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The Myers Way® relieves and reverses your symptoms. It helps you get off your harsh medication and enables you to live a healthy, energetic, and pain-free life. The approach rests on four pillars, tested and proven through extensive research. Thousands of my patients have seen amazing results throughout my years as a physician. My mission is to empower you to heal your gut and achieve optimal health through Amy Myers MD®.

Many factors, including medications like antibiotics1 and birth control, toxins, and stress contribute to Candida, yet diet is often the biggest factor. A diet full of inflammatory, sugary, and processed foods creates the perfect conditions for yeast to thrive and multiply. Although I recommend adding in yeast-fighting supplements there is another key step to fight Candida overgrowth. You must eliminate foods that feed Candida and replace them with whole, nutrient-dense foods. It is one of the most important steps in beating Candida and healing your gut.

The phrase “you are what you eat” has one caveat. You could eat nutrient-rich whole foods daily, yet you might not absorb all the nutrients. I believe the phrase should be, “you are what you digest and absorb.” Digestive enzymes help break down our food into their building blocks, including protein. Yet, do you know what enzymes aid in protein digestion?

I will tell you how to know if you have gluten sensitivity, how to avoid being exposed to gluten, how gluten wreaks havoc on your gut, and why I believe everyone should remove gluten from their diet. First, let’s discuss three steps for a gluten detox.

While the first step in this healing process is unquestionably to change your dietary habits in order to stop any further damage to your gut, taking the following eight leaky gut supplements can be very beneficial in aiding in and speeding up the recovery process of healing of a leaky gut.