Heal your gut.
Heal your life.
I'm Dr. Alexandra Shustina — a board-certified gastroenterologist specializing in the gut-brain connection and integrative digestive health. For over a decade I've helped patients move beyond symptom management to lasting, root-cause recovery.
A physician who listens to the whole of you.
Dr. Alexandra Shustina is a board-certified gastroenterologist, holistic doctor, and gut health expert specializing in chronic digestive disorders, inflammation, microbiome health, and root-cause healing.
After years of practicing conventional gastroenterology, she saw patients continuing to struggle despite medications, restrictive diets, extensive testing, or standardized functional medicine protocols. That led her to develop a broader, more personalized approach — identifying the deeper physiologic, microbiome, nervous system, and lifestyle factors driving chronic illness.
Through The Whole Gut Health Method™, Dr. Shustina combines evidence-based gastroenterology with the gut–brain connection, microbiome health, neuroplasticity, nervous system regulation, and mind–body healing — helping patients move beyond temporary symptom management toward more meaningful, lasting healing.
When symptoms persist despite “normal” answers.
Many patients come to Whole Gut Health after years of persistent symptoms despite medications, restrictive diets, extensive testing, or standardized functional medicine protocols.
Others feel frustrated after being told their labs and imaging are “normal” despite ongoing digestive symptoms, inflammation, fatigue, anxiety, bloating, reflux, or autoimmune issues.
At Whole Gut Health, we look beyond symptom management alone to understand the deeper relationship between the gut, microbiome, nervous system, stress physiology, nutrition, emotional health, inflammation, lifestyle, and the body’s healing capacity.
A more comprehensive path to healing.
An individualized approach that integrates gastroenterology, microbiome science, nervous-system regulation, mind–body medicine, nutrition, and root-cause healing — built around the unique factors driving each patient’s condition.
Root-cause care for complex gut conditions.
Dr. Shustina treats a spectrum of digestive and systemic conditions where conventional medicine has plateaued — combining rigorous diagnostics with integrative protocols to resolve what others manage.
The body, treated as one interconnected system.
Whole Gut Health bridges modern gastroenterology with integrative, holistic, and root-cause approaches to digestive health.
Healing is approached through the understanding that the gut, microbiome, nervous system, inflammation, emotional health, stress physiology, nutrition, sleep, and lifestyle are deeply interconnected.
By addressing the body as an integrated system rather than isolated symptoms alone, patients are able to move toward more meaningful and lasting healing.
Top 5 Ways to
Heal Your Gut.
Easy-to-follow tips and practical insights from Dr. Alexandra Shustina on supporting your gut health through diet, mindfulness, hydration, sleep, and exercise.
- Simple, effective strategies you can start today
- Expert insights from a board-certified gastroenterologist
- Science-backed, gentle on the body
Keep learning between visits.
Explore podcast episodes, guided meditations, articles, and educational resources focused on gut health, microbiome science, IBS, SIBO, nervous-system regulation, stress physiology, inflammation, and long-term healing.
Podcast
Long-form conversations on gut health, microbiome science, nervous-system regulation, and the deeper drivers of chronic symptoms.
Articles &
Resources
Practical writing, guided meditations, and educational resources for living and healing with chronic digestive conditions.
The body remembers when it's finally heard.
Dr. Shustina is an incredibly knowledgeable doctor who truly takes time to find root cause.
Dr. Shustina goes to the root level of the issue, not only superficial, so there's healing.
She has significantly improved my health. I was suffering from Ulcerative Colitis and now live normally.
Dr. Shustina has helped me change my lifestyle and heal my gut in a way I thought impossible.
She listens to patients and treats conditions, not symptoms.
Dr. Shustina is the best doctor I have ever been to. She assesses the root of the problem.
She is an outstanding doctor who understands the body's ability to heal itself and holistic remedies.
Dr. Shustina has a wealth of knowledge and is helping me heal years of gastrointestinal issues.
Dr. Shustina is an amazing doctor. She diagnosed my cancer early and saved my life.
After one session with Dr. Shustina, my digestive pain went away.
Doctor Shustina is the absolute best. She has helped me resolve numerous issues other doctors dismissed.
Dr. Shustina is a fantastic doctor who truly cares. Her holistic approach attacks the root cause.
Your first consultation begins with a conversation.
Ninety minutes. Your full history, a review of your medical records, and the plan forward. New patients are being accepted in person and via telehealth.
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