Autonomic Disorders and Diet: Are Dietary Deficiencies & Inaccuracies Causing Your Symptoms?

For so long, the standard food pyramid (showing a majority of grains at the bottom, followed by vegetables, meats, fats & sugars as you go up) has been recommended by nutritionists and physicians as the standard guide to getting your diet within healthy parameters. And we're told by a lot of so-called experts that if we follow that guide, everything will be alright. Current disease rates,mortality, and current gene-related dietary research, however, is showing that this advice is anything but a good set of guidelines for everyone.

 

Actually, leaders in the nutritional world such as Dr. Catherine Shanahan in her new book 'Deep Nutrition', are showing that this pyramid is essentially backwards or upside down, where 60-85% of calories should be coming from healthy fats and oils, not at the top to be used 'sparingly' as commonly shown. To be fair, trans or damaged fat is clearly unhealthy, but quality healthy fats from grass or natural-fed animal sources (cream, butter) with no antibiotics, hormones, virgi olive oil, avocados, etc actually supports the body's repair systems, provides crucial fats to help keep nerves myelinated  or insulated so they don't misfire or not fire as well as they should.

 

Considering that nerves or specifically the autonomic nervous system is essentially operating ineffeciently and abnormally in dysautonomia patients, it makes sense to take a look at diet and see if not only fat deficiencies, but other nutrient deficiencies could be causing malfunction in nerve tissue. Other things like proper electrolyte levels of sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium are also crucial for proper nerve (and brain) function, but even if those electrolytes are in line and the nerves are demyelinated as a result of fatty acid deficiency and other factors, those nerves are not going to function properly--which is why some people feel like they're getting their electrolytes right and still hit a wall with their symptoms.

 

And every vitamin on the planet isn't going to take the place of getting proper fats in the diet to rebuild cell wall structures and repair that myelin on a daily basis. So if you're looking to get to the bottom of autonomic disorder symptoms and truly define the cause, not just treat the symptoms, it may make sense to take a look at your nutrition with your dysautonomia specialist and see if there are deficiencies. One other important point is that each person's diet and vitamin requirements are now being shown to be as individual as a fingerprint and each person really needs to get a hair analysis done so that the doctor can get an accurate look at metal pollution levels, metabolic rates, nutritional deficiencies or excesses that are present.

 

Yes, hair analysis is providing this key information so now we can stop using the shotgun approach with multivitamins and our diets and actually feed our bodies according to our individual needs, which vary greatly based on a variety of factors including gene expression, environmental pollution and other things. Do yourself a favor today--call Dysautonomia-MVP Center LLC in Birmingham AL at 205-286-3200 and book an appointment. Dr. Paula Moore and Dr Susan Phillips are experts in autonomic disorder diagnosis and treatments and bring more than 40 years of combined experience to you. It may be the best call you ever make.

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