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Hey, you guys, welcome back to the GutsiHealth podcast.

This is Gina Warville jumping on today.

And today we have an amazing

guest, Dr. Mary Party. She's a naturopathic doctor and certified functional medicine doctor.

And she specializes in an integrative gastroenterology and longevity. So today we're going to jump

into gut stuff. We're going to talk all about bloating. Why do we get bloating? How do we correct our gut?

How does that affect longevity? And this is huge because we always talk about how important the gut

is, that it's like the root to the trees. And Dr. Parity, I'm so excited to have you on and to go

on this with you because I think that when it comes to gut issues, it's something that

because it's so common, people think it's normal. So welcome. Thank you for being here. I can't

wait to dive into this with you. Thank you for having Maine. Yeah, I'm excited to chat with you as well.

And I know your background as a dietitian. I'm sure you see this all the time. So it would be fun to chat about it. Yeah. So, I mean,

we could have taken our conversation and so many different directions. You specialize in longevity,

gastroenterology. What is it that you think is the biggest challenge? Is it bloating? Does that

tend to be the most common or most important to address? Yeah. And so the most common complaint by far we get in my practice is bloating.

And it's about 30% of the general population experiences bloating and up to 96 of people with IBS, which is also one of our biggest specialties.

So 96% of people with IBS experience bloating at some point. So it's really, really common. And we want to start to identify what are we talking about when we talk about bloating? Because it means different things to different people. What are you talking about? Yeah, yeah, great. So we'll just dive in. So some people come to me and they say, I'm bloated. And the first question I ask is, does it feel like there is gas

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