Have you ever seen a patient whose labs and studies all seem within normal limits, their energy levels seem adequate, and you can only go by their subjective symptoms that something is going on from the common digestive complaints of bloating and gas? You then provide some form of medication, supplement, probiotic, dietary restriction, or therapy recommendation and on follow up a couple months later that patient has developed a clear case of irritable bowel syndrome, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, or a mineral deficiency that seems to have come out of nowhere. What becomes obvious is that the illness didn’t come out of nowhere, but you had no reason to expect an aggravation of symptoms and the development of a diagnosable condition.
A bio-electric chemistry approach, using a Reams’ Analysis can reveal the earliest signs of this cascade months or sometimes years before it becomes clinically obvious on a standard lab panel. The importance of this is functional in naturopathic medicine, as we know that restoring the gut is always a first priority. Catching the imbalance before it cascades into SIBO, inflammatory bowel disease, or leaky gut isn’t just earlier treatment, it’s treatment at the root.
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