Nutritional Counseling

The Key Action to Healthy Digestive Wellness

There are many things we do not have control over in our lives, however we do have control over what we put in our mouths. Making wise food choices nourishes our DNA and intestinal microbiome. Healthy dense nutrients strengthen our immune system and intestinal integrity, increases our vitality, energy, muscle tone, and balances our hormones while simultaneously preventing dis-ease. This is accomplished by consuming a healthy, anti-inflammatory diet that is compatible with our blood type, our Infradian hormonal fluctuations and menopausal changes throughout our Seven Year Feminine Life Cycles.

When counseling patients, my goal is to reduce the risk of developing intestinal permeability, oxidative stress and chronic inflammation that compromises our cells, hormones, health and well-being. Oxidative stress is caused by free radicals, and by-products of metabolism that can damage the integrity of our cells. Normally, antioxidants found in the body and in some foods protect against them. The burden of oxidative stress can outweigh our bodies anti-oxidant defenses, especially following menopause. Oxidative stress can also activate our immune system. That may be helpful in the short term, but the inflammatory process that results from immune system activation can harm us. When inflammation is unnecessarily prolonged, it can lead to dis-ease. This explains why epigenetics, antibiotics and/or chronic illnesses affect our digestive tract creating auto-immune responses, repetitive occurrences of SIBO, SIFO, C’Diff, allergies, MCAS, histamine intolerance, arthritis, hormonal imbalances, diabetes, cancer or heart disease. The risk of these issues may increase with aging throughout our Feminine Seven Year Cycles. Therefore, choosing how we wish to live and die with intention is very important.