A growing message in gastroenterology is that nutrition should no longer be treated as an “adjunct” to care, but as a core clinical intervention.
In a Medscape commentary, gastroenterologist Alicia Muratore, MD, argues that GI specialists already use nutrition therapeutically across conditions like IBD, IBS, MASLD, celiac disease, and gastroparesis—but often fail to fully integrate or “own” those discussions in practice. She highlights growing evidence supporting nutrition-based interventions, including weight loss reversing fibrosis in MASLD and exclusive enteral nutrition matching steroids in pediatric Crohn’s disease.