Dr. Liz Cruz was named Top Gastroenterologist in 2019. She is a Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Gastroenterology. Dr. Cruz is a member of the American Gastroenterological Association, American College of Gastroenterology, and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. In 2014, she received the Quilly Award from the National Academy of Best-Selling Authors® for her Best-Selling Book “Answering the Call".
Dr. Cruz began her formal career in medicine by attending Loma Linda University School of Medicine in California. Graduating in 1993, she went on to do her Internal Medicine Internship under the auspices of the U.S. Navy at the Naval Hospital, Oakland, California. In 1996, she was deployed to Guam to fulfill her commitment to the U.S. Navy. While in Guam, she served as a Staff Internist at the U.S. Naval Hospital. During her active-duty years in the Navy, she received the Meritorious Unit Commendation Medal as well as the Humanitarian Service Medal and the National Defense Medal for service during Operation Desert Storm.
In 2000, she went back to the University of California, San Francisco where she completed her training in Gastroenterology (GI). Dr. Liz Cruz has owned her outpatient gastroenterology practice, Dr. Liz Cruz Partners in Digestive Health since 2007. She is an author, and the creator of Everyday Enzymes™, as well as a variety of other wellness products designed to promote all-natural, holistic wellness. Cruz’s products have received critical acclaim and are widely praised for effectively reducing the need for prescription medicine. Dr. Cruz hosts her very own podcast, “Digest This” featuring hundreds of episodes with thousands of listeners.
Dr. Cruz speaks fluent Spanish and enjoys her family, traveling, jazz music, and photography.
More than two thirds of Americans are living with digestive issues. The effects of gas, bloating, acid reflux, constipation and diarrhea are felt by millions.
Doctor’s offices and hospitals are filled to the brim with patients searching for answers. Digestive disease is an epidemic — an epidemic that modern medicine cannot fix.
Trillions of dollars are spent on over-the-counter and prescription meds, tests, procedures, and surgeries. Doctors and patients spend countless hours trying to put an end to digestive disease. Despite this, patients continue to get sicker and sicker.
The current gastroenterology model is broken. As doctors, we are taught to diagnose symptoms. The diagnosis may be IBS, GERD, Barrett’s Esophagus, Fatty Liver. It could be prostate cancer, Alzheimer’s, depression, or fibromyalgia. Once a diagnosis is made, next comes a drug, a test, or a procedure to address the diagnosis. The problem is that this type of medicine doesn’t work.
Once a diagnosis is made, it is easier to practice medicine, because the treatment plan is set. But most of the time, this plan is simply a band aid, it doesn’t address the CAUSE of the signs and symptoms. When the cause is not identified and reversed, healing can never happen.
I became a gastroenterologist because I wanted to help people. I wanted to be a missionary doctor and go to foreign countries. What I quickly realized was that my mission was right here in my own backyard. After ten years of medical training, I started my own practice. I was seeing patients day in and day out, who were coming in with all sorts of digestive issues, gas, bloating, diarrhea, constipation, IBS, acid reflux, indigestion, being overweight, tired, no energy, they just don’t feel good. In fact, they felt horrible. They felt like they had no life.
I prescribed medicines like candy and they still came back with the same symptoms. Soon even younger people were coming in with the same issues that their parents and their grandparents were having. They were tired and had no energy, and they thought it was normal because all of their family and friends felt the same way. I knew I was missing something, I knew something was not right.
When I started on this journey to natural medicine, all I knew was what I learned in medical school, in my internal medicine residency, and in my gastroenterology fellowship training. I learned how to prescribe medications so well I could do it in my sleep. I learned how to do an amazing colonoscopy and upper endoscopy. Little did I know that there was more to it than just prescribing medications and doing procedures.
I remember the day in 2008, when I approached Tina (my wife and Office Manager). I told her, I need help, I have to figure out why my patients are so sick and not getting better. I remember her face as she looked at me and said, I don’t know you’re the doctor you tell me.
That’s the day we started our journey to discover the truth. I wanted so badly to help my patients, help anyone that was coming to me, people just like you. I wanted to do more than just a bunch of procedures and prescribe drugs and medicines. I truly wanted to help people get well. Tina became so passionate about what we were learning she became certified in holistic nutrition and today she is by my side as we transform lives one person at a time.
This is my powerful story that is filled with passion and commitment. It’s the same passion and commitment that has gotten me to where I am today. We are changing people’s lives with what we are doing here. From the launch of our 4-step system we have changed so many people’s lives.
People are feeling better, they are calling us and coming to the office crying because they can’t remember the last time they felt so good. Their digestive issues are a thing of the past. They haven’t slept so well in years. Their aches and pains are gone. They can’t even remember having this much energy. They feel amazing!!! That’s why you’re reading this right now, because we want to help you feel amazing too! Are you ready?
