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Old_Jellyfish_5327 t1_iuou0we wrote

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Digestion is one of the most understudied areas of medicine. Out of all their classes, grad students in medicine spend 2 weeks studying digestion. That's it. Totally nuts, no? Nutritionists are pretty unregulated in the US, and drs that study the colon dont have a lot of tools that they use for diagnosis.

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Feralpudel t1_iupbq4p wrote

And it’s hard to imagine a more intricate yet chaotic system. It’s like this million mile heavily trafficked border crossing where it’s crucial to let the right things in and keep the wrong things out.

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whattheydontsay t1_iup2m80 wrote

1000% I was in ICU and asked my doctor if I should be eating a special diet. He said diet had nothing to do with it. I challenged him by asking if I could eat nothing but Taco Bell and he said sure, it will have no impact.

A book that became my go-to source, though it has a goofy title, is called Breaking The Vicious Cycle. It was written decades ago and still helped more than any doctor.

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