Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you’ve joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.

Let's get to the heart of this episode, this is a conversation with Dr. Diana Driscoll, optometrist and Clinical Director of POTS Care. She is an EDS patient (Ehlers-Danlos syndrome) who recovered from POTS, as have her children. She reached out to me to share her powerful story and I have to say, I learned a lot in this truly impactful episode. I am so glad you have joined us today to hear our conversation.

To connect with today’s guest, Dr. Diana Driscoll, and myself, our social / websites are at the bottom of the show notes. You will also find linked info about our partners and recommended products to try.

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Here are the main topics of today’s episode:

• Introducing our guest, Dr. Diana Driscoll
• Jenn’s seasonal recommendations
• Defining Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)
• Common dismissal of POTS as a diagnosis
• The Driscoll Theory
• Delving deeper into the underlying causes and genetics
• Vastness of symptoms
• It all starts with Autonomic symptoms
• Diana and her son’s personal journeys from misdiagnosis to recovery
• Looking for answers
• How to find Dr. Diana Driscoll, patents, and research (linked below in show notes) 

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Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful.

You can connect with Dr. Diana Driscoll via her website potscare.com. 

To learn more about vagus nerve supplement patents, go to https://vagusnervesupport.com, and to read her ground-breaking book, The Driscoll Theory go to https://potscare.com/the-driscoll-theory/ where she talks about high intracranial pressure, abnormal inflammation, vagus nerve problems, and more. 

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Quotes

• “This is often a misdiagnosed issue going on for so many people and called things like chronic fatigue, or you just have a weak immune system and it's just brain fog. It's just this. And just that. And really it is this combination, this grouping of symptoms that can oftentimes be pushed off as something else.”

• “Part of what had you dig deeper and be like, there has got to be another reason or not necessarily a reason, but there has to be another way to, to help our bodies move through this and to get stronger. We can't just continue to feel this way.”

• “I was able to figure out there's a propensity for high intracranial pressure and we needed to bring the pressure down and when we brought the pressure down that was a great help for symptoms but it was still not hitting the underlying problem, but we couldn't ignore it. So I went ahead and released that in a book, The Driscoll Theory, it went worldwide. It was awesome because it changed lives immediately. But we still weren't done.”

•  “My son, he is a poster child for recovery. This is my greatest victory in life. It really is to get answers for him and to see him doing so well.”

• “Diana, I believe we all have a divine purpose. This definitely is yours because there's not a lot of people who would be able,12 years down the line, still wake up with that same, not just curiosity, ...but a calm nature..., as well as a certain level of ferrosity”

• “We just have to keep at it and keep looking for the answers.”

• “That is crazy hard and crazy that patients have to be the ones to lead the charge. I think it won't always be that hard. Better labels, we’ll know more about genetics and we'll be able to identify these things much earlier with the validation the patient needs and that objectivity that they don't have to fight for the help that they need.”

Additional Information About Jenn:

Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature’s Emporium, and Juice Plus.

Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.