OVERVIEW:
Food intolerances are extremely common and refers to difficulty digesting or metabolizing a particular food. This affects your digestive system. When there is a food intolerance, food is not broken down which can lead to gas, bloating, diarrhea, and other problems. Experiencing these symptoms means that the gut is sensitive to certain foods and cannot tolerate breaking them down. Although this is not a life-threatening condition, it can be extremely painful, uncomfortable, or get in the way of performing everyday tasks.

SYMPTOMS:
Food intolerances have a variety of different symptoms which include nausea, vomiting, cramping and diarrhea. Symptoms typically start a few hours after eating the food, as it makes its way around the digestive tract. The most common food intolerances are dairy, caffeine, and gluten. People with food intolerances typically don’t produce enough of a particular enzyme that the digestive system needs to break down foods. Certain gastrointestinal conditions may make you more prone to food intolerances such as Celiac disease, Crohn's Disease, or Ulcerative colitis.

TREATMENT:
At Acupuncture Wellness Services, we use a combination of modalities and techniques to regulate the flow of energy in the body to achieve outstanding results.  The extensive training and experience of our practitioners enables them to successfully blend time-tested and ancient treatment protocols with modern and sophisticated therapies. One of the greatest benefits of our procedure is the ability to detect and correct energetic sensitivities to foods and the environment that might be creating symptoms in your body.  Each patient is treated individually, and so the combination of techniques is determined at the time of evaluation.  Our treatments integrate well with western medicine, chiropractic, massage therapy, occupational therapy, dental work and nutritional healing.