What If Your Immune System Is Causing Your PoTS?

A decade of research suggests autoantibodies may be attacking the receptors that control your heart rate and blood vessels. Here is what we know and what we don't.

Today let’s decode one of the most significant and least discussed questions in PoTS research. What if the condition isn’t primarily a cardiovascular problem, or a nervous system problem, or a volume problem, but an immune system problem? What if the body is, in some patients, quite literally attacking itself in a way that disrupts autonomic function?

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