Food Sensitivity & Gluten Intolerance
Food Sensitivity & Gluten Intolerance Treatment
Functional Medicine in Boulder, CO
The foods you eat every day may be part of the problem.
Food sensitivities are different from food allergies in a way that makes them harder to identify: the reactions are often delayed by hours or even days, and they rarely produce the dramatic symptoms of a true IgE-mediated allergy. Instead, they tend to show up as chronic low-grade inflammation: persistent bloating, fatigue, brain fog, joint pain, skin issues, headaches, and mood disruption. Because the connection between eating a food and feeling poorly isn't immediate, most people don't connect the two, and standard medicine rarely tests for it.
Food Sensitivity Treatment at Helios
At Helios, we offer comprehensive food sensitivity testing alongside a clinical evaluation of your symptom pattern and history. Gluten intolerance, in particular, deserves careful attention. True celiac disease is an autoimmune condition that is often missed or diagnosed years late. Non-celiac gluten sensitivity is a distinct entity that affects a meaningful portion of the population and can contribute to gut permeability, systemic inflammation, neurological symptoms, and autoimmune activation, even in the absence of classic GI complaints. We test thoroughly and interpret thoughtfully, taking your symptoms seriously rather than demanding they fit a textbook presentation.
Treatment Plans & Outcomes
Identifying food sensitivities is only the first step. We also work with you on the dietary transition (which is harder than it sounds) and on healing the underlying gut environment that allowed these sensitivities to develop. For many patients, this work becomes the foundation of lasting improvement across multiple symptoms they'd stopped expecting to resolve.
If you suspect food is a factor in how you feel, let's find out for certain.
Helios provides thoughtful, personalized care that truly makes a difference. Their testing is thorough, the team is knowledgeable and approachable, and every visit feels supportive.
– Robbin R, Current Patient
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