Bendy Bodies with Dr. Linda Bluestein

In this episode of the Bendy Bodies podcast, Dr. Linda Bluestein, the Hypermobility MD, explores the impact of nutrition on joint hypermobility with Lorna Ryan, chair of the Diet and Nutrition Working Group for the Ehlers Danlos Society. Lorna shares essential advice on how to nourish the body for better pain management, improved gut health, and more energy. From the importance of fiber to balancing nutrients and understanding food sensitivities, this conversation is packed with practical tips. Lorna also shares her favorite recipes and explains how the right foods can help reduce EDS (Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome) symptoms and support gut health. Whether you’re looking to ease GI symptoms, balance energy levels, or discover new dietary approaches for EDS, this episode offers valuable insights and hacks.

Takeaways:

Flexible Diets Work Best: There is no one-size-fits-all diet for EDS; flexible eating plans based on individual needs are more effective than rigid restrictions.

Fiber is Crucial for Gut Health: Fiber is essential for a healthy gut, and those with EDS often need to reintroduce it gradually to avoid GI symptoms.

Adaptability is Key in Nutrition: Lorna emphasizes adapting diets based on changing symptoms, seasons, and life circumstances, helping to better manage health outcomes.

Food as Nourishment, Not Restriction: Instead of focusing on restrictions, Lorna advises seeing food as a source of nourishment that supports healing and strength.

Track, Don’t Restrict: Keeping a food and symptom diary helps identify triggers without unnecessary restrictions, especially for those managing mast cell activation syndrome and dysautonomia.

Connect with YOUR Bendy Specialist, Dr. Linda Bluestein, MD at https://www.hypermobilitymd.com/.

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It's YOUR time to access information that #BendyBodies need, crave, and deserve. Medical insights, science-based information, inspiring stories, empathy and support, hypermobility hacks, and news you can use.

In this episode, YOUR guest is gastroenterologist Leonard Weinstock, MD, author of over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles. His extensive research on MCAS (Mast Cell Activation Syndrome) and diseases of the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and colon has been presented at national and international conferences. He is actively researching the connection of the gut and small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) with several medical problems, including restless legs syndrome (RLS) and chronic pelvic pain syndromes. He presented several lectures in Oregon at the first SIBO symposium and in France at the international rosacea study group.

YOUR host, as always, is Dr. Linda Bluestein, the Hypermobility MD.

Explored in this episode:

· What can cause abdominal pain in those with EDS (Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes), MCAS (Mast Cell Activation Syndrome) and/or dysautonomia (syndromes like POTS - Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome)

· How gastrointestinal tract symptoms and extraintestinal problems like RLS (restless leg syndrome), rosacea, and interstitial cystitis are related

· What unique treatments are available for restless leg syndrome, rosacea, and interstitial cystitis

· How Dr. Weinstock’s medical practice evolved after becoming “MCAS aware, POTS aware and EDS aware”

· What correlations exist between Crohn's disease, irritable bowel disease and RLS

· Why it is so crucially important to listen to AND believe our patients

· How Mast Cell Activation Disease and MCAS differ from one another

· Why the term “syndrome” can be problematic

· What environmental factors can play a role in MCAS

· When to suspect a compression syndrome (like Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome or MALS, Nutcracker Syndrome, or pelvic congestion syndrome), visceroptosis (drooping of the intestines) or gastroparesis

· What testing can be performed for MCAS and the significance of tryptase levels

· How YOU can help support our nonprofit documentary film and free online educational library, Still Standing.

The goal of our documentary film and free online educational library is to promote wider awareness and physician education about three complex chronic conditions, MCAS, dysautonomia and hypermobility syndromes. Better recognition will help patients get treatment and hope for a better quality of life.

This important conversation about extraintestinal manifestations of gastrointestinal diseases will leave you feeling more knowledgeable, better prepared to advocate for the care you need, and with a better understanding of the interaction of the gastrointestinal system with other bodily systems.

Connect with YOUR Bendy Specialist, Linda Bluestein, MD!

Thank YOU so much for tuning in. We hope you found this episode informative, inspiring, useful, validating, and enjoyable. Join us on the next episode for YOUR time to level up your knowledge about hypermobility disorders and the people who have them.

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