Functional Medicine Assessment

The elimination diet with structured reintroduction challenge is the clinical gold standard for identifying food sensitivities. Glutamine serves as the primary fuel for enterocytes and is used in the Repair step to rebuild the gut lining. Elimination diet reintroduction challenges should not be conducted unsupervised in individuals with a history of anaphylaxis or severe IgE reactions. Stress management is the foundational first step in gut healing, without which the remaining protocol steps are harder to sustain. Functional stool analysis is typically the first diagnostic priority, revealing microbiome state, intestinal permeability markers, and signs of gut inflammation.