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Chronic Illness
Concussions | Part 2
The Concussion Symptoms No One Connects to a Head Injury
Your Gut, Heart, Hormones, & Mood
You rested, the scan was clean, and everyone moved on. But your sleep, your gut, your heart, and your mood never came back. Those scattered symptoms may all trace back to one head injury, and to the single nerve that wires your brain to the rest of your body.
Concussions
Your Brain on Fire: What a Concussion Actually Is (and Why the MRI Says You're Fine)
A normal MRI doesn’t mean your brain is fine. A concussion is a secondary inflammatory cascade, a brain on fire, and an old hit you barely remember can be what set up the illness you’re fighting today. Dr. Aaron Hartman on what a concussion actually is.
Long COVID
Why Effective Long COVID Treatments Stay Off-Label for Years
The best tools for long COVID usually aren’t the newest ones. They’re old, repurposed, and stuck in a long gap between “we know this helps” and “you’re allowed to have it.” Here’s why that gap exists, and what to do inside it.
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.
Mystery Illnesses | Part 3
CIRS: The Poster Child of “Mystery Illnesses”
When Environmental Illness Hides in Plain Sight
Many chronic illnesses appear mysterious because symptoms cross multiple systems. Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS) may explain why.
Mystery Illnesses | Part 1
The Myth of “Mystery Illness”
If your labs are “normal” but you don’t feel well, the mystery may be the model. A conversation on fragmentation, autoimmunity, and systems.