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Support for your Digestive Health

Video · 1:10 · hosted by Deborah Hall

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I wanted to come on and talk about something not a lot of people like to talk about. Stomach issues, GI issues, gastrointestinal issues, whatever you want to call it. It affects so many different people and there's so many different facets of it. It could be just, you know, nausea, chronic nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, pain, heartburn.

Literally, your digestive system starts with your mouth. So, it includes your mouth, your teeth, your tongue, your throat, your stomach, your intestines. But there's important factors because GI issues can be exacerbated by medication, by chronic medical issues, by diet, lack of exercise.

There's a lot of things that can cause and or increase your stomach issues. What we can do at understood care is we can help with care coordination between your doctors and specialists. It's important that you have your routine colonoscopy done and possibly endoscopy.

We help coordinate with whether it be medications, whether it be prescriptions, whether it be specialists. There's different things that we can help you with depending on the issues that you're having.

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