By fully assessing the underlying causes and triggers of potential dysfunction, we are able to understand how your body is affected by each of these things. This helps us understand how your body rids itself of toxins, regulates hormones, and how your immune system is affected. 

 

 

One of the basic principles of functional medicine is identifying aspects of your environment that could be contributing negatively toward your health.  Although some of those factors can be hard to control, we all can certainly control what we eat.  But what if what we eat – even if “healthy – is causing negative symptoms.  One way this is determined is with a structured elimination diet program.

 

The Elimination and “Detoxification” Diet ~ It's about Feeling Good!

 

What is the Elimination Diet? It is a program of eating designed to calm inflammation and balance the body. Once the body is calm, and the disease symptoms diminish, it becomes noticeable to a person when a “trouble” food is eaten and the symptoms come back.

If you have felt sluggish, had chronic health complaints, or just not felt quite right then an elimination diet is a useful tool that may help bring you to that optimal state of health you desire. Yes the elimination diet can result in, on average, a 10 to 15 pound weight loss, but it is not a weight loss diet.  More importantly, it promotes healing at the cellular level by identifying foods that are causing an immune reaction.

 

The main focus of the Elimination Diet is on getting the gluten, dairy, eggs, corn, and soy out of your diet for at least 3-4 weeks. Doing this, along with eating a diet high in plant fiber, calms inflammation and gives your body a break. Other foods that might be problematic for some are citrus, nightshade vegetables, and certain nuts. These foods are removed in the first phase and are slowly added back in one by one to note any negative reaction.

 

An Elimination Diet can useful in treating the following health conditions:

 

• Fibromyalgia

• Chronic fatigue syndrome

• Psoriasis

• Arthritis

• Asthma

• Eczema

• Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

• Chronic Migraines

• Acid Reflux / GERD

• Anxiety and Depression

• Constipation / Diarrhea

• Sinus problems

• Weight loss / Weight gain

• Infertility

 

Contact us today for more information or to enroll in a medically-supervised elimination and re-introduction challenge dietary counseling program.