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My doctor is an MD who turned to functional medicine as a better way to help her patients. She isn’t opposed to prescription medication and in some cases will prescribe a med if that is the best way to treat.
No, I haven’t heard of the elemental diet. This diet certainly appears to give you the nutrients needed, especially in severe cases of indigestion. I do not understand how that is going to be helpful in the long run without a very strict reintroduction of specific foods to eat and what foods to avoid. Unless of course that is part of the treatment.

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schreib69 | @schreib69 | Mar 27, 2023

"Unless . .. that is part of the treatment."

You anticipated their protocol quite well gigi. They have a very rigorous program but it all starts with 2 or 3 weeks of consuming liquid / powdered drinks.

You're very lucky to have found a doc-- period. I just this morning got a call from Mayo in my attempt to get Dr Bledsoe appt. in Rochester. NOPE. They will not assign a doctor with any specific name to your appointment. You get who you get assigned-- period. I said thanks, but NO thanks. Walked away. So, still looking, forgetting any allopath. Integrated Doc . . . the search is on.

By the way, your doc is not anywhere Minnesota??

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