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Gut Health

Step 1: Heal Your Gut

Your first priority is to restore gut balance, since gut health impacts overall health. To do that, nutrients and sometimes herbs are used to get rid of unhealthy bacteria. Then nutrients included probiotics are used to replace good gut bacteria.

This approach is based on the 5R program, which can dramatically improve gut-related symptoms:

+ Remove stressors that negatively affect your gut with an elimination diet and herbs.

+ Replace: Add back things required for proper digestion.

+ Reinoculate by replenishing good bacteria with prebiotics and probiotics.

+ Repair with nutrients like zinc, antioxidants (e.g. vitamins A, C, and E), fish oil, and L-glutamine.

+ Rebalance through lifestyle choices that impact your gut including sleep, exercise and stress management.

Among the strategies used to create gut balance included:

A low-grain elimination diet. Food sensitivities including gluten, dairy, and added sugar are eliminated while adding in plenty of whole, fresh, real foods. That helps starve off the bad bacteria and heal the symptoms. That approach alone also helps losing pounds during the first three weeks.

Nutrients to heal. As with everything, an individualized approach to nutrients is taken, but to heal a patient’s gut, L-glutamine, vitamin A, zinc, probiotics and prebiotics are often used.

Strategies to manage stress. Chronic stress makes it harder for your body to heal. To manage stress, you need to find something that works for you. That might be meditation, yoga, mindfulness or daily breath work.

Step 2: Detoxification Testing

Detoxification Testing carries a heavy toxic burden that impacts one’s immune response. To further heal your gut and reverse your autoimmune condition, detoxification systems are supported with a nutrient-dense plan that included:

+ An organic diet

+ Plenty of fiber, which helps bind to toxins and helps eliminate them

+ Cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower, which contain sulforaphane to help your body make its master antioxidant, glutathione

+ Plenty of filtered water

+ Nutrients like N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) to help with glutathione production and otherwise support the detoxification process

+ A professional-grade protein powder that includes nutrients designed to help the liver detoxify

Remember that detoxification is an ongoing duty, not something you do twice a year. Your cells are constantly detoxifying, so providing your body the right foods and nutrient support becomes crucial.

Step 3: A Sustainable Anti-Inflammatory Diet

You should focus on a diet rich in whole, fresh, anti-inflammatory foods like leafy and cruciferous vegetables, wild-caught fish and freshly ground flaxseed in the morning protein smoothie. Anti-inflammatory strategies go beyond just what you eat. Stress levels are also reduced with at least eight hours’ solid sleep every night, taking you time every day and doing yin yoga. Anti-inflammatory supplements, including curcumin and fish oil are incorporated.

What You Should Know Functional medicine provides a powerful alternative approach to autoimmune diseases, cancer and so many other problems by digging deeper and finding the underlying causes rather than blindly treating these conditions with medications or other invasive procedures. Finding and treating these underlying causes that create miserable symptoms takes some detective work and often requires a multi-faceted approach for healing. There are conditions that often overlap and patients might have several autoimmune diseases. Dysbiosis creates most of the problems and exacerbates inflammation. From that understanding, your body should be given the tools to heal your gut and then detoxify. Your maintenance plan included plenty of anti-inflammatory, detoxifying foods and nutrients.

If you’re frustrated with conventional medicine – maybe the medications you’re using create side effects or you’re not getting the results you need – we are at Wellbeing Center to help you uncover what’s causing your issue and create an individualized approach to help you heal.