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05/31/2026

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In a groundbreaking development, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a novel cancer therapy that uses focused sound waves to target tumors, offering an alternative to traditional treatments such as chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery. This approach, sometimes referred to as high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), harnesses the energy of sound waves to destroy cancerous tissue with precision while sparing surrounding healthy cells.

During treatment, ultrasound waves are carefully directed at the tumor, generating heat and mechanical forces that disrupt the cancer cells’ structure. The process can trigger cell death, reduce tumor size, and in some cases, stimulate the body’s immune response against remaining cancer cells. Unlike conventional therapies, sound wave treatment is non invasive, which means no incisions, less risk of infection, and often shorter recovery times for patients.

Clinical studies have demonstrated promising results for certain types of tumors, including prostate, liver, pancreatic, and breast cancers. Patients experienced tumor reduction and improved outcomes without many of the side effects commonly associated with chemotherapy or radiation therapy. Researchers believe that this technology may expand to other cancers in the future as devices and techniques continue to improve.

Experts note that while sound wave therapy does not replace all standard treatments yet, it represents a major advancement in non invasive oncology care. Ongoing research aims to refine targeting methods, optimize treatment protocols, and evaluate long term effectiveness and safety.

This FDA approval highlights the growing potential of innovative technologies to provide safer, more precise cancer therapies with fewer side effects.

05/16/2026

"She was just a picky eater. Don't make a thing of it."
Except she wasn't.

The child gagging on the texture of scrambled eggs. The one who couldn't handle the smell of cooked broccoli without leaving the room. The kid who lived on plain pasta and white bread because everything else felt wrong, in her mouth, in her gut, in her whole body.
She wasn't being difficult.

Her body was trying to communicate something nobody had the language for yet.

Here's what may have actually been happening:
In bodies with hypermobile connective tissue disorders like hEDS or HSD, the structures of the mouth and jaw are affected alongside everything else. That can mean a jaw that partially dislocates mid-chew, a tongue that struggles to move food efficiently, and a gag reflex that's easily triggered — both because of physical laxity and because of heightened sensory sensitivity in the mouth and throat. Eating becomes genuinely hard work.

For some, there's also a mast cell component. In conditions like MCAS, the immune system can react to ordinary foods, eggs, dairy, high-histamine leftovers, not with a classic allergy response, but with flushing, nausea, stomach cramps, and sudden exhaustion shortly after eating. These are real, physical reactions. They just don't show up on a standard allergy test.

And for many hypermobile and neurodivergent children, texture and sensory sensitivity — sometimes linked to conditions like ARFID or sensory processing differences makes certain foods feel genuinely distressing, not just unpleasant.

A child can't say: "I have oral-motor dysfunction and my mast cells are reacting to histamine."
She says: "I don't like it. My tummy hurts. I'm not hungry."
And the adults heard: picky. Dramatic. Attention-seeking.
The fussiness was data.
It was a body asking for help in the only language available to it.

For many with hEDS, HSD, or MCAS, those childhood dinner tables were some of the earliest experiences of not being believed — years before there were names for what was happening.

You weren't a difficult child. You were a child whose symptoms hadn't been recognised yet.

What food did you refuse as a kid that the adults made a whole thing about? I want to hear it. 👇

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05/04/2026

The endometriosis and histamine connection

05/03/2026

H I S T O R Y O F E D S | D A Y 1 Awareness
Ehlers Danlos Syndrome was first recognized by Hipprocrates in 400 BC. He noted that Nomads and Scythians were lax in the joints and had scars. This makes EDS the oldest recorded cause of bruising and bleeding.
George Albes, a Spanish sailor, was infamous for being able to stretch the skin on his chest out to arms length. He is thought to have had EDS.
The first description of EDS however was from A. N. Chernogubow in 1892. He presented two patients who suffered from dislocations, cutaneous nodules, stretchy and fragile skin, and scars from minor injuries in Moscow. He predicted they had a Connective Tissue Disease.
Born on March 26, 1863 in Copenhagen, Denmark, Edvard Laurits Ehlers was a Danish Dermatologist. He was the son of the Mayor in Copenhagen. He went into medicine in 1891. Over the years he studied in multiple cities and countries, earning prizes for his leprosy studies. However in 1901, Edvard Ehlers recognized Ehlers Danlos as a distinct entity.
Henri-Alexandre Danlos was born on March 26, 1844 in Paris France. Coincidentally the same day as Edvard. Henri was a French physician and dermatologist. Henri also presented a patient with many of the key symptoms of EDS. His colleagues, François Henri Hallopeau and Maće de Lépinay diagnosed this patient with Juvenile Pseudodiabetic Xanthomata. Danlos disagreed with this diagnosis and pointed out the stretchy and fragile skin once again.
In 1936, Frederick Parkes-Weber, an English Dermatologist who studied in London, suggested that this group of symptoms should be named Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.
EDS classification started in the 1960’s, they also found the genetic makeups during this time. In 1988, the International Nosology of Connective Tissue defined 9 subcategories (types) of EDS. This soon turned to 6 types and today 13 types. In 1998, Beighton published the first diagnostic criteria of EDS. This was recently updated in 2017.
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome has come a long way since 400 BC to the present day. It has not come as far as we all wish though. With your help, this May, we can help change that. Share this post to help spread awareness and knowledge on how EDS came to be.

S O U R C E S :
1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/18324963/
2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Ehlers
3. http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1800.html
4. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Alexandre_Danlos
5. http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/2017.html

04/16/2026

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