The Vicious Cycle of Food Sensitivities
Eliminating inflammatory triggers is the subject of part 3 in my mini-series on “How to Have Better Digestion Starting NOW!”. We will take a look at food sensitivities and their role in wreaking havoc in the digestive system.
Quite easily the best piece of advice I can give anyone wanting to improve their digestive health is to test for food sensitivities. Because even once you’re doing the best you can with the practices outlined in parts one and two of this series, such as eating a balanced diet incorporating all of the colors of the rainbow, eating organic as much as possible, avoiding foods and practices damaging to the gut lining (part 1), and tending to your microbiome to the best of your ability (part 2), there will still be damage to the gut wall that needs to be de-inflamed and repaired.
In fact, I’ve worked with quite a few people who were eating so perfectly in order to get well, but until they addressed their food sensitivities, they did not get the results they were working so hard for.
The reason is because when you have developed a sensitivity to a food—even a “good-for-you” food such as asparagus—every time you eat it, it will cause an inflammatory response somewhere in your body. Therefore, many very “good-for-you” foods can continue to damage the gut lining or some other tissue in the body, simply slowing progress in the best case scenario, but continuing the downward spiral in the worst. This vicious cycle of food sensitivity → inflammation in the gut → more food sensitivities can be stopped by testing for, and attending to, the food sensitivities.
Food sensitivities can wreak havoc anywhere in the body, but one of the most noticeable is in the gut. You see, food sensitivities cause inflammation, and when that inflammation is in the gut, you will sure know it!
Inflammation in the gut can express itself in many ways, and some people have more than one of the symptoms. It can be heartburn or nausea. It can be diarrhea or constipation. It can even be excessive burping, belching, bloating, or flatulence. Even cyclic vomiting can be related to inflammation caused by food sensitivities.
While some of these symptoms can be caused by other things, such as heartburn could be due to low stomach acid and bloating could be due to small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, you can bet that inflammation is still part of the picture. Even if inflammation is not the primary cause of the symptom, lowering inflammation by testing for food sensitivities and doing a protocol to address them is often all that is necessary to reduce the body’s overall inflammatory load so that it is freed up to tackle the primary problem. I see this happen all the time in my practice.
When someone comes to me with a digestive issue, MRT food sensitivity testing is very likely to be one of the first things that I do. I use this test because it has the best scientific and technological backing, making it the most accurate test. It is also the test that I get the most stellar results with, so why would I go with anything else? I guide people through a proven food protocol based on their MRT test results, and I see really good improvement time after time after time.
Here’s a fun video I did with my friend and colleague Monica Satterwhite who had the best diet of anyone I know; she had tried the Autoimmune protocol and eating low FODMAP, and had done every food sensitivity test out there. Yet she was not improving.
I could give you story after story, but Debbie’s is typical. In fact, I’m working with another Debbie right now, and her story is almost identical. Both Debbies had had incapacitating diarrhea for many years. They had seen several doctors and GI specialists. They had been prescribed VERY inexpensive medications that didn’t work. And they were both at their wit’s end when they came to me. Listen to the first Debbie as she describes it to you.
Would you like to do the MRT? It’s part of my The Better Digestion Blueprint Program and you can read more about it and fill out an application here.