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For those with multiple digestive sensitivities, food allergies, autoimmunity, and/or structural gut deficiencies, it can be difficult to figure out what's safe to eat. If you’re already working with multiple dietary restrictions, or if you’ve been overwhelmed by even starting with dietary elimination, you know just how it feels!
Part of the challenge is deciphering what our digestive symptoms are trying to tell us, and how to tease out which foods are causing those symptoms. And because gut health influences the function of every other system in the body, we may have to navigate symptom signals that don’t seem to have anything to do with digestion.
In this class, we'll review and differentiate common diet-related symptoms and the food sensitivities or health concerns they be related to. We’ll consider helpful tools and techniques for organizing dietary information, conducting research, and regulating daily food choices. We’ll also cover some medicinal herbs and supplements that can help calm symptoms, improve digestive health, and heal gut tissue.
This class doesn’t endorse a specific dietary ideology or “universal” elimination diet. Instead, we’ll look at which foods are the most common triggers of digestive upset, allergies, and autoimmunity, and how to use elimination diets effectively to gather more information about personal food triggers. This class is designed to be useful for those of us navigating our own food sensitivities — you don’t need to have any experience with herbs to get a lot out of this class! We’ll also share lots of tools that will be useful for practitioners who support clients with digestive disorders and food sensitivities.
. Mica McDonald (they/he) is a clinical herbalist (VCIH grad ‘16), scholar, and writer living in Abenaki territory (Central VT). As a chronically ill person with multiple food sensitivities and digestive organ deficiencies, they have accumulated many years of experience researching and deciphering their own food-related health problems, and have guided others in their own digestive healing. Micaherbalist.wordpress.com