A short YouTube segment by Aaron Hartman, MD emphasizing that diet is the primary driver of gut health. Hartman advises eating 'real food,' tailoring intake to individual tolerance (some patients react to carbs, fiber, or fermented foods), avoiding inflammatory foods, and treating food like medicine—powerful and potentially harmful. He references additional food plans and sourcing resources on his website.
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The primary mover of that is, is your diet. And sounds simple, just eat real food. But it's, it's a big thing. And this is where it gets tricky because, you know, personally, for me, if I eat lots of carbs and lots of fiber, it messes my gut up. I need to, you know, I can't do that. Some people can't do fermented foods because of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, sibo stuff. But ultimately you need to use food. Listen to your symptoms, listen to your body fasting. Avoiding inflammatory foods like your diet is key. We have so many resources on our website that can go into this. We have so many, like, food plans. We got a whole bunch of stuff on our website as far as food sourcing stuff, you know, the top six or seven keys to food sourcing. So there's just a lot of resources out there on our website. But the primary thing for gut is going to be your food. And you have to look at it as a drug. It's the best. It's the best medicine or the, it's the quickest medicine, the slowest poison.