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Hi, this is Dr. Rucho, and how long do you need to stay on the low Fod-Map diet?

Well, do you need to be on forever?

No.

Can you realize all of the improvements from the low-fob-map diet in just a couple of weeks?

Probably not. And how long should you therefore then be on it? Well, here's what I would recommend.

At the two to three week mark, you should be able to tell,

yes or no, the low Fobb MAP diet is helping.

Not that everything has been resolved, but that is clearly

inching you in the right direction. The next step is what tends to elude many people in terms of

how long do they stay on the low-fob-map diet. And what you should really aim for is to stay on the

low-fob-map diet until you've seen a peak level of improvement

and then wait, at least in my opinion, one to two months before you undergo a robust reintroduction of foods.

Now, people will vary slightly within how quickly they can successfully reintroduce foods, but

let me share a story with Mona, which is one of the recent case studies that we published a video

discussing on our website, and Mona had chronic acid reflux.

She had seen a number of doctors, and no one was really able to help her until she came into the clinic and we used a couple simple supports, a low Fobnamp diet paired with probiotics. And this led to a strong response with her reflux. Now, there's a detail here that's really important, which is she went from

chronic daily multiple times per day bouts of reflux to only it appeared maybe one or two bouts per week

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