Erica on her surgeries, search, stent, and solution that finally worked…DNRS
Erica was busy, active and career-focused when her health challenges began. She survived a thrice-collapsed lung, two lung surgeries (one with complications) and COVID, but was left with debilitating...
17 Feb 202533min
Dr. Michael Ruscio on SIBO and gut health as drivers of MCAS: Mast Cell Matters with Dr. Tania Dempsey
Dr. Ruscio is a thought leader, expert, clinician, researcher and podcaster specializing in gut health and SIBO - small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. In this episode, he and Dr. Tania Dempsey disc...
13 Feb 202555min
Provider Profiles: Dr. Leonard Weinstock and his most important patient, Max
Dr. Leonard Weinstock -- gastroenterologist, prolific researcher, and clinician on a mission to cure syndromes -- returns with his grandchild, Max, to discuss MCAS, his latest research projects, the r...
5 Feb 202524min
Lisa on living independently with POTS, blindness, and an intuitive Pomeranian
Since birth Lisa has lived without eyesight or normal hormones, but it wasn't until her 50's that POTS and long COVID struck. But that hasn't stopped her from travelling, singing in a choir (includin...
26 Jan 202544min
Dr. Derik Anderson, DC, DSN, DCP on interconnections between hypermobility, POTS, MCAS, autoimmunity, dysbiosis
Dr. Derik Anderson discusses the interconnections between POTS, hypermobility, MCAS, gut dysbiosis, autoimmunity, plus shares some of the approaches used by his clinic to identify and treat the 20% of...
21 Jan 202541min
"Primary care without the Gaslighting" with Danielle Lazarowitz, Dr. Jen Rubin & Dr. Kate Eisenberg
Danielle experienced first-hand the shortcomings of the conventional primary care model for patients with complex chronic illness like dysautonomia. So, what did she do? She founded a better one: "...
14 Jan 202543min
Designing the Uplift compression device with Kishen Mitra and Sameer Kunte
Many POTS patients wear abdominal compression, but a team from Duke is researching ways to make it more comfortable and effective. Kishen Mitra and Sameer Kunte are leading the team and describe thei...
8 Jan 202542min
E238:Kristy’s Wild Ride
Kristy's POTS had her largely bedbound until her stubborn streak and competitive spirit led her to train for a 450 mile cycling race. She recounts the training, the 35-hour-long event, the aftermath,...
31 Dec 202433min
