🚨🧠🩺 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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🚨🦠📲 Breaking Down This Viral Facebook Post 📲🦠🚨 A patient sent me this Facebook post asking if it meant removing colon polyps doesn’t actually prevent colon cancer. Short answer: No. The study found that some people continue to have changes in their gut microbiome years after a precancerous

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🌴💘🎬 POV: I’m the medical director… so today we’re filming Love Island: Endoscopy Edition. 🎬💘🌴 #fableticsscrubspartner Tonight… the nurses must choose who they’d like to couple up with for today’s procedures. Will they stay loyal to their favorite tech… or will a bombshell assignment turn

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🚨💀💩 THE NUMBER 1 WAY TO WASTE A COLONOSCOPY 💩💀🚨 Skipping the end of your bowel prep because “it’s already clear.” That’s exactly how tiny polyps get missed… and how some patients end up needing another colonoscopy sooner than expected. Your colon may look clean to you. I need it clean e

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💪🏋️‍♂️🔥 You Wouldn’t Bench Press 300 Pounds on Day One. Stop Doing It to Your Colon. 🔥🏋️‍♂️💪 If you’ve ever increased your fiber intake and immediately felt bloated, gassy, or uncomfortable, fiber may not be the problem. Think about the gym: you wouldn’t go from sitting on the couch to bench

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✨🌿💫 Things I’d Say If I Became a Wellness Influencer 💫🌿✨ Just to be clear—I absolutely believe stress management, sleep, exercise, nutrition, and evidence-based supplements can make a real difference for some people. This reel is poking fun at the idea that every symptom needs a detox, a $300

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🍃💉😴 Chronic Marijuana Use & Colonoscopy Sedation: What Patients Need to Know 😴💉🍃 Regular marijuana use may affect how much sedation you need during a colonoscopy. Studies show chronic cannabis users often require higher doses of medications used for endoscopy. That’s why we ask about cannabis

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✨🙋‍♀️👩‍⚕️ You’re Allowed to Request This for Your Colonoscopy 💁🏼‍♀️🩵✨ You can request an all-female room for your colonoscopy. Many patients don’t realize this is an option! If having female staff helps you feel more comfortable, let your endoscopy team know ahead of time. While accommodatio

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💸🏃‍♀️🏰 My daughters leaving the Disney resort room without their money… then realizing I am the ATM. 🏰🏃‍♀️💸 POV: they confidently marched out of the room with exactly $0 to their names and suddenly remembered mother is not only providing transportation, snacks, emotional support, and Lightning L

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✨🏰💩 Going to Disney World With a GI Doctor Be Like… 💩🏰✨ POV: your family can’t eat a single Disney snack in peace because the gastroenterologist has entered the chat. Between the Mickey pretzels, Dole Whips, festival fries, and 94° Florida heat, I spent this trip giving hydration reminders, loca

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🛏️💤🫩 Your gut has a bedtime (you missed it) 🥱💩🦠 Your gut runs on a circadian rhythm—just like your brain. When sleep is disrupted, so is digestion. Evidence shows short sleep and circadian misalignment can: • shift gut microbiome composition • increase intestinal permeability • raise infla

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🤠💩🩺 Endo Rodeo 🩺💩🤠 Nothing humbles you faster than being a board-certified gastroenterologist who suddenly loses all lower extremity coordination the second country music comes on in the endo suite. One minute I’m navigating the cecum, the next I’m accidentally line dancing past the biopsy pedal

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💉😂🫶 Strong independent GI physician by day… emotionally supported exhausted wife by night 🫶😂💉 Sure, I can manage complex procedures and life-or-death decisions… but at home I’m just a tired girl asking my husband what’s for dinner for the fourth night in a row. 🤍 #doctor #doctorlife #lif

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Dr. Tori | GI Doc & Gut Health