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What are Food Intolerances & Sensitivities?

Food intolerances and sensitivities occur when your digestive system struggles to process certain foods, leading to uncomfortable symptoms like bloating, gas, diarrhea, and fatigue. Unlike food allergies, which trigger an immediate immune response, intolerances often stem from underlying issues such as leaky gut, enzyme deficiencies, or imbalances in gut bacteria. Identifying and addressing these root causes is key to managing sensitivities and restoring long-term digestive health.

Our Approach to Food Intolerances & Sensitivities

At The Functional Gut Health Clinic, we take a holistic, personalized approach to addressing food intolerances by identifying the root causes and healing your gut. Our goal is to help you understand and manage your food sensitivities while restoring long-term gut health. Here’s how we do it: 

• Consultation to identify trigger foods
  We start with an in-depth consultation to understand your symptoms, dietary patterns, and health history. This helps us identify potential trigger foods, such as gluten, dairy, high-FODMAP foods, or other common culprits that may be contributing to your food sensitivities. Understanding your unique dietary patterns and symptoms is key to managing symptoms while we address root causes.

• Uncovering root causes with functional testing
  We use advanced functional lab tests to uncover any underlying causes for your food intolerances. These may include conditions like leaky gut, enzyme deficiencies, imbalances in gut bacteria or the presence of gut pathogens like parasites. 

• Gut healing and digestive support
  Once we know what’s driving your food sensitivities, we focus on healing your gut and reducing sensitivity. This includes targeted interventions such as digestive enzymes to aid digestion, pre- and probiotics to restore the gut microbiome, antimicrobial herbs if needed and gut-healing nutrients like L-glutamine to repair the gut lining. Healing the gut reduces inflammation and helps to restore proper digestion, preventing future intolerances from developing.

• Long-term management and lifestyle support
  Our work doesn’t end with identifying and managing current food intolerances. We provide ongoing guidance on maintaining a healthy gut, managing stress, and making dietary and lifestyle adjustments to prevent future intolerances. This holistic strategy helps support long-term gut health, empowering you to enjoy a more balanced diet. 

Our team combines cutting-edge testing with personalized protocols to tackle both food triggers and underlying gut issues. By addressing the root causes, we help you regain control of your diet, gut health, and overall well-being.

Common Questions about H. pylori

What are the symptoms of food intolerances?

Common symptoms include bloating, gas, fatigue, diarrhea, constipation, and brain fog. These symptoms typically occur a few hours after consuming a trigger food and can last for days.

How do I know if I have food intolerances?

Food intolerances can be identified through an elimination diet or functional testing. Symptoms often appear after eating certain foods, but testing can help identify which foods are causing the problem.

Can food intolerances be cured?

While food intolerances may not always be “cured,” managing them by healing the gut and eliminating or reducing trigger foods can significantly reduce symptoms and improve your quality of life.

What are the most common trigger foods?

The most common trigger foods for food intolerances and sensitivities we see in our clinic include gluten, dairy, eggs and high-FODMAP foods.

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Our team of gut health specialists

At The Functional Gut Health Clinic, our team of specialists is dedicated to helping clients overcome food intolerances and sensitivities. Using advanced functional testing and personalized natural protocols, we focus on identifying both the food triggers and the underlying root causes of food intolerances and sensitivities. Our approach ensures that you receive the support needed to regain control of your diet, gut health and overall well-being.

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