Dr. Jay Lombard
Neurologist, Functional Medicine Practitioner
Neurodegenerative diseases (ALS • Alzheimer's • Parkinson's • MS) through a microbiome-infectious-cause framework; medical hyperthermia; integrative neurology
About the expert
Focus: Bacterial infection as primary trigger of neurodegenerative disease; medical hyperthermia for spore disruption; secondary bile acids (TUDCA) for neuroprotection; the 'leaky gut to leaky brain' framework. Operates outside mainstream consensus on cause and treatment.
Board-certified neurologist with practice in Tarrytown, New York. Former chief of neurology at Westchester Square Medical Center and Bronx Lebanon Hospital; clinical assistant professor at New York Presbyterian and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Author of 'The Mind of God' (faith and neuroscience) and 'The Brain Wellness Program'. Advances a hypothesis that bacterial infections (specifically Clostridium difficile) trigger neurodegeneration through protein misfolding via microtubule dysfunction. The hypothesis is contested in mainstream neurology and not the consensus model. Lombard works alongside more established TUDCA bile acid research (which has genuine peer-reviewed neuroprotection evidence) and the increasingly accepted microbiome-neurodegeneration research direction (Rudy Tanzi, Heiko Braak gut-first model).
Why this matters
Helps explain why microbiome-driven hypotheses for neurodegenerative disease are emerging in research, what TUDCA bile acid evidence shows, and where Lombard's specific bacterial-cause framework departs from mainstream neurology consensus.