An Anti-Inflammatory Individualized Diet is included for all patients establishing care at Roots & Rivers

• Short-term inflammation is uncomfortable but a normal part of healing. 
• Long-term inflammation leads to, and is a primary contributor to, chronic illness (allergies, arthritis, high blood pressure, fibromyalgia, eczema, even arterial disease, etc.). 

Diet: from the Greek, diaita, way of living 

1. Liquid and solid foods regularly consumed in normal living. 

2. A prescribed allowance of food adapted for a particular state of health or disease.

Taber's Medical Dictionary

Intolerance refers to an enzymatic, functional deficiency of a person’s ability to digest and assimilate foods.  Elimination of the Intolerance(s) restores normal functioning and nutrient absorption so that the body can itself.   

Poorly digested food creates “toxemia” in the intestines.   Toxemia is the product of mal-digestive dysbiotic process in the intestine, creating toxic substances that enter the blood stream and disturb tissue function.  

Allergies are acquired, Immune-mediated reactions to foods, drugs, or environmental exposures.  Allergy evaluations look at antigen-antibody complexes.  Some models for developing allergies are: Leaky Gut Hypothesis , Nervous System Dysfunction due to chronic fear or stress (see Understanding Allergies), Hygiene Hypothesis.

https://windroseclinic.com/resources/

Contains a recap of each Major Food Intolerance Group for Reference

https://www.thecarrollinstitute.org/index.php/food-intolerances-page/

Access Code provided to Patients of R&R, please call or text the office. 

https://www.hazelwoodnaturalfoods.com/

https://www.thecarrollinstitute.org/