In gastrointestinal and horology, our domain goes kind of beyond the abdomen.

Sure, everybody assumes that we deal with, you know, the food pipe and colon cancer screening,

but what they don't realize is that we also deal with the liver, the pancreas, and most importantly we deal with nutrition.

Yes, there is a lot of things that fall into the domain of gastrointestinalology, but nutrition

is a big one, and you could even argue that it might be the most important.

In the past one week of seeing patients I had a lot of them come in and ask me the same question

that I'm sure many of your patients ask you,

what should I eat?

That is the most common question I get,

because when I explain to them how a healthy diet

and exercise are important,

they say, yeah, I totally understand that, but I have no idea what to eat.

And then I ran into about five different scenarios this week, in which patients had some

misconceptions about diet, food, and things you're supposed to do when cooking that they believed were true and no one had told them otherwise.

So welcome to this week's podcast where I, Dr. Nakeetslun Paul, your friendly neighborhood internist and

gastrantroologist, I'm going to break down a few of the most common

misconceptions and things our patients are actually doing wrong and so that you can

then better help them to find out the answer to the most difficult question, what should I eat? Now we've all been in the scenario where a patient does ask me,

hey, what should I be doing differently with my life?

And you tell them, oh, you should either quit smoking or drink less or diet and exercise.

And the moment you mentioned diet, the's like oh okay totally and what you're

thinking you're imparting to them is very different than what they're hearing for

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