Detective work is required to find the offending food, making elimination diets and food sensitivity testing the only options for resolving root issue.
This is part 8 in “Cultivating Our Gut Microbiome to Stifle Disease”
We might be on the verge of a new medical paradigm if what scientists are discovering about the microbiome ever makes it into the doctor’s office.
In this series, “Cultivating Our Gut Microbiome to Stifle Disease,” we’ll share how the latest developments on this medical frontier are transforming our approaches to illness and offering new strategies to heal and prevent disease.
Certain gut-healing strategies have proven their worth. That’s good, since problems in the microbiome can affect everything from our risk of cancer and depression, to our daily ability to function without pain or discomfort.
Chief among these strategies are the various elimination diets that operate like the name sounds—ridding food from the diet to determine what might be causing health symptoms. What we feed the gut either supports the factors that decide our health—such as immunity, metabolism, and the production of hormones and neurotransmitters—or fans the flames of inflammation and disease.
