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Anyone who has struggled with a chronic health condition like diabetes, lactose intolerance or irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) knows that treatment options are a real mixed bag, especially when they come from your doctor. Well-meaning primary care physicians frequently prescribe drugs whose side effects aren’t much better than the condition they’re treating. But there are options.

Most physicians these days are locked into a Western medical tradition that takes care of its own. That means the big pharmaceutical companies provide samples and other perks to doctor’s offices and the doctors return the favor by prescribing the drugs. That’s why your primary care physician is unlikely to mention high quality products like Florastor probiotics that can make a big difference for people with gut ailments.

Vitamin and nutritional supplements like the kind made by Xymogen products are rigorously tested and FDA approved, but they exist outside of the medical mainstream. Their sales directors don’t take doctors out on golf trips or elaborate lunches, so you might not be familiar with them. But that doesn’t mean they don’t work.

Supplements are another tool that patients can use to help ease the symptoms of chronic ailments without using expensive prescription drugs with questionable side effects.