Maybe It's Not the Microbe. Maybe It's the Terrain | Dr. Bill Rawls, MD

The Longevity Formula

The Longevity Formula
Maybe It's Not the Microbe. Maybe It's the Terrain | Dr. Bill Rawls, MD
Aug 07, 2026 Season 3 Episode 68
Dr. Brandon Crawford

What if chronic illness isn't caused by the infection everyone is trying to eliminate? On this episode of The Longevity Formula, Dr. Brandon Crawford sits down with physician, bestselling author, and chronic illness expert Dr. Bill Rawls, MD, to challenge one of modern medicine's core assumptions: that killing the pathogen is the path to recovery.

After his own collapse from Lyme disease, mold exposure, and burnout, Dr. Rawls abandoned symptom-chasing medicine to study cellular health, impaired autophagy, and what he calls "terrain." He explains why Lyme, long COVID, autoimmune disease, mold illness, and fibromyalgia may all trace back to the same broken mechanism.

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