POTS Dietitian and Nutritionist

Important information on Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome by our registered dietitians:

What is POTS?

POTS or Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome is a nervous system disorder that causes an abnormal rapid heart rate when standing. Other symptoms include dizziness, heart palpitations, nausea, fatigue, and brain fog.

Our dietitians can help you manage POTS symptoms with tailored strategies.

A dietitian and nutritionist for Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome can help in the following ways:

 

• Carefully analyze your current diet with POTS in mind.
• Help sure you get enough sodium (salt) in your diet.
• Provide numerous strategies to drink more water.
• Focus on energy conservation, and diet strategies to help with fatigue.
• Work with our sports dietitian to assist with goal setting to help you be more active.
• Help with meal planning to have smaller, more frequent meals and snacks if you suffer from nausea.
• Equip you with easy meal prep strategies you can do when you’re tired or have brain fog.
• Provide diet recommendations to help manage mood.
• Outline various strategies to help manage food cravings and provide support of a dietitian for emotional eating.
• Help ensure you obtain enough protein to help maintain stable blood pressure. 
• Help determine if avoiding caffeine helps control your symptoms. 
• Provide ideas to include more fibre in your diet, to help control blood sugar and blood pressure.
• Help manage related or co-existing conditions: auto-immune disease, fibromyalgia, MCAS, lupus and more.
• Receive follow-up sessions with a dietitian, if needed or desired.
• And more.