💪🏋️‍♂️🔥 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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🥜💨🚽 Nut Gut Explained: What Happens When You Eat Too Many Nuts 🌰🤢📚 Nuts are packed with fiber, healthy fats, and nutrients—and for most people, they’re very gut-friendly. Studies consistently show that moderate nut intake does not increase bloating, diarrhea, or diverticulitis risk. In fact, reg

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💩💩🧬 9 Fascinating Facts About Your Gut💩💩💩 Interesting gut facts: • Your intestines have their own nervous system • Your gut can “taste” nutrients • Trillions of microbes help regulate digestion and metabolism • Electrical pacemaker cells coordinate movement through the GI tract • Disorders

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🥩🍖🚨 Food getting stuck = think EoE 🌭💀🥖 #fableticsscrubspartner EoE is what happens when your immune system treats food like an intruder. Chronic inflammation leads to:⚠️ swelling⚠️ rings⚠️ scar tissue⚠️ strictures⚠️ dysmotility So patients start:🥤 drinking water with every bite🐢 eating

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💩📞🫠 ON CALL GI GREMLIN 🫠📞💩 Thriving in a specialty where I smell vaguely like colon prep, discuss diarrhea before coffee, and answer pages at ungodly hours looking like I personally caused the bowel obstruction. Somewhere between my third caffeine refill and a 2am consult for “abdominal pain x 1

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🧬⚠️🔥 Lynch syndrome explained: inherited colon cancer risk, DNA repair failure, and cancer prevention 🧬⚠️🔥 Lynch syndrome is the most common inherited cancer predisposition syndrome — and it quietly increases risk for colon, uterine, and other cancers. The problem starts with DNA mismatch rep

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🚩💀💩 Things that Keep a Gastroenterologist up at night 🩺🚨💩 In GI, the line between “probably fine” and “very much not fine” can be thin. Alarm symptoms, subtle misses, and true emergencies are why we don’t brush things off. Never ignore new symptoms. The biggest mistake? Getting comfo

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💀✨🫥 I VANISHED FOR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT 🫥✨💀 When the endo staff forms a full prayer circle for a calm day and the universe is like “best evidence-based intervention is removing the attending entirely” — and suddenly I’m dematerializing mid-huddle, credentials revoked by vibes alone. #doctorso

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🖊️💀🫠 Colon tattoos are real 🫠💀🖊️ Yes, we tattoo your colon—on purpose. It helps relocate lesions for future resection or surgery 🎯 Especially large polyps or anything suspicious. And it works—localization is significantly better than clips alone. #doctorsoftiktok #coloncancer #

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💀✨🚨 2:17 AM: CALLING ALL WELLNESS GIRLIES 🚨✨🥩 It’s just me, a food impaction, and the distant hope that someone in Lululemon scrubs knows how to fix this with breathwork and vibes. Meanwhile… endoscopy is loading. Sorry, not sorry. I felt spicy last night removing that impaction. #me

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💨🤡🔥 Colonoscopy Gas: The Unwanted Souvenir 🔥🤡💨 Yes, feeling like a gas-filled inflatable tube man after a colonoscopy is completely normal. We inflate the colon with air so we can actually see what we’re doing—your body just temporarily becomes a storage unit for that air. CO₂ is the up

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📩🧠🔥 My Inbox Is Alive and I Am Its Hostage 🔥🧠📩 Somewhere between dance mom duties and a “vacation,” I’m still being spiritually hunted by my EMR and inbox. Dance mom duties? Ha! Just squeeze it all in. Physician life doesn’t do off—just relocation of duties. #doctor #physician #medt

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