Do any of the following happen to you?
- Food cravings between meals (e.g. craving sweets)
- Not feeling satisfied by meals or getting hungry again within 2 hours after a meal
- Feeling tired after meals
- Difficulty regulating blood sugar (e.g. low or high blood sugar), possibly impairing sleep
- Following a diet because you believe it's healthy, ethical, planet-friendly, rather than because of how it actually makes you feel
These are likely signs that your diet may not be right for you.
And in addition to the short list above, there are other signs of a mismatched diet that can be far less obvious and more dificult to identify on your own.
For example, some people do not assimilate certain nutrients well from certain types of food nearly as well as from other types fo food. But they would probably not know this without running certain lab tests and/or genetic analysis.
A specific example of this is the fact that some people have genetics that impair their ability to convert the form of vitamin B6 found in plants to the form that your body uses. And I find that B6 deficiency is very common among my clients when they start working with me.
As another example, many people have hidden food sensitivies where the symptoms are delayed by several days after eating the offending food, or the symptoms manifest somewhere outside of the digestive tract. So the person does not suspect any connection between the symptoms and a food they are eating.
So people with the genetics for slow versions of the COMT enzyme, which clears certain neurotransmitters and hormones, may need to avoid consuming too much of the phytonutrient quercetin, which slows down this enzyme. The combination of the slow COMT enzyme and a high intake of quercetin could lead to overly high levels neurotransmitters like dopamine and norepinephrine and hormones like estrogen.
If a person with a slow COMT enzyme has symptoms of high levels of neurotransmitters (e.g. anxiety or insomnia) or problems processing excess estrogen (potentially resulting in a symptom of estrogen dominance like fibroids), then these issues could be made worse by taking too much quercetin.
If you complex health issues, hidden connections with food and supplements can make it almost impossible to sort out your diet without some help from somebody who knows what to look for and who has a thorough and systematic approach.
And since food is one of the main sources of pleasure in life, it pays off big time to get support with developing a diet that brings you great pleasure while it helps to resolve wellness challenges and energize you, insteading of making you feel sick.
I take people through a process of dietary personalization as part of the Bio-Individual Blueprint system. If you are ready to put food struggles (both known and unknown) behind you and feel energized by what you eat, check out the Bio-Individual Blueprint Roadmap.