Besides being known for helping actors, athletes and high performing people Juli Keene is also great with complicated nutrition issues and she’s worked with many people dealing with chronic illness. The doctors who refer to Juli specialize in SIBO, mold illness, histamine issues, mast cell activation syndrome, POTS and Juli meets with doctors and other practitioners troubleshoot complicated cases and share information with these very complicated issues. Juli has a specially created hybrid program for people dealing with complicated issues. Hybrid means using both group and private appointments along with her proven strategies to change eating habits and optimize nutrition. Juli’s past experience with children on the autism spectrum, her own experience with mold illness and mast cell issues, her daughter with severe POTS and then her added training in this area in the past 10 years has her way ahead of most nutritionists regarding these issues.
One huge but not always discussed side effect of chronic illness is the weight gain that can come with it. Weight gain and chronic illness is a huge issue. Many people feel guilty or embarrassed to ask their doctors for help with weight loss as it seems inconsequential compared to the huge health challenges they often face for many years, and sometimes a lifetime.
However, having Juli figure out your exact nutritional needs will support both your physical and mental health as well as the weight loss you want. Diet changes are paramount to any healing program. Juli knows how hard it is and she understands the difficulties you face including:
- slow metabolism
- fatigue
- chronic pain
- gut imbalances and challenges
- exercise intolerance
- low motivation
- brain fog
- insomnia
- depression
- muscle atrophy
- lack of energy to shop and make healthy meals
- problems with allergies and sensitivities
- a serious need for comfort food
- Candida (yeast)
- Sugar and carbohydrate cravings that are so hard to resist
Juli is an expert in the area of chronic illness and weight loss, and will help you figure out exactly what to eat, when, and how much so that you can lose weight in a safe and effective manner, and keep it off for the long run. Have you ever taken a look at the fake “food” products they give to very sick people? Ensure & Boost type meal replacement drinks? Or Pediasure for the kids? Really? They are the exact opposite of what we should be eating when sick or frail. They are devoid of protein and healthy fats and filled with sugar, dairy, corn syrup, artificial flavors, chemicals and cheap vegetable oils. Yuk!! They will only make you sicker. These products have more sugar than a candy bar and will make inflammation worse. Yet, this is what many conventional physicians are recommending to people who are chronically ill.
WHY SIBO AND FODMAPS DIETS ARE NOT THE ANSWER TO SIBO
Even the supposedly health Elemental and Low FODMAPS diets often prescribed for SIBO are offering only temporary (if any) relief to most people. Those diets are not macro balanced and are too high in certain sugars. They starve certain types of pathogens and feed others. Things like Candida (yeast) are able to thrive and cause further dysfunction in the gut. Juli uses real food as much as possible and uses systematic, time-proven methods to help you figure out what to eat while healing your gut. If you are one of most who have tried antibiotics like Rifaximin and Neomycin only to have your SIBO symptoms come right back within a year or even months, you know the issues this causes. The correct food plan is absolutely essential to permanent gut healing. Any practitioner or doctor who tells you that the antibiotics alone or with just a Low Fodmap or Elemental Diet will fix your issues is misinformed. We have seen this fail over and over since they started less then 10 years ago.
Juli will use lab testing to figure out what your body needs as you work on eliminating
foods that are causing the most issues. You may temporarily be on a very restricted diet but the symptoms will be decreasing which does not always happen on the elemental or fodmaps diets. There is no world where you don’t eat nutrient dense foods and you eat whatever you feel like it and get your health back. That is the truth. But it doesn’t have to be painful to make the diet changes you need.
Juli will help you get rid of these highly processed non-foods and on to an easy, healthy, delicious diet you will enjoy and get well with. Juli also works with children and adults with special feeding needs and those with chronic illness who have trouble keeping weight on. An important part of nutrition for chronic issues is the group support and feedback. Often peer support makes the difference along with nutritionist support, and tools and strategies that work.
MODERN DAY EPIDEMICS – NUTRITIONAL AND HOLISTIC SUPPORT FOR CHRONIC ILLNESS AND CHRONIC FATIGUE
Chronic fatigue has become a catch-all phrase which usually means your Doctor doesn’t know what is wrong with you, or why you are so tired. You know you are suffering from many of the symptoms listed above and that you are unable to function in your daily life as you once could. You just don’t know why. Perhaps your doctors have told you it must be anxiety or depression or even hypochondria (all in your head)?. Juli knows that this a rarely the case. No one wants to be sick and too exhausted to do what they enjoy or to show up for their families. Over the years, Juli Keene has done her research and worked closely with the best integrative medical doctors, nurse practitioners and PAs to help her patients find the correct diagnostic tests and treatments, and to heal from these debilitating conditions that so many people suffer from these days.
Juli has found that much of this chronic fatigue and the autoimmune epidemic is actually caused by underlying infections and environmental toxins including viruses like Herpes, CMV and EBV, mold exposure and illness, heavy metals, Lyme, Strep, Babesia, Bartonella, Candida, parasites, SIBO, Klebsiella, Citrobacter, exposure to toxins like mold and more.
Juli refers her patients to the best practitioners in Los Angeles or their area for IV vitamin and medical therapy, stem cell treatments, low dose naltrexone, herbal therapy and many other modalities which have been the answer to beating these illnesses for many people.
Juli is constantly reading, researching and stays on the cutting edge of integrative medical treatments and the Doctors who offer them. An Initial Consultation with Juli Keene will help you to optimize your nutrition and also to help you prioritize and design and plan of action including which methods and practitioners to choose. These are important decisions that could affect the outcome of your healing. Having a clinical nutritionist and “chronic illness concierge” with 20 years of experience is helpful for most people.
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