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Palatable Elemental Diet Changes Management Options for GI Patients with Krystyna Houser mBIOTA Labs
Oct 14, 2024
Krystyna Houser is the Founder of mBIOTA Labs, a company that develops effective and tolerable elemental diets and medical foods for treating gastrointestinal disorders such as IBS, IBD, SIBO, IMO, and Crohn's disease. While short-term liquid elemental diets have been used in the past to treat GI conditions, the formulation has been very unpalatable, resulting in high patient non-compliance. The mBIOTA clinical trials have shown the elemental diet to be more effective than antibiotics in allowing the gut to recover.
Krystyna explains, "After battling my own GI issues and successfully treating them through a combination of an elemental diet and a dietary protocol called low-fermentation eating, I became a believer in the power of functional nutrition and built mBIOTA Labs to bring these solutions along with taste and a pleasant experience to millions of people suffering with GI conditions."
"Elemental diets have been around for over 50 years. And through hundreds of clinical studies, elemental diets have been proven highly effective at managing various GI conditions. But until now, physicians were unable to employ them in treatment for fear of noncompliance due to their horrible taste. mBIOTA Elemental changes the game with its truly palatable formula. An elemental diet is a short-term liquid diet that provides comprehensive nutrition in its purest, most elemental form. It's composed of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates."
"Our formula is designed as a two- to four-week course of orally ingested therapy. Once ingested, it is easily absorbed into the first two to four feet of the small intestine with almost no digestive effort, which allows the gut to reset, recover, and starve off excess bacteria, causing distress and inflammation. Because the diet is so balanced, it is much easier and safer to follow than a juice cleanse or other diets. And after a few days or so, people feel fantastic on mBIOTA and crave it."
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