The Silver Lyming with Dr Alice Honican: A Naturopathic Approach to Lyme Disease and Healing #91

In this episode of The Silver Lyming, Anne sits down with naturopathic doctor and acupuncturist Dr. Alice Honican of Longevity Health Center to explore a more holistic approach to Lyme disease and chronic illness.

Dr. Honican's connection to Lyme disease is personal. After watching her mother recover from Lyme using natural medicine, she developed a passion for helping patients struggling with complex, chronic conditions. Today, her approach combines naturopathic medicine with herbal therapies, homeopathy, acupuncture, bioenergetic assessment, and other integrative tools designed to uncover underlying stressors and support the body's natural healing processes.

Anne and Dr. Honican discuss why Lyme treatment is rarely one-size-fits-all and why simply targeting an infection may not address the full picture—particularly for people who have been sick for months or years.

In This Episode

Anne and Dr. Honican discuss:

When antibiotics such as doxycycline may be appropriate, particularly following a recent tick bite or in early Lyme disease, and when additional integrative approaches may be considered.

Why chronic Lyme treatment may involve looking beyond the infection itself and evaluating factors that could be interfering with recovery. Herbal medicine, homeopathy, and natural therapies Dr. Honican uses to support patients.

The importance of avoiding the "more supplements are better" mentality and creating an individualized treatment plan.

Bioenergetic testing and electrodermal screening and how Dr. Honican uses these tools to identify potential areas of imbalance and help guide treatment.

Regulation thermography and how thermal patterns and the body's response to stress may provide additional information to practitioners.

Why alternative assessment tools should be viewed as tools that help guide care rather than definitive diagnostic tests for Lyme disease.

The potential role of mold exposure, heavy metals, environmental toxins, and other burdens in complicated chronic illness.