Dr. Vincent Pedre tells Newsweek how he healed his gut health over two decades in this original essay.
I wanted to change that. Intuitively, I knew there was an answer out there, and my goal was to biohack how to reduce getting sick so often. I wish I could say that healing my gut and boosting my immunity was a quick and easy task—that it took meeting that one doctor who said the right things to turn my gut and immune health around. But instead, the doctors often made things worse by prescribing me antacids, antispasmodics, and anti-diarrheals.
Dr. Pedre, pictured competing in the Dade-County Youth Fair piano competition as a child, struggled with digestive issues that at times was so severe he would be left hunched over in pain.For all those years I had believed that milk was doing my body good. That was my first"eureka" moment. Diet clearly played a role in how my body felt and how my immune system functioned.
It wasn't until I discovered functional medicine in 2006, that I was able to rewrite the story of my gut health issues in a way that made more sense. Through my functional medicine training, I realized the 20-plus rounds of antibiotics I had been on as a child had destroyed my gut microbiome by wiping out good gut bacteria as well as bad, thereby decimating its health-promoting diversity.
And yet, I started my regimen with absolute faith, trusting that results would take patience, dedication and time. I made changes in my diet by eating organic vegetables, humanely-sourced meats, adding in fermented foods such as sauerkraut and dairy-free yogurts, and avoiding gluten and dairy. After years of medical training and now in private practice, I didn't plan on becoming a gut health expert, but it happened slowly. The more patients I helped, the more referrals they sent my way, trusting me with their family, friends, and work colleagues. I became a medical sleuth, solving difficult cases with symptoms that other doctors failed to find the true, underlying cause for.
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