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Chronic Illness
Long COVID
The Problem With Saying “There’s Nothing You Can Do” for Long COVID
Patients keep hearing there’s nothing left to try for long COVID. Meanwhile there’s a long list of repurposed therapies that have worked, sometimes dramatically, in real exam rooms. Here’s what’s actually on it.
Long COVID
Long COVID Isn’t One Disease. It’s Several Overlapping Problems.
Two people catch the same virus and end up with completely different illnesses. That’s the clue most of medicine misses about long COVID: it was never one disease. It’s more like a recipe.
Long COVID | Part 1
Why Are Long COVID Clinics Closing (and What Happens to Patients Now)?
The funding dried up. The research centers folded. But the patients are still in my exam room. Long COVID clinics are closing across the country with zero approved therapies to show for a billion-dollar initiative… and 17 to 23 million Americans who are still sick. Dr. Aaron Hartman on why this pattern is older than the pandemic, and what it tells us about how medicine handles the patients it can’t explain.
Peptides & Biological Signaling | Part 2
Your Body Has Been Making Peptides Since Before You Were Born
The Cultural Story Around Peptides Got the Science Backwards
Everyone’s heard about peptides. Almost nobody has a clear answer to the most basic question: what are they? Dr. Hartman has been working with them clinically for 20 years. Here’s the explanation you’ve been waiting for.
Peptides & Biological Signaling | Part 1
Weight Loss is the Least Interesting Thing GLP-1s Can Do
You’ve Been Fed The Wrong Story About Semaglutide
For patients with MCAS, POTS, and chronic inflammatory illness (patients who have nothing to do with weight loss) something else is happening. Dr. Hartman has been watching it for nearly 20 years.
Hypermobility
The Pentad Supersyndrome: Five Conditions. One Root Cause.
Connective Tissue & Chronic Illness.
If you’ve been told nothing is wrong but you can’t get off the couch — or you have a folder full of specialist notes and no unifying diagnosis — this framework may finally explain why.