Why Chronic Illness Keeps Getting Worse: Dr. Neil Nathan Names the Hidden Triggers

About this episode

Dr. Neil Nathan explains why people with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and other complex conditions often fall through the cracks of conventional medicine. He says the acute-care model—one symptom, one diagnosis, and one treatment—does not fit chronic illness, where several systems and triggers may be involved at the same time. Drawing on decades of work with difficult cases, he describes how his focus shifted from treating downstream problems such as hormone imbalances, intestinal dysbiosis, nutritional deficiencies, and mitochondrial dysfunction to investigating what he considers upstream drivers, especially mold toxicity, Lyme disease, and long COVID. Nathan discusses how…