Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Gut Testing: When It's Worth it, When It's Not & What To Do First

12 May 2025 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD breaks down which gut tests actually matter and which ones waste money. Start with diet changes and digestive enzymes before ordering panels. Know when symptoms warrant testing and when they don't.

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You feel awful after meals, you feel tired, you have foul smelling stool, you don't digest all the foods you eat, you actually have food particles coming out in your stool. Then you've got gut issues and you probably have inflammation, dysbiosis and inadequate digestion. And those can be addressed by some basic interventions. Dietary changes Doing elimination diet or modified elimination diet using digestive enzymes adding on probiotics Digestive enzymes like pancreas extracts can be super helpful as well as some mild herbs to help rebalance your gut microbiome Using garlic, using oregano, using artemisia citrus extract these all can be super helpful for rebalancing the gut.