Robert Whitfield MD explains what you can actually eat on an elimination diet. Cut gluten, dairy, and seed oils, stick to unprocessed foods, and skip anything shelf-stable or frozen with added sugar. He recommends the Alcat test for food sensitivities and says gut healing takes time.
Alcat
Gluten, dairy, and seed oils
So when we talk about, you know, and people think I'm being mean to them, when I say just cut out gluten and dairy and don't use seed oils, they're like, well, what can I eat? There's so much to eat, right? I mean, so everybody's probably at this point in our audience has heard of an elimination diet, which I think, you know, when I was first taught about it, I was like, man, that seems really cruel. So we started experimenting really on me, looking at different food tests. I don't know how many food tests I've done. Honestly. We settled on just an alcat because it seems to be extremely reproducible. It's very easy to follow. So we like that test and it's easy to carry around. So then you're just trying to change behavior. So if you don't, to your point, understand there are a lot of things that you can eat and drink that aren't processed or don't come in a box or haven't been on the shelf for a month. Like anything that's on the shelf or in a freezer has a lot of sugar in it, just so, you know, sugar and otherwise it wouldn't remain stable, it would just spoil. So I mean, these are just basic things, but, you know, gut healing, long term issue, you know, for you, obviously, and it's getting incrementally better, which is the goal. And.
