What's the Root Cause? by Dr Vikki Petersen

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"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.

  1. 5 Aug

    5 Signs Your Acid Reflux Is Actually a Hiatal Hernia

    Reflux is a symptom, not a diagnosis. In this video, Dr. Vikki explains the two-part valve that keeps acid where it belongs, what a hiatal hernia does when it pulls that valve apart, and the five signs that point to a mechanical problem instead of an acid problem. If your reflux changes when you change position — that's not an acid clue. That's a gravity clue. ➡️ Book a Consultation: https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ 🔍 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔️ Why reflux is a symptom, not a diagnosis—and what that changes about your treatment ✔️ The two-part valve that keeps acid down—and why it was never one valve ✔️ What a sliding hiatal hernia does to that valve mechanically ✔️ The numbers: 20% → 30% → 70% → 96%—how hernia rates climb with reflux severity ✔️ Why reflux that follows your position—lying down, bending over, after meals—is a gravity clue, not an acid clue ✔️ Regurgitation vs. heartburn—and the bile your acid blocker doesn't touch ✔️ Why acid-reducing medications don't repair the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) ✔️ What it actually means when years of pills never fixed the problem ✔️ Why bloating, burping, and getting full fast are one problem—not two ✔️ How increased abdominal pressure drives symptoms—and why it's not just about weight ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ Please read → Don't stop any reflux medication because of a video. Rebound acid can be worse than the original symptoms — taper only with your doctor. → Get evaluated right away for: trouble swallowing, food getting stuck, vomiting blood, black or tarry stools, unexplained weight loss, or chest pain. → This video is education, not medical advice, and doesn't create a doctor-patient relationship. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎥 Watch next → Misdiagnosed? 5 Signs it's your Hiatal Hernia — https://youtu.be/scR4FKAajh8 → Acid Reflux Pill Is Hurting You? — https://youtu.be/LBKcTXjDhKw → 5 Signs Your Anxiety Is Actually Your Hiatal Hernia — https://youtu.be/-nrA9ttzKfQ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🩺  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 Petersen, DC, FMCP Dr. Vikki Petersen is a Doctor of Chiropractic and Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner with 40 years of clinical experience in gut health, hiatal hernia syndrome, GERD, and digestive root cause medicine. She is the founder of Root Cause Medical Clinic - offering telemedicine consultations nationwide. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚕️ This video is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult your physician or a qualified health provider. Views reflect Dr. Petersen's clinical experience and current scientific understanding as of publication. Individual results may vary. #HiatalHernia #AcidReflux #GERD

  2. 1 Aug

    Acid Reflux Pill Hurting You?

    Acid reflux pills like Prilosec, Nexium, and Protonix were designed for about 8 weeks of use — yet millions of people stay on them for years. In this video, Dr. Vikki walks through 5 signs your acid reflux medication may be hurting you, why you feel like you can never stop taking it, and what to look at instead. ➡️ Book a Consultation: https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ What we cover → Fatigue and low iron or B12 → Muscle cramps and heart flutters — the magnesium connection → New food reactions and the gluten link → Why you can't seem to stop — the rebound trap → The hidden long-term cost — bones, kidneys, gut ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ Important Do not stop or change any prescribed medication without your doctor — acid reflux medications need to be tapered, not stopped cold. Reflux medications help real people with real conditions; this video is about the cost of staying on them for years, not a reason to quit yours today. If you have trouble swallowing, unexplained weight loss, or chest pain, seek care. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🩺 Work with us We find and treat the root cause of acid reflux and hiatal hernia symptoms — not just the symptoms. Root Cause Medical Clinic offers telemedicine nationwide. ➡️ Book a Consultation: https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ 📞 727-335-0400 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👩‍⚕️ About Dr. Vikki Petersen, DC, FMCP Dr. Vikki Petersen is a Doctor of Chiropractic and Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner with 40 years of clinical experience in gut health, hiatal hernia syndrome, GERD, and digestive root cause medicine. She is the founder of Root Cause Medical Clinic - offering telemedicine consultations nationwide. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚕️ This video is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult your physician or a qualified health provider. Views reflect Dr. Petersen's clinical experience and current scientific understanding as of publication. Individual results may vary. #acidreflux #ppi #hiatalhernia

  3. 30 Jul

    Misdiagnosed? 5 Signs it's your Hiatal Hernia

    Have you been told you have GERD, asthma, anxiety, IBS, or heart palpitations—but treatment isn't solving the problem? Your diagnosis may not be wrong... it may be incomplete. In this video, Dr. Vikki explains 5 common symptoms that are frequently blamed on other conditions when a hiatal hernia is actually causing them—or making them worse. You'll learn how a sliding hiatal hernia can affect digestion, breathing, the vagus nerve, and reflux, and why so many people continue to suffer despite normal test results. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔️ What a hiatal hernia is—and why 95% are sliding hiatal hernias ✔️ Why bloating, constipation, diarrhea, and trapped gas can affect your diaphragm ✔️ Why acid reflux medications don't repair the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) ✔️ How hiatal hernias can contribute to shortness of breath ✔️ The connection between chronic cough, throat clearing, hoarseness, and silent reflux ✔️ How vagus nerve irritation may contribute to heart palpitations and chest pressure ✔️ Why endoscopy can miss many sliding hiatal hernias ✔️ The truth behind the phrase, "Your hernia is too small to cause symptoms" ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 FEATURED TOPICS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Hiatal Hernia • Sliding Hiatal Hernia • Acid Reflux & GERD • Silent Reflux (LPR) • Heartburn • Vagus Nerve • Heart Palpitations • Chest Pressure • Shortness of Breath • Chronic Cough • IBS Symptoms • Bloating & Gas • Constipation & Diarrhea ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ MEDICAL DISCLAIMER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This video is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice. Never stop prescribed medications without speaking with your healthcare provider. Chest pain, severe shortness of breath, progressive difficulty swallowing, or persistent heart palpitations should always be evaluated by a qualified medical professional. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🩺 WORK WITH DR. VIKKI ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If you're struggling with hiatal hernia symptoms and want to address the root cause, our team at Root Cause Medical Clinic provides comprehensive evaluations and telemedicine consultations for patients across the United States. 📅 Book a Consultation: https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ 📞 Call us: 727-335-0400 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎥 WATCH NEXT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▶️ 5 Signs Your Anxiety Is Actually Your Hiatal Hernia: https://youtu.be/-nrA9ttzKfQ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👩‍⚕️ ABOUT DR. VIKKI ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Dr. Vikki Petersen is a Doctor of Chiropractic, Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner (FMCP) and founder of Root Cause Medical Clinic. She has helped thousands of patients uncover the underlying causes of chronic digestive disorders, acid reflux, hiatal hernia syndrome, autoimmune conditions, and complex health issues through a root-cause, evidence-informed approach. #HiatalHernia #AcidReflux #GERD #SilentReflux #Heartburn #VagusNerve #DigestiveHealth #RootCauseMedicine #DrVikkiPetersen

  4. 20 Jul

    5 Hiatal Hernia Symptoms You Should Never Ignore

    Some hiatal hernia symptoms are easy to dismiss - and a few of them are the ones that matter most. In this video, Dr. Vikki walks through the five symptoms you should never ignore, what causes each one, and which symptom means you should call your doctor today. ➡️ Click HERE to Book a Consultation: https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ Call or text us directly: 727-335-0400 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️  What we cover → Chest pressure and tightness — and how to tell it apart from your heart → Trouble swallowing or food getting stuck → Waking up choking or coughing at night → Heart palpitations and the gut-heart connection → Shortness of breath and your diaphragm ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️  When to seek care immediately → Vomiting blood, black or tarry stools, sudden severe chest pain, or inability to swallow are emergencies — seek care now. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🩺  Work with Dr Vikki's Team We treat the root cause of hiatal hernia symptoms — not just the symptoms. Root Cause Medical Clinic offers telemedicine nationwide. → Schedule a consultation: https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👩‍⚕️  About Dr. Vikki Dr. Vikki is a Doctor of Chiropractic and Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner with 40 years in practice. She specializes in gut health, hiatal hernia syndrome, hormones, and GERD — finding and fixing root causes, not managing symptoms. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ Medical Disclaimer: This video is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult your physician or a qualified health provider with any questions about your health. Views expressed are based on Dr. Petersen's clinical experience and current scientific understanding as of the publication date. Individual results may vary. #HiatalHernia #HiatalHerniaSymptoms #GutHealth #FunctionalMedicine #GERD

  5. 17 Jul

    Why Hiatal Hernia Causes Chest Pressure and Excessive Burping

    If you've had chest pain after eating that goes away when you burp - or you can't stop burping no matter what you do - this video is for you. Neither of these is random. Neither is psychological. Both are mechanical symptoms of the same root cause: a hiatal hernia that hasn't been properly addressed. In this video I'm explaining exactly what's happening in both cases - and giving you practical steps you can start using today. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍  WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ → Why trapped gas causes chest pain that mimics a heart attack → How the vagus nerve turns gas pressure into heart palpitations → The pressure-peak-relief cycle and why it keeps repeating → What aerophagia is and why it causes constant uncontrollable burping → Supragastric belching — the reflex that gets mistaken for anxiety → Why diaphragmatic breathing strengthens the crura and increases LES pressure (with published research) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🩺  WORK WITH DR. VIKKI ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Root Cause Medical Clinic sees patients nationwide via telemedicine. → Schedule a consultation: https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ 📞  727-335-0400  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺  RELATED VIDEOS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ → 5 Signs Your Hiatal Hernia Is Getting Worse → Why Your Hiatal Hernia Is Causing Your Anxiety → Why Bloating Triggers Heart Palpitations ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👩‍⚕️  ABOUT DR. VIKKI ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Dr. Vikki is a Doctor of Chiropractic and Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner with 40 years in practice. She specializes in gut health, hiatal hernia syndrome, hormones, and GERD - finding and fixing root causes, not managing symptoms. Root Cause Medical Clinic | Clearwater, FL | Telemedicine available nationwide ⚠️  This content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult a qualified healthcare provider for your individual situation.

  6. 16 Jul

    Why Hiatal Hernia Surgery Fails

    🩺 Surgery might sound like the obvious fix - but for most hiatal hernia patients, it's not the permanent solution they were promised. Dr. Vikki Petersen breaks down exactly why, and what to do instead. ➡️ Book a Consultation: https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ In This Video → Which hiatal hernias actually need surgery - and which don't → The types of surgery and how they differ → Short-term success vs. the long-term reality → Why the repair keeps coming undone → The root cause almost every surgeon skips ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ Seek Emergency Care If You Experience: Sudden severe chest or upper abdominal pain, persistent vomiting, or inability to keep food or liquid down. Don't wait. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ About Dr. Vikki Petersen, DC, FMCP Dr. Vikki Petersen is a Doctor of Chiropractic and Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner with 40 years of clinical experience in gut health, hiatal hernia syndrome, GERD, and digestive root cause medicine. She is the founder of Root Cause Medical Clinic - offering telemedicine consultations nationwide. 🌐 rootcausemedicalclinics.com | 📍 Clearwater, FL | 💻 Telehealth Available Nationwide ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚕️ This video is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult your physician or a qualified health provider. Views reflect Dr. Petersen's clinical experience and current scientific understanding as of publication. Individual results may vary. #HiatalHernia #HiatalHerniaSurgery #GutHealth #FunctionalMedicine #GERD #DigestiveHealth #RootCauseMedicine #DrVikkiPetersen #HiatalHerniaTreatment

  7. 14 Jul

    5 Signs Your Anxiety Is Actually Your Hiatal Hernia

    If you've been told your symptoms are "just anxiety" but treatment never fully worked, there may be a physical cause that's been missed.  In this video, Dr. Vikki explains how a hiatal hernia can irritate the vagus nerve and produce the exact symptoms we call anxiety - and the five signs that point to your hernia instead of your mind. ➡️ Book a Consultation: https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️  What we cover → Why symptoms hit after meals, not when you're worried → Heart palpitations and the vagus nerve → Breathlessness that calming down won't fix → Throat and chest tightness with no stress behind it → Nighttime panic when you lie down ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️  Important Chest pain and palpitations should always be evaluated by a doctor. Anxiety is a real condition — this video is about a physical cause that is often overlooked, not a reason to stop any treatment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🩺  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 Petersen, DC, FMCP Dr. Vikki Petersen is a Doctor of Chiropractic and Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner with 40 years of clinical experience in gut health, hiatal hernia syndrome, GERD, and digestive root cause medicine. She is the founder of Root Cause Medical Clinic - offering telemedicine consultations nationwide. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚕️ This video is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult your physician or a qualified health provider. Views reflect Dr. Petersen's clinical experience and current scientific understanding as of publication. Individual results may vary. #hiatalhernia #anxiety #vagusnerve

  8. 15 Jun

    5 Things Making Your Hiatal Hernia Worse

    If you have a hiatal hernia and you're still suffering despite medication and diet changes, something you're doing every single day may be making it worse. Book a Consultation: https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ These aren't unusual triggers. They're completely ordinary habits that nobody has told you are a problem - because most doctors aren't looking at this mechanically. In this video I'm walking you through 5 everyday habits that are directly aggravating your hiatal hernia - and what to do instead.  Root Cause Medical Clinic | Clearwater, FL | Telemedicine available nationwide | https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍  WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ → Why grazing and snacking disrupts your gut's natural cleaning cycle (MMC) → What happens to your hiatal hernia every time you strain on the toilet → Why sparkling water may be causing more damage than you think → How tight clothing and sucking in your stomach restricts your diaphragm → How to tell if chronic stress is mechanically aggravating your hernia daily ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Root Cause Medical Clinic sees patients nationwide via telemedicine. → Schedule a consultation: https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺  RELATED VIDEOS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ → 5 Signs Your Hiatal Hernia Is Getting Worse: https://youtu.be/wER9WM9jToY → Hiatal Hernia ATTACK Feels Like This: https://youtu.be/zVzSVNyDLkY → GERD, Silent Reflux, or Hiatal Hernia - What's Actually Causing Your Symptoms?: https://youtu.be/MNA8lNkJuEI ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👩‍⚕️  ABOUT DR. VIKKI ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Dr. Vikki is a Doctor of Chiropractic and Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner with 40 years in practice. She specializes in gut health, hiatal hernia syndrome, hormones, and GERD — finding and fixing root causes, not managing symptoms. ⚠️  This content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult a qualified healthcare provider for your individual situation.

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