Archive for July, 2018

Suffering From Digestive Issues? Avoid The Foods Suggested By Physicians In Chapel Hill

Maintaining a healthy diet is necessary to have a good digestive system, that includes a balance and right blend of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, water, salts, vitamins, and soluble and insoluble fiber. Once you begin to distort this, your body will start alerting you with some obvious signs. Healthy food habit is essential to keep your Read More…

4 Foods that Enhance Your Metabolism and Keep Your Gut Happy!

Our body uses food to build and then breaks it down when energy is scarce to give us something to work with this is the simplified version of the processes called anabolism and catabolism respectively. When both of them are put together, what we have is our metabolism and if that works in the right Read More…

5 Everyday Foods That Keep Your Gastrointestinal Tract Healthy!

Keeping your stomach healthy should be one of the main concerns because if something goes wrong in that department, you are going to feel horrible for the rest of the day. And as human beings, all of us try to keep things healthy and free-flowing with various supplements and diet changes, just so we feel Read More…

Cologuard Technology

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3.2.15

Testing for colon cancer just got easier. If you don’t already know, Cologuard is a new competing technology for colon cancer screening that is simple and ease of use. It involves no prep, no sedation, and most importantly, its effective. What exactly is Cologuard? Cologuard is a cancer detection test. Specifically, it tests for genetic Read More…

Vernon Receives Recognition – North Carolina Gastroenterologist

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9.12.14

The practice of Kurt Vernon, MD, The GI Guy, is proud to announce that we have received a ‘Tier 1 Designation”, a high quality recognition from one of the nation’s largest health insurers – Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC.  BCBSNC Tiered Network utilizes administrative claims data to identify high quality, low cost providers and Read More…