Understanding Food Triggered symptoms

Take control of your health by ordering your own Functional Medicine labs and getting educated on how to understand your results. My mission is to make the functional medicine approach to self healing available to as many people as possible. In this video, I discuss food triggered symptoms. My goal is to help you understand what the potential underlying root cause may be of your food related symptoms. Are these symptoms triggered by digestive imbalances, microbial imbalances or an immune response? Keeping a food journal can be really helpful to gather information and may show patterns of reactivities or help you to put your symptoms into the context of your diet and stressors. This information is ALWAYS helpful - both to you and any potential health provider you see.

When it comes to food allergies, IgE testing is always the most accurate when done through blood work (serum or blood spot cards). When it comes to food sensitivities, there is some controversy regarding how to measure this. Understanding food reactions in the gut is more complex than having just igE or igG reactions a leaky gut or not. While there certainly is a correlation between a permeable gut membrane and food reactions, there are other cells in the digestive tract that can react to food proteins - such as Peyer’s patches - part of the lymphatic system in the gut. People can develop food reactions and have no permeability issues in the lining of the gut. Even when an individual has a permeable gut membrane, they do not develop reactions to all the foods they are eating.

This is why testing can be so helpful in uncovering the root cause of symptoms. I recommend testing multiple markers simultaneously in order to obtain a more accurate picture of potential food mediated triggers. I recommend a test panel that looks at 5 markers for each food - IgE, IgG, IgG4, Complement b, Complement d. You can order your own test kit here: https://labs.rupahealth.com/store/storefront_MGRP0Dn My favorite gentle gut healing products include nutrients that have been selected which could help calm the inflammatory response and healing the lining of the GI tract. I recommend 1 scoop twice daily for two weeks (these can be mixed together in a glass of cold, filtered water) then one scoop of each once daily for 6 months.

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