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Hello, and welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition's midweek

segment called Ask a Nutritionist. My name is Leah Kleintraud. I'm a registered and licensed

dietitian with nutritional weight and wellness. On today's show, I will be answering a

nutrition question about one particular topic we've received from our Dishing Up Nutrition listeners.

So this week's question is, can you explain how and why the body changes digestively with age?

This person goes on to say, I've noticed more sensitivity to foods with age. Why would that be? I really love this

question, actually. This is a very natural question to ask, I think, is what is it about getting

older that makes us more sensitive to things or not tolerate the way things the way that we used to.

There are some aspects to that that we will talk about and address, but I also want to

maybe flip that around a little bit and say, all right, is it that process of getting older

or is it that just the longer we're alive on planet earth,

the higher the chance that we accumulate a certain amount of exposures or even damage or trauma

in our digestive tract and also other areas of the body, which then in turn causes that digestive

tract not to function as well as it used to. And then we start to get symptoms or then we start

not to be able to tolerate certain foods the way that we used to. I think coming at it from both sides

is going to be interesting and truly,

I think it's a mix of both of these aspects. So we're going to do a little exploring into some of

these factors. Let's ask that question, what happens to the digestive tract as we age?

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