nutcracker syndrome
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Search complete. 4 mentions across 2 episodes found for "nutcracker syndrome".
Sep 9, 2026
She Had Every POTS Symptom. POTS Was Never the Problem.
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11:11Nicole RiveraHOST
So this individual particularly had this varicose vein and inflammation in the left kidney and the left vein of the kidney.
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11:21Nicole RiveraHOST
so as you then we i continued my investigative process it turns out that she actually had something called nutcracker syndrome and this is the part where i mentioned that being on youtube might help a little bit because i'm gonna just give you guys the the verbal if you take your hand flat which of course i ink on my hand you take your hand flat and then you create a c with your other hand And what you're going to be showcasing is the flat hand is something called your aorta.
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11:50Nicole RiveraHOST
The C-shaped hand connected to your flat hand is going to be your superior mesenteric artery.
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11:56Nicole RiveraHOST
So overall, the only thing you need to know is that inflammation in both of those is going to smash the left, particularly the left vein that is coming from the left kidney, not the right, the left.
8 MINS LATER
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20:25Nicole RiveraHOST
But she did not really know who she was beyond what she did and what she accomplished, which I think is a lot of people these days.
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20:34NickHOST
Well, and that's honestly what drives the truer root cause.
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20:40NickHOST
I don't like labels, but the label and diagnosis of nutcracker syndrome.
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20:44NickHOST
The nutcracker syndrome is that not having the boundaries, the boundaries of, am I doing for an identity or does my identity come from who I am and from who I am I do? Those seem like very similar things, but when you really stop and pause on it, it's not what you do.
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26:16Anusha BradleyHOST
Rachel's left renal vein, that's the main blood vessel from her kidney, is severely squished.
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26:22Anusha BradleyHOST
It's called Nutcracker Syndrome.
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26:27Rachel WeatherlySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The nutcracker's my worst compression.
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26:29Rachel WeatherlySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's no blood going through at all.