2025-12-19
38 分钟Ruby.
I'm not okay.
I don't know what's going on.
I've never had this happen before and I don't know where to go and what to do.
I said, Michelle's having a serious problem.
You have to get over there.
You need to go now.
This is an invisible illness and that's what I think makes it so difficult
because they come in and they have all these complaints,
but they look fine.
I was standing in the mirror and I just remember looking at myself and I said out loud,
there's no way you're gonna make it through this.
How terrifying would it be to fight an unknown enemy when you didn't recognize and didn't see coming?
What if that enemy was coming from within, a disease that even doctors couldn't identify?
Nearly half of Americans suffer from some chronic illness and many struggle for an accurate diagnosis.
These are their stories.
I'm Lauren Bright-Pacheco and this is Symptomatic.
I am Michelle Shapiro, and I'm an integrative and functional registered dietitian.
Michelle is the kind of person who never meets a stranger.
She speaks with enthusiasm, confidence, and is undeniably a New Yorker.