What's the Root Cause? by Dr Vikki Petersen

"What's the Root Cause?" is brought to you by Root Cause Medical Clinic, featuring Dr. Vikki Petersen—renowned doctor, functional medicine expert, author of "Hiatal Hernia Syndrome" and host of a highly popular YouTube channel. Dr. Vikki Petersen and her team of clinicians provide cutting-edge solutions in gut health, hiatal hernia syndrome, nutrition, food, hormones, genetics, lifestyle, and more. You don’t have to accept feeling unwell or struggling with chronic health issues. Your body has the power to heal, and with the right approach, reversing many health conditions is possible. We're here to help you do just that. Have questions about your health? Contact us today at 727-335-0400 or visit RootCauseMedicalClinics.com .

What's the Root Cause? by Dr Vikki Petersen is a health podcast hosted by Root Cause Medical Clinic, with 191 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Root Cause Medical Clinic hosts What's the Root Cause? by Dr Vikki Petersen, a health show with 191 episodes published.

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  5 Everyday Habits Making Your Hiatal Hernia Worse

  Oct 7, 202612 min

  Some of the things you do every day — including things you think are healthy — may be quietly making your hiatal hernia worse, because nobody connected them to your hernia in the first place. In this video, Dr. Vikki walks through five everyday habits that raise the pressure driving a hiatal hernia, simple adjustments you can start today, and why the real driver is different for every person. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ What we cover → Why a hiatal hernia is a pressure problem - and what that changes → Big meals, eaten fast - the stretch-and-push effect → Lying down too soon after eating - and what to do instead → Straining and constipation - the daily pressure spike nobody mentions → The "healthy" ab workout that compresses your hernia → Blaming the acid while ignoring the gut ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Tell me in the comments - which of the five surprised you? Which one are you changing first? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ Important → Don't stop any reflux medication because of a video - rebound can be worse. Trouble swallowing, food sticking, vomiting blood, black or tarry stools, unexplained weight loss, or chest pain must be evaluated by a doctor promptly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Watch next → 5 Signs Your Acid Reflux Is Actually a Hiatal Hernia — https://youtu.be/MzYAyJ6JNJo → Told You Don't Have a Hiatal Hernia? You Still Might — https://youtu.be/22KJRFB50A8 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Work with us We treat the root cause of hiatal hernia symptoms — not just the symptoms. Root Cause Medical Clinic offers telemedicine nationwide. → https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ‍⚕️ About Dr. Vikki Dr. Vikki Petersen, DC, FMCP, is a certified functional medicine practitioner and the founder of Root Cause Medical Clinic in Clearwater, Florida, serving patients nationwide by telemedicine. Her focus is hiatal hernia syndrome, acid reflux, and the gut-brain connection — finding and correcting the underlying cause of digestive symptoms rather than managing them indefinitely with medication. → https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/

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  Signs You Might Have a Hiatal Hernia and Not Know It

  Oct 6, 202611 min

  Most people with a hiatal hernia have no idea they have one — it hides behind reflux, bloating, anxiety, even heart and breathing symptoms. In this video, Dr. Vikki walks through the pattern of signs that point to a hiatal hernia, and tells you the honest truth about the "finger test," the "apple cider vinegar test," and why you can't actually diagnose this at home. The honest bottom line: you can't confirm a hiatal hernia at home. You can recognize the pattern and use it to get a proper evaluation. This video is for recognition, not self-diagnosis. → Book a consultation: https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ What we cover → Why most people who have a hiatal hernia don't know it → Why it hides — no bulge, and it slides in and out of view → Reflux that won't quit → Symptoms that change with your position → The bloating / burping / full-fast cluster → The "unrelated" symptoms that aren't → The truth about the "finger test" and the "apple cider vinegar test" ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Tell me in the comments — how many of these signs are you? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ Important → A hiatal hernia can't be diagnosed at home. See a doctor for a real evaluation. → Trouble swallowing, food sticking, vomiting blood, black or tarry stools, unexplained weight loss, or sudden severe chest/abdominal pain need prompt medical attention. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Watch next → Hiatal Hernia: Symptoms You'd Never Connect to Your Stomach — https://youtu.be/-VSEeE9DT6g → Told You Don't Have a Hiatal Hernia? You Still Might — https://youtu.be/22KJRFB50A8 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Work with us We treat the root cause of hiatal hernia symptoms — not just the symptoms. Root Cause Medical Clinic offers telemedicine nationwide. → Book a consultation: https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ‍⚕️ About Dr. Vikki Dr. Vikki Petersen, DC, FMCP, is a certified functional medicine practitioner and the founder of Root Cause Medical Clinic in Clearwater, Florida, serving patients nationwide by telemedicine. Her focus is hiatal hernia syndrome, acid reflux, and the gut-brain connection — finding and correcting the underlying cause of digestive symptoms rather than managing them indefinitely with medication. → https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/

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  Told You Don't Have a Hiatal Hernia? You Still Might

  Sep 16, 202611 min

  If a test came back clear — or a hernia was found and called "too small to matter" — and you still have the symptoms, this video is for you. Dr. Vikki walks through why a sliding hiatal hernia is so easily missed, what the research actually says about hernia size and symptoms, and why a normal test result is not the same as a real answer. → Book a consultation: https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ Call us directly at: 727-335-0400 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ What we cover → Why a sliding hernia is missed on endoscopy — up to a third of the time → Why a "clean scope" often means "nobody saw it that day" → "Too small to matter" — the sleight of hand between small in size and small in importance → Why size studies about reflux don't apply to palpitations, breathlessness, or anxiety → Why a normal test result is not the same as an answer ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ Important → Endoscopy is an important test. Trouble swallowing, food sticking, vomiting blood, black or tarry stools, unexplained weight loss, or chest pain must be evaluated by a doctor promptly. → This video is about the common small sliding hernia — not large or paraesophageal hernias, which may require surgery. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Watch next → 5 Signs Your Acid Reflux Is Actually a Hiatal Hernia — https://youtu.be/MzYAyJ6JNJo → Hiatal Hernia: Symptoms You'd Never Connect to Your Stomach — https://youtu.be/-VSEeE9DT6g ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Work with us We treat the root cause of hiatal hernia symptoms — not just the symptoms. Root Cause Medical Clinic offers telemedicine nationwide. → Book a consultation: https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ Call us directly at: 727-335-0400 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ‍⚕️ About Dr. Vikki Dr. Vikki Petersen, DC, FMCP, is a certified functional medicine practitioner and the founder of Root Cause Medical Clinic in Clearwater, Florida, serving patients nationwide by telemedicine. Her focus is hiatal hernia syndrome, acid reflux, and the gut-brain connection — finding and correcting the underlying cause of digestive symptoms rather than managing them indefinitely with medication. → https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ #hiatalhernia #acidreflux

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  What's Actually Happening During a Hiatal Hernia Attack

  Sep 11, 202612 min

  A hiatal hernia "attack" can feel terrifying — crushing chest pressure, burning, breathlessness, a pounding heart, and a wave of panic that makes you wonder if it's a heart attack. In this video, Dr. Vikki walks through exactly what's happening inside your body during an attack, step by step — the pressure, the acid, the esophageal spasm, the trapped gas, the breathlessness, and the panic — so the episode that's been frightening you finally makes sense. Book a consultation: https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ PLEASE NOTE: Chest pain can be a heart problem. If your chest pain is new, severe, or comes with sweating, fainting, or pain down your arm, treat it as an emergency and get seen. This video is for people whose heart has already been evaluated and cleared. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ What we cover → The trigger — how an attack begins (meals, lying down, bending) → Why the acid escapes and the burning starts → The esophageal spasm — and why it feels exactly like your heart → Trapped gas, fullness, and chest pressure → Why you can't get a full breath → The panic — why it's a real physical response, not "just anxiety" → How an attack ends, and why it leaves you wrecked ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Tell me in the comments — have you had one of these? What did yours feel like? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ Important → A hiatal hernia attack can feel identical to a heart attack. Any new, severe, or unexplained chest pain — especially with sweating, fainting, or arm pain — is an emergency. A strangulated hernia (severe unrelenting pain, vomiting, unable to pass gas) is also an emergency. This video is not a substitute for medical evaluation. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Watch next → Hiatal Hernia: Symptoms You'd Never Connect to Your Stomach — https://youtu.be/-VSEeE9DT6g → Heart Palpitations After Eating? It's Your Hiatal Hernia — https://youtu.be/ZIDAPlLPTFA ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Work with us We treat the root cause of hiatal hernia symptoms — not just the symptoms. Root Cause Medical Clinic offers telemedicine nationwide. Book a consultation: https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ‍⚕️ About Dr. Vikki Dr. Vikki Petersen, DC, FMCP, is a certified functional medicine practitioner and the founder of Root Cause Medical Clinic in Clearwater, Florida, serving patients nationwide by telemedicine. Her focus is hiatal hernia syndrome, acid reflux, and the gut-brain connection — finding and correcting the underlying cause of digestive symptoms rather than managing them indefinitely with medication.

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  Heart Palpitations at Night? It's Your Hiatal Hernia

  Sep 9, 202614 min

  You're lying in bed. Nothing stressful has happened. And your heart starts pounding, fluttering, skipping — or you jolt awake at two in the morning with your heart racing and a feeling of dread you can't explain. If your cardiologist has already checked you and told you your heart is healthy, and this still happens the moment you lie down, there's a reason — and it has nothing to do with your mind. Dr. Vikki explains the gut-heart connection almost nobody looks at: why lying flat changes everything, and the three ways your stomach can set off your heart. → Book a consultation: https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ Call us directly at: 727-335-0400 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ What we cover → Gravity — the one thing that changes when you lie down → The vagus nerve: why your gut and your heart share a communication line → Roemheld syndrome — the gastrocardiac connection, described over 100 years ago → Mechanism 1: the stomach presses up on the nerve → Mechanism 2: acid on the esophagus and the esophago-cardiac reflex → Mechanism 3: inflammation millimeters from your heart's electrical tissue → Why it isn't "just anxiety" — the positional tell that gives it away → The pressure-reflux loop, and why breaking it looks different for every person ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Tell me in the comments — does yours start the moment you lie down? How long have you been told it's anxiety? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ Important → Get your heart checked first. Palpitations with chest pain, fainting or near-fainting, severe shortness of breath, or a racing heart that won't stop are not wait-and-see — that is emergency care, now. This video is not a substitute for medical evaluation, and if you're being treated for anxiety, don't stop anything on the basis of a video. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Watch next → 5 Signs Your Acid Reflux Is Actually a Hiatal Hernia — https://youtu.be/MzYAyJ6JNJo → Hiatal Hernia: Symptoms You'd Never Connect to Your Stomach — https://youtu.be/-VSEeE9DT6g ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Work with us We don't chase the palpitation — we find where your loop starts and take it apart there. Root Cause Medical Clinic offers telemedicine nationwide. → https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ‍⚕️ About Dr. Vikki Dr. Vikki Petersen, DC, FMCP, is a certified functional medicine practitioner and the founder of Root Cause Medical Clinic in Clearwater, Florida, serving patients nationwide by telemedicine. Her focus is hiatal hernia syndrome, acid reflux, and the gut-brain connection — finding and correcting the underlying cause of digestive symptoms rather than managing them indefinitely with medication. → https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ #hiatalhernia #heartpalpitations #acidreflux

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