Chronic Lyme · Why Treatments Fail · US vs Mexico
If you've been living with chronic Lyme disease for any length of time, you've probably said some version of this sentence: "I've tried everything."
You've seen the infectious disease specialists who told you the infection was cleared and there was nothing left to treat. You've seen the integrative physicians, the functional medicine doctors, the naturopaths. You've done the long-term antibiotics — sometimes for months or years — and felt some improvement, only to plateau or crash. You've spent thousands of dollars, missed years of your life, and still woken up every morning with symptoms that no one can fully explain.
You're not crazy. You're not imagining it. And — critically — you haven't failed to get better. The treatments available in the United States and Canada have failed you.
The standard of care for Lyme disease in North America is defined by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): a 2–4 week course of antibiotics, and if symptoms persist afterward, a diagnosis of "Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome" (PTLDS) with no established treatment protocol beyond symptom management.
This framework has two fundamental problems for patients with chronic, persistent symptoms:
The result: Tens of thousands of North American patients spend years in a diagnostic and therapeutic no-man's-land, receiving treatments designed to address a problem that no longer fully describes their condition.
Let's be honest about what the treatment landscape looks like for chronic Lyme patients in North America:
None of these are bad. Many of them have helped patients meaningfully. But none of them offer what the most severely affected chronic Lyme patients actually need: direct, powerful intervention at the level of the immune system itself.
We are not a functional medicine clinic with an expanded supplement protocol. We are not an antibiotic mill offering long-term IV doxycycline. We are a specialized medical center offering three categories of treatment that are simply not available anywhere in the United States or Canada:
Your own immune cells — specifically regulatory T cells — are extracted, multiplied under precise laboratory conditions, and reinfused to restore the immune system's ability to regulate itself. This is not a suppression of the immune response. It is a restoration of the system that controls it. We have more than 15 years of experience in autologous immunotherapy and are the first center in the world to apply this specifically to chronic Lyme patients.
Whole-body temperature is raised to 41.5–42°C under full anesthesia and continuous medical monitoring. At these temperatures, heat-sensitive Borrelia and co-infecting organisms are directly targeted while immune function is simultaneously stimulated. This procedure requires a full hospital setting and is illegal to perform as a therapeutic intervention in the United States.
Blood is filtered through specialized medical equipment to remove inflammatory cytokines, immune complexes, and circulating toxins that keep the immune system in a state of chronic activation. It is the equivalent of draining a contaminated pool and refilling it with clean water. Not available for Lyme in North America.
The Lyme Immunotherapy Center is located in Tijuana, Mexico — 45 minutes from San Diego, accessible within a day of travel from anywhere in North America. Our physicians are internationally trained. Our facility meets international hospital standards. Our patients come from every US state and Canadian province.
The reason these treatments are available here and not in the US isn't about standards. It's about regulatory frameworks. Mexico's medical regulatory environment permits the clinical application of advanced immunological therapies that are still mired in FDA approval processes or simply outside the scope of what US insurance systems will fund. We operate legally, ethically, and under full medical oversight — we simply aren't constrained by the same systemic barriers that prevent US physicians from offering these approaches.
We work with patients who have exhausted North American options and are still suffering. Specifically:
We do not accept every patient. Before any program begins, we review your case history in detail to determine whether our protocols are appropriate for your specific presentation. This is a medical decision, not a sales process.
If you've tried everything available in the US or Canada and you're still not well — there is something else. And it's 45 minutes from the border.
We review every case individually to determine whether our protocols are appropriate. There's no obligation — just an honest clinical assessment of whether we can help.
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