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. 4d ago

    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

  2. Jul 17

    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.

  3. Jul 16

    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

  4. Jul 14

    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

  5. Jun 15

    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.

  6. Jun 15

    Acid Reflux: Why it's Worse at Night

    If your acid reflux is worst at night - waking up with acid coming up, chest pressure, throat burning, or palpitations - you are not imagining it. ➡️ Book a Consultation: https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ Root Cause Medical Clinic | Clearwater, FL | Functional Medicine | Telehealth Available Nighttime is mechanically the hardest time for a sliding hiatal hernia, and most patients have never had anyone explain why In this video I'm walking you through exactly why your hiatal hernia behaves differently at night - and for each reason, a practical tip you can start using tonight. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍  WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ → Why lying flat eliminates the mechanical advantage you have during the day - and how to get it back → How eating close to bedtime compounds overnight instability → Which side you sleep on and why it matters more than you think → Why you wake up at 2–3 AM even when you were careful about dinner → Why the morning cortisol surge causes your worst symptoms before you've eaten anything ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🩺  WORK WITH DR. VIKKI ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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 → Why Your Hiatal Hernia Is Causing Your Anxiety → 5 Everyday Habits That Make Your Hiatal Hernia Worse ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👩‍⚕️  ABOUT DR. VIKKI ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Dr. Vikki Petersen is a Doctor of Chiropractic and Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner with 40 years of clinical experience specializing in gut health, hiatal hernia syndrome, GERD, and the root causes of digestive symptoms. She is the founder of Root Cause Medical Clinic, offering telemedicine consultations nationwide. 🌐 Root Cause Medical Clinic | Clearwater, FL | Functional Medicine | Telehealth Available Nationwide ⚕️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.

  7. Jun 8

    Hiatal Hernia & Anxiety: It's Not In Your Head

    If you have a hiatal hernia and you also struggle with anxiety, unexplained unease, or panic that seems to come out of nowhere - this video is for you. ➡️ Click HERE to Book a Consultation: https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ Call us directly: 727-335-0400 It is not in your head. It is not a separate problem. Your gut and your brain are in constant communication through the vagus nerve, and when your hiatal hernia is disrupting that communication, anxiety is a direct neurological result. In this video I'm walking you through exactly how your hiatal hernia is producing anxiety - the specific mechanisms - and why addressing the gut is the missing piece nobody has offered you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ → How vagus nerve irritation from your hernia keeps you in fight-or-flight → Why chronic bloating and distension produce a direct anxiety response in the brain → The evolutionary reason your brain treats gut distension as a threat → How dysbiosis disrupts serotonin and GABA production - the chemistry of gut-caused anxiety → Why the anxiety-gut loop doesn't stop on its own without addressing the root cause ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🩺 WORK WITH DR. VIKKI'S TEAM ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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 → Why Bloating Triggers Heart Palpitations: https://youtu.be/PZvcShFPy3k → GERD vs. Hiatal Hernia vs. Silent Reflux: 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. Root Cause Medical Clinic | Clearwater, FL | Telemedicine available nationwide ⚠️ 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.

  8. May 18

    5 Signs Your Hiatal Hernia is Getting Worse

    Most people with a hiatal hernia are told to manage symptoms. But a hiatal hernia can get worse - and it doesn't have to be getting larger.  Functional worsening can happen even when your scan looks the same. ➡️ Book a Consultation: https://rootcausemedicalclinics.com/hiatal-hernia-natural-treatment/ Root Cause Medical Clinic | Clearwater, FL | Functional Medicine | Telehealth Available In this video, I'm walking you through 5 specific signs that your sliding hiatal hernia is progressing functionally, not just flaring. If you recognize three or more of these, it's time to address the root cause. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ → Why symptoms moving to your throat or voice is a warning sign → What difficulty swallowing actually means at the tissue level → Why position-dependent symptoms signal functional instability → Why your medication working less is a structural signal, not a dosing problem → What it means when symptoms happen without eating at all ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 RELATED VIDEOS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▶️ Hiatal Hernia Attack Feels Like This: https://youtu.be/zVzSVNyDLkY ▶️ Why Bloating Triggers Heart Palpitations: https://youtu.be/PZvcShFPy3k ▶️ GERD, Silent Reflux, or Hiatal Hernia - What's Actually Causing Your Symptoms?: https://youtu.be/MNA8lNkJuEI 👩‍⚕️ About Dr. Vikki Petersen: Dr. Vikki Petersen is a Doctor of Chiropractic and Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner with 40 years of clinical experience specializing in gut health, hiatal hernia syndrome, GERD, and the root causes of digestive symptoms. She is the founder of Root Cause Medical Clinic, offering telemedicine consultations nationwide. 🌐 Root Cause Medical Clinic | Clearwater, FL | Functional Medicine | Telehealth Available Nationwide ⚕️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 #gerd #acidreflux #functionalmedicine

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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.

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