The way that nutrition works, unfortunately, with GI issues is what might be beneficial for one person could potentially be harmful and worsened symptoms for the next.

Even with the same condition, you've seen people with inflammatory bowel disease who one person has a negative reaction to animal foods and the other has a negative reaction to plant foods.

And one does better on a more plant restricted diet. this is just the nature of digestive issues welcome to the nutrition science

podcast where we help you cut through the noise and make informed science-based decisions about

nutrition and your health how's it going everyone welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez.

And in this episode, we're going to be discussing nutrition and digestive issues.

And this is a topic that I recently did a Q&A about on my Instagram.

And it's just very clear that many people are being misled with respect to this topic.

There's a lot of misinformation.

There's a lot of confusion.

There's a lot of confusion around what a digestive issue even is and whether or not people actually have them.

So I want to go into that on this episode.

I want to talk about whether or not you really have a digestive health condition, what to do if you really are experiencing true digestive issues, what type of treatment to seek. And then we're going to discuss a little bit about my personal approach to digestive issues, the way that I

personally look at it because I've worked with a lot of people with a variety of digestive issues.

These things are really complicated.

There's a lot going on.

Often there's multiple different things going on, multiple diagnoses.

And I have found it very beneficial to break down digestive health into five pillars

and to address them each individually based on symptoms, based on responses to certain foods.

And that has been very, very helpful in my work with clients in helping to improve digestive symptoms, even when there's no

clear indication as to what's going on. So I want to outline that framework for you in just a bit

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