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Hi, everybody. Welcome to the show. I have an amazing episode today for anybody who has ever

experienced any kind of digestive issues, anybody who experiences bloating. I am talking to Dr Heather Finley. She's a registered dietician,

she also has her doctorate in clinical nutrition, and I love her perspective so much because she went through

gut issues herself and in her experience which is I think so many people's

experience when it comes to this stuff.

She thought that food was the cause and food was the cure.

And in some cases it is, so if that's your experience, I don't want to

invalidate that. But she went through crazy elimination diets and I know that like in my experience I did that as well.

I think it happens to a lot of people and then you're kind of stuck where you're still

experiencing symptoms, you're not finding any relief, and suddenly

your diet is super restricted, and this can lead to unhealthy behavior, unhealthy habits, and I think it's super, super common nowadays,

especially with social media and so many like fad diets and every influencer and everybody with a platform touting a different solution.

So I wanted to get a professional in here to talk about this and we talk about everything having to do with digestion and bloating in particular.

So we talk about like what exactly bloating is and what it isn't and when it becomes problematic and we talk about how to get to the root cause of

bloating and digestive issues we talk about why elimination is not always the

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