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Sam was enjoying a post-graduation road trip when a series of unlucky medical issues left her with POTS including non-epileptic seizures. Although she still faces new challenges (MALS this time), Sam is still smiling, optimistic, and sharing her experiences and tips as an influener on TikTok. You can find her channel here.

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Dr. Anna Cabeca started her career as a researcher and busy physician, until her own fertility issues drove her to search the world over for better solutions for women's sexual health. In this interview with Dr. Dempsey we learn about hormones, symptoms, treatments, natural alternatives, that vaginal health is important for overall health, and much more.

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Dr. Dempsey's website is here: https://drtaniadempsey.com/

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Meet Reilly, a 29-year-old director of nursing from Northern British Columbia, Canada. Reilly shares insights into her life and career, details her experience with the healthcare system as both a provider and a patient, talks about the challenges of traveling with POTS, and describes her journey from the onset of symptoms to receiving a diagnosis.

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Hyperventilation and POTS: Do POTS patients "breathe wrong?" Dr. Jacquie Baker explains the high-tech research studies performed in her (and Dr. Satish Raj's) lab to untangle the mechanistic causes and effects of hyperventilation in POTS. She also explains findings on how hyperventilation in POTS differs from hyperventilation in anxiety. You can find the discussed publications here and here. Dr. Raj & Dr. Baker's latest research projects at U. of Calgary Autonomic Lab are listed here.

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Megan is a literacy advocate in Georgia and is very passionate about her work. When POTS and comorbid conditions struck, she had difficulty making it through the work day, and didn't get any relief or answers from the first 20 doctors she saw. Luckily she persisted and eventually found the one that made ALL the difference.

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Dr. Donna Kirchoff is an integrative developmental and behavioral pediatrician who works with children who have complex conditions, often involving MCAS, autism and other neuroinflammatory conditions like PANS and PANDAS. In this episode she and Dr. Dempsey discuss the role of mast cells in these conditions and what can be done to help these young patients.

Dr. Kirchoff's website is here.

Dr. Dempsey's website is here.

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Karen is a healthcare professional in rural Canadian who had onset of confusing and scary symptoms six days after her third COVID shot. It took a year to figure out symptoms like "feeling drugged when upright, yet feeling able to solve world problems when lying down." Karen shares how she found answers and the ability to be back at work, now able to recognize POTS in her patients.

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