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Hey, everyone. Welcome to Dr. Rish Rish Radio. This is Dr. Risho. Today I'm here with Aaron Ryan, and we are doing more questions from you guys. So, Aaron, welcome, and looking forward to some more questions. Yeah, great. So the first question we'll start off with is a written question that came in via email. DeVita wants to know, would using Elemental Heel for one week potentially be helpful for gastritis and or ulcers? And just for the audience, Elemental Heal is our semi-elemental diet formula.

This is a great question.

And I think the answer here is really a maybe.

I don't know of any literature, although there may be some published that I missed, but we went

through pretty much all the data, at least that we could find on

elemental diets when we were researching the different formulas, how to use them, I was

writing a book and everything else. But I don't know that there's really good much published on

gastritis and ulcers. The reason why I say maybe is because I think it depends on what's happening in the person's

system that's driving the gastritis and the ulcers.

If it's something like H. Pylori, I think, and this is me just speculating based upon

the physiology, based upon clinical reflections, if something is actively driving high acid like a bacteria, then I think

it's less likely you're going to see healing because that's not really addressing.

A elemental diet, as far as I understand it, will not starve H. Pylori.

That's a bacteria that's been documented to cause ulcers and can modulate stomach

acid levels and cause gastritis. So the elemental diet likely won't have an anti-H-pilori effect,

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