Northwest Functional Medicine with Dr. Julie Barter

02/17/2026

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Registration is now open for a special zoom presentation by Dr. Richard Horowitz on May 12, 7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT. Dr. Horowitz will speak on the

02/17/2026

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PODCAST: Why does Lyme disease happen to some people and not others? This pathogen is tricky. Fred Diamond https://www.lymedisease.org/why-lyme-happens-some-not-others/

02/14/2026

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02/04/2026

Huge piece of good news for many of our patients who suffer with Lyme disease and other tick borne infections 🍀

02/04/2026

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02/04/2026

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Justin Timberlake returned to the stage this week for the first time since publicly sharing his Lyme disease diagnosis—and the moment meant more than music. 🎶🖤

After stepping back from touring last summer, opened up about living with Lyme disease, describing it as “relentlessly debilitating, both mentally and physically.” He spoke honestly about performing through nerve pain, extreme fatigue, and sickness—struggles that so many in the Lyme community know all too well.

This week, he performed at the Recording Academy Honors during a tribute to Pharrell Williams, marking a powerful return not just as an artist, but as someone choosing transparency over silence.

When public figures speak openly about Lyme disease, it matters.

It helps validate millions of people whose suffering is often unseen, misunderstood, or dismissed.

It reminds patients they’re not weak—and they’re not alone.

Lyme disease doesn’t always look the same.
It doesn’t always stop when treatment ends.
And it doesn’t care who you are.

At Tick Boot Camp, we believe awareness leads to validation—and validation leads to hope. We’re grateful when voices with global reach help shine light on what life with Lyme can really look like.

If you or someone you love is living this reality: we see you. 💚

02/03/2026

01/29/2026

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Despite decades of public health messaging about Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses, cases continue to rise, doubling nationwide since 2005. Now, a new paper from Cornell suggests that there is opportunity to improve how researchers and public health officials engage with communities about ticks, especially the types of questions asked about prevention.

In more than 1,000 questions in more than 30 surveys about tick prevention, hardly any asked people why they chose not to take preventative actions such as using tick repellents, performing tick checks, wearing protective clothing, tucking pants into socks, staying in the center of trails and showering after spending time in tick habitats. If the goal is to understand people’s behavior in order to develop interventions, researchers need to understand why people do what they do around tick prevention and what options or approaches might make a difference.

In a comprehensive review published Jan. 21 in BMC Public Health, a multidisciplinary team of entomologists, public health researchers and behavioral scientists from Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University examined more than 30 years of surveys designed to measure people’s knowledge, attitudes and practices – known as KAP surveys – around tick bite prevention. Their conclusion: these surveys overwhelmingly focus on what people know and what they do, while paying far less attention to why they do it.

Read more at https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/01/are-we-asking-right-questions-prevent-tick-borne-illnesses.

01/26/2026

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01/25/2026

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The future of medicine isn’t found in a pill bottle. It’s found in what you put on your plate, how you move your body, the quality of your sleep, and your ability to manage stress.

It’s about understanding that your body is a self-healing, self-regulating organism when you give it what it needs and remove what harms it.

Most chronic diseases — heart disease, diabetes, autoimmune conditions, even dementia — are not inevitable consequences of aging. They’re consequences of the toxic food system, environmental exposures, chronic stress, and a medical system that waits until you’re sick to intervene.

But your body wants to be healthy. When you remove the bad stuff and give it the good stuff, healing happens naturally.

That’s not “alternative medicine.” That’s just good medicine. The future Edison envisioned is here. And YOU have the power to create it for yourself, starting today. Share this with someone you love. ♥️

09/10/2025

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