MCAS, POTS, & Hypermobility Part 1 with Michelle Shapiro, RD
Hormone Healing RD
Amanda Montalvo
4.9 • 851 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Today, Michelle Shapiro joins me again for another episode! Michelle is an integrative and functional registered dietitian who has helped over 1,000 clients reverse their anxiety, heal longstanding gut issues and immune issues, and approach their weight in a loving way. Together, we discuss the complex world of long Covid, mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), and histamine issues and Michelle shares her personal journey and insights on how chronic stress, gut health, and hypermobility intersect with these conditions. This episode not only provides practical strategies for managing these conditions but also emphasizes the importance of understanding your body's unique needs. Michelle and I address how excessive mast cell activation can affect day-to-day life and pregnancy, offering a hopeful perspective on achieving full recovery through both conventional and non-conventional treatments.
This episode covers:
- Understanding your unique body requirements and creating a specific system for introducing necessary nutrients
- The critical role a hopeful and proactive mindset plays in managing and overcoming health challenges
- Complexities of treating conditions like MCAS and POTS
- Relation of hypermobility, nervous system, and connective tissue issues with MCAS and POTS
- Importance to see the interconnectedness of symptoms
- Function of mast cells and how COVID-19 can trigger MCAS
Mineral Quiz: https://hormonehealingrd.com/guides-support/mineral-quiz/
Resources/Links:
- Take the quiz to find out if you have a highly sensitive body: https://www.quietthediet.com/a/2147858703/QTiFyr9T
- Join the HSB Hub: https://www.quietthediet.com/a/2147833897/QTiFyr9T
- Reflux episode with Michelle: https://hormonehealingrd.com/podcast-episode/s5-e21-the-root-cause-of-reflux-with-michelle-shapiro-rd/
- Compression socks: https://vimvigr.com/collections/women-all-collections-compression-socks
- The Chop Levine Protocol (exercise protocol for POTS)
- The Hypermobility Chiropractor we constantly mentioned: https://thehypermobilechiro.com/
- Gupta program: https://guptaprogram.com/
- Study link for long covid: https://www.helpadvisor.com/community-health/long-covid-report
Connect with Michelle:
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/michelleshapirord/
Website: https://michelleshapirord.com/
Quiet The Diet Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/quiet-the-diet/id1663088026
Connect with Me:
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hormonehealingrd
Free Thyroid Training: https://hormonehealingrd.ck.page/bc89ec6723
Feminine Periodical (monthly newsletter): https://hormonehealingrd.ck.page/d0317056cd
Master Your Minerals course: https://www.hormonehealingrd.com/master-your-minerals-course
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the R.U. 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 notes. |
| 0:30.3 | All right. In this episode, I am interviewing Michelle Shapiro. She's been here before. |
| 0:36.6 | If you don't know her that I would be |
| 0:38.2 | shocked, one of our most popular episodes on reflux, I feel like everyone knows who you are now. |
| 0:43.8 | But we are going to be talking about histamines today. So we did a whole episode on reflux, |
| 0:48.6 | extremely popular. We got so many questions from it. A lot of them are histamine related. |
| 0:53.4 | So we're doing a whole two-part |
| 0:55.4 | series on histamine issues, mast cell activation, pots, long COVID, hypermobility, all of the |
| 1:02.4 | things. And if you don't know, Michelle, she is an integrative and functional registered |
| 1:07.7 | dietitian in New York City. She's helped over a thousand clients reverse their |
| 1:12.6 | anxiety, heal longstanding gut issues and immune issues, and approach their weight in a loving way. |
| 1:20.3 | She now has five nutritionists that work on her team as well, and they all work one-on-one |
| 1:26.7 | towards these goals with clients. And she has |
| 1:28.9 | her own podcasts, quiet the diet. It's really good. She has a lot of really good guests. I know |
| 1:33.9 | you and Nikki do a lot of the episodes together now. Nikki's amazing. And really, they're focusing |
| 1:39.1 | on bridging the gap between body positivity and functional nutrition. And then her latest, like, big project, it's a very big project that she was finally |
| 1:49.0 | wrapped up is the highly sensitive body hub. |
| 1:52.8 | And I'm actually in it. |
| 1:54.2 | I have some lessons in there, but it's this amazing. |
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