The functional nutrition approach for blood sugar dysregulation focuses on identifying and addressing the root causes of symptoms through diet and lifestyle changes. This whole body, root cause approach is individualized based on a comprehensive functional nutrition assessment, individual symptoms, health history, and labs aiming to restore balance to the body.
What is Blood Sugar Management?
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What are the different conditions associated with blood sugar dysregulation?
- Prediabetes
- Type 1 Diabetes
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Gestational Diabetes
- Insulin Resistance
What are common symptoms associated blood sugar dysregulation?
What are root causes of blood sugar dysregulation?
Conditions that can commonly co-exist alongside -:
How can I help – using conventional and functional lab testing?
My storefront is linked here to order functional labs, which is signed off by a nationally-licensed physician, to assess for gut health issues, hormonal imbalances, or vitamin/mineral deficiencies. If you need help creating a personalized functional nutrition care plan based on the interpretation of any of the above functional labs, you can work with us here.
Functional lab testing would be a good idea if you really wanted to hone in on the specifics of gut microbiome imbalances, hormonal imbalances, vitamin/mineral deficiencies.
conventional or “standard” lab ranges vs optimal lab ranges To Assess –
Standard lab ranges represent the average population and does not necessarily refer to the optimal level to remain at the highest level of health. Optimal ranges are obtained from clinical studies and limited research so it may vary here and there.
Fasting Glucose:
- conventional lab range:
- optimal lab range:
Fasting Insulin:
- conventional lab range:
- optimal lab range:
Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c):
- conventional lab range:
- optimal lab range:
Are there any therapeutic diets used for – from a root cause approach?
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Looking at it from the STAIN framework — Stress, Toxins, Adverse Food Reactions, Infections, and Nutritional Imbalances — we aim to identify the root causes and design a personalized nutrition care plan based on your unique biochemical individuality. Biochemical individuality is the concept that each of us has a different nutrition blueprint to achieve optimal wellness. We each have our own, unique genetic expression and that is shown in a personalized nutrition care plan made just for you.
Tip: Keep a food journal so that pre and post meals you can become more in tune with your body and see how certain meals make you feel. Continuously check in with yourself to see how you are feeling, this is the type of subjective information that only you can know for yourself and make sure to share this information with the dietitian that you are working with!
Ask yourself: How do I feel after eating this specific meal? *insert symptom here* It’s helpful to have a dietitian that is able to look at your food journals so that they can decipher what specific ingredient or a combination of ingredients that may be causing these symptoms. Having a food journal is also helpful to look for any potential food reactions that may be related to -.
Are there any supplements, Probiotic strains, botanicals, or herbs that are helpful for -?
Targeted supplements, alongside a therapeutic diet using a food as medicine approach, are often used for gut microbiome support and healing. Different targeted supplements are helpful in treatment depending on the type of IBS that you have. Remember supplements are there to “supplement” or to help the main treatment which is using a food as medicine approach to healing.
Some general helpful supplements for – are:
Make sure to order from a high quality and third party tested brand instead of purchasing from Amazon where practically anyone can sell anything without any rigorous testing. To make it easier for you, you may order from my supplement dispensary below through Fullscript’s catalog where each brand and product meets strict top quality standards. You can learn more about third party testing here.
My supplement dispensary is linked here (with a 30% off discount!) and you do not need to be a client to place an order.
What are some diet and lifestyle tips that can help me during the process of healing -?
Look at sleep, diet, exercise, and stress management.
Here are some helpful tips for you to begin the process of healing -:
- Being in a state of chronic stress will elevate your blood sugar levels. Learn and implement various stress management tools into your daily life.
Gentle reminder: Don’t stress yourself with an all or nothing mentality where you feel like you have to implement everything on this list all at once. Sometimes in order to reach the end goal, you need to take baby steps at first and build these habits bit by bit.
How can I – with the help of a functional nutrition dietitian?
Each person is unique and this is recognized in a personalized functional nutrition assessment and intervention plan that engages and empowers the patient in this process to restore optimal function, manage symptoms and promote overall health and well-being.
Functional nutrition addresses the whole person, not just an isolated set of symptoms. We look at it from a root-cause perspective and create a focus on prevention through nutrition, therapeutic diets, targeted supplementation, exercise, interpretation of conventional and/or functional lab testing, botanicals, detoxification protocols, and stress management tools.
Overall from a whole body, root cause approach, to treat – using nutrition therapy we would look at using a therapeutical diet to manage – symptoms, targeted supplements aimed for healing your gut depending on the IBS subtype, and then work to rebalance the gut using the 5R Treatment Protocol linked here.
By addressing these underlying causes — through personalized approaches like evidence-based nutrition, simple lifestyle changes, and targeted supplements — functional nutrition aims to bring the body back into balance and resolve – at its root.
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