Today on the exam room. What a lot of people are concerned about in terms of their

digestive health is do I have a food intolerance? So this is distressing symptoms like bloating, heartburn, indigestion,

constipation or diarrhea or sometimes symptoms beyond the gut such as brain fog, sleepiness, itchiness, etc.

That are developing when they consume certain foods or food groups.

And in fact about 20 to 65% of patients with functional GI symptoms, unexplained

GI symptoms, will identify that they suspect that they have a food intolerance.

Now, unfortunately, we don't have any good tests

for food intolerances.

But that doesn't stop a lot of companies marketing tests for food

intolerances. There's no evidence to support them. I have patients who come

to my clinic all the time. They've been given this huge lists of foods they need

to avoid based on some unproven food intolerance testing. I gotta tell you, sometimes they'll

have been told to avoid so many foods that they

took to take it they told me to avoid 19 foods including dairy milk

I feel a lot better therefore the vega testing worked

it doesn't work I wish these tests did work because then we would use them all the time

and actually. So really what it goes down to is a food and symptom diary and

going through that food diary for a five to seven day period,

what are the foods you're eating and what are your symptoms like can be really, really informative.

And that starts to give us clues towards dietary intolerances which in most cases are

amenable to or reversible by healthy dietary change with temporary exclusion of the trigger and then gradual reintroduction. introduction. brought to you by the Physicians Committee.

Hi, I'm the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll,

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