Carpal tunnel - your body's way of telling you to eat better

An FDN client who normally eats a very nutrient dense well balanced diet recently began experiencing wrist pain accompanied by numbness, tingling, and stiffness in his hand. He started seeing a physical therapist (PT) and his doctor diagnosed him with carpal tunnel. This was devastating because as a musician, he uses his hands to make a living. The doctor wanted him to see the PT for four weeks, if that didn't help, he wanted him to get a cortisone shot, and if that didn't help his next step would be a surgical consult. ​​Surgery would put him out of work for at least a month!

Practicing FDN Health Coaches do not treat symptoms. Instead FDNs assess and test body systems to ensure proper functioning. This musician's FDN Health Coach did some detective work and discovered that this client had strayed from his usual diet in recent months. He was feeling good so he added pizza every couple weeks, a sugary snack every couple weeks, and gluten was creeping into his daily routine via empanadas and granola snacks. To top it off, he was out of the country for two weeks eating only restaurant food filled with gluten, sugar, flour, etc..  It only took a week or so after that trip for the carpal tunnel symptoms to manifest.

​FDN to the rescue. He immediately went back to his gluten free, no added sugar, no corn, no flour, no pasteurized dairy, only Himalayan sea salt, home cooked meals. Then he and his health coach started to work on the root cause of his symptoms: inflammation. The FDN Health Coach developed a protocol to reduce his inflammation which was a combination of supplements and essential oils. Within four weeks his hand was basically back to normal. 
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