Treatment Protocol
Rebalance
And Rebalance is really all about providing ongoing support for gut health and aligning other aspects of a person’s life to foster a stable and balanced internal environment.
Goals:
- Boost Systemic Resilience
Healthy Diet
Goal: Foster a balanced and resilient microbiome through gradual expansion towards a diverse and healthy diet.
- Vibrant Vegetables & Fruit: Include leafy greens, deep-colored veggies, and sulfur-rich options.
- Quality Protein Sources: Emphasize organ meats, fatty fish.
- Fermented Foods & Healthy Fats: For gut balance.
- Mindful Eating Practices: Intermittent fasting, eating until 80% full.
- Avoidance: Minimize problematic foods.
- Therapeutic Support: Dietary counseling
Quality Sleep
Goal: Ensure adequate and high-quality sleep to support the body’s healing processes, including gut restoration.
- Sleep Hygiene Practices: Reduce caffeine after 11 AM, eliminate alcohol, block blue light in the evening, and ensure morning sunlight exposure.
- Optimal Sleep Window: Fall asleep between 8-10 PM, aim for 8-9 hours of sleep.
Routine Exercise
Goal: Engage in enjoyable and well-rounded physical activities to promote gut health and manage inflammation.
- Comprehensive Approach: stretching + cardio + strengthening + balance
Stress Regulation
Goal: Manage and reduce stress through mindful practices.
- Holistic Approach: Nature, mindfulness, meditation, gratitude, positive connections, forgiveness.
- Avoidance Strategies: Limit harmful habits and toxic relationships.
- Therapeutic Support: Gut-directed hypnotherapy
Hormetic Stress & Vagus Nerve Stimulation
Goal: Calibrate the gut-brain connection through vagus nerve stimulation.
- Daily Practices: Specific breathing exercises + nose/diaphragmatic breathing (singing, humming, gargling)
Ongoing Monitoring
Goal: Regular monitoring to ensure stability and early detection of potential issues.
Core:
- Metabolomics Snapshot
- How It Works: Utilizes advanced analytical techniques to quantify thousands of small-molecule metabolites in the body. This creates a “snapshot” of current metabolic activities, revealing how nutrients are being absorbed and used, and how microbial populations are affecting overall health.
- Usage: Conducted to monitor progress and fine-tune interventions.
- Wearable integration (HRV, Sleep, Activity)
- How It Works: Syncs with wearable devices that track Heart Rate Variability (HRV), sleep quality, and daily activity. Data gathered provides a real-time, dynamic measure of systemic health and resilience.
- Usage: Continuous monitoring to gather longitudinal data, particularly valuable in the “Rebalance” phase to evaluate the effectiveness of earlier interventions.
- Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)
- How It Works: Consists of brief surveys about symptoms, lifestyle, and overall well-being. These scores help us understand how you’re feeling beyond what the clinical tests can show.
- Usage: Administered at key stages to correlate with other test results and to gauge improvements in systemic resilience and overall quality of life.