A Special Event for Lyme Awareness & Mental Health Awareness Month
Chronic Lyme Isn’t Just Physical. It Affects the Mind, Too
If you’ve struggled with anxiety, depression, OCD, or cognitive challenges as part of your chronic Lyme experience, you’re not alone—and you’re not imagining it.
For too long, the emotional and neurological symptoms of chronic Lyme disease have gone unrecognized or misdiagnosed. But emerging science—and the lived experience of thousands—makes it clear: stealth microbes can impact the brain, nervous system, and mental health.
Join Us for a Groundbreaking Conversation
In this live event, two leading experts—Dr. Bill Rawls and Dr. Robert Bransfield—will explore the often-overlooked connection between chronic infections and mental health symptoms.
Together, they’ll unpack how microbes like borrelia and bartonella may contribute to mood changes, psychiatric conditions, and feelings of isolation—and what you can do to begin healing. You’ll learn:
How chronic Lyme and co-infections can influence brain function and mood
Why anxiety, OCD, and depression are common in Lyme patients
What a more complete approach to healing really looks lik
The role of stealth microbes in triggering neuroinflammation
Dr. Robert Bransfield
Neuropsychiatrist and internationally recognized expert on the psychiatric impacts of chronic infections. Known for pioneering work on how tick-borne illnesses influence mental health.
Meet the Experts:
Dr. Bill Rawls
Author of Unlocking Lyme and The Cellular Wellness Solution, Dr. Rawls is a physician, herbalist, and creator of RESTORE180™. He is a wellness educator who brings lived experience and integrative insight to chronic illness recovery.
Why This Conversation Matters
Mental health challenges are one of the most isolating aspects of chronic illness. They often get overlooked—by providers, by loved ones, even by ourselves.
This event is about validation, education, and community. Whether you’re living with chronic Lyme, supporting someone who is, or seeking better answers—you deserve to be part of this conversation.
Presented by Dr. Robert Bransfield & Dr. Bill Rawls. Moderated by Liza Blas.
Breaking: Senate Report Exposes How Federal Health Officials ‘Downplayed’ COVID Vaccine Risks, Failed to Warn Public
The report, issued today by the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, reveals previously redacted information from government records recently obtained by subpoena and by earlier requests under the Freedom of Information Act. The committee will hold a hearing later today.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the subcommittee chair, wrote in the report’s executive summary that the records reveal three facts:
U.S. health officials knew about the risks of myocarditis;
Those officials downplayed the health concern; and
U.S. health agencies delayed informing the public about the risk of the adverse event.
In late January, Johnson subpoenaed HHS for COVID vaccine safety records after writing more than 70 congressional oversight letters to HHS officials and its health agencies during the Biden administration.
Commenting on the new report, Hooker said, “It is so encouraging that Sen. Johnson is bringing this entire cover-up regarding COVID-19 vaccine induced myocarditis to light.”
He added, “The corrupt CDC and FDA officials who stonewalled the truth need to be held to account for the huge increases in cardiac issues seen, especially among young adult males.”
Although journalists and scientists had previously reported some of the material covered in the new report, the report reveals some new data.
For instance, the report revealed documentation showing that top U.S. public health officials at HHS, CDC, FDA, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in April 2021 were warned that V-safe, another safety survelliance system, could miss “possible cases of cardiac adverse events” because it failed to include cardiac symptoms in its pre-programmed list of vaccine side effects for individuals to check off.
CDC and FDA officials opted not to update the V-safe program to include cardiac-related symptoms, the report said.
According to the report, CDC and FDA officials also failed to “take further steps to account for cases of underreporting in VAERS.”
The report also makes public previously redacted Biden White House talking points used on May 25, 2021 — just three days before the CDC finally posted its “clinical considerations” about myocarditis.
The talking points, which were emailed to Walensky, then-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci, and then-NIH Director Francis Collins, made misleading claims about the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines and downplayed the risk of myocarditis.
The fact that the Biden administration previously redacted the 17 pages of talking points in response to a FOIA request reveals the “absurdity” of the administration’s attempt to hide information from the public, the report said. (See link for article)
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**Comment**
Go here to listen to Senator Johnson on Morning Wire explain the report.
Here, we listen to Dr. James Thorp, an OB-GYN, explain the Shimabukuro study in which 21 authors reported in 2021 that the miscarriage rate of ‘vaccinated’ mothers was 12.6% but the raw data revealed an 82% miscarriage rate in women ‘vaccinated’ in the first trimester, which mirrors the effects of chemical abortion drugs such as RU486. He then goes on to reveal the deeply seeded conflicts of interests for public health ‘experts‘, science journals, and board-certifying organizations and professional medical organizationscorrupting the peer-review process. These conflicts resulted in tyrannical persecution of doctors and independent researchers who defied the accepted narrative. Thorpe was one of the persecuted after finding 37 adverse pregnancy outcomes significantly associated with the COVID shot. A rat study showed the shot destroyed 60% of ovarian reserve.
Thorpe shows how SSM Health received $306 MILLION from HHS & CDC and proceeded to threaten doctors and employers with termination for not following the lethal narratives of public health. This happened virtually everywhere and is why we saw the rollout of the Fauci death protocol in hospitals.
But it’s not just the COVID shot that is dangerous.
Crime Scene in the Making: Hospital Moves to Destroy COVID Shot Data
Senator Malcolm Roberts (Australia)
May 20, 2025
The largest ever study (QoVAX) comparing COVID injected to non-injected patients has been stopped without explanation, and Queensland Health is on track to destroy all of its samples and evidence. Losing the last evidence that could inform a truly objective assessment of the effects of the injections wouldn’t just be a tragedy, it could be a crime. I’m putting Queensland Health bureaucrats on notice. Do NOT destroy these samples and evidence – allow the study to complete so that the data can be shared for all Australians. The study was funded by the tax-payers.
Dr. Jordan Vaughn, President of the Microvascular Research Foundation, testified on Capitol Hill Wednesday, during the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations’ first hearing about the negative side effects of the COVID-19 shot.
Dr. Suzanne Humphries: How Pediatricians Use “Wellness Visits” to Coerce Parents Into Vaccinating Their Kids
Pediatric offices, long lauded as pillars of child health care, have increasingly become “vaccination mills disguised as care,” according to Dr. Suzanne Humphries
Pediatric offices use psychological tactics (fear, threats of CPS, gaslighting) to pressure parents into vaccinating, dismissing parental autonomy and framing vaccines as non-negotiable for child health.
Wellness visits are revenue generators, with vaccines serving as a profit source for doctors, Big Pharma and insurers — prioritizing repeat business over genuine health.
Diseases like polio declined due to sanitation and nutrition improvements, not vaccines, yet modern media and medicine perpetuate vaccine-centric myths to justify mandates.
Vaccines contain harmful ingredients (aluminum, squalene) that can trigger autoimmune reactions, especially in genetically vulnerable children, yet concerns are dismissed as “anti-science.”
Parents are urged to seek holistic health networks, educate themselves and resist institutional coercion, as systemic corruption blocks meaningful reform. (See link for article and videos)
6-Month-Old Died After Receiving 6 Routine Vaccines at Wellness Visit
Blessings Myrical Jean Simmons received six routine vaccines at roughly 3 p.m., on Jan. 13, at a six-month wellness visit. The next morning, her parents found the baby dead in her bassinet. The autopsy listed Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS, as the infant’s cause of death.
Less than 14 hours after 6-month-old Blessings Myrical Jean Simmons was given six vaccines during a six-month wellness visit, she died. The baby received the vaccines at roughly 3 p.m. on Jan. 13 at a clinic in Louisiana, according to the baby’s mother, Brishe McKinley.
At roughly 8:30 a.m. the next morning, the parents found Blessings dead in her bassinet. “We miss her so much,” McKinley told The Defender.
When asked what she most wanted to tell the public, McKinley said, “Don’t let you, your loved one, or your children become a statistic of Pharma.”
McKinley and her partner, Elijah Simmons, shared the story of their daughter Blessings’ death in an interview with CHD.TV Program Director Polly Tommey.
McKinley told Tommey, “We just want justice for her, and we want to bring awareness.”
Blessings was in ‘perfect health’ when she went in for routine visit
Infant deaths due to vaccines are never listed on death certificates, but are listed as SIDS(sudden infant death syndrome) due to the lack of ICD (International Classification of Diseases) codes, sanctioned by the CDC and the WHO. Coroners can’t choose to list a death as due to a vaccine even if they wanted to because no code exists for it.
It’s a wonderful way to simply cover up vaccine deaths.
Nothing to see here….
This coding issue needs to be resolved so the public can see the true extent of the problem. The only reason these deaths are seeing the light of day is due to the fact The Children’s Health Defense (CHD) has become a prominent forum for parents to speak out, but child deaths due to ‘vaccines’ has been going on for decades, but safely hidden due to lack of coding.
On May 19, 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) took a historic but deeply concerning step: Member States, through Committee A of the World Health Assembly, officially approved the WHO Pandemic Agreement—a sweeping global treaty that is now expected to be formally adopted in plenary session on Tuesday, May 20.
This agreement, hailed by WHO leadership as a landmark tool for “equity,” “solidarity,” and “science-based” pandemic responses, contains alarming provisions that threaten national sovereignty, institutionalize emergency countermeasures, and entrench WHO as the central coordinating authority in future health crises.
Why It Matters That the United States Is Withdrawing from the WHO
On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order initiating the U.S. withdrawal from the WHO, citing its COVID-19 failures, lack of reforms, and disproportionate U.S. funding. The move paused all future U.S. funding, ended negotiations on the Pandemic Agreement, and recalled U.S. personnel. The withdrawal takes full effect on January 22, 2026. (See link for article)
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**Comment**
According to Hulscher, the agreement is bad because:
National governments will be pressured to align their laws with global dictates
Experimental products would be rapidly deployed without sufficient safety data
Legitimate scientific dissent could be labeled as misinformation
Entire populations could be coerced into compliance with no guaranteed recourse for harm
One day after member states reached this deal, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a surprise video appearance in full support of U.S. withdrawal from the WHO.
“Like many legacy institutions, the WHO has become mired in bureaucratic bloat,entrenched paradigms, conflicts of interest and international power politics. … The WHO often acts like it has forgotten that its members must remain accountable to their own citizens and not to transnational or corporate interests.” ~ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. HHS Secretary
Kennedy said the U.S. is open to international cooperation on public health, but not under the umbrella of the WHO. He also said the U.S. is pivoting to make the healthcare system more responsive to the chronic disease epidemic.
Reuters reported that 124 countries voted for the agreement. No countries voted against while eleven countries, including Israel, Italy, Poland, Russia, Iran and Slovakia, abstained.
China, Qatar, Switzerland and others pledged over $170 million for the World Health Organization at its assembly on Tuesday, the agency said, and countries also accepted higher fees to help offset the expected loss of the U.S., the top donor.
“In a challenging climate for global health, these funds will help us to preserve and extend our life-saving work,” Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, said in a statement on new donations covering 2025-2028.
If COVID was the dress-rehearsal, I’d hate to see the actual performance of the WHO in any future ‘pandemic.’
The IDSA’s Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome was not good enough! (Part 2)
Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH, United States
May 21, 2025
Please see the following response to my inquiry previously sent to Dr. Marcia McNutt regarding the National Academies Report “Lyme Infection-Associated Chronic Illnesses”
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From: “Liao, Julie” <JLiao@nas.edu>
To: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
Date: 05/19/2025 9:47 AM EDT
Subject: Re: Inquiry on National Academies report, Charting a Path Toward New Treatments for Lyme Infection-Associated Chronic Illnesses
Good morning,
I am a senior program officer at the National Academies and co-director of the study that produced the report, Charting a Path Toward New Treatments for Lyme Infection-Associated Chronic Illnesses. Dr. McNutt shared your message with me, and I am responding on her behalf as a lead staff for the project.
First of all, thank you for your interest in this report and sharing these concerns. The National Academies committee that authored this report is aware of the painful history of disbelief and mistrust in the early days of recognizing and studying persistent symptoms associated with Lyme disease. It is their hope that this report takes the first step toward moving past this history to catalyze actions that prioritize discovery and development of new, effective, safe treatments for people living with these symptoms. To this end, the report explicitly recognizes that Lyme infection-associated chronic illnesses are real, and that these illnesses are debilitating to the health and well-being of many individuals.
Regarding the concern on funding development and use of new antimicrobials, the report recognizes that there may be a multitude of pathogenic mechanisms and calls for exploration of new treatments that can address the different potential pathways leading to these chronic symptoms. This includes pathogen persistence, as well as autoimmunity or other immune dysregulation as a result of Lyme disease.
It is the committee’s hope that new evidence will continue to emerge and advance our collective knowledge and ability to mitigate and one day cure these infection-associated chronic illnesses, including those associated with Lyme disease.
Warm regards,
Julie
Julie Liao, PhD (she/her)
Co-Director
Forum on Microbial Threats
Study on Evidence Base for Lyme-IACI Treatment
Keck 854 | (202) 334-2191
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Carl Tuttle’s reply:
———- Original Message ———-
From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: “Liao, Julie” <JLiao@nas.edu>
Cc: “mmcnutt@nas.edu” <mmcnutt@nas.edu>, “vdzau@nas.edu” <vdzau@nas.edu>, “wkearney@nas.edu” <wkearney@nas.edu>, “dmay@nas.edu” <dmay@nas.edu>, “amacdonald@nas.edu” <amacdonald@nas.edu>
Date: 05/20/2025 10:02 AM EDT
Subject: Re: Inquiry on National Academies report, Charting a Path Toward New Treatments for Lyme Infection-Associated Chronic Illnesses
The optimal treatment for Lyme disease has yet to be determined because the focus early on went directly into developing a vaccine. Here are some examples of how other difficult infections have been handled:
It was once believed that rifampin was curative in treating Brucellosis but when symptoms returned doxycycline was added to the mix and when that too failed a third antibiotic, streptomycin was added to the current treatment regimen. [1] [2]
In 1985 the worldwide incidence of leprosy was 6,000,000. Last year, it was 800,000. The only thing that changed was the addition of rifampin to dapsone in the treatment of the disease. Rifampin was added to dapsone because the M leprae were becoming resistant and it was a new antibiotic at that time.
Treatments for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis have been introduced (bedaquiline and delamanid) with more in the pipeline. [3]
A new treatment for recurrent Clostridium difficile was recently studied (bezlotoxumab) for reducing the risk of a repeat infection. [4]
In contrast, oral amoxicillin or doxycycline remains the treatment of choice for treating Lyme disease for over thirty years regardless if debilitating symptoms return. In 1977 Dr. Allen Steere knew that these antibiotics were not effective for all patients[5] but there has been no change in treatment or research to find more effective ways to eradicate the infection in all stages/forms of disease.
At what point in time do we recognize that we are dealing with an antibiotic resistant/tolerant superbug and focus our research on finding new antimicrobials for this life-altering/life-threatening disease as more of the population becomes severely disabled from inappropriately treated Lyme disease.
From your reply: The report recognizes that there may be a multitude of pathogenic mechanisms and calls for exploration of new treatments that can address the different potential pathways leading to these chronic symptoms. This includes pathogen persistence, as well as autoimmunity or other immune dysregulation as a result of Lyme disease.”
Those of us who have studied the mishandling of Lyme disease believe this is just lip service and the real effort will be spent on expensive treatments for the sick and disabled Lyme community still suffering from chronic Lyme; there’s more profit in providing a lifetime of drugs than on a cure and if a chronic relapsing seronegative disease were identified through the proposed “actions” it would end the current vaccine dream overnight because you cannot prove vaccine efficacy in a disease where we do not know who has or does not have the infection; having a curative approach would also give the public an excuse not to take their vaccine. (Let that sink in)
The Evidence is overwhelming that we have been dealing with an antibiotic resistant/tolerant superbug while the so-called science is (mis)used for legalized gaslighting (Follow the science) The IDSA/CDC have defined the disease (= high costs) away so when patients object; MD’s successfully hide behind their definition and guidelines.
I want to make this crystal clear:Suppressing evidence of antibiotic resistance (as well as ignoring these actions) is a crime and the National Academies has been given detailed notice of this atrocity. Questions:
1. Will the search to find new antibiotics [6] be the research priority?
2.Who will be given responsibility for these studies? (certainly not the same researchers who previously received Lyme funding from the CDC/NIH)
A response to this inquiry is requested.
Carl Tuttle
Independent Researcher
Hudson, NH
Cc: Marcia McNutt, President of the National Academy of Sciences and Chair of the National Research Council REFERENCES (PLEASE READ!)
After acute brucellosis infection, symptoms persist in a minority of patients for more than 1 year. Such patients are defined as having chronic brucellosis. Since no objective laboratory methods exist to confirm the presence of chronic disease, these patients suffer delays in both diagnosis and treatment.
2. Administration of a triple versus a standard double antimicrobial regimen for human brucellosis more efficiently eliminates bacterial DNA load. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25246401
The doxycycline-streptomycin-rifampin regimen eliminates Brucella DNA more efficiently than doxycycline-streptomycin, which may result in superior long-term clearance of Brucella.
5. Lyme arthritis: an epidemic of oligoarticular arthritis in children and adults in three connecticut communities. (1977)
Steere AC, Malawista SE, Snydman DR, Shope RE, Andiman WA, Ross MR, Steele FM.
Excerpt:
“The best treatment for this illness is not clear. Some physicians have reported that penicillin or tetracycline results in disappearance of the skin lesion (41,42), but others find antibiotics ineffective. Four of the patients with expanding skin lesions received penicillin but still developed arthritis.”
6. Lyme Disease: Call for a “Manhattan Project” to Combat the Epidemic
Raphael B. Stricker, Lorraine Johnson
———- Original Message ———-
From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: “Liao, Julie” <JLiao@nas.edu>
Cc: “mmcnutt@nas.edu” <mmcnutt@nas.edu>, “vdzau@nas.edu” <vdzau@nas.edu>, “wkearney@nas.edu” <wkearney@nas.edu>, “dmay@nas.edu” <dmay@nas.edu>, “amacdonald@nas.edu” <amacdonald@nas.edu>
Date: 05/21/2025 8:42 AM EDT
Subject: Re: Inquiry on National Academies report, Charting a Path Toward New Treatments for Lyme Infection-Associated Chronic Illnesses
Dr. Liao,
It’s no surprise that the Chair of your committee that published the Consensus Study Report is a vaccinologist. This validates everything I have been reporting about the rush to create a vaccine for Lyme which led to the deliberate mishandling of the disease.
It is obvious that the priority here is still the Lyme vaccine and finding a cure for chronic Lyme is just lip service.
THE GENEVA FOUNDATION
CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS KENT KESTER, MD, COL (RET.), USA
Again, here is the old 2014 interview with Willy Burgdorfer where he states research must be started over at square one because the same people have been doing the research and coming up with the same results – nothing!
Madison Area Lyme Support Group 