Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Gut Hacks | Unlocking Health with a Simple Diet Hack!

3 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD explains how elimination diets treat gut inflammation. About 70% of people with eosinophilic esophagitis improve on elimination diets alone, and roughly 80% of people see symptom relief. The diet works by reducing inflammation and identifying which foods trigger problems.

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If you have something like eosynthetic esophagitis, known as EOE, literally 70% of those can be treated with an elimination diet. If you're to see an allergist or a gut specialist about gut reactions, food reactions, typically for food and allergy allergies, the number one recommendation by allergists is a elimination diet. So elimination diet is a powerful tool to remove inflammatory foods. It changes your gut microbiome. But elimination diet for probably 80% of people by itself will get them feeling much, much better. It is some work, it is some effort, but it's an amazing health hack that will dragly change your trajectory of your gut health, as well as help you figure out if they're food triggers and what they are that might be activating inflammation and affecting your health.