Digestive Wellness With Dr. Elizabeth Lipski

One core tenant in natural medicine is that “All Disease Begins in The Gut”. This is a statement that might be debatable however what is true is that digestive health is a core component of prevention and management of chronic disease.  I speak with functional medicine nutritional legend Dr. Elizabeth Lipski on Digestive Wellness in this episode. We cover numerous topics such as nutrition as medicine, diets for Inflammatory Bowel Disease, the 5-R model for gut healing, and the DIGIN model for strategizing how to balance underlying factors in digestive wellness.  In addition, we discover mind/body aspects of disease and wellness. See links below for references from the episode. More about Dr. Lipski. Liz Lipski is the Director of Academic Development and full professor for the graduate programs in Clinical Nutrition at the Maryland University of Integrative Health. Dr. Lipski holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Nutrition from the Union Institute. She is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition and holds two board certifications in clinical nutrition, Certified Nutrition Specialist BCNS & Board Certified in Holistic Nutrition (BCHN), plus one in functional medicine (IFMCP). She is on faculty for the Institute for Functional Medicine, the Metabolic Medicine Institute fellowship program. She is on the boards for the American Nutrition Association, and the Accreditation Council for Nutrition Professional Education. She currently sits on the advisory boards the Certified International Health Coaches and the Autism Hope Alliance. Dr. Lipski has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Nutrition in Clinical Practice, Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal, Alternative and Complementary Medicine, and is the author of several books. Her most recent book is the 5th edition of Digestive Wellness. She co-authored the Gastrointestinal chapter for the American Board of Integrative Health and Medicine and the companion study guide, and is a contributing author for Integrative Gastroenterology, first and 2nd editions. She has been working in the field of integrative and functional medicine for 40 years. Liz is also the founder of the Innovative Healing Academy where she offers courses to clinicians and health-oriented consumers, to deepen clinical skills in the area of personalized clinical nutrition. You can check out her newest course, The Art of Digestive Wellness at www.innovativehealingacademy.com. References from episode: Digestive Wellness 5th edition DIGIN model Nova Scoring system Adverse Childhood Experiences scoring 2017 consensus on pre and probiotics #digestivehealth #IBD #guthealth #functionalmedicine