Customized Nutrition Analysis in Los Angeles, CA
One person’s medicine can be another person’s poison, and that is especially true with food. Each person has a unique digestive capacity, set of food sensitivities, microbiome, and metabolic needs. At LA Integrative Gastroenterology & Nutrition, our customized nutrition analysis combines comprehensive testing with a detailed dietary assessment to create an eating plan designed specifically for your body and your condition.
Request an AppointmentWhy Generic Nutrition Advice Often Fails
Two people with the same diagnosis often have different underlying problems that require different dietary approaches. Generic advice can backfire, for example:
- Adding high-fiber foods for someone with SIBO, which can worsen bloating
- Recommending cruciferous vegetables to someone with dysbiosis and gas
- Prescribing a low-fat diet to someone with bile insufficiency, which can impair absorption
- Encouraging whole grains for someone with gluten sensitivity
- Promoting fish for omega-3s in someone with a fish sensitivity
Customized nutrition analysis prevents these mistakes by tailoring recommendations to you.
Components of Our Nutritional Analysis
- Comprehensive dietary assessment: a review of your eating patterns, problem foods, micronutrient intake, and relationship with food
- Digestive function evaluation: how efficiently you digest proteins, fats, and carbohydrates
- Food sensitivity testing: IgG food panels, ALCAT testing, and elimination protocols
- Microbiome analysis: comprehensive stool testing to identify dysbiosis and the foods that support or harm your gut bacteria
- Nutrient status assessment: levels of key vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and cofactors
- Metabolic assessment: blood sugar control, lipid metabolism, and hormone status
Your Customized Nutrition Plan
Your personalized plan includes foods to emphasize and avoid, meal timing and combination strategies, preparation methods that support absorption, supplement recommendations to fill nutrient gaps, tips for dining out and travel, and a timeline for reintroducing foods. Plans are not permanently restrictive. They evolve as your digestion heals, and eliminated foods are gradually reintroduced as tolerance improves.
Key Principles of Customized Nutrition
- Limit or avoid alcohol during treatment: alcohol disrupts the microbiome, stresses the liver, and interferes with nutrient absorption.
- Choose whole, unprocessed foods: processed foods lack nutrients and contain additives that stress digestion.
- Your response matters most: if a food causes symptoms, it is not healthy for you right now, whatever its reputation.
- Diversity within tolerance: we work to expand your diet over time.
- Nutrient density over calories: the focus is on foods that support healing.
How Customized Nutrition Fits Into Your Care
Customized nutrition is part of our broader analytical services and works hand in hand with our customized nutrition plans, therapeutic digestive diets, personalized nutrients, and functional medicine approach. It supports treatment of GERD, colitis, bloating, and fatigue, and is a cornerstone of our anti-aging medicine services.
Customized Nutrition FAQs
How is a customized nutrition plan different from a generic diet?
A generic diet is based on averages for a diagnosis. A customized plan is based on your test results, food sensitivities, microbiome, and digestive capacity, so it fits your body specifically.
Will I have to follow a restrictive diet forever?
No. Restrictions are usually temporary. Foods are reintroduced as your gut heals, with the goal of a varied and sustainable diet.
What tests are used to build my plan?
Your doctor may recommend food sensitivity testing, comprehensive stool analysis, nutrient testing, and metabolic labs based on your symptoms.
Do I need to give up alcohol?
Avoiding alcohol is often recommended during active treatment because it disrupts the microbiome and interferes with healing. Your doctor will guide you on long-term choices.
Can customized nutrition help with SIBO?
Yes. Diet is an important part of SIBO treatment, and your plan may include a low-FODMAP approach or the elemental diet.
Will my plan include supplements?
When testing shows gaps, your plan may include professional-grade nutraceutical supplements.
Get Your Customized Nutrition Plan in Los Angeles, CA
Stop guessing about what to eat. Call LA Integrative Gastroenterology & Nutrition at (310) 289-8000 to schedule your nutritional analysis.