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without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey everyone, welcome back. Today,

let's discuss the elemental diet. This is one of the most effective therapies that we use in the clinic,

and thankfully, it's so easy to use and it's natural. So if you're

struggling with a wide array of digestive symptoms, and we'll cover research regarding IBS,

CBO, inflammatory bowel disease, a condition known as EOE, which is this inflammatory allergic

condition, and even joints, rheumatoid arthritis all being documented

to be able to safely be remedied with the use of this very simple again safe and natural tool

known as the elemental diet and one of the ways i like to think about the elemental diet is akin to if you sprained your ankle.

If you did spring your ankle, logic would suggest that with time off of the ankle, it would heal.

Whereas if you are running, let's say, three miles per day, it would be very hard for your ankle to heal.

And months and maybe even years later,

you'd still be complaining, oh, my ankle, it's swollen, it's irritated. And maybe you'd have imaging

and that imaging would show that there's inflammation and you say, oh my goodness, I'm never going to be

able to heal my leaky ankle, leaky gut analogy. But with rest, it could easily heal. And some of you may have noticed

that if you don't eat, you feel better. Well, this is kind of where the elemental diet comes in.

So let's go over again what the elemental diet is. The research, show me the evidence of how it can

help you, and then some easy ways to use it,

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