Food Sensitivity Counseling
in Colwood
Investigative, relieving, and highly structured support. We use guided elimination and reintroduction to isolate hidden triggers without enforcing unnecessary dietary restrictions.
Is This You?
The Guessing Game
You are experiencing immense frustration desperately trying to figure out exactly which hidden ingredient in your diet is abruptly causing the issue.
Unexplained Swelling
You regularly struggle with deeply uncomfortable, unexplained bloating or profound brain fog intensely setting in shortly after regular meals.
The Random Flare-Up
You suffer from chronic joint stiffness and aching that seems to flare up completely randomly, completely independent of your physical activity.
Inconsistent Digestion
Your daily digestive system is wildly inconsistent, rapidly oscillating between discomfort, urgency, and feeling perfectly fine.
Systemic Inflammation & Immune Responses
Food sensitivities occur when microscopic particles of incompletely digested proteins physically pass through an irritated intestinal lining into the bloodstream. Your body's immune system mistakenly identifies these common food particles as invading threats and mounts a low-grade, highly inflammatory defense response against them. This systemic internal swelling is exactly why a specific trigger food causes not just digestive bloating, but seemingly unrelated symptoms like joint stiffness, skin irritation, and profound cognitive fatigue.
Our Assessment Approach
We use evidence-based protocols to carefully isolate the specific biochemical triggers hiding in your diet.
Guided Elimination Diets
A tightly controlled, temporary removal of the most statistically common inflammatory triggers to immediately calm the hyperactive immune response down.
Systematic Reintroduction Protocols
The meticulous, single-variable re-addition of foods over specific timelines to irrefutably pinpoint unique reactions without guessing.
The Sync Difference
As a triple-credentialed practitioner (RMT, CAT(C), RHN), we hold a distinct advantage when treating stubborn inflammation. Often, patients seek manual therapy for chronic, unyielding joint pain that simply refuses to respond to stretching or massage. By integrating Holistic Nutrition, we can definitively identify if that resilient joint pain is actually being heavily fueled by an underlying internal food sensitivity, allowing us to manage the true root cause systemically rather than just rubbing the symptom locally.
High-Value Tip You Can Try Today
Keep a Timeline-Based Food Diary: Do not just list what you ate. The critical clue is the timeline. Write down exactly *how you feel* (energy crashes, severe bloating, joint pain flare-ups) strictly 2 to 4 hours *afterward*. Sensitivities are heavily delayed biological reactions, so this specific window helps you easily spot the hidden inflammatory patterns.
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Your Practitioner
Clinical care provided by Daryl Stubbs, RMT, CAT(C) & RHN. Specializing in identifying and systemically managing deep inflammatory triggers.
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Kind Words from Our Patients
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Frequently Asked Questions
Are food sensitivities the same thing as food allergies?
No. An allergy is an immediate, potentially life-threatening immune system response (IgE). A sensitivity is typically a delayed immune or digestive reaction (IgG) that causes lingering discomfort like bloating, fatigue, or joint pain hours or days later.
Do I have to stop eating these foods forever?
Often, no. The primary goal is to isolate the trigger, remove it temporarily to allow the gut lining to structurally heal, and then systematically reintroduce it later to determine your personal threshold of tolerance.
Does an elimination diet mean I will be starving?
Absolutely not. A properly guided elimination protocol simply shifts your caloric intake away from highly reactive foods directly toward nourishing, hypoallergenic alternatives to intentionally calm systemic inflammation.