behavioral changes or irritability
🍎 Skin rashes or eczema flares
🍎 More frequent illness than expected

While these symptoms don’t automatically mean mold is the cause, indoor environmental factor. This could include mold, allergens, poor ventilation, elevated carbon dioxide, or volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that can affect susceptible individuals.

If you’ve noticed your child consistently feels worse during the school year and improves over weekends, holidays, or summer break, it’s worth paying attention to the pattern and discussing your concerns with your healthcare provider.

Sometimes the question isn’t just “What’s happening inside the body?” it’s also “What is the body being exposed to every day?”

08/17/2026

When the Immune System Loses Its “Brake”: FOXP3, Treg Cells & Chronic Inflammation

One infection. Then another. Then mold exposure. Then chronic stress. Then environmental toxins. Then nervous system dysregulation.

For many individuals with chronic inflammatory illness, it’s not just ONE thing, it’s years of immune stress stacking on top of itself until the immune system loses its ability to properly regulate inflammation.

One of the key players in this process involves specialized immune cells called T-regulatory cells (Tregs).

Tregs act like the “brakes” of the immune system. Their job is to calm excessive inflammation, maintain immune tolerance, and prevent the immune system from becoming chronically overactive.

At the center of these Tregs is a master regulatory protein called FOXP3. Essentially the instruction manual that tells Treg cells how to function properly.

Research suggests that in chronic inflammatory conditions such as Lyme disease and chronic immune dysregulation, FOXP3 signaling and Treg stability may become impaired.

Over time, chronic immune activation may create a vicious cycle: ➡️ inflammation increases ➡️ inflammatory cytokines rise ➡️ Treg cells become exhausted ➡️ FOXP3 stability declines ➡️ immune regulation weakens ➡️ inflammation escalates even further

This may help explain why some individuals experience: • ongoing inflammatory flares • MCAS and hypersensitivity • treatment intolerance • chronic pain • brain fog • nervous system overreactivity • autoimmune-like symptoms • persistent inflammation long after the original trigger

Healing chronic illness is often not just about fighting infection, it’s also about helping the immune system relearn regulation, balance, and resilience.

08/12/2026

✨ Things I Think Are Kinda Chic ✨

→ 👩‍💻 It’s kinda chic to build a business run entirely by women

→ 👩‍🍳 It’s kinda chic to have a partner who cooks from the healthy recipe guides you create

→ 🌲 It’s kinda chic to be an outdoor adventure girlie with a tick-prevention protocol

→ 🏡 It’s kinda chic to work with a realtor who specializes in healthy homes. We check out the HVAC system before checking out the walk-in closet ;)

→ 🌸 It’s kinda chic to enjoy life’s simple pleasures

→ 🫶🏼 It’s kinda chic to turn what you learned the hard way into helping others

→ 📣 It’s kinda chic to speak up about multi-system complex chronic diseases until the rest of the world catches up.

Turns out, building a life around what matters to you is kinda chic. ✨

08/10/2026

🏡 5 Signs Your Home May Be Affecting Your Health

Your home should be a place where your body can rest, recover, and heal. But for some individuals, especially those with Lyme disease, mold illness, MCAS, Long COVID, or other complex chronic illnesses, the home itself can become an ongoing source of stress for the body.

Here are five signs your environment may be worth investigating:

1️⃣ You feel worse at home but better when you’re away. If your symptoms improve while traveling, spending time outdoors, or staying in another environment, your home may be contributing to your symptoms.

2️⃣ You wake up feeling congested, foggy, or unusually fatigued. Morning headaches, sinus congestion, brain fog, or exhaustion can sometimes be clues that your body is reacting to something in your sleeping environment.

3️⃣ Certain rooms or buildings consistently trigger symptoms. If you notice headaches, flushing, dizziness, brain fog, heart palpitations, coughing, or increased fatigue only in specific spaces, don’t ignore the pattern. Your body may be responding to an environmental trigger.

4️⃣ Your home has very dry air, a persistent odor, or you’ve recently completed renovations. Low humidity, new flooring or cabinetry, fresh paint, cleaning products, furniture, and other sources of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) can all affect indoor air quality and may trigger symptoms in sensitive individuals.

5️⃣ You continue to react despite doing “everything right.” If you’ve addressed infections, nutrition, sleep, and supplements but still aren’t making the progress you expected, it may be time to consider whether environmental factors, such as hidden water damage, mold, VOCs, poor ventilation, or even electromagnetic fields (EMFs) are placing additional stress on your system.

Environmental illness is rarely caused by one single factor. Often, it’s the cumulative effect of multiple stressors that can overwhelm the body’s ability to adapt.

Sometimes the next step in healing isn’t adding another supplement, it’s taking a closer look at the environment your body is exposed to every day.

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