The Healing Grove Podcast Nicole Bell: Lyme Disease: Advocacy & Awareness | The Healing Grove Podcast
Oct 6, 2025
Nicole Bell, an author and CEO of Galaxy Diagnostics, shares her compelling journey into tick-borne disease advocacy after her husband's misdiagnosed illness. She discusses the challenges of caregiving and the gaps in conventional Lyme testing. Nicole highlights Galaxy's mission to improve diagnostics, including their innovative Nanotrap urine test. The conversation dives into the connection between COVID and hidden infections and emphasizes the importance of advocacy, funding, and better patient care. Tune in for her practical advice for those affected.
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Caregiving Sparked Lifelong Advocacy
- Nicole Bell describes becoming a caregiver after her husband rapidly declined from misdiagnosed neurological illness to severe dementia.
- She wrote a memoir and turned her experience into advocacy to help other families avoid similar hardship.
Misdiagnosis And Relentless Searching
- Nicole recounts initial negative Lyme tests and multiple neurologists diagnosing her husband with early-onset Alzheimer’s despite rapid decline.
- Her engineering background led her to doubt that diagnosis and keep searching for a root cause.
Family Doctor Found The Missing Infections
- A doctor in Nicole's family identified Lyme and co-infections after re-reviewing tests and history, revealing Bartonella and Babesia.
- That discovery reframed many of her husband's psychiatric and behavioral changes as infection-related.
