01/05/2026
One of the wildest cases I’ve ever seen was a woman in her 70s who had experienced diarrhea every single day since she was in her 20s.
She had been to every major medical institution you can think of Duke, Stanford, Northwestern, UCLA seen countless GI specialists, and no one could give her an answer. She told me she didn’t even remember what a solid bowel movement felt like. When we ran a comprehensive stool test, we found a small gut pathogen that standard testing doesn’t typically look for. We treated it, and within three days she had her first normal bowel movement in over 50 years.
She hugged me and asked the question I hear far too often: “Why did no one check this?” The answer is simple conventional testing looks for extreme, acute infections, not subtle imbalances that quietly disrupt your health for decades.
This is why functional medicine focuses on root causes, not just ruling out the worst case scenarios.
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