The EDS Symptom Relief Academy is a comprehensive, health-professional designed program aimed to improve serious digestive issues, fatigue, and pain associated with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Self-Paced Course to Reduce Digestive Issues, Fatigue, and Pain
Dietitian-designed curriculum for patients who are ready to tackle EDS’s most frustrating symptoms.
How does it work?
The EDS Symptom Relief Academy offers practical, evidence-informed support through self-paced education and community resources to help you navigate digestive issues, fatigue, pain, and daily symptom management.
When you enroll, you gain access to:
Core Curriculum
Covers essential action steps for hard-to-resolve digestive issues, fatigue, and pain, so you can finally make progress towards symptom relief
Interactive Resources
Flare and fatigue-friendly meal plans, symptom trackers, and a workbook that breaks concepts into bite-sized pieces ensure you have what you need to feel successful
Virtual Community
Get motivated and supported by others who truly understand EDS and other chronic illnesses.
Who is it for?
The EDS Symptom Relief Academy is a program that helps EDS patients and their families tackle the most troublesome EDS symptoms.
For people who need help with…
- Digestive issues like nausea, constipation, stomach aches, etc.
- Fatigue that makes nearly everything feel overwhelming
- Joint and muscle pain that needs more support than just physical therapy or pain killers
For people who want to learn how to improve symptoms with…
- Evidence-informed symptom management strategies
- Strategic (but totally doable!) lifestyle changes
- Real-world nutrition tips that find a balance between mental and physical well-being
This program is specifically designed for EDS patients who feel frustrated, confused, and even scared about where they are with their health.
If you want to finally get the support you’ve been dreaming about and address serious GI issues, fatigue, and pain…this is for you!
Who created the EDS Symptom Relief Academy?
EDS Nutrition was founded by a registered dietitian with hEDS.
After discovering how helpful nutrition was for managing her own digestive issues, fatigue, and chronic pain, she was inspired to help others do the same.
EDS Nutrition has supported patients with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome since 2022. The mission has always remained the same: help fellow EDS patients reduce common symptoms like digestive issues, fatigue, and pain without restrictive diets or one-size-fits all approaches.
After years of supporting patients one-on-one, the EDS Symptom Relief Academy was created to bring together answers to the most common questions, highlight the most effective symptom management strategies, and share the most life-changing tips. It has become one of the most comprehensive resources available on the topic of EDS and nutrition.
EDS Symptom Relief Academy
Core Curriculum
This on-demand video and resource library covers 4 essential areas:
1. Address Gastrointestinal Issues
This section covers the need-to-know steps to make progress with addressing and managing your digestive symptoms like constipation, nausea, diarrhea, stomach aches, and bloating. Whether you already have a clear idea about what’s going on in your gut or not, these concepts are crucial for your healthcare journey.
What will you learn?
- Here's why your digestive issues aren't being identified with normal testing (Disorders of Gut-Brain Axis Interaction)
- How to build and leverage your healthcare team to address chronic digestive issues
- How to know when to get urgent medical attention for serious digestive issues
- How digestive issues can lead to malnutrition, plus how to address malnutrition while navigating serious GI symptoms
- A comprehensive overview of what gastrointestinal conditions and tests to ask your healthcare team about if you’re hitting dead ends but still experience bad digestive issues
- How POTS and Mast Cell Diseases can lead to GI issues, plus what to do about it
2. Adopt Symptom Management Strategies
This section covers evidence-based strategies to reduce and manage digestive issues. Each module contains a multitude of suggestions to bring back to your healthcare team. Even if you feel like you’ve “tried it all”, there will be recommendations that are new to you!
What will you learn?
- How to Get Regular: Learn how to achieve more regular and comfortable bowel movements
- Beat Bloating and Tummy Aches: Learn how to reduce bloating and abdominal discomfort
- Say NO to Nausea, Vomiting, and GERD: Strategies to reduce these troublesome symptoms
- Food intolerance or not? Learn the difference between specific food intolerances and other conditions that need to be addressed without a restrictive diet
3. Add in Nutrition to Combat Fatigue
This section covers the necessities to addressing fatigue, energy crashes, recovery, endurance, and mood with nutrition.
What will you learn?
- The Inside Scoop on Eating for Energy: nutrients and habits that combat fatigue
- Ditch Shakiness, Dizziness, and Fatigue: learn simple habits that help you feel better all day long
- Recovery, Growth, and Healing: how good nutrition is the key
- Endurance Boosters: evidence-based nutrients and supplements that may help with muscle endurance
4. Add in Anti-Inflammatory Foods
This section covers the little-known concepts of ant-inflammatory nutrition. No special or restrictive diets necessary! Instead, learn how to add in anti-inflammatory foods to your favorite meals and snacks.
What will you learn?
- The undeniable connection between, food, pain, and inflammation
- Anti-inflammatory foods: How they work and what they are
- How to add in anti-inflammatory foods to your everyday meals and snacks
This curriculum will help you take impactful steps towards feeling better. If you haven’t gotten the support you’ve needed from your current healthcare team, the EDS Symptom Relief Academy is here for you.
Ready to take the next step? Enroll now or schedule an Info Call below.
EDS Symptom Relief Academy Enrollment Fee
Immediate Access Upon Enrollment-
Video curriculum on GI issues, fatigue, and pain
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Printable curriculum workbook
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3 Flare and fatigue friendly meal plans
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Ultimate Resource Guide
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Interactive symptom tracker
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Virtual community support
Need more info?
You deserve to feel confident about your decision to enroll in the EDS Symptom Relief Academy! If you have any questions or concerns, send a note to the EDS Nutrition team at katie@edsnutrition.com.
From Constant Bloating to Eating Without Fear:
An EDS Symptom Relief Academy Case Study
- Client: Sarah (name changed for confidentiality)
- Diagnoses: hEDS, POTS
- Main symptoms: Daily abdominal bloating that worsens throughout the day, frequent stomachaches
Before joining the EDS Symptom Relief Academy...
Sarah had already tried eliminating several foods from her diet, with no improvements to show for it. Her doctor told her that the next step would be an even more restrictive diet…the low FODMAP diet. This didn’t fit into her busy schedule as a Physical Therapy student. But every day, her belly would bloat as each mealtime passed. So every chance she had, she tried to connect her symptoms with the dozens of foods she was eating. The stress of being told to follow a restrictive diet and believing that everything she was eating could be hurting her started to become unbearable
Why she chose EDS Nutrition
She knew that another diet handout in a doctor’s office wasn’t even close to what she needed. She chose the EDS Symptom Relief Academy because she wanted support that took her EDS, POTS, energy limitations, and overall complex health history into account
Sarah's goals in the EDS symptom relief academy:
- Identifying potential triggers for her bloating and putting them to the test
- Determining patterns in the timing and severity of her symptoms so that she could get ahead of them next time
- Adapting suggestions around flare and low energy days
The result?
- After identifying her two bloating triggers (one of which was not even food-related!) her bloating reduced from daily to occasional
- She can sit through class or enjoy dinner out with friends without feeling miserable
- She knows what doesn’t trigger her symptoms, so she can shop, cook, and eat with less stress than ever
What does Sarah have to say?
“I like how I could tailor everything to me. This made it really easy because it’s clear what will be helpful for me and my specific health scenario. I was expecting to have to follow strict meal plans…but this approach is actually way more helpful because now I know what I can add into my everyday life. The Ultimate Resource Guide was super helpful, too. Plus, the anti-inflammatory section in the curriculum was fun to watch because it was a totally new concept for me.”
Frequently Asked Questions
No…unfortunately, health insurance does not cover a program like this. The EDS Symptom Relief Academy covers 20 hours of content, which would be the equivalent of 20 sessions with a dietitian! The goal of this offering is to be as financially accessible as possible, while still offering excellent support.
Enroll directly by selecting the “enroll now” button linked above.
This program is designed to be manageably completed in 3 months. You can work at a pace that’s comfortable for you, whether that’s faster or slower than average. The goal is to finish curriculum within six months so you can start feeling better sooner rather than later.
EDS Nutrition does not believe in one-size-fits-all diets, regimens, or protocols for EDS patients because each patient has unique preferences, tolerances, and symptom drivers. We use an “additive” approach, meaning we encourage adding things that can be beneficial for symptom management. This approach ensures that anyone, with any dietary preferences or needs, will find this program to be extremely applicable.
Trust us…we get it! EDS patients are all pretty unique. The EDS Symptom Relief Academy’s content was crowd sourced by dozens of EDS patients to ensure that the curriculum encompasses the needs of most patients. While it’s possible that there will be some gaps relative to your health needs, it’s highly likely that nearly all EDS patients will find the program to be helpful in a variety of domains.
No! This program helps address symptoms, not EDS directly. Therefore, this program is perfectly suitable who experience symptoms that seem to align with EDS symptoms, even if there is no proper diagnosis.