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If you have not yet seen your primary care physician and/or a GI specialist to have your intestinal pains and discomforts evaluated, you are not ready for this book. Some potential problems are extremely serious and even life threatening, and the health care system is excellent at recognizing and treating them. Your doctors or specialists can run tests to find out what is wrong, and then they can work with you on the problem. That is why you should first go to your physician and be thoroughly examined. (Please see our website www.trustyourgutbook.com for a list of conditions that require other treatments before beginning the CORE program.)

After you have been comprehensively tested and all organic, structural physiological problems have been ruled out, then you are ready to use this book. When your doctors tell you that they find nothing wrong on your diagnostic tests—yet your symptoms, pain, and discomfort continue—that's when we can help you. Clearly, you know something is wrong after you've been suffering for five, ten, or twenty years. The good news is that these chronic maladies are not life threatening. The great news is that there is something you can do to diminish your distress or make it go away altogether. You are ready to start trusting your gut!

This book is for you if you have been diagnosed with:

 IBS—Irritable bowel syndrome

 GERD—Gastroesophageal reflux disease (the type caused by functional disorder)

 Dysfunctional bowel

Or have any of these chronic symptoms:

 Bad breath despite good dental hygiene

 Burping, belching, hiccuping

 Esophagitis, reflux, heartburn

 Stomach upset, gastritis

 Nausea, with or without food

 Food intolerances

 Appetite concerns (too much, too little, hungry but can't eat, full too quickly)

 Bloating

 Abdominal cramping, spasms

 Diarrhea: urgent, frequent, even incontinence

 Constipation

 Alternating diarrhea and constipation

 Undigested food in stools

 Mucus in stools

 Gas: frequent, bothersome, noticeable

 Food avoidance

 Food craving