Standard allergy tests are performed on the skin and only measure immediate reactions such as the onset of a rash or anaphylactic shock directly after consuming a specific food like peanuts or shellfish. These types of allergies are actually very rare, occurring in only 3% of the population. They are also very well defined, making the causes relatively simple to identify.

In contrast, delayed reactions causing the symptoms listed above are far more common. They occur in your digestive tract and can take hours or even days to present themselves. Standard allergy tests are simply not equipped to consider these.

Why Food Journals can be ineffective

Due to the delayed nature of these sensitivities, it is difficult to find them by simply paying attention to what you eat with a food diary. You can eat something for breakfast, yet not react to it until after dinner or even the next day, making food jounals and food tracking only a crude tool. This is akin to a police detective questioning 10 suspects one at a time hoping for a confession when DNA evidence could spare them the trouble. You may eventually have a clue, but you would have to concentrate on one potential suspect (food) at a time and interrogate (experiment with your diet) for days, if not weeks in hopes of finding the offender. Our tests will remove any doubt and save you valuable time and effort.

The simple answer: The immune system does not always act in our best interest.
Under normal circumstances, the immune system protects the body from the harmful effects of invading elements such as viruses, bacteria and toxins. However, when imbalances occur, it can often overreact to benign substances such as foods.

As digestion and gastrointestinal health decline through poor diet, digestive issues or aging, we become more and more vulnerable to this phenomenon. Foods do not break down properly in our stomach and undigested proteins make their way into the bloodstream. Because these particles do not belong there, the immune system mounts a response and develops antibodies to combat them. The next time you eat that food, your body actually recognizes it as a foreign invader and attacks, resulting in harmful symptoms. More importantly, the longer you continue to unknowingly consume this food, the more frequent and prolonged the reaction becomes.

Undigested particles can also have similar structures to naturally occurring proteins in the bloodstream.
When cells mistake one for the other, your body can actually begin to attack itself!
If undetected, chronic and debilitating autoimmune diseases such as Hashimoto’s Disease or Multiple Sclerosis may develop.