While terms may vary, there are three types of adverse food reactions: true food allergy, food intolerance, and food sensitivity. An example of a true food allergy, which occurs in approximately 2% of the population, would be a life-threatening reaction to shellfish, or peanuts. True food allergy is also known as Type 1 or IgE.
A food intolerance example is lactose intolerance, where a person lacks adequate enzyme to break down the sugar in milk.
Food sensitivities on the other hand are often hidden, variable, and dose dependent, yet can cause an extremely wide range of chronic symptoms – GI issues, headache, rashes, pain, fatigue, fat storage, ear/nose/throat problems, asthma, behavioral issues, to name just a few.
Food sensitivity sufferers often go from one doctor and one treatment to another without relief.
Advances in food sensitivity testing technology now offer the opportunity to identify and treat hidden food sensitivities that may be involved in chronic pain.
The most accurate testing option is the Mediator Release Test, or MRT: Sensitivity 94.5%, Specificity 91.7%, and Split Sample Reproducibility >90%. MRT precisely measures changes in cellular reaction to a reactive food or chemical, and can do this for virtually all non-IgE immunological pathways.
Dietitians trained in the research-based MRT protocol work with the test results to create a personalized, hypoallergenic diet for each individual.
Results are often fast, and dramatic.
MRT is a simple blood test that measures your own cellular reaction to 150 common foods and chemicals. This test tak
es the guesswork out of the tried-and-true but difficult to follow elimination diet. MRT defines your unique sensitivities in full color (Red or High Reactive, Yellow or Moderately Reactive, and Green or Low Reactive) to guide you in creating a diet that is not only reaction-free but wellness-producing.
If you read discussion forums for IBS and other chronic conditions, people will often comment that certain foods seem to aggravate their symptoms, but they have trouble determining which ones. The comment, “If only there was a test…”, is omnipresent in these discussions.
Today, there is such a test, and it’s called MRT. If you struggle with one or more chronic conditions, and have the feeling that food is involved, it probably is.
Read through the links to the right to learn more. MRT may be the first real option for getting better that you have seen in a while. Be sure also to check out the testimonial (http://wp.me/PvPaO-7X) that is so characteristic of many MRT patients.
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