Digestive Health & Gut Health Treatments
All disease starts in the gut, but conventional medicine addresses the symptoms of microbiome imbalances rather than their root causes. Effective gut health treatment focuses on the four pillars of digestive health:
- Infection
- Inflammation
- Insufficiency
- Imbalance
Experienced functional medicine practitioners use evidence-based, innovative therapies to tackle each of these pillars.
Gut Health Symptoms
An imbalanced gut microbiome has impacts that extend beyond the digestive system. This widens the range of symptoms, which commonly include:
- Constipation
- Diarrhea
- Flatulence
- Abdominal pain
- Bloating
- Heartburn
- Aggravated perimenopause and menopause symptoms
- Weight loss resistance
- Fatigue
- Joint Pain
- Restless legs
- Skin problems
Health-forward patients can proactively support their gut health by following protocols to get off of PPIs (like Prilosec), oral contraceptive pills, and SSRIs antidepressants – medications that lead to symptom-producing gut imbalances.
Gut Health Treatments
Functional health practitioners optimize gut health by beginning with a gut test such as a GI map, deeply listening to their patients, and developing patient-specific gut health protocols that rebalance the microbiome. Those protocols often include the following gut health treatments:
- Probiotics, prebiotics, and other supplements
- Food trigger removal (e.g., gluten, dairy, etc.)
- Nutraceuticals
- Peptides
- IV Ozone Therapy
- Lifestyle changes, including going to bed earlier and using screens less
- Stress reduction
Functional medicine experts will never call digestive health protocols easy. These aggressive treatments require lifestyle changes that may feel overwhelming. But when you’re able to stop taking digestive and diabetic medications – or become pregnant after struggling with infertility – you’ll know it was worth it.
Healing Her Gut Transformed Her Life
Sandy is in complete remission from Hashimoto’s disease thanks to functional and aesthetic medical practices, including hormone pellet replacement therapy, IV ozone therapy, and a personalized gut health protocol.
FAQs
Learn more about how functional digestive and gut health treatments can replace your bloating, pain, and fatigue with unbelievably joyful living.
No. The right gut health treatment will rebalance your digestive system so that you can stop taking supplements never intended to be a permanent solution.
SIBO is the overgrowth of normal gut bacteria in your small intestine. It’s the underlying cause of up to 80% of cases of IBS and can also produce symptoms such as fibromyalgia, restless legs, and the skin condition rosacea. SIBO can also worsen perimenopausal symptoms by impairing estrogen metabolism, activating mast cells, and worsening autoimmune thyroid disease.
You can prevent a SIBO relapse by:
- Maintaining a healthy level of stomach acid
- Removing triggering foods such as dairy & gluten
- Avoiding heartburn medication, antibiotics, and even oral contraceptive pills
- Taking a probiotic strain that has lactobacillus as well as Saccharomyces
- Using supplements, nutrition, and nutraceuticals to support detox systems like the liver and stool elimination
The top 5 supplements for gut health are:
- Gut Support: Features L-glutamine, an amino acid that provides structural and metabolic support for intestinal cells. Zinc L-carnosine provides support for the health of the intestinal lining. N-acetyl-D-glucosamine supports a normal inflammatory response in the GI tract.
- Anti-Microbial Herbs: Includes Tribulus extract, berberine, bearberry extract, black walnut powder, barberry extract, and artemisinin, along with magnesium and caprylic acid from magnesium caprylate! This is great as an antimicrobial option for dysbiosis.
- Digestive Enzyme: This product is great for patients who experience gas and bloating after eating, occasional constipation, or a feeling of fullness after eating only a small quantity of food
- Colostrum: The milk secreted from mammary glands in the first few days after birth, and it contains immunoglobulins that are fantastic for immune support in patients who have a low Secretory IgA.
- Probiotic: The nonpathogenic yeast, Saccharomyces boulardii, is a great probiotic that also helps support (SCFA) short chain fatty acids, the preferred fuel for healthy gut flora. This product also has some great antimicrobial benefits.
Your gut microbiome can be disrupted in three distinct ways:
- Loss of beneficial organisms: An imbalanced diet and substances like antibiotics, oral birth control, and SSRIs can kill the good bacteria that keep your gut healthy.
- Excessive growth of potentially harmful organisms: An overgrowth of harmful bacteria or yeast can lead to painful conditions like candidiasis or small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO).
- Loss of overall microbial diversity: A lack of microbial diversity limits your gut’s range of natural protection, causing health problems like autoimmune diseases and allergies to emerge.
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