Is Food Making You Sick?

Food as Medicine

Have you heard, you are what you eat?  The food we eat contains hundreds of macronutrients.  However, not every food is right for everyone.  As a certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, I can help you find out which foods are best for you and which foods can cause unwanted reactions. 

Good Food Choices

• Choose organic and non-GMO whenever possible.

• ·Drink plenty of filtered water, water helps flush out toxins from your body and hydrates cells.

• Eat the rainbow, fruits or vegetables with every meal.  The diverse colors contain rich vitamins and phytonutrients.

• When buying meat and eggs choose organic, free range and grass fed.

• ·Choose healthy fats like avocado, butter, ghee, olive oil

• Raw nuts like peanuts, sunflower, pumpkin and chia seeds.

Foods to Avoid

• Processed sugar and artificial sugar substitutes

• Processed foods

• Alcohol and caffeine

A good general rule is to shop the exterior of the store, fresh produce, meat department and refrigerated section.  The center aisles contain many processed foods.

Healthy foods are good to eat, but not all healthy foods are right for your body.  This may be a forever inconvenience because of your genes or a temporary one because it is causing inflammation in your gut.

Food and your Health

While it is important to eat the correct food ratios for your genetic makeup.  Tt is also important to understand how illnesses can result in a cascade of dysfunction in the digestive, hormonal, detoxification, immune, neurological, and energy systems.  These dysfunctions can greatly dictate foods you need to avoid.

Inflammation is often the body’s response to food we eat.  Your intestines can become inflamed much like a swollen ankle or wrist.  The is because with leaky gut, food is not broken down or digested properly, large food particles enter the bloodstream, and the body tags them as invaders and mounts an attack.   Antibodies and inflammatory cytokines create inflammation.

Functional labs help determine food sensitivities and the causes of leaky gut.  As a certified FDN-P I can help guide you through changing your life.  I look forward to speaking with you about how I can help you on your personal health journey.