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Weight Struggles / Weight Loss Resistance
We also must detoxify at the cellular level. Why? Because your body hangs on to FAT as a buffer against toxins. It's a defense mechanism.
Patients often ask what's the best way to lose weight / what's the best weight loss program out there?
The answer is simple, that one that is CUSTOM, and involves some form of food / nutrient testing.
Most people have it backwards, they think if I lose weight, I will get well......
Weightloss is often the symptom of you getting well, from the inside out, so first we focus on you getting well.
The ketogenic diet is great for some people and a nightmare for others. Why? Because many patients react to some of the common foods used! The ketogenic diet relies heavily on higher fat...cheeses...dairy...eggs etc. If somebody is sensitive to any of these foods, the ketogenic diet can do more harm than good.
Paleo is great, but what if somebody reacts to various fruits and vegetables?
So again, MODIFYING things is the key to a successful program. We don't believe in one size fits all!
Digestive Problems / IBS / Leaky Gut
A lot of digestive issues come from eating the wrong foods.
Some of these foods are even considered "health foods"
Food sensitivities, intolerances, allergies etc.
Leaky gut is also a HUGE epidemic. In your digestive tract there should be tight junctions. Because of toxins, inflammation, and a variety of other factors...these junctions open up. This allows bacteria, proteins, and other foreign particles to leaky into the blood stream.
Then what happens?
You get a MASSIVE immune response and immune reaction. This also creates a huge inflammatory affect. Basically your immune system is working overtime to put out all the fires of the "foreign invaders"! We believe leaky gut is a huge culprit in the autoimmune explosion in recent years. When you consistently stress your immune system...eventually it turns on itself. Now you have 50 million Americans suffering and 140 "labels" of an autoimmune condition. This starts in the GUT!!
ADHD
Research has shown a link to food sensitivities and kids who struggle with ADHD! When we remove the foods that are harming the child's digestive system and immune system they begin to FUNCTION better. Research has shown a link to ADHD and digestive challenges which is why food testing is so critical. There is a "gut brain axis" that needs to be addressed.
We also must address toxicities with ADHD kids. There are a variety of factors but when attempting to improve overall function...we need to look at artificial colors, dyes, preservatives etc. Gluten can also play a role. Vitamin deficiencies can also be a factor which is why we TEST!
Low Thyroid / Hashimoto's
It’s been estimated that 20 million Americans struggle with low thyroid and another 10 million have gone undiagnosed. 90% of low thyroid is a condition called Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. This is actually an AUTOIMMUNE condition! IT’S NOT EVEN A THYROID ISSUE!! If it's an immune system issue, wouldn't it make sense to test HOW your immune system reacts to foods?
Food Sensitivity / Food Allergy Testing
Food Sensitivity / Food Allergy Testing
A food sensitivity or a food intolerance is caused by an inability to digest a food and occurs in the digestive tract and not the bloodstream, like a food allergy. Symptoms are “delayed onset”, where symptoms do not appear for hours or even days. Food sensitivities are not fixed, and can come and go during the course of one’s life.
Strangely, people often crave foods to which they are sensitive to. Some researchers suggest that our bodies can become addicted to the chemical messengers.
Messengers such as histamine or cortisol, which are secreted by immune cells in response to allergens in the body. The body may experience a soothing response from the presence of the chemical messengers, increasing the desire to eat more of that food.
Note that food sensitivities and allergies can change every year. Just because you’re diagnosed with a food sensitivity or allergy one year does not mean it will hold true for the rest of your life. This is why we encourage people to get tested at least once a year.
Food Sensitivity VS Food Allergy
Food Allergy:
A food allergy is an exaggerated immune response triggered by eggs, peanuts, milk, or some other specific food. With a true food allergy the IgE portion of the immune system is being triggered. This is the IMMEDIATE reaction. A patient might eat strawberries and get an immediate rash on their face. The reaction is so fast that testing is not needed because it's easy to determine the "culprit".
Food Sensitivity / Intolerance:
Food intolerance or non-allergic food hypersensitivity is a term used widely for varied physiological responses associated with a particular food, or compound found in a range of foods. This is the IgG portion of the immune system. It’s important to recognize the difference.
We are testing for the DELAYED sensitivity response…not the immediate response. We’re testing the 10-12 hour...sometimes up to 72 hour immune response that patients cannot figure out on their own! The time frame is simply too much to do any sort of elimination diet which is why it's important to objectively test.
Here is a sample report. We test roughly 100 foods to determine exactly how you react!
What Causes A Food Sensitivity?
Too much of one food. You can become sensitive to any food you eat too often. Many people eat a relatively small number of foods several times a day. For example, wheat, a common food sensitivity, is found in breakfast cereals, the bread used to make a sandwich at lunchtime, and the spaghetti eaten at dinnertime.
Leaky gut syndrome. The digestive tract plays a vital role in preventing illness and disease by providing an impenetrable barrier. When the lining of the gut is inflamed from a food sensitivity, small openings develop between the tightly woven cells making up the gut walls. This is called “leaky gut syndrome". With leaky gut syndrome, partially digested dietary protein can cross the intestinal barrier into the bloodstream. These large protein molecules can cause an allergic response, producing symptoms directly in the intestines or throughout the body. Additionally, hundreds of yeast and bacteria are released from the gut into the bloodstream where they set up infection anywhere, including muscles, joints, bones, teeth roots, coronary arteries, or even the brain. The early introduction of solid foods to infants before six months of age contributes to leaky gut syndrome and subsequent food allergies and sensitivities.
Deficiency of Probiotics. One of the causes of leaky gut is an absence of probiotics or ‘friendly’ bacteria in the intestines. The friendly bacteria help maintain the health of the intestines by producing fuel for intestinal cells and killing bad bacteria. Parasitic infections, treatment with antibiotics and other toxic pharmaceuticals, stress, poor diet (sugar and flour), smoking, alcohol, excessive hygiene, candida overgrowth and bottle-feeding your baby can disrupt the proper balance of friendly bacteria to bad bacteria.
Over-worked immune system. Constant stress, exposure to air and water pollution, and pesticides and chemicals in our food puts a strain on our immune system, making it less able to respond appropriately to the antigens in food.
Genetics. Food allergies and intolerances seem to be hereditary. Research indicates that if both parents have allergies, their children have a sixty-seven percent chance of developing food allergies. When only one parent is allergic, the child has a 33% chance of developing food allergies. Specifically, a person may inherit a deficiency of an enzyme like lactase, the enzyme that digests dairy. With nightshade sensitivities, there are ten genetic variants for susceptibility, not all individuals are affected equally or at all. A similar case can be made for other food sensitivities. Genetic variations predict the severity of your sensitivity.
Nutrient Deficiency Testing
While maintaining a balanced diet and taking multivitamins are great ways to be healthier, they’re not enough to achieve OPTIMAL nutritional balance. You are NOT what you eat, you are what you ABSORB and we're finding more and more people with GI challenges (IBS, leaky gut, Crohn's, gluten intolerance etc.) that aren't absorbing the key nutrients needed for optimal health.
With our nutrient deficiency test, we can accurately and OBJECTIVELY assess what YOUR body needs, and what your diet is failing to provide. Everybody has different nutritional needs and we encourage patients NOT to guess with their health.
Deficiency testing identifies these "shortages" so we can work to compensate for them, either by making changes in your diet or by taking nutritional supplements.
By testing for nutrient deficiencies we can help you design a personalized plan for maintaining your overall health and increasing your level of wellness or finding an underlying ROOT CAUSE that's causing a health challenge.
Our nutrient deficiency testing looks at 34 different vitamins & nutrients.
Do You Have Cravings?
Cravings generally point to a nutrient deficiency! For example, if you crave SWEETS! This is typically a B-Vitamin deficiency. If you crave SALT...Zinc. If you crave CHOCOLATE...Magnesium!
However, cravings also happen during dips in your blood sugar!
Remember, the Standard American Diet (SAD) is very processed, inflammatory, & toxic! Too much sugar and too many things to turn to sugar!
When you consume that sub sandwich for lunch...or pasta etc...this spikes your blood sugar, followed by the crash! It's during the crash where you crave more carbs / sweets / SOMETHING to get you through the day!
Sound familiar?
But what happens to the excess carbs? Well, if you're not strenuously exercising daily to burn it off...it GETS STORED AS FAT!!
Where?
Tummy, hips, thighs, triceps, & face!
This is where your body abnormally stores fat!
So we need to shift you OUT of the standard way of doing things.
What's The Next Step?
Dr. Matthew Herba
Dr Matthew Herba is the Founder of the Fasting Academy, Project DeStress, and is a national board certified chiropractic physician that has been featured on CBS, NBC, ABC, and News Channel 13 for his wellness work with the 2012 Olympic Teams.
He graduated from the prestigious Parker University in 2004. Since then he has been in private practice. His true passion is helping patients achieve their optimal health potential through proper nutrition, optimized metabolic testing, supplementation and corrective chiropractic care.
Thousands of people all over the Central Florida and The Greater Boston area have Been helped with their health because of his unique approach to finding the underlying cause of their health problems. If you're already getting great results in your health, or you are struggling to get to the root cause of your problems, we might be able to help.
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Frequently Asked Questions:
Where Is Your Clinic Located?
We are 100% virtual. The beautiful thing about functional medicine and our functional weight loss approach is that it can be done from ANYWHERE! After our initial free phone consultation (to determine if our protocol makes sense for you) we'll provide you with test kits so TOGETHER we can customize a safe, natural, & highly effective protocol based on YOUR individual needs.
Are Your Treatments Safe?
ABSOLUTELY! Our protocols are extremely healthy and there is nothing like it. There are very few doctors that will to objective functional testing and works towards finding the ROOT CAUSE of the health challenge. Most simply give a med / chemical cover up.
Will I Have To Swallow A Lot Of Pills?
We will provide recommendations based on where you're nutrient deficient / depleted. Again, this is based on the testing that is performed. We'll give you supplement recommendations as well as give you food recommendations to eat more of that are abundant in the nutrients where you're depleted.
Does Insurance Pay For Functional Medicine?
Unfortunately no insurance company pays for functional medicine. However, if you're MOTIVATED we'll work with you. Our protocols are very affordable and keep in mind that we've never turned anybody away because of finances.
Do You Provide Support / Accountability?
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