When you discover that you’re suffering from an ailment that makes you lightheaded, nauseous, exhausted, headachy, or anxious — or all five — the last thing you probably want to hear is that there’s an exercise regimen that can help relieve those symptoms. But what we’re talking about are symptoms associated with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia…
What does one’s gut have to do with autism? Plenty. Let’s start with a study published in 2014 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) entitled “The Familial Risk of Autism.” Prior to this study, doctors thought autism was about 80 to 90 percent genetic, with environmental factors contributing only 10 to 20…
For millions of Americans who suffer from on-again, off-again dizzy spells, nausea and chest pains, they’re just as likely to be told by their doctor that they’re living with a psychological disorder — something akin to anxiety or depression — than a physical medical condition. Seriously? Your symptoms, which may include fatigue, insomnia, brain fog…
Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (or SIBO as many people refer to it) is a condition with a self-explanatory name that is described as an excess of bacteria in the lower intestinal tract. As with many conditions that involve the digestive system, the resulting symptoms — diarrhea, indigestion, stomach cramps and bloating, just to name a…
If one can indeed find comfort in numbers, know that more than half of all women will experience fibrocystic breast changes at one point or another during their lifetimes. Once called fibrocystic breast disease, the condition was later found to not be a disease at all. In addition — and this is more good news…
Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, a disorder that more formally is known as chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis or autoimmune thyroiditis, is another one of those ailments with a nebulous history and an unknown cause. Medical researchers believe genetics, hormones, radiation exposure or an excess of iodine might — singly or in concert — be the responsible culprit. So what…
You’d figure that in this day and age, some marketing firm would have come up with a better name for a digestive condition than “leaky gut syndrome.” The fact that the ailment is also known as “increased intestinal permeability,” doesn’t make it any more palatable. Neither term is attractive, but neither is the condition, which…