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The Ins and Outs of Functional Medicine with Chris Kresser

The Urban Monk podcast with Dr. Pedram Shojai

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Specialty Diets

Specialty diets can be life saving or at least life changing, says Dr. Andrew Wexler. But there are also downsides to some of these dieting strategies and we need to make sure we're getting all the nutrients that we need for our particular situation. For example, a low fod map diet has been shown to lead to lower levels of bifidovacterior and lactobacillus in the gut. A gluten-free diet may increase arsenic intake if people just replace it with rice.

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