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Are You Menstrual?

MCAS, POTS, & Hypermobility Part 2 with Michelle Shapiro, RD

Are You Menstrual?

Amanda Montalvo

Nutrition, Are You Menstrual?, Alternative Health, Period Podcast, Education, Women's Health, Sexuality, Amanda Montalvo, Menstrual Podcast, Health & Fitness

5831 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We are back with part two with Michelle Shapiro! After our initial discussion in the last episode about how these conditions relate to one another, today we are diving into conventional treatments and functional approaches for MCAS, POTS, and hypermobility. Michelle and I discuss why jumping straight to restrictive diets might not be the best long-term solution, why stabilizing mast cells should come first, and why specialized care is crucial.This episode covers:What is missing from conventio...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the RU. Menstrual podcast where we dive deep into all things women's health to support you on your healing journey.

0:07.9

I'm Amanda Montalbo, functional and integrative dietitian, also known as the hormone healing RD.

0:13.2

If you enjoy this podcast and you want to keep learning, check out the podcast Patreon where I share a bonus episode with additional downloadable resources each week.

0:22.4

You can go to patreon.com forward slash hormone healing RD or check out the link in the show

0:28.2

notes.

0:32.4

All right.

0:33.2

We are back for part two with Michelle Shapiro talking about not only, like last week we went

0:39.8

through all like the specifics of like, what is massal activation syndrome?

0:43.3

What is pots?

0:44.0

What is hypermobility?

0:45.2

How are they all related?

0:46.3

How do they relate to COVID?

0:47.9

The immune system, all the things.

0:50.3

This week we want to talk more about the actual treatment of them.

0:53.9

So we're going to go through like,

0:55.0

what is conventional treatment for these different conditions?

0:58.4

What is the more functional treatment or what we think is correct?

1:02.8

And then we will talk about some alternative treatments as well that we're like,

1:06.8

hey, maybe just be careful with this based on Michelle's amazing experience.

1:12.5

So let's first talk about mastocactivation syndrome.

1:18.2

Like, what is the typical conventional approach to that?

1:23.0

Yeah, so this is going to be mostly a medication approach when it comes to MCAS.

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