Gut Health
What Other Practices Miss
Many clinics rely on symptom-based treatments, focusing only on:
- Over-reliance on labs: Many clinics focus on urine or blood testing for environmental triggers of autoimmune conditions. These tests can flag exposures but often don’t correlate directly with clinical symptoms or therapeutic needs.
- Misinterpretation of microbial tests: Some organisms flagged in stool or blood tests may not actually be causing harm and may even be beneficial or simply commensal. This leads to over-treatment or misdirected care.
- Neglect of nervous system dysfunction: Most providers ignore how autonomic dysregulation, especially excessive sympathetic activation and vagus nerve suppression, contributes to autoimmunity.
- Limited allergy therapy: Conventional allergy care often only includes avoidance or antihistamines. They do not attempt to train the immune system for tolerance (as with LDI).
- Missed inflammatory load in nerves, lymphatics, or fascia: Very few clinicians assess for residual inflammation in the nerves or tissue which perpetuates symptoms, even when blood markers are “normal.”
Conditions Treated at True Resilience IMS
We treat a wide range of GI conditions that aren’t always addressed by conventional medicine, including but not limited to:
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
- Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO)
- Recurrent SIBO
- Post-infectious SIBO
- Irritable Bowel Disease (IBD)
- Crohn’s disease
- Ulcerative colitis
- Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
- Functional Dyspepsia
- Celiac Disease (and Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity)
- Chronic Functional Diarrhea or Constipation
- Gastroparesis
- Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders
- Peptic Ulcers
- Post-Surgical GI Issues
- Post-laparoscopic surgery issues
- Post-colorectal surgery recovery
- Food Intolerances and Sensitivities
- Chronic Pancreatitis
- Leaky Gut Syndrome
- Gut-Brain Axis Imbalances (including anxiety, brain fog linked to gut dysfunction)
- Autoimmune GI Disorders (e.g., autoimmune gastritis)
- Environmental Toxin Exposure (Mold) and GI Impact
- Functional Gallbladder Dysfunction
- Chronic Inflammatory Conditions Impacting the Gut
- Fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and their gut implications.
How Inflammation Plays a Role
In IBS and other GI conditions, inflammation in the gut tissues can disrupt normal motility, absorption, and immune function:
- Vagal nerve dysfunction: Chronic inflammation can disrupt vagus nerve signaling, affecting digestion, motility, and motility responses (i.e., constipation, bloating, diarrhea).
- Ileocecal valve dysfunction: The valve that separates the small and large intestines can become inflamed or spasmed, leading to recurrent dysbiosis, SIBO, or inflammatory responses.
- Post-infection gut damage: After a GI infection, the inflammatory response may remain active in the tissues, impairing motility and normal gut function.
- Neurological inflammation: The brain-gut connection can be disturbed, leading to symptoms of anxiety, brain fog, and disrupted digestion.
- Mesenteric fat and vessels: Chronic inflammation can impair blood flow, affecting nutrient absorption, immune function, and lymphatic drainage.
- Dural tension: Post-trauma (like concussion or surgery), tension in the dura mater (meninges) may influence brainstem signals to the gut.
What We Do to Help
We take a holistic, comprehensive approach, combining various therapies to treat the root cause, not just the symptoms:
- Biofeedback Testing:
- Identifies specific dysbiosis organisms, foods, environmental toxins, and immune triggers that are contributing to symptoms.
- We avoid guesswork in favor of targeted interventions for both gut microbes and food sensitivities.
- Challenge-based elimination diets—clearly testing the body’s response to various foods or environmental agents.
- Fascial Counterstrain:
- Clears residual inflammation in tissues surrounding the gut (e.g., intestines, mesentery, ileocecal valve, sympathetic nerves).
- Helps to restore motility by releasing restrictions and improving blood flow and lymphatic drainage.
- Addresses nervous system dysfunction—vagal tone, sympathetic overactivity, and brain-gut communication.
- Low Dose Immunotherapy (LDI):
- Treats immune system over-reactions to gut microbes, foods, and environmental toxins (e.g., mold, metals).
- Retrains immune tolerance for conditions like SIBO, food sensitivities, or toxic mold exposure that might otherwise persist after the trigger is gone.
- Laser Therapy (Erchonia FX-405):
- Somatic + Neuro-Emotional Work:
- Identifies and resolves emotional trauma or nervous system trauma that might be contributing to chronic GI symptoms.
- Uses SoundSelf or similar therapies to reduce stress, improve neuroplasticity, and calm the brain-gut axis.
- Identifies and resolves emotional trauma or nervous system trauma that might be contributing to chronic GI symptoms.
- Uses SoundSelf or similar therapies to reduce stress, improve neuroplasticity, and calm the brain-gut axis.
- Nutraceuticals + Botanicals:
- Focused, personalized protocols to heal the gut lining, reduce inflammation, and address microbial imbalances.
- Antimicrobials, mucosal repair agents, digestive enzymes, and herbal formulas based on biofeedback and clinical assessment.
Pertinent History We Ask About
- Previous GI infections (e.g., food poisoning, bacterial or parasitic infections)
- Antibiotic use, especially multiple rounds or chronic use
- Environmental exposures, particularly mold, chemicals, or metals
- Stress history: anxiety, trauma, or emotional dysregulation
- Traumatic brain injuries, concussions, or history of spinal cord injury
- Surgical history: laparoscopic, colon, or gastrointestinal surgeries
- Post-SIBO treatments that failed or recurred
- PPI or antacid usage
- Food intolerance history: gluten, dairy, FODMAPs, etc.
- Chronic stress or autoimmune conditions
- Family history of GI disorders
Average Time to Improvement
- Mild IBS/Functional GI Disturbances: 2–4 visits (2–4 weeks)
- Moderate IBS, SIBO, or GI Dysfunction: 6–8 visits (1.5–2 months)
- Complex IBS, Post-Infectious IBS, Mold Exposure, Autoimmune GI Disease: 10–12 visits or more (2–3 months or longer)
Our treatment approach aims to get to the root cause, not just mask symptoms. As such, the time it takes to heal depends on the complexity of the case and the responsiveness of the patient’s body.
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Comprehensive Support for Your Healing Journey
The Tools We Use When Building Treatment Plans Include:
Fascial Counterstrain
Identify and drain trapped inflammation, wherever it’s stuck — also known as clearing the body’s memory of inflammatory events.
Bemer
Enhances blood flow, improving performance, and reducing stress.
Laser Therapy
Laser therapy improves cellular energy production, reduces inflammation, and reduces pain.
Clinical Nutrition & Herbs
Using the Lebowitz and Wholistic Methylation Protocols, we find dysbiosis, chemical toxicity, and nutrient deficiencies and put together a customized supplement/herbal protocol to bring biochemical balance.
Exercise with Oxygen Therapy (with Adaptive Contrast)
LiveO2 is an adaptive oxygen training system that boosts circulation, cellular energy, and detoxification by alternating between high and low oxygen levels during exercise. The effects are similar to Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, but more profound and longer lasting.
Vibroacoustic Therapy with BrainTap
Gently reset your autonomic nervous system using low-frequency sound waves along with audio and visuals to amplify interoception and create an interactive flow state.
Neuro-Emotional Technique (NET)
Separate environmental triggers from their automatic emotional responses to regulate the autonomic nervous system and get rid of stress related obstacles to healing.
Regenerative Injection Therapy
Accelerate healing of joints, ligaments, and chronic injuries using prolozone, neural therapy, and PRP.
Low Dose Immunotherapy (LDI)
Retrain your immune system to stop overreacting to foods, pollens, chemicals, and microbes — drug-free.
Microcurrent Neurofeedback
A gentle, non-invasive therapy that uses tiny electrical signals to help the brain and body reset.
SoftWave TRT
A non-invasive treatment that uses gentle shockwaves to target injured, painful, or weakened areas in order to help your body heal naturally.