Over the past decade, public attention to gut health has become more prominent, thus discovering a new link between the gut microbiome and overall health. This has led to significant progress in promoting our understanding and management of gastrointestinal (GI) conditions.
If GI diseases (such as irritable bowel syndrome) were once considered a psychological condition just rather than a real physical problem, today it has changed a lot today due to new technologies, which combine consumer-driven interests and new medical knowledge about the human gut microbiome.
As a result, the evolution from clinically level management of GI conditions and caring for our gut microbiome has come a long way from antibiotic-centric care programs to integrated approaches and even at home diagnosis. The GI field is developing in three main ways to improve today’s patients.
Bring nutrition to employees
The appreciation of the role of nutrition in health has gained a steady drive, leading to the growth of comprehensive health approaches in gastroenterology. Diets (such as low FODMAP and low fermentation diets) are designed to maintain symptom management (SIBO) for IBS and small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), and there is an increasing recognition that dietary approaches can support longer GI diseases.
Food initiatives in foods among medical professionals and patients have attracted great interest. This concept encourages the consideration of nutrition provided by healthcare and promotes nutritious food itself as an integral part of the care program. For most gastroenterologists, more and more therapeutic nutritional specificities may be outside the typical cab, but foods in food and awareness of therapeutic nutrition are a viable management strategy for GI diseases, and more gastrointestinal registrants (GRD) (GRD) and similar professionals (GRD) and similar professionals, as well as new fixtures within GI.
GRD is a professional healthcare professional who helps patients manage their unique gastrointestinal health needs through a proper diet plan. Patients can manage their chronic conditions more effectively in the long run by pairing antibiotics or drug methods to treat the root causes of GI disease with the root causes of GRD that provides nutritional counseling for symptom management. Nutritional education for patients in turn reduces the potential for outbreaks and the future costs of medical or drug interventions.
SIBO patients clearly see the transition to nutrition-based approaches. Historically, the first most common treatment for SIBO was antibiotics, with an elimination rate of about 44%, meaning many patients had to go through multiple rounds. A feasible, more effective nutrition-based alternative was found in a delicious elemental dietary formulation that successfully eliminated SIBO in 83% of patients. Therapeutic nutrition professionals can expand, supplement and enhance the choice of care plans for patients, such as non-pharmaceutical solutions such as the tasty elemental diet (such as the tasty elemental diet).
Advanced technology leads to better care
Like nearly every aspect of healthcare, technology plays a crucial role in providing better care for patients with the gastrointestinal tract. Over the past decade, gut diagnostic techniques and non-invasive solutions have enabled patients to obtain more accurate diagnosis and appropriate care in less time.
In 2020, the first triple-expiratory test is a non-invasive method to evaluate exhaled hydrogen, methane and hydrogen sulfide. This is an important milestone in identifying diseases such as SIBO, overgrowth of gut methane (IMO) and overproduction of gut sulfides (ISO), historically diagnosed based on symptoms of lactose intolerance or grouped into IBS umbrellas.
The test and similar breath testing devices are currently directly used in patients with a variety of diseases, allowing more people with gastrointestinal symptoms to use and overcome the first obstacle. This also helps prevent patients from having to wait months or even years to arrange invasive exploration procedures and through a burdensome medical procedure team may spend thousands of dollars from parts while causing attenuation and worsening symptoms.
In addition, mobile applications supporting integrated care programs for GI patients are becoming increasingly widespread. Lifestyle factors can keep patients unpleasant cycles, while stress and anxiety worsen symptoms of IBS or other chronic diseases, while persistent GI problems can lead to increased stress and anxiety. Now, the loop can be broken. Gastroenterologists can recommend these applications (and some FDA-authorized options) to provide patients with virtual support for managing lifestyle factors and fill any gaps that their practice may not have been directly provided, such as dietary planning or mindfulness tips to relieve stress.
Consumer trends and impact on the gastrointestinal tract
Consumer trends suggest that social media and health influencers often touted as “healing all” products despite claims that it may extend far outweighed past benefits proven in clinical studies. Typically, GIS is the person who has to be classified in the case of these trends.
For example, over the past few years, prebiotics and probiotics have become increasingly popular in the form of supplements, smoothie lenses, and now “healthy” soda. Many patients see them as the key to healing the gut and improving health by adding useful gut bacteria. For most people, occasional probiotics are OK. However, due to the lack of awareness of how microorganisms work, many people don’t know that the preferred probiotics of influencers they like actually cause further harm if their gut problems stem from excessive certain bacteria, even good ones.
Over time, there will be a new harmful and surprising trend that GI must be familiar with all the contributing factors of the patient's symptoms. In fact, in the past decade, eating soil tends to be twice. Thankfully, more and more health experts and providers on social media are speaking out to help combat harmful trends and highlight data that is problematic. GIS, PCP, etc. will require continued re-adjustment of solutions to patients with medical factual and clinical support, as unexamined consumerism goes further into health care.
Growth space
The significant progress made in the management and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases is to breathe a new life into patients by providing much-needed relief. With new diagnostic approaches, integrated approaches and innovative management solutions, patients no longer need to feel uncomfortable. Instead, providers can better care for patients and improve their outcomes.
While rigorous academic research delves into the foundations of the human gut microbiome, policy and payer organizations will need to catch up with the latest GI innovations and by how best to support nutritional lifestyles as part of integrated, staff-wide care. Meanwhile, providers better educate and empower patients with chronic diseases by working with nutrition providers and platforms.
Photo: Osakawayne Studios, via Getty Images
Nicola Wodlinger is CEO of Mbiota Labs, a company that changes therapeutic nutrition through science, empathy and action, where she envisions a revolution in the intersection of nutrition and medicine. Nicola launched several new brands from the ground in e-commerce and digital content, and took on key leadership roles among iconic brands including Rolling Stone and US Weekly, where she pioneered the transformational plans and built multi-million-dollar brand partnerships. She remains firmly creating research-driven solutions that enable patients to be integrity-driven, driven by purpose, and challenge the conventions to seek better health outcomes
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