Dietitian and Nutritionist for Fibromyalgia

A fibromyalgia support dietitian and nutritionist can potentially help reduce associated symptoms of the disorder in a number of ways.

• Review anti-inflammatory diet guidelines.
• Thoroughly analyze your diet for inflammatory foods that may exacerbate the condition.
• Outline potential benefits of plant-based or vegetarian meals on fibromyalgia symptoms.
• Work with a plant-based dietitian or a vegetarian nutritionist to help introduce more plant-based foods into your diet.
• Inform or review specific potential dietary triggers of fibromyalgia.
• Assess potential nutrient deficiency and how to include more vitamin D, E, C, and minerals (magnesium) and their impact on pain outcomes.
• Outline how to build better gut health and should you take probiotics to reduce systemic inflammation.
• Work with a gut health nutritionist to improve overall digestive health.
• Demonstrate how to build and maintain a Mediterranean (anti-inflammatory) eating pattern.
• Discuss the importance and sources of omega-3 essential fatty acids.
• Inform about supplements: those worth trying vs. skipping.
• Co-create a fibromyalgia meal plan.
• Provide ongoing support (during nutritional counselling sessions) for the management of fibromyalgia, including making changes and adjustments to the personalized fibromyalgia meal plan.
• Address other or co-existing dietary and health conditions, nutritional goals and needs by working with a chronic disease dietitian, weight loss nutritionist, sports nutritionist, dietitian for pediatric care et al.
• And more.