Gut Issues

Dr Waters has a digestive health specialty that has morphed into treating a lot of other conditions that often occur with gut issues.  She is a lifelong learner and is passionate about restoring the health of her patients. 

She regularly treats patients with constipation, diarrhea, inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease), fatty liver, hypochorhydria, celiac disease and many more.

One thing that causes a lot of problems in people are acid blockers.  People often get heartburn from soft drinks, highly processed foods, and foods to which they become sensitive once they develop a leaky gut.  They then start taking acid blockers to get relief.  This allows bacteria and parasites in their food and on their hands that normally would get killed in the stomach, to pass through to the intestines and reproduce.  The hypochlorhydric or low stomach acid environment in the stomach enables the flora in the small intestine and colon to change for the worse.  Stomach acid is needed to cause the pancreas to secrete its enzymes, so indirectly, can cause slow motility and small intestinal bacterial overgrowth as well.

Dr Waters takes a thorough history and does testing to determine the cause of the initial problem. Then she treats the initial problem, and treats symptoms only if they are significant and the patient prefers to treat symptoms as well.  She has even improved the health of those who have had a colectomy or part or all of their colon removed.