Today on the root cause medicine podcast.

When you don't produce enough stomach acid, lots of things fall apart downstream, right?

But when you don't do actually build that pressure that pushes food the wrong way, you also maldigest

food.

So you have food that should be right, almost this thing called kind, which should be like very

mushed up and ready to go into the small intestine, you might have these large like proteins

just sitting there and you're going to have a worsening pressure, worsening fullness,

and things can really push and sit on top of food and go the wrong direction.

If you ever notice people who take supplements or medications after food instead of before

the meal, they often complain of regurgitation and digestion because things are sitting on top

of the food and not working well enough due to low stomach acid and it comes up. And it's a really

uncomfortable feeling. Hello, hello. I'm your host, Dr. Carrie Jones. And today, I'm talking

with good friend and gut health expert Katie Mora. Katie is a functional medicine practitioner dietitian with a master's in nutrition.

She is a go-to on all things GI-related, including H.Pylori, indigestion, and GERD, which we discussed at length today.

If you are a loved one are experiencing any of these symptoms, listen up so you

can be empowered. Before we get started, though, I want to talk to you about something that

comes up pretty often on this podcast, and that, of course, is lab testing. You see, testing is

one essential way to understand the root cause of an illness.

If you are an integrative or functional medicine practitioner, chances are you're placing

a ton of orders with a ton of different labs.

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