Carter and Payton Bradsky: Building “Ella,” the AI Companion Helping Lyme+ Patients Track Symptoms, Treatments, and Progress

Carter and Payton Bradsky—siblings, co-founders, and the CEO/CTO team behind LymeLess Health—join Dr. Karlfeldt to share a deeply personal and practical conversation about navigating Lyme+ illness and how they’re using technology to change the patient experience. With Carter’s lived experience battling Lyme disease, Babesia, Bartonella, and mold toxicity—and Payton’s background as a former Google software engineer and product manager—this episode connects real-world patient pain points to a new kind of solution: Ella, an AI-powered companion built specifically for Lyme+ patients. Learn more (and find the app) at https://lymeless.com/.

You’ll hear how their family’s journey began with their mother being dismissed after years of symptoms and dozens of doctors—until one chance conversation led to Lyme testing and answers. Carter and Payton break down what it was like to be kids and caregivers, how symptoms can show up differently in each person (from brain fog and anxiety to seizure-like episodes and misdiagnosis), and what actually helped them move toward remission. They also explain why Lyme care is so difficult to manage day-to-day—and how Ella helps patients track symptoms, treatments (including pulsing protocols), and lifestyle factors, then turn that data into actionable insights and shareable reports to improve doctor visits.

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed trying to remember what changed, what helped, or what triggered a flare—this episode offers a new framework: reduce the burden of “managing Lyme” so you can focus on living again. From weekly insights to provider-ready summaries and a future vision for research breakthroughs driven by patient data (with patient privacy and ownership at the core), this conversation is packed with hope, clarity, and next-step tools.

Key Topics Covered

• The Bradsky family’s “Lyme was a family affair” origin story—and how diagnosis finally happened
• Medical gaslighting and dismissal: “It’s all in your head” and the toll it takes on families
• Being a child/caregiver while a parent becomes bedridden: trauma, coping, and shifting family dynamics
• Carter’s symptoms (brain fog, anxiety, dissociation) and the impact on athletics and college life
• Payton’s seizure-like episodes, epilepsy misdiagnosis, loss of license, and eventual Lyme/Babesia/Bartonella diagnosis
• Why Lyme recovery is rarely linear: flare patterns, stress effects, and measuring progress when memory is impaired
• Integrative treatment approaches: herbals + antibiotics, detox support, probiotics, and pulsing protocols
• The “appointment gap” problem: forgetting symptoms, underreporting, and losing clinical time to catch-up
• How Ella works: daily check-ins, trend detection, symptom/treatment tracking, and weekly insights
• Provider-facing reporting (“warrior report”) and the long-term goal of precision medicine + research breakthroughs via opt-in anonymized data

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