Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

CIRS 4 | Medical Mysteries Unveiled_ Dysautonomia POTS Linked to Other Conditions

3 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Transcript excerpt from a YouTube talk by Aaron Hartman, MD linking dysautonomia/POTS to other conditions. The speaker suggests POTS often co-occurs with environmental exposures (notably mold and water-damaged buildings), gut-related endotoxin issues (e.g., SIBO), and immune treatments (IVIG, low-dose naltrexone) have been used in some cases. The clip emphasizes rethinking POTS as frequently connected rather than isolated.

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So all of a sudden, now we're seeing links between what we thought were standalones, dysautonomia pots, and they're not. They're linked. And so now when someone comes in and they have dysautonomia pots, I'm like, okay, stepping back. Is mold at play here? Since half of all buildings have water damage. Right. Or any other these serious phenomena which include endotoxins, and that's where you get some of the gut stuff. And with dysautonomia, there's an interesting case in Texas that had a patient cured with pots, and they did ivigg, low dose naltrexone, which we use a fair amount of. They treat sibo. In my mind, that's all the silicate, gut stuff, endotoxins, dysregulation, th. Th.