Gastrointestinal

gastrointestinal issues in EDS

Digesting the Facts: Tackling Gastrointestinal Challenges in EDS

Living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) often feels like piecing together a puzzle without being able to visualize the final desired image. Patients poke at fixing separate symptoms while no one is tying the whole picture together. This creates difficulties when multiple systems come together like they do in the nutrition and waste mechanisms within the […]

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New Research Study Finds Everything is Connected, As Many Patients Suspected

A wake-up call to the medical community sent directly with data from commercial health insurers A new study focused on the prevalence of multisystem diagnoses among hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS) patients sheds light on a critical aspect of this complex condition: the widespread systemic impact it has on the body and the connection to other […]

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Research Round-Up, Edition 2

→ BREAKING NEWS: Study finds biomarker that could lead to a blood test for hEDS & HSD ← Welcome back to the Research Round-Up, a summary of medical news you can use. We’ve got a lot of great research for you this month, so giddy up and git going! Yee-haw! If you have an article […]

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Gut Check: Gluten Intolerance, Celiac Disease, or Mast Cell Reaction?

It is challenging to find the source of our gut problems, so many of us have related to hypermobility. The volunteer media team at Chronic Pain Partners tried to tackle the basics so our readers could have a brief introduction to the variances and testing available for different diagnoses of these often ‘gut-wrenching’ illnesses.  Note: We […]

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EDSed Episode 4: Dr. Jacqueline Wolf on GI symptoms & Endometriosis

EDSed is our new series of full-length interviews with international EDS experts. These educational interview series with journalistic (news) quality is complementary to our webinar recordings and another free resource we provide for our community. All films are produced by journalist and We Are Visible filmmaker Karina Sturm and sponsored by Chronic Pain Partners. You can […]

Freezing Vagus Nerve for Weight Loss can be Dangerous!

By: Mary Chris Jaklevic is a reporter-editor at HealthNewsReview.org. She tweets as @mcjaklevic. Tiffany Mielcarek was aghast when she saw NBC’s Today Show hype an experimental weight loss procedure that freezes a branch of the vagus nerve that sends hunger signals to the brain and regulates digestion. “They were talking about it as if this were a miracle. […]

Free Webinar: “Chronic Pain Alternatives” – Recording Available

Watch Dr. Clive Bridgham’s presentation on Chronic Pain Alternatives – with focus on inflammation and nutrition.

Webinar on “Gastrointestinal Disorders in EDS” by Dr. Manu Sood – Recording Available

Listen to Dr. Manu Sood’s webinar about Gastrointestinal Disorders in EDS. Dr. Sood has spoken at the EDNF Conference and been published on topics such as GI Motility Disorders, IBS and GERD.