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Hypermobility

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Superpower or Supersyndrome? | Part 1

Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder

How a Superpower Can Become Your Achilles Heel

What if I were to tell you I’ve discovered one root cause — one predisposing factor associated with the most common & complex issues doctors address every day?

Superpower or Supersyndrome? | Part 2

Hypermobility & Chronic Health Issues

Connecting the Dots between Chronic Fatigue, Autoimmune Disease, & POTS

If a syndrome is a condition associated with a cluster of symptoms, a supersyndrome is a group of related conditions often seen together.

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Treating Hypermobility

Start with the basics. Stay there longer.

Twenty, thirty, sixty percent better, then stuck. In a hypermobile body the basics do more of the work than most people expect.

Hypermobility & Exercise

Why “push through the pain” is the wrong advice

You were told to move more, and moving more made you worse. There is a mechanism behind that, and a number that fixes it.

Hypermobility cluster, Hub C (Gut Health)

Hypermobility & Your Gut … What’s the Connection?

Why loose connective tissue reaches your gut two different ways

Nobody connects a loose shoulder to years of bloating. The link runs through two separate mechanisms, and they feed each other.

Why Hypermobility Makes You Anxious

Your anxiety may start in your connective tissue

You’re sitting with your family, the house is quiet, and your body still won’t settle. There may be a physical reason for that, and it isn’t in your head.

Peptides & Biological Signaling | Part 4

The Peptide Paradox: How Restricting Safe Clinical Access Made the Wild West Bigger

When the system narrows the legitimate path, demand doesn't disappear. It just moves somewhere nobody can track it.

The FDA restricted 19 peptides in September 2023. One month later, tirzepatide was approved for weight loss. Dr. Hartman explains what actually happened.

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.

Demystifying Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS)

A Conversation with Dr. Lawrence Afrin

If ever there were an 8,000-pound invisible elephant in the medical profession’s waiting room, it’s this disease.

Mystery Illnesses

Demystifying POTS

This Mystery Illness Sweeping Our Country Doesn’t Need to Mystify You

Understanding POTS can seem overwhelming, but realizing its connection to other conditions offers a pathway to effective treatment.