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Navigating Food Intolerances and Finding Balance

Food intolerances and food sensitivities result when the gastrointestinal tract has a difficult time digesting, or breaking down, certain foods. Unlike allergies that involve the immune system and can cause severe reactions, intolerances and sensitivities are not life threatening. However, they can still result in bothersome digestive symptoms that can create fear or avoidance towards
February 18, 2025 Comments (0) Share
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What’s the Scoop on the Poop: Understanding Functional Stool Testing

Stool testing can be a helpful tool to dig deeper into underlying causes for common digestive symptoms or simply to get a picture of your current state of gut health. What Is Functional Stool Testing? Functional stool testing involves analyzing a sample of your stool to assess various aspects of your digestive health. The range
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SIBO and Eating Disorders: Over diagnosed Concern or Essential Assessment?

Individuals with eating disorders often experience many uncomfortable digestive symptoms such as bloating, abdominal pain, changes in bowel habits, reflux and more. Changes in bowel patterns or motility, are one of the many risk factors for a condition called Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth, or SIBO. Understanding SIBO and Its Symptoms SIBO is characterized by an
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The Connection Between Dysphagia and Eating Disorders

Swallowing issues, medically known as dysphagia, can occasionally arise as a consequence of restrictive eating behaviors or chronic self-induced vomiting associated with eating disorders. While less common in the context of eating disorders, dysphagia can still cause a significant  impact on an individual’s ability to consume and tolerate various foods and textures. Additionally, a specific
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Understanding the Impact of Bloating and Eating Disorders

What Is It Bloating and excess gas production after meals can be common symptoms experienced from disordered eating behaviors. While some of the time these symptoms may be a result of the types or quantities of food consumed, more often these symptoms can seem to occur without rhyme or reason and be a symptom of
June 27, 2024 Comments (0) Share
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How Eating Disorders Affect the Digestive Tract

As a registered dietitian specializing in both eating disorders and gastrointestinal health, I understand the physical and psychological challenges my clients endure when changing their eating behaviors from restrictive to more inclusive. Quite often after a long-term period of food restriction, or starvation, the process of starting to eat more again can be accompanied by
April 13, 2023 Comments (0) Share
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Connection From The Brain to Our Digestive Tract

Liz Lees, MS, RDN,  talks about her passion on the connection from our brain to our digestive tract, a.k.a. GUT HEALTH, along with the relation of  GI (gastrointestinal) nutrition and Eating Disorders. You will continue to see her as she dives into deeper talks about these struggles. Liz has open availability for appointments, so if
December 6, 2022 Comments (0) Share
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How Digestive Health Impacts Mental Health

Did you know that your digestive tract, also known as “the gut”, is considered the second brain of the body? There is constant communication occurring between your gut and brain, meaning each of these body systems can impact the other. Have you ever anticipated a difficult conversation with a friend and suddenly felt an upset
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