What Form Of Vitamin C Is Best?
Vitamin C supplementation, particularly when there is a vitamin C deficiency, can be very helpful for patients. The information below is intended to make the choosing process a little less confusing.
Like everything in our practice, there are no fixed rules for everyone, and there is no single form of vitamin C for every ailment. A supplement should be selected with the same care a doctor would take when selecting a pharmaceutical.
Why Do I Feel Sick After I Eat?
Chronic discomfort - whether it manifests as headaches, nausea, or a general feeling of illness - can easily sabotage your quality of life and can make the daily task of eating a torment.
Unfortunately, many general practitioners quickly dismiss uncomfortable digestive symptoms once serious underlying conditions are ruled out, leaving patients to self-treat.
Once the underlying cause of the problem has been identified, there is often a clear path forward, often without the use of pharmaceuticals. A mysterious symptom is simply one that has not been adequately investigated.
Our consultation practice centers on functional medicine and offers specialized testing as well as natural and effective treatments that can mitigate the wide variety of symptoms that can occur during or after you eat.
Long Covid Symptom: Histamine Intolerance
Soon after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Long Covid patients began to appear. These patients experience persistent symptoms long after an initial infection has passed.
These symptoms can range from mild to debilitating and last for weeks, months, or years. Like other instances of post-viral symptoms, patients often find their doctors dismissive and their treatment options severely limited.
Fortunately, functional medicine provides scientifically-backed, natural solutions that are particularly well-suited to complex, chronic symptoms like those found in Long Covid.
Why Do I Feel Sick When I Eat Sugar?
Sugar sensitivity is a surprisingly common symptom in new patients. While your first thought may be diabetes - there can be other reasons why you may feel sick after eating sugar.
You may have been diligently sticking to your elimination diet when you notice a wave of nausea and sinus congestion after eating a piece of fruit or a serving of dessert. Some people get migraines or stomach upset after ingesting any kind of sugar.
Nausea, shakiness, headaches, migraines, sinus congestion, brain fog, dizziness, digestive upset, sluggishness, stomach cramping, gas, and bloating can all be the consequence of a momentary indulgence.
Below we will look into a few potential causes of feeling sick after eating sugar - and how to overcome them naturally.
Why Taking Activated Charcoal At Night Can Help Lower Histamine - And Help You Sleep
A wide range of seemingly unrelated symptoms, like restless sleep, insomnia, hives, sinus congestion, muscle twitches, heart pounding, heart palpitations, strong hypnic jerks (those muscle contractions you get when you are trying to fall asleep), can be caused by high histamine/histamine sensitivity.
In this article we will find out why taking activated charcoal can help you sleep.
Can Seasonal Allergies Cause Stomach Upset?
Both in cases of histamine intolerance and in seasonal allergies - histamine is not really the 'problem.'
The presence of histamine in your body is normal and vital to your health.
The overproduction of histamine is a result of your body trying to protect you. Finding the cause of this overreaction will be the key to lessening symptoms.
Even if your allergies consist of 'normal' symptoms like a runny nose, sinus headaches, and congestion - if they are affecting your quality of life or you are dependent on anti-histamines to get through your day then an underlying condition is probably making your allergies worse.
Addressing an underlying viral, bacterial or fungal infection can not only help improve allergy symptoms but will make you feel better overall.
Long Covid Symptom: Severe Anxiety and Panic Attacks
Soon after the start of the Covid 19 pandemic, patients began experiencing severe anxiety. Some of these patients were quick to point out that they had experience with severe anxiety in the past and this was different.
The worst episodes were usually at night (from 9pm-4am) and the fear they experienced was debilitating. Many reported having the intense fear of never getting better again and that they would die. Unfortunately, many who reported this to their doctor were written off as having general anxiety.
What To Do If You Have Symptoms But No Diagnosis
Countless individuals have spent years in diagnostic purgatory. After a series of seemingly endless referrals, they are often sent home with no treatment options.
Frequently, symptoms are not seen as a part of a wider picture of health but as an isolated problem that needs to be contained, as a natural effect of aging or hormones or as a part of some inevitable disease process.
Symptoms are your body’s way of signaling a problem. Covering them up with a symptom-suppressing medication is often an inadequate stopgap and certainly no replacement for a thorough medical inquiry.
Long Covid Symptom: Solar Plexus/Diaphragm Tightness
Many long covid patients report feeling muscle tightness in the solar plexus/diaphragm area of their chest, which is located in the soft hollow beneath the sternum.
Sometimes, patients can feel a very tight 'knot' in this area with their fingers; others only notice the tightness when they attempt a deep breath.
Many patients compensate for this by taking deep breaths outside of their natural breathing rhythm and raising their shoulders to try to take in more air.
This symptom is usually accompanied by a sense that the patient is never getting enough oxygen, even when their doctor has checked their oxygen levels.
This symptom is common, and can be mitigated through functional medicine techniques.
Paradoxical Reactions: Why Medicine and Supplements Can Cause Opposite Reactions
Dr. Brian Lum is a certified functional medicine practitioner who has spent more than a decade specializing in chronic and complex illnesses. In our practice, new patients who are extremely sensitive to medications or supplements are the norm rather than the exception.
This sensitivity can include 'paradoxical reactions' which is when a supplement or medication causes an opposite reaction than what the patient was expecting.
Often, patients arrive in our care because these reactions are downplayed in hospitals or they are told "its all in their head."
When patients take an anxiety medication that causes a panic attack or take an herbal supplement that causes chest pain and a terrible feeling of impending doom - often, we can find the reason behind these seemingly strange reactions.
Why Do I Feel Sick When I Eat Dairy?
Common symptoms of dairy intolerance include nausea, bloating, hives, headaches, sleeplessness, anxiety, acne, and joint pain.
These symptoms are usually written off as 'lactose intolerance' and lifelong dairy avoidance is recommended.
This is unfortunate for two reasons - firstly, lifelong abstinence from dairy is usually not required after the underlying cause of dairy sensitivity is found.
But the most important reason is that by labeling the cause of these symptoms as a generic 'intolerance' it leaves the true cause of dairy intolerance to remain present or to get worse.
Nausea, shakiness, headaches, migraines, sinus congestion, brain fog, dizziness, digestive upset, sluggishness, stomach cramping, gas, and bloating can all be the consequence of a momentary indulgence.
Below we will look into a few potential causes of feeling sick after eating sugar - and how to overcome them naturally.