POTS

Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, also known as POTS, is a collection of symptoms that describes not disease but a patient's condition. Only five years ago this entity was thought to be psychiatric, but now we're understanding the under lying causes are many.

Ten to twenty percent of POTS is autoimmune. Another percentage of POTS deals with dysregulation of the nervous system between the “fight or flight and the weed and feed system”, known as the autonomic nervous system. There's also a form of POTS overdrive of the adrenaline or adrenergic system.

In this book, the author dives into one of these paradigms dealing with the traumatized brain and how that can cause be one of the causes of POTS. The author dives into brain retraining, also known as dynamic neural retraining, and how this can be used as a treatment modality. Ultimately, there are many syndromes like POTS that need to have many different modalities and many different treatments in order to get patients better. This book deals with one of the causes of POTS and how a functional medicine practitioner would look at someone who has POTS.