Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

CIRS and Chronic Symptoms

18 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a June 18, 2024 YouTube video by Aaron Hartman, MD, discussing how diverse chronic conditions—chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, brain fog, Long COVID, IBS, anxiety, skin disorders—can present similarly and may share an underlying cause, suggested to be CIRS (Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome). The speaker emphasizes that existing diagnoses may be manifestations of a larger, shared underlying process.

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Yeah. It can look like chronic fatigue fibro. It can look like brain fog. Long Covid. That's how it often presents. Right. How many of your sirs patients came in with a tag of ibs, anxiety, skin disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome? Like, all of those things that ultimately, for us, at least, I tell patients this, and I believe this, is that. I'm not saying those aren't diagnoses. I'm just saying that I think that there's something bigger behind a lot of those diagnoses. And. And ultimately, we find that this is often the landing spot for that.