A neurologist's mind-body-spirit approach to chronic dizziness & POTS: interview w/Dr. Roger Gietzen

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It is a privilege to bring you today this interview with Dr. Roger Gietzen, MD, a practicing neurologist who currently works in a hospital setting and runs his own private practice on the side, Healthy Mind Body, where he serves people who are suffering from medically unexplained chronic symptoms like chronic pain, chronic fatigue syndrome and chronic dizziness. Dr. Roger uses many of the same mindbody techniques we discuss here on my channel, with the addition of spiritual practices and physical interventions such as deliberate cold exposure that he has found helpful for his patients.

In this interview, we focus on chronic dizziness, POTS and dysautonomia, where conventional neurology fails to help patients, why mindbody approaches are helpful, why adding a spiritual dimension makes sense to him, and why he sometimes recommends physical interventions that he finds helpful, particularly for people with dysautonomia and POTS.

To learn more about Dr. Roger and his work, you can visit his practice website at https://www.healthy-mind-body.com/ and his nonprofit website at https://www.global-freedom-project.org/.

00:00:00 Intro & about Dr. Roger
00:03:16 Modern medicine is not very helpful to a large number of people with dizziness
00:06:06 Mindbody and more holistic methods require the patient to take responsibility for the condition
00:09:41 The differences between PPPD, MdDS, vestibular migraine, other neural circuit dizziness, and POTS and dysautonomia
00:16:10 Medical treatments addressing underlying physiology may not be in people's best interest
00:19:14 People should know that SSRIs/SNRIs are not treating the root causae
00:21:47 Medical treatment of POTS and dysautonomia; Dr. Roger's experience with chronic dizziness in the conventional setting
00:25:50 Dr. Roger's general approach to helping people with chronic symptoms via a mind-body-spirit approach
00:28:40 Taking responsibility is taking power back, not self-blame; skill building around mindful acceptance
00:30:16 Dr. Roger's spiritual beliefs and experiences guide him and his work; we can't control what happens but we can control how we respond
00:37:30 The intention of mindfulness practices and tracking is to bring them out into your life
00:39:28 Cold water immersion and its potential for helping people with POTS, dysautonomia and other chronic dizziness
00:46:16 A group participant's positive experience with cold water immersion
00:48:52 The importance of helping other people; Dr. Roger's humanitarian work in Haiti
00:50:44 The difference between being a people pleaser and helping others
00:54:22 Dr. Roger's own spiritual experiences; how people's relationships with a higher power influence healing
01:04:36 Dr. Roger's view that health issues always have a spiritual dimension

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