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Poor sleep, exhaustion, tachycardia, palpitations, dizziness, nausea, GI disturbance, brain fog. exercise intolerance. Sound familiar? What you might not have realised is that all of these symptoms can be explained by disorder of the autonomic system. Our bodies, being stuck in a fight or flight state, are never resting, digesting or healing as they should.
In episode 4 of our expert interviews series, we talk to Dr Svetlana Blitshteyn about what's known about virally induced dysautonomia, what the prognosis is, how we diagnose it and how we treat it.
0:00 Introduction
1:03 Dr Blitshteyn's background
2:05 What is dysautonomia?
3:47 Post viral dysautonomia
6:53 Which LC patients get dysautonomia?
10:52 How severe can it be?
14:33 What's the prognosis?
17:10 What's the mechanism driving it?
19:14 How do you treat it?
22:55 The role of exercise
24:30 Sympathetic vs Parasympathetic vs Enteric
28:52 Can breathwork/meditation help?
31:52 What can your GP prescribe?
41:35 Ideal research project
44:31 Most important tip for management
50:31 Conclusion