Could food intolerance be causing your problems?

If you frequently experience headaches, breathing problems, recurrent sinus infections, joint pain or other chronic problems that doctors can't explain the cause is probably your food.  Food intolerances are different thatn the immediate hypersensitivities experienced by susceptible peopel triggered by strawberries, shellfish, nuts, etc.  Some food allergies cause immediate symptoms like rashes, hives, throat constriction, and nausea even potentially a medical emergency called anaphylactic shock.  Food intolerances don't create these symptoms, instead they create a low level of inflammation throughout the body contributing to a myriad of symptoms such as: migraine, earaches, eczema, irritable bowel, arthritis, and even Attention Deficit Disorder.  The best way to test these reactions is with a IgE, IgG food panel which test for immediate, and delayed hypersesitivity reactions.  Some of our labs offer testing panels for 150-300$ testing up to 100 foods from a single blood draw. Most Medical doctors do not offer blood testing because the relationship between food and illness is not really within their expertise.  Allergists test typically via scratch trests which test only for immediate hypersensitivies.  If someone is chronically inflammed the specifity of results is not that good.

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Sugar intake can cause muscle tension worsening conditions like: TMJ and Fibromyalgia.

Low fat diets can be harmful to 50% of Americans with normal cholesterol who are not overweight.

Lactose intolerance is an early sign of intestinal dysbiosis-please see our candida page, and is reversible.

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