Digestive Health

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Bloating, constipation, gas, abdominal pressure, and digestive discomfort can affect far more than your stomach. Digestion influences nutrient absorption, blood sugar regulation, hormone metabolism, immune function, energy, and the way your body responds to food and supplements.

Some women notice bloating after meals. Others feel bloated even when they have barely eaten. Constipation may persist despite fiber, probiotics, magnesium, or other common recommendations. These patterns are important because digestive symptoms do not always have the same cause.

Dr. Lori Puskar uses a functional medicine approach to look at digestion as part of the larger physiological picture rather than treating every digestive complaint the same way.

• Chronic bloating
• Bloating after meals
• Bloating even without eating
• Constipation
• Gas and abdominal pressure
• Digestive discomfort
• Food reactions
• Poor digestion
• Gut health and hormone symptoms
• Gut health and weight
• Digestive effects of supplements
• Probiotic intolerance

Depending on your symptoms, evaluation may include digestive function, motility, meal patterns, food tolerance, nutrient absorption, microbiome considerations, hormone metabolism, current supplements, stress physiology, and functional medicine digestive testing when appropriate.

The goal is to understand why your digestive system is reacting the way it is so that recommendations can be individualized rather than generic.

Dr. Lori Puskar helps women explore natural, functional medicine approaches to bloating, constipation, digestive health, food reactions, and gut-related symptoms.