You probably already know there’s a relationship between leaky gut syndrome and autoimmunity. But you may not know what leaky gut is. Leaky gut is not something leaking out of your gut, it is something leaking in to your blood, through your gut.
Leaky gut treatment
You’ve likely been told that you don’t have celiac disease (an autoimmune disease), and to stop worrying about gluten. If that’s true you have been dissuaded from finding the right path to feeling healthy again. Well-meaning doctors may not know about detecting, or treating leaky gut. There’s no pharmaceutical leaky gut treatment, whether it manifests as autoimmunity or not.
Autoimmunity treatment
Doctors who mean well, but know little about autoimmunity may say foods don’t affect your symptoms. That’s Nonsense. What you eat may be affecting your symptoms. Gluten reactivity or cross-reactivity is still possible, even without a celiac disease diagnosis. Autoimmune treatment requires evaluation of this factor.
Autoimmune triggers
What are some autoimmune triggers in the diet? Do you eat processed meat, processed chicken, or processed fish? Examples are chicken nuggets, fish sticks, and imitation crab. You may feel worse within a few days of eating those things, but food reactions may be delayed. Sometimes it takes up to 8 days to see how you feel.
Do you have unpredictable food reactions? Unpredictable abdominal swelling and bloating, especially after eating? Increasing frequency of food sensitivity? Aches, pains, or swelling throughout your body? If some of your answers are yes, then your body’s reaction to food is important. For effective autoimmunity treatment we have to correctly assess if you have leaky gut (leaky gut syndrome). If leaky gut is present, we take the correct actions to help you. This is not a time for a do-it-yourself strategy. There are many aspects to leaky gut.
Blood tests to check for autoimmunity, leaky gut and food sensitivity
There are relatively new blood tests to check for autoimmunity, leaky gut and food sensitivity. We can order them for you when you are under our care. Cyrex Labs is still considered relatively new, so there is no insurance coverage to reimburse you for the costs. But this is ok. If insurance were to ever get between you and these tests, it would probably triple the cost.
Your doctors may not know anything about blood tests from Cyrex Labs. Doctors would only know about these newer lab tests if they study leading-edge scientific literature about autoimmunity (not common).
Non-Lab guidance for integrative autoimmunity treatment and leaky gut treatment
It may take decades before medical practice catches-up with the scientific forefront. That means the research being published today won’t reach medical practice for many years. However, you don’t have to wait. We use nutrition response testing—time-tested, non-invasive, in-office tests—for deeper insight to the most helpful strategy for healing. It is an additional way to know more about the nature of your autoimmunity. Integrative autoimmune treatment methods use no drugs, and nothing harmful. We only use health promoting methods.
Autoimmunity is not the same as autoimmune disease
Autoimmunity does not have enough tissue destruction to call it autoimmune disease. No prescriptions are available for autoimmunity treatment. Medications may suppress symptoms, but your underlying condition remains the same.
That’s not our limitation with functional medicine, integrative treatments, and dietary choices. We don’t rely on symptom-numbing drugs to help you.
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Allow yourself to take action today. This is your wake-up call. You don’t have to wait to avert autoimmune and leaky gut complications. We can even start without blood tests. Prevent disease and take control over your health. Contact us!