Search Results: Mystery Illness

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.

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.

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.

Anna Hartman as toddler

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

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.

Woman casting a long shadow

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.