Dr. Priyanka Gupta, Naturopathic Doctor, Toronto, ON

"How can I best serve my patients” is a question that drives my overall approach to my practice. As a constant learner, I am always researching to find evidence based solutions for my patient's concerns. My mission is to help people understand the connection between mind, body and spirit as well as provide answers to chronic health concerns. When I graduated in 2002 from the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, the concept of functional medicine and healing from the root cause seemed fringe. Very few conventional doctors and even patients were on board with this idea when speaking about chronic health conditions. Over the years, I am amazed at how educated and well informed patients are about their health and their willingness to make necessary changes to their health. This makes the conversation about interventions much easier. I believe that a person can heal given the right tools and guidance. In an era when google can provide answers, it can also be a confusing time not understanding what symptoms are telling you about your body. By using testing and functional medicine systems reviews, together we can uncover where the imbalances are originating from. Through my over 20 years of clinical practice, I have come to realize that an emphasis on symptoms rather than the root cause often has us spinning our tires and never truly being able to bring the body to balance. It's been my experience that when we treat the individual as a whole, we can help our bodies. Every individual is different with unique dietary needs and requirements. This is the basis of personalized medicine where we look at each person as having their own story that the body is telling us. While most diet and nutritional plans focus on calories and macronutrients, my focus is using food as medicine and guiding patients with evidence based nutritional interventions. In our fast-paced lives, we cannot ignore the impact that stress has on our bodies. Often the seed that initiates imbalance, I am always looking at strategies and tools that

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One of the most common conditions women experience during their first trimester of their pregnancy is nausea and vomiting and although it is quite normal, it can cause women a lot of stress and fatigue as well as a loss of a lot of nutrients and fluids.

The cause isn’t fully understood. However, it’s mainly due to the increase – the exponential increase of hormones experienced during this time, mainly HCG, estrogen, and progesterone. These hormones have effects on all other cells in the body as well which can cause some of these gastrointestinal symptoms women feel.

Although nausea can be very frustrating and tiring for women, there are a lot of treatment options to help. Simple things like changing your diet and your lifestyle can make a huge impact, like having regular exercise or ensuring that there’s always food in your stomach. Having an empty stomach can actually make the nauseating symptoms much more severe. So keeping a snack in your purse or in your car will help alleviate some of these symptoms.

Dehydration is common in women with increased nausea and vomiting so it’s really important to find ways to replenish fluid in the body. If you’re not able to keep water down or have trouble taking in water, intravenous vitamin therapy is a great alternative.

With this treatment, your naturopathic doctor can also infuse vitamins directly into your blood stream. Vitamins such as B6 and B12 will help decrease the nauseous feeling as well as increase energy throughout your pregnancy. Again, it depends on the patient. And we often will design very specific treatment plans in terms of supplements and dietary change to help with these symptoms.  Lab tests, of course, play a big role in diagnosing digestive issues. So, we would look at systemic levels of inflammation. We can also measure hydrogen and methane on the breath to determine if there are any microorganisms contributing to these symptoms.  If you’re experiencing digestive issues of any kind and you’d like to learn more about what’s causing these symptoms, see your local naturopathic doctor.