The food that you eat can be a friend or an enemy

There are many good foods, some very healthy, but they do not benefit each of us in the same way. Each body is different and reacts to different foods differently. Food intolerances or food sensitivities are reactions to certain foods that our body has difficulty digesting. It produces IgG antibodies against them and signals innumerable ways to avoid or reduce the same food. The symptoms of intolerance can appear hours or even days after eating a particular food, and they vary from person to person.

Why does it happen

Under ideal conditions, we eat food and our body breaks down that food through digestion - we absorb its nutrients and we eliminate the rest. The gut is lined with lymph tissue, which is our immune system, and it’s main job is to alert the body if there’s a threat of infection. But from time to time, our immune system can be turned on when there is no threat. This is what can lead to a food sensitivity - our immune system reads harmless food as a threat. Food sensitiviteis activating the immune system and creating a chronic inflammation, which may be contributing to many health symptoms.

Food Sensitivities as a marker of gut inflammation and permeability

Having multiple food sensitivities can imply gut inflammation and leaky gut, symdrom. Leaky gut is something many people have but aren’t aware they have it. It’s silent. Leaky gut occurs when there is damage to the lining of the intestinal tract making it more permeable to substances that should not cross the delicate lining. Normally, only nutrients from fully digested foods such as vitamins, minerals, emulsified fats, amino acids and simple sugars are able to cross the intestinal barrier that separates our blood stream from our gut. But when the gut becomes leaky, undigested food particles, bacteria and toxins are able to make it through the gut lining and they enter the circulation, going to places in the body where they don’t belong.

Food sensitivities are the main cause of symptoms associated with leaky gut. Food sensitivities create a vicious cycle in that they help maintain the reason for their development (the leaky gut) while being the direct cause of the various symptoms suffered. 

Your Gut is Your Second Brain

Healing your gut is crucial to your health. Your gut is your second brain. Our gut microbiota play a vital role in our physical and psychological health.

The link between ADHD and Autism disorders to food sensitivities

There is a connection between ADHD and Autism disorders to food allergies and sensitivities. Reaserch proved that food-related IgG antibodies seem to be involved in the manifestation of these disorders. Reaserch have found that elimination diet had a significant positive effect on ADHD and ASD symptoms and defiant behaviour also decreased. In addition children with autistic disorders have shown elevated serum IgG antibodies to certain food, abnormal vitamin D or manganese levels, fatty acids distribution and abnormal detoxification markers.

What is Candida

This test analyzes IgG response specific to Candida to help identify an overgrowth of the fungus, suspected to be the underlying cause of a number of symptoms.

This test analyzes IgG response specific to Candida to help identify an overgrowth of the fungus, suspected to be the underlying cause of a number of symptoms.

Candida is a fungus, a form of yeast that lives in your mouth and intestines in small amounts. Its job is to aid with digestion and nutrient absorption. However, when it is overproduced it breaks down the wall of the intestine and penetrates the bloodstream and suspected to be the underlying cause of a number of symptoms.

Food sensitivities & Candida are recognized in researches to be correlated with many chronic health conditions:

After ordering the testing kit, we will provide you with all the information you need about the process. In addition, we will send you a short questionnaire to understand your preferences, history and goals. After receiving your test (3-5 business days) your coach will guide you with the instructions in order to perform it correctly. You will get a pre-paid label to ship the specimen back to the lab. Results are between 10-14 business days from the day that shipping has arrived back to the lab. We also send each result to a third-party lab interpretation company for accurate understanding of the results.

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