☕️💩🔥Acid Reflux Remedies That Actually Work: How To Stop Heartburn At Night 🔥🤢🛏️ Acid reflux / GERD isn’t just about what you eat. It’s about pressure, gravity, and timing. Evidence-based lifestyle changes for GERD: ✅ Weight loss (if overweight) — the ONLY strong recommendation ✅ No meals

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🎩 🔑 🐇 Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast 🩺✨🫣 #fableticsscrubspartner Alice said we should believe in six impossible things before breakfast. As a physician and mother, I can confirm I am already operating at an unreasonable level of delusion before 7 AM. I can apparently accomplish

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💩🧻💩 3 Evidence-Based Ways to Make Colonoscopy Prep Easier 💩🧻💥 Colonoscopy prep doesn’t have to be exceptionally miserable. Try these evidence-based strategies: 1️⃣ Lower-volume + split-dose prep when appropriate 2️⃣ Stay adequately hydrated with clear fluids 3️⃣ If nausea has sabotaged

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🥖 🍞 🚨 THINK YOU HAVE GLUTEN SENSITIVITY? READ THIS FIRST. 👩🏼‍⚕️💩🥐 Think gluten is making you sick? Before going gluten-free, rule out celiac disease first. Celiac disease ≠ non-celiac gluten sensitivity ≠ “gluten is bad.” And sometimes the symptoms blamed on gluten are actually related

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🫣☕️💩 WHY COFFEE MAKES YOU POOP SO FAST 💩☕️👩🏼‍⚕️ Coffee hits your colon like: “EVERYONE OUT.” It can increase colonic contractions within minutes by triggering the gastrocolic reflex, gut hormones, and the enteric nervous system. And plot twist: even decaf can stimulate the colon, so caffe

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😩🩸☕️ GI DOCTOR + WIFE LIFE: I CAN HANDLE A CRITICAL GI BLEED… BUT NOT THIS 😂🏃‍♂️💩 As a gastroenterologist and wife, I can handle a critical GI bleed in the middle of the night, emergency endoscopy, and absolute chaos at work. But my husband leaves town and suddenly I have to make my own coffe

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🔥🩸💩 YOUR PERIOD IS MESSING WITH YOUR POOP 💩🩸🔥 Constipated before your period? Suddenly pooping 47 times once it starts? There’s actually a physiologic reason. Progesterone can slow GI motility during the luteal phase → constipation + bloating. Then prostaglandins rise around your period →

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💩🚨🧻 HOW OFTEN SHOULD YOU ACTUALLY POOP?! The Answer Might Surprise You 🧻🚨💩 Think you’re supposed to poop once a day? Not necessarily. Normal bowel frequency can range from 3 times a day to 3 times a week. Your “normal” matters more than hitting some magical poop quota. What matters more i

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🩺💩🚨 COLONOSCOPY PREP: 4 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOUR COLONOSCOPY 🚨💩🩺 Your colonoscopy prep does NOT start when you start drinking the bowel prep. There are a few things you should have on your radar ahead of time: medications, diet, bowel prep timing, hydration, and logistics. And please don’

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🩺🚨🫣Story Time 🫣🚨🩺 A patient came in with persistent diarrhea and was overdue for colorectal cancer screening. What we found was colon cancer causing near-complete obstruction. The lesson: don’t ignore changes in your bowel habits, and don’t put off your screening colonoscopy. Early detection

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🚨💩 👩🏼‍⚕️COLOGUARD VS. COLONOSCOPY: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW 💩🚨💯 Cologuard is convenient, noninvasive, and a great screening option for many average-risk adults—but it’s not a replacement for colonoscopy. It can detect most colorectal cancers, but it misses many precancerous polyps. And if Cologu

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🚨🦠 🥦YOUR GUT BACTERIA ARE STARVING. FIX THE CATERING. 🦠🚨💩 #fableticsscrubspartner Not another probiotic. Not a $60 “gut health” powder. Not powdered pond water in a beige tub. The strongest lever for your gut microbiome? FOOD. 🌱 Eat MANY different plants 🥦 Prioritize fiber 🫘 Beans

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🚨🧠🩺 COLON POLYPS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW 🩺🧠🚨 A colon polyp is a growth on the lining of your colon. Most aren’t cancer, but some can be precancerous and may eventually become cancer. The good news? During a colonoscopy, we can find them and remove them before they have the chance to become a p

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💥🚨🦠 YOUR ULCER HAS A CULPRIT 🦠🚨💊 Ulcers aren’t always caused by stress—and your spicy food didn’t necessarily do it. Two of the biggest culprits? H. pylori, a bacteria that can live in the stomach lining and damage its protective barrier, and NSAIDs like ibuprofen, naproxen, and aspirin. A

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🫠💩👩🏼‍⚕️THE NUMBER 1 THING PEOPLE GET WRONG BEFORE A COLONOSCOPY 🚽😬💩 You survived the prep. You’ve basically moved into the bathroom. You’re convinced you’re “clear.” But looking clear at home ≠ a perfectly clean colon. Inadequate prep can mean more washing, more suctioning, missed lesions

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👩🏼‍⚕️🏃‍♀️❤️10 YEARS. ONE DECISION. A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT LIFE. 🌅🫶🤰🏼 I didn’t wake up one day and become “healthy.” It started with realizing that the way I was living wasn’t serving me anymore. The standard American diet. A crazy schedule. Little movement. Medical school. Pregnancy. Resid

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😂🩺🔍 I scope people for a living… today I became the patient. 🔍🩺😂 I got my own upper endoscopy (EGD), so here’s what it’s actually like from the other side of the bed. An EGD uses a tiny camera to look at your esophagus, stomach, and duodenum to find answers for things like: 👀 Reflux damage

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📺✨🩺 The Endo Unit: Where Everybody Knows Your Colon 🩺✨📺 🎶 Cue the saxophone intro, freeze frames, and awkward high-fives. Meet the cast: ✨ The GI doc who says, “One more polyp.” 🩺 The recovery nurse who somehow remembers everything you said… even if you don’t. 📋 The tech who already has th

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💸💳💩Slipping into my $360,000 designer gown. 💅✨😳 This paper gown is the closest thing my $360,000 in med school loans ever got me to designer fashion. They say money can’t buy happiness… but apparently it can buy the world’s most exclusive paper gown. Every day I get a front-row seat to h

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💩💀🫡Microfarts?🫠💩💨 BREAKING: Your butt has been quietly freelancing this entire time. Your intestines continuously produce and move gas from swallowed air, normal digestive chemistry, and your gut bacteria fermenting food. Even during sleep, small amounts of gas continue to move through the c

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