Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Top 3 Hidden Health Issues From The Pandemic

18 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD (speaker) lists three pandemic-era health issues he has seen frequently: environmental mold exposure, hypermobility, and undiagnosed nutrient deficiencies. He states that addressing these factors can markedly affect long COVID and related conditions (including mast cell activation) and notes that COVID infection can trigger autoantibodies via molecular mimicry.

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The three top things I've seen during the pandemic that set people up for this was mold in the environment, hypermobility, and undiagnosed nutrient deficiencies. Addressing these three of three things can have a massive impact on your long Covid, of course, mast cell activation, of course, there's a bunch of other things, but this is like my little data drop, so to speak, in regards to that. And people are asking more and more about this. We're seeing COVID infection is uniquely related to certain autoantibodies your body makes. The infection triggers your body making autoantibodies through this process called molecular mimicry.