POTS
What is the functional medicine approach to POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome)?
- NASA Lean Test for diagnosis (10-minute office alternative to Tilt-table testing)
- Address 5 pillars of Functional Medicine
- Sleep
- Nutrition
- Movement
- Stress Management
- Social/Emotional support
- S.H.I.N.E Protocol
- Sleep support
- Hormone testing and balancing
- Infection testing (Lyme + co-infection + viral infections + mold + Candida) and treatment
- Nutritional testing and treatment of deficiencies
- Exercise as able
- Elimination Diet
- Functional Medicine testing (particularly for infections as above)
- Address gut health
- Nutritional and supplemental support
- Limbic system retraining
- Vagus nerve stimulation
- Medical detox protocol (including lifestyle interventions, supplemental support, and detox sessions in the Healing Room)
- Prescription medication to consider:
- low dose naltrexone