Welcome to Gastrointestinal Nutrition Therapy, a resource dedicated to helping you better understand the connection between nutrition and digestive health. Whether you're looking to improve your overall well-being, manage a digestive condition, or simply learn how food affects the gastrointestinal tract, you'll find evidence-based information presented in a clear, practical, and easy-to-understand format, with references provided throughout.

Our goal is to empower you with reliable information and practical guidance so you can make informed decisions about your health and work more effectively with your healthcare team. By bridging the fields of nutrition and medicine, we strive to help you better understand the role of nutrition in preventing disease, supporting treatment, and promoting lifelong digestive health and overall wellness.

By combining expertise in internal medicine and dietetics, we bridge the gap between nutrition and medicine. Our mission is to provide clear, evidence-based guidance that empowers you to use nutrition to prevent disease, support treatment, and improve your overall gastrointestinal health.

What is dicussed on this site?

As this website is still in its early stages, the amount of available content is currently limited. Balancing the demands of residency means new material is added gradually, but my goal is to continue expanding this resource throughout my medical career as I work toward becoming a gastroenterologist.

The site includes educational articles on gastrointestinal nutrition, documents and presentations I have developed throughout my medical training, and information about my professional background, including my personal statement and curriculum vitae. Over time, I plan to broaden the content to address additional gastrointestinal and nutrition topics based on emerging evidence and reader interest.

Best regards,

- Derek J. Scholes, MD, RDN, MDA