FOOD INTOLERANCES
This content is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition. It aims to help you better understand gut-related issues, but the causes and diagnoses of these conditions are often complex and overlapping, with potential for misdiagnosis. This is why it’s essential to consult a qualified healthcare provider, such as a gastroenterologist or your doctor, for proper evaluation and advice tailored to your needs.
FOOD INTOLERANCES
Food intolerances occur when the gut cannot properly digest or process certain foods, leading to symptoms like bloating, diarrhoea, or headaches, without triggering an immune attack like allergies.
Food intolerances have been recognised for centuries, but understanding improved in the 20th century when enzyme deficiencies (e.g., lactase deficiency) and chemical reactions (e.g., to histamine) were identified.
Food intolerances do not involve the immune system (unlike allergies). Symptoms are dose-dependent as small amounts may be tolerated. Gut microbiome health plays a role in tolerance to many foods. Lactose intolerance is genetically programmed in most of the world’s population.
SYMPTOMS OF FOOD INTOLERANCES INCLUDE:
- Bloating and gas
- Diarrhoea or constipation
- Abdominal pain
- Headaches, migraines and fatigue (20–30% of cases).
*When symptoms are linked clearly to eating certain foods.
MAIN CAUSES:
- Enzyme deficiencies (e.g., lactose intolerance).
- Gut lining damage
- Dysbiosis altering food processing (eating foods that cause an imbalance in the microbiome, such as Fast Foods, junk foods, sweets etc…).
COMPLICATIONS OF FOOD INTOLERANCES:
- Chronic gut irritation
- Secondary dysbiosis
- Nutrient absorption issues (if severe).
TREATMENT INDICATION FOR FOOD INTOLERANCES:
- Food elimination diet (identify and remove triggers).
- Digestive enzyme supplements (e.g., lactase for lactose intolerance) to help break down specific foods.
- Probiotics and prebiotics to normalise your microbiome, to help reduce reactions over time and to assist with food breakdown.
DIAGNOSIS OF FOOD INTOLERANCES:
- Elimination diet and symptom tracking in a food diary is the main method.
- Breath tests (for lactose, fructose) can confirm malabsorption.
SUPPLEMENTATION RECOMMENDATION
- REPOPULATING YOUR GUT MICROBIOME WITH THE RIGHT GOOD BACTERIA
Repopulating your gut microbiome with the right good bacteria to improve its function and role within your health will start resolving your symptoms.
Ensure you only take a probiotic that meets pharmaceutical grade standards to ensure efficacy and that dose delivery for symptom improvement, (uses gold-standard strains backed by clinical evidence for efficacy, with a minimum dose of 10 Billion CFU’s, protects it bacterial dose by ensuring shelf stability and full stomach acid protection with targeted delivery of the bacteria to your intestine, and meets all other quality metrics).The bacteria in your microbiome improves digestion and nutrient absorption, acts at the guts pharmacy – making vitamins, producing SCFA’s and other important metabolites, like serotonin. It is both the boss of and manager of our immune system. They Influence our brain and hormones, improve our mood + how our brain work. The microbiome also influence our Metabolic and Hormonal system/health. - HEALING THE WHOLE GUT SYSTEM, IMPROVING THE STRUCTURE, ENVIRONMENT AND FUNCTION
This condition can affect the gut structure, environment and function, leading to an overall decline in the performance of the whole gut system. This results in gut inflammation, increased oxidative levels altered colonic PH levels. It impairs; immune capabilities, cell function, barrier function, digestion and metabolic health. Which makes it harder for good bacteria to survive in your gut, and easier for pathogens to take over – leading to a negative-cyclical feedback loop that keeps you unhealthy, compromised and struggling with severe symptoms.
Probitec Intrinsic Bowel Support (30 capsules) and Probitec Gastro (10 capsules), have 8-strains and 20 Billion CFU’s, housed in the worlds most advanced probiotics capsule.
Probitec Fibre+ is a 3-in-1 formula of prebiotic fibre, glutamine and digestive enzymes, designed to enhance the composition and integrity of the whole gut system
The strains have over 120 studies confirming significant relief and improvement of the symptoms associated with the following:
- Abdominal pain and discomfort
- Diarrhoea, constipation
- Bowel regularity and motility
- Gas and bloating
- Enhancing the gut-brain axis, reducing stress and improving mood
- Improving Immunity and combatting pathogenic infections and overgrowth
- Enhancing Intestinal Integrity
- Reducing gut inflammation
- Relieving GI distress or dysbiosis
- Improving Quality of Life issues such as fatigue, brain fog and skin conditions.
This content is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition. It aims to help you better understand gut-related issues, but the causes and diagnoses of these conditions are often complex and overlapping, with potential for misdiagnosis. This is why it’s essential to consult a qualified healthcare provider, such as a gastroenterologist or your doctor, for proper evaluation and advice tailored to your needs.