If you’ve been told you have a “motility issue” … slow digestion, rapid transit, gastroparesis, IBS, constipation… I want you to know this:

Gut motility is a symptom.

It is not the root cause of your digestive problem. So let’s talk about why it’s not, and what really is the problem.

Gut motility refers to the movement of food through your digestive tract.

When it’s too slow, you may feel bloated, constipated, or sluggish.

When it’s too fast, you might have diarrhea, urgency, or cramping.

Doctors often do a motility study, tell you that things are moving too fast or too slow, which is often already obvious, and then label this as a motility disorder.

Then they hand you a medication to either speed things up or slow things down…

And send you on your way.

But here’s the truth:

Treating gut motility as the cause is like blaming the fire alarm instead of finding the fire.

Your body is intelligent. It doesn’t just randomly forget how to move food through your system.

When your gut slows down or speeds up, it’s responding to something.

Something deeper. Something driving the dysfunction.

It could be chronic inflammation.

It could be food sensitivities—ones that tests often miss.

It could be an overgrowth of candida or bad bacteria throwing your microbiome into chaos.

Or even stress—deep, chronic stress—impacting your nervous system and gut-brain connection.

All of these can interfere with motility.

“You’re not crazy for wondering about this. Other people are searching too. And we’re here to help.”

So if you’ve been told, “It’s just a motility issue”…

If you’re taking prokinetics, laxatives, anti-diarrheal, or antispasmodics like dicyclomine just to make it through the day…

And you still feel like something’s off—

You’re not wrong.

You’re not crazy.

And you’re definitely not alone.

I’ve worked with thousands of patients just like you.

People who were told their motility was the problem—

But once we uncovered the root cause—

Whether it was food, yeast, gut flora, or nervous system imbalance, to name a few—

Their motility normalized.

Not because we forced it with medication…

But because we healed the reason it went wrong in the first place.

Then you’ve already taken the first step: You’re looking deeper. And I want you to know that you are right. There is always a cause.

If you’re tired of treating symptoms and want to heal your gut from the inside out—

don’t give up. You can find the why behind your motility issue.

And you deserve more than a label.

You deserve your life back.

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