I do want to point out that there is a time and place for elimination diet when used appropriately, and this is best done with professional supervision.
Using an elimination diet is often what we do to identify food sensitivities.
A carefully crafted, short term elimination diet can be helpful to identify triggering foods. If you’re trying an elimination diet to ID food triggers, that should only be a 21-30 day experiment, while you are addressing your impaired gut health. Once your gut is back in shape, you should be able to eat those foods again. And we do want the diet as broad and inclusive as possible.
I can’t stress this enough, food sensitivities mean you have impaired gut health. You need to restore your gut health, NOT keep those foods out forever.
Food sensitivities are not a root cause of your symptoms and health problems. They are a symptom of impaired gut health.
Here’s the deal with food sensitivities.
Impaired gut health leads to inflammation in the gut, which leads to leaky gut.
The inflammation causes the lining of your gut to become permeable. Food particles and toxins from your gut escape into your bloodstream. They are not supposed to be there. Your body mounts an immune response as it should because the food particles and toxins aren’t supposed to be in your bloodstream, and you develop food sensitivities, digestive symptoms, skin rashes, chronic fatigue, autoimmune disease, joint aches and pains, and a VERY wide range of symptoms and health problems.
Notice that many of these issues don’t involve gut symptoms at all.
This is also why it doesn’t matter what you eat or how healthy it is. Those food particles are still getting into your bloodstream, causing reactions.
Even if you remove your main trigger foods (which are those you eat most often), over time, you’ll become sensitive to more and more foods because you still have impaired gut health, and your diet will become even more limited and nutrient poor, creating more stress, food phobias and worsening of your symptoms and health problems.
If you are on an elimination diet, have tried an elimination diet, are interested in trying one, or if you are interested in further exploring your gut health to address the root cause of why you have food sensitivities in the first place, I'm here to give you the guidance you need, and to make sure your body gets the nourishment it needs.
For questions, or if you’re ready to get started with next steps on your health journey to nourish your body and beat your symptoms and health problems, book your introductory consultation with me!
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