Unmasking Our Health: Hypermobility & hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS)
About this episode
The episode explores the connection between hypermobility, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, and neurodivergent conditions like ADHD.
Episode 215 with Katy Weber & Kalin Johnson Welcome back to our new series, “Unmasking Our Health,” in which host Katy Weber teams up with medical expert Dr. Kalin Johnson, PharmD, to look beyond the neurodivergent brain and explore what it means to live in a neurodivergent body. After years of interviewing late‑diagnosed women and seeing the same patterns — chronic pain, fatigue, autoimmune issues, hormonal chaos, gut problems, “mystery” symptoms — Katy created the Unmasking Our Health series to explore the bigger questions behind neurodivergence: What if ADHD isn’t just about our brains, but about our whole bodies — and how and why is the medical system missing the full picture? In part one of a 2-part series, we unpack hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) and hypermobility, and why these connective tissue conditions so often show up alongside ADHD and autism. This episode focuses on the lived experience, the diagnostic gray areas, and the body-wide symptoms that can look unrelated until you understand the connective tissue thread running through them. We discuss how hypermobility is different from flexibility, why the Beighton score can miss real cases, and why…
People in this episode
Host: Katy Weber
Guest: Kalin Johnson
Topics covered
- hypermobility
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- ADHD
- neurodivergence
- chronic pain
- diagnostic criteria
Keywords
- hypermobility
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- ADHD
- chronic pain
- diagnosis
- neurodivergent body
- symptoms
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Unmasking Our Health, ADHD, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, hEDS
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