Food Sensitivity Testing

What the heck am I doing?

And why am I not able to color between the lines????

This is an IgG and Immune Complex Food Sensitivity Test and Zonulin Test.

And the red color in those circles is my blood.

Food sensitivities are very different from food allergies. Allergic reactions to food can cause hives, itching, or swelling of the tongue or throat, and can be life threatening.

While food sensitivities are not life threatening, they can significantly reduce your quality of life.  Food sensitivities can lead to any combination of headaches, skin issues, fatigue, bowel troubles, irritability, brain fog, joint pain, depression…….and on and on and on.

When the body becomes sensitive to a food it sees it at a threat and develops antibodies against it. This leads to chronic low-grade inflammation.

Things like hypothyroid, auto immune disease, adrenal fatigue, and any type of gut dysbiosis (such as leaky gut or SIBO) can lead someone down the path towards a food sensitivity. To make matters worse, if someone has a leaky gut, they become sensitive to the foods they eat the most often, in other words, their favorite foods.

This is the KBMO Diagnostics FIT 132 test with a Zonulin test. It measures 132 foods and additives spanning all major food groups. Zonulin is a protein that modulates the permeability of the gut. Some people are more sensitive to Zonulin than others.

This FIT 132 test gives you a sensitivity rating for each food. If a food tests high on the scale, then I recommend at least a 3-4-month elimination. Sometimes longer is required for healing. This allows the body to stop producing antibodies to those foods. This will decrease the antibodies to <10% of the original amount. During this time, it is important to support the gut correctly to allow for healing.  If you don’t, it is highly probable you will become sensitive to the new foods you are now eating most often.

Not all food sensitivity tests are created equal. I have done a lot of research and collaboration with other practitioners and have found this one to be far superior to most others. Due to the way many tests are processed, they are subject to many false positives and negatives. This test has a superior technology that significantly improve its accuracy.

This is one of the many tools in my Functional Medicine toolbox that I can utilize with my clients in their quest towards Optimal Health. The KBMO FIT test must be ordered by a practitioner.

Many people go through life feeling “fine”, but not thriving. Food sensitivities can be at the root of some of those dynamics. Please reach out for more information.