The Discovery of Hiatal Hernia Syndrome - 30 Years of Clues

This video reviews the story of how we discovered Hiatal Hernia Syndrome, its start, its evolution and where we are now.

Patient 1 was over 30 years ago - a young woman who awoke in the middle of the night with heart palpitations, trouble breathing and panic. As so many of you have experienced the diagnosis was a panic attack.

She did have chronic bloating and constipation but she never suffered with anxiety. We treated her digestive issues and she resolved beautifully and she never had another panic attack. Meeting her did plant the seed in my mind of what did cause her to have this terrifying experience, but I certainly didn't understand the depth and breadth of it until many similar patients came our way at the clinic.

As the years passed we started to see a connection between acid reflux, bloating, gas, constipation AND additional symptoms of heart palpitations, shortness of breath and anxiety. The common treatment was an antacid or prescription PPI and as we delved into the side effects of these drugs we became concerned. 

Proper digestion required stomach acid and this was compromised with these drugs, not to mention the many and dangerous side effects. 

Patients seeing gastroenterologists were often told about their acid reflux but a hiatal hernia wasn't mentioned... even when it was present! It was interesting to discover that a hiatal hernia was found on the report but not mentioned to the patient.

The surgery for Hiatal Hernia was developed in 1991 but it took a while to catch on. By 2010 surgery center started springing up and it seemed liked "overnight" patients were not only being told about their hiatal hernias but even patients with small hiatal hernia were strongly recommended surgery as a "solution".

It was about this time I started talking about hiatal hernia and its many related symptoms on my YouTube channel. Making the connection between acid reflux, shortness of breath, heart palpitations and anxiety, to name a few, got a lot of attention from those suffering. Individuals were surprised to learn that all the symptoms had a common root cause that could be treated naturally.

As we continued to treat more and more patients with the condition we understand further interrelationships. These included the vagus nerve and its effect of heart rate. blood pressure, dizziness, anxiety, mood swings, hoarseness, trouble swallowing and more.

We also did a deep dive into the diaphragm, realizing that it was truly a forgotten organ and it could be affected by the nerve that traveled to it from the neck, having tightness and loss of motion in the mid-back, having a stiff hip (sounds unrelated but the psoas muscle of your hip is attached to your diaphragm) and so much more.

In 2020, when the world "shut down", I decided to write a book on the topic since we, as a team, had decided that Hiatal Hernia Syndrome was truly taking on epidemic proportions but the inter-relationship between all the symptoms (up to 20) were completely misunderstood and misdiagnosed. Too often individuals were being told their symptoms were all in their head and pushed off as psychiatric cases and given dangerous drugs.

As we heard from more and more people suffering from around the world we worked to develop an online course that included everything we knew on the subject plus our treatment strategies. The goal was to make the information and assistance available to everyone, no matter where they lived while making the financial commitment more affordable.

We are getting great reviews from those who have completed the course.

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