Nausea, loss of taste, depression, insomnia, anxiety, gastrointestinal upset, decreased appetite, bloating, and attentional difficulties are all symptoms related to zinc deficiency. Zinc is an essential nutrient involved in several biological processes and modulates the activity of more than 300 #enzymes and 2,000 transcription factors. It plays a critical role in immune function, protein synthesis, wound healing, DNA synthesis, and cell division. Anorexia is thought to large

Bitters are a specific class of herbs for the digestive system and part of the gut health program I offer clients, but they do so much more than just improve digestion. Bitters also support #detoxification, heal the skin, and improve your mood. While our ancestors regularly ate bitters prior to their meals, which helped to prepare the gut for digesting their meals, we really don't include these in our meals much today. Our preferences are more often for sweet foods, even salt

One of the more fun things for me to do in my practice, as a clinician, is help clients understand their #sensitivities to various foods, dyes, and chemicals. Not only do we identify sensitivities to avoid, but we can also identify foods that are not causing inflammation. This allows us to create a diet plan that initially includes only these non-sensitive foods and because this testing quantifies the inflammatory response, after we have healed the #gut to some degree, we can