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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.
Mystery Illnesses | Part 2
The Great Imitators
When Infection Doesn’t Look Like Infection
Some infections hide behind fatigue, brain fog, joint pain, and gut issues. Learn how “great imitator” diseases can mimic other conditions and delay diagnosis.
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 4
When Everything Feels Like a Trigger
Mast Cells, Chemical Sensitivity, and Why the Body Becomes Reactive
When everything becomes a trigger (foods, chemicals, even medications) it can feel random. It isn’t. Here’s the biology behind it.
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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.
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.
Medical Blind Spots | Part 2
Medical Gaslighting
When Medicine Says It’s All in Your Head
If you’ve ever been told your symptoms are stress, anxiety, or “just in your head,” you’ve experienced what Dr. Hartman calls medical gaslighting. It’s not manipulation. It’s a structural problem in how medicine handles uncertainty. And it has a pattern.
Mystery Illnesses | Part 5
When the Mystery Won’t Resolve
Why You Can Check All the Right Boxes and Still Feel Stuck
You’ve done everything right—treated infections, addressed your environment, improved your labs—and you’re still not fully well. This is where many patients get stuck, and why recovery doesn’t always follow a straight line.
Chronic Lyme | Part 2
Beyond Antibiotics
Why Treating Lyme Requires More Than Killing Bacteria
Why antibiotics alone often fail in chronic Lyme. Learn how biofilms, immune dysfunction, and treatment sequencing affect persistent symptoms.
Chronic Lyme
Why the Tick Bite Is Rarely the Whole Story
For many patients, Lyme disease is not resolved by antibiotics alone. Understanding immune load, toxins, and nervous system stress explains why.
UnCURABLE | Part 1
The Day “Incurable” Became Hopeful
How One Diagnosis Changed Everything
When doctors said his daughter would never walk or talk, Dr. Aaron Hartman and his wife refused to give up. Anna’s story became the spark that redefined how he practices medicine—and inspired UnCURABLE: From Hopeless Diagnosis to Defying All Odds.
Made for Health
Healing Hypersensitivity
Understanding & Transforming Our Skyrocketing Sensitivity to Almost Everything
Why are so many people becoming hypersensitive to foods, chemicals … even technology? Dr. Neil Nathan believes that this isn’t a coincidence.
Made for Health
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.
Paradigm Shift
Exploring the Impact of Mold & CIRS on Medicine
It would be difficult to overstate how dramatically my medical practice has been influenced by CIRS—not because I went looking for it…
Detox | Part 3
Advanced Detoxification
Curious about my go-to detoxification tools for patients? Explore advanced strategies and special considerations for detoxification.
Detox | Part 2
A Foundational Detox Plan
Your body is designed to detox. Amplify your natural process to eliminate toxins.
Detox | Part 1
Is Toxic Load Causing Your Health Issues?
Our bodies are designed to remove toxins as we’re exposed to them … problems arise as toxins build up over time faster than our bodies can remove them.
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.
Medical Misinformation | Part 4
Top 10 Myths About Autoimmune Disease
One in 12 Americans has an autoimmune disease, and twenty percent of the population currently has an auto antibody.
Medical Misinformation | Part 2
Top 10 Myths About Mold
Because I see so many patients affected by mold toxicity, and I hear so much confusion, I’d like to clear the air (literally and metaphorically) by dispelling the top 10 myths I hear surrounding mold-related illness.
Treating Long COVID
Facing a Real Problem and Moving Forward
Long COVID is an inflammatory response to the original infection. That’s important because post-infectious inflammatory complications are not new.
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.
Micro Courses | Part 1
Creating a Healthy Home
Transform Your Home Into a Safe Haven
You spend 65% of your life inside your home (and a third of your life in one room!). Your home = your health. It’s that simple.
Food & Mood
Take Control of Your Mental Health
Mood disorders like anxiety and depression are increasing. But understanding the critical link between food and mood can empower you to take back control of your mental health.
Inflammation
The Underlying Cause of Chronic Disease
Inflammation is a normal response of our body’s immune system … but it can sometimes run amok, leading to all kinds of problems.