A Simple Diet Experiment That May Solve Most Of Your Health Issues with Lisa Dreher

Aug 24, 2020

In this discussion, Lisa Dreher, a registered dietitian from The UltraWellness Center, shares her insights on elimination diets as tools for identifying food sensitivities linked to various health issues. They address how foods like gluten and dairy can affect well-being, explore the crucial gut connection, and highlight transformative cases, including one involving mental health struggles. Lisa emphasizes the importance of community support during dietary changes and advocates for personalized nutrition to promote overall wellness.

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INSIGHT

Food's Complex Impact

Food can affect our health in complex ways beyond simple "good" vs. "bad" categories.
This involves understanding individual sensitivities and how food interacts with our biology to create inflammation and chronic symptoms.

INSIGHT

Allergy Basics

Allergies are immediate immune reactions mediated by immunoglobulin E (IgE).
These reactions manifest as hives, swelling, or even anaphylaxis, requiring immediate recognition and treatment.

ANECDOTE

Fish Smell Allergy

Dr. Hyman recalls a patient who drove himself to the ER after smelling fish, to which he was deathly allergic.
This highlights the severity of true IgE-mediated allergies, where even minimal exposure can be life-threatening.

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A Simple Diet Experiment That May Solve Most Of Your Health Issues | This episode is brought to you by Paleovalley

Symptoms like bloating, brain fog, poor sleep, poor digestion, skin rashes, mood issues, hormonal issues, joint pain, and many, many others can all be caused by food sensitivities. Food sensitivities might affect you immediately or it might take a few days. This can make it difficult to determine what foods might be causing various problems. Eliminating specific trigger foods such as gluten, dairy, grains, sugar, alcohol, and caffeine for a duration of time is a way for your body to hit the reset button on your health. After following an elimination diet for a certain period of time, you can then strategically add foods back in to see how you tolerate them.

In this episode, Dr. Hyman sits down with Lisa Dreher to discuss how they use elimination diets to identify and treat food sensitivities in their patients.

Lisa is a registered dietitian who got her undergraduate nutrition degree at the Rochester Institute of Technology and completed a dietetic internship through Cornell University. Lisa first worked in the acute care hospital setting and became a Clinical Nutrition Specialist working in Pediatric Gastroenterology at the University of Rochester Medical Center. At the same time, she pursued her Masters degree in Nutrition and Integrative Health from the Maryland University of Integrative Health and started practicing integrative and functional nutrition in private practice before joining UWC in 2015. She has since received additional training through the Institute for Functional Medicine.

Over the past 10 years, Lisa has delivered several public health lectures on the role of food as medicine and her work has been showcased in Reader’s Digest, on National Public Radio, and she was featured in the Broken Brain 2 series. She also developed the Digestive Health and Gut Microbiome training module for the Dietitians in Integrative and Functional Medicine practice group through the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

This episode is sponsored by Paleovalley. Right now, Paleovalley is offering Doctor’s Farmacy listeners 15% off your entire first order. Just go to paleovalley.com/hyman to check out all their clean Paleo products and take advantage of this deal.

In this episode, Dr. Hyman and Lisa discuss:

The difference between food allergies, food intolerances, and food sensitivities

The broad range of food sensitivity symptoms

Why we develop food sensitivities

What is leaky gut, what causes it, and how gut health is related to food sensitivities

The importance of working with a healthcare practitioner while doing an elimination diet and during the reintroduction process

Why gluten reaction and sensitivities are so prevalent

Addictive properties in diary

Learn more about The UltraWellness Center’s upcoming “Eliminate To Feel Great” program at https://www.ultrawellnesscenter.com/2020/08/17/eliminate-to-feel-great/

Additional Resources:

Elimination Diets: Still the Gold Standard?

https://www.ultrawellnesscenter.com/2020/08/21/elimination-diets-still-the-gold-standard/

For more information on the House Call series and becoming a patient at The UltraWellness Center visit drhyman.com/uwc

Got Acne? What You Put IN Your Body is More Important Than What You Put on Your Skin

https://www.ultrawellnesscenter.com/2019/08/01/got-acne-what-you-put-in-your-body-is-more-important-than-what-you-put-on-your-skin/

How Hidden Food Sensitivities Make You Fat

https://www.ultrawellnesscenter.com/2012/02/22/how-hidden-food-sensitivities-make-you-fat/

Should We All Avoid Gluten

https://drhyman.com/blog/2018/09/26/podcast-ep20/

To Gluten or Not To Gluten?

https://drhyman.com/blog/2019/04/09/to-gluten-or-not-to-gluten/

What Is Leaky Gut And How Can You Treat It? with Dr. Elizabeth Boham

https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/03/20/podcast-hc2/

Dr. Hyman’s 10-Day Reset

https://getfarmacy.com

Dr. Hyman’s 10-Day Reset - Free Guide

https://getfarmacy.com/free

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