The Natural Navigator
The Natural Navigator
Host: Ariana | Future ND & Chronic Illness Warrior
Welcome to The Natural Navigator, a podcast dedicated to connecting the dots of complex chronic illness, one puzzle piece at a time.
Hosted by a naturopathic medical student navigating her own multi-system health journey, this show explores the overlapping webs of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), Dystautonomia, migraines, chemical sensitivities, and endometriosis.
If you’ve spent years bouncing from specialist to specialist, feeling gaslit by “normal” lab results while your body tells a completely different story, you are not alone. Here, I blend medical research, root-cause naturopathic tools, and radical vulnerability to help you understand why your body makes sense, and help you find your answers faster than I did.
Tune in weekly to map out your own path back to health.
The Natural Navigator
Latest Episodes
Ep. 14 The Post-Op Reality Check (Pathology Results, Adenomyosis, & Autoimmune)
Three weeks post-op and fresh off her official physician follow-up appointment, host Ariana pulls back the curtain on the unexpected, complicated reality of what happens when surgery doesn't give you a clean, definitive "smoking gun."In ...
Ep. 13 The Structural Blueprint (EDS, Proprioception, & Management)
While resting up and navigating post-op recovery ahead of the upcoming surgery debrief, host Ariana zooms out to examine the foundational architectural blueprint of the chronic illness triad: Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS).In this in-depth...
Ep. 12 Navigating Endometriosis with EDS, MCAS, & Dysautonomia
When you live with a complex chronic illness, time doesn't always move in a straight line. Today, host Ariana sits down to record right on the precipice of a major milestone: her endometriosis excision surgery.In this deeply vulnerable a...
Ep. 11 Nervous System Regulation & The Thermal Paradox
If you live with a complex multi-system body, you've probably been told at some point to "just relax," take an ice-cold plunge, or sit in a sauna to reset your nervous system. But if doing those things has ever sent your body into a total physi...
