Back-to-school season brings a surge of students struggling with concussions, POTS, and chronic fatigue that's keeping them out of classrooms and off sports fields. In this episode of My POTS Podcast, host Dr. Schneider reveals why muscle weakness isn't just a symptom but the key to understanding why recovery stalls for so many patients with dysautonomia and brain injuries. Your musculoskeletal system is actually your body's largest organ system, producing powerful signaling molecules called myokines that communicate directly with your brain, immune system, and every major organ. When muscles stop working properly due to chronic fatigue or injury, this entire communication network breaks down, creating a cascade of dysfunction affecting memory, metabolism, and healing capacity. Students and athletes who maintain even basic exercise routines recover faster and more completely than those who become sedentary. This episode explains how targeted movement therapy can double the size of your hippocampus, stimulate brain-derived neurotrophic factors, and restart the natural healing processes that medications alone cannot achieve.
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Website: Hope Brain and Body Recovery Center; Hope Regeneration Center
Podcast: MyPOTSPodcast.com
LinkedIn: Joseph Schneider
YouTube: HopeBrainBodyRecoveryCenter
Instagram: @HopeBrainCenter_
Facebook: Hope Brain and Body Recovery CenterDateline NBC
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