Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Is what you’re eating causing your pain, fatigue, or stubborn weight gain? Join Dr. Pinkston and nutritionist Laura LaValle as they dive deep into the Elimination Diet—the gold standard for identifying hidden food sensitivities.
In this episode, Dr. Pinkston explores why modern life has triggered a surge in "leaky gut" and how removing common culprits like gluten, dairy, and soy can resolve everything from chronic migraines to seasonal allergies. Learn the exact protocol to reset your system, boost your metabolism, and finally understand your body’s unique needs.
Is what you’re eating causing your pain, fatigue, or stubborn weight gain? Join Dr. Pinkston and nutritionist Laura LaValle as they dive deep into the Elimination Diet—the gold standard for identifying hidden food sensitivities.
In this episode, Dr. Pinkston explores why modern life has triggered a surge in "leaky gut" and how removing common culprits like gluten, dairy, and soy can resolve everything from chronic migraines to seasonal allergies. Learn the exact protocol to reset your system, boost your metabolism, and finally understand your body’s unique needs.








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imagine, you know, you go and you ask your doctor, say for a hemoglobin A1C, which measures, you know, the, um, the average glucose over the last 3 months, you know, deterr- trying, trying to detect diabetes and, and you know, you get your result back.What do you do with that, right? You know, your doctor has about 10, 15 minutes maybe, if youre lucky, to hand you information and teach you information on what you can do to change that.
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Um, and we all know it has long-term effects, and- and so this is very important. It would take hours to sit down and explain to somebody how much, you know, you need to do in order to change it. Right. What youve done is take a topic that is larger than life, you know, the microbiome really is at this point, and I think once- once contemporary medicine really grasps how big the microbiome effects are on us, and tries to tear that down an- and get, you know, get results and- and give that to patients, were gonna find its n- n- you know, next to impossible to spend the amount of time with a patient, personalize it, and give them a, you know, a- a list of things that they can actually do to change it on a timeline, and things they can do long-term.
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That is what this test does. And its so just mind-blowing that, you know, you can go get your labs done. You get nothing really except results. But on this side, you can actually get a plan of care. So its really, really a wonderful thing that youve done and the- and the amount of information that a patient gets, you know, from that. The doctor, you know, let alone, we- we get that information. We can- we can filter through that, but the amount of data that a patient gets is absolutely amazing. Unlock Your Health: Diabetes Test & Personalized Plan](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/m02-KaS6oAw/mqdefault.jpg)

