Nearly 32 million people in the U.S. have food allergies. Are you one of them?
Food sensitivities, once extremely hard to diagnose, are now becoming better understood and treatable, thanks to highly advanced testing like our P88-DIY Allergy and Sensitivity Test. Food sensitivity testing can tell you which specific foods you are reacting to so you can adjust your diet accordingly.
TEST, DON'T GUESS!
Measure your reactivity to 88 different foods using 4 independent types of reactions. These 352 separate tests assess the degree of your food sensitivities and allergies and of the inflammation you suffer from each tested food.
The P88-DIY tests each of the 88 foods for IgE, IgG, IgG4, and C3d reactions to assess the degree of reaction in each category.
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IgE reactions are allergic reactions. These reactions tend to be immediate and can symptoms like hives, swelling, itchiness, and the closing of airways.
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IgG reactions are slower reactions that result from food sensitivities. These reactions usually happen within 3- 72 hours after consuming a food. They can cause symptoms like diarrhea, bloating, abdominal discomfort, cramping, fatigue and lack of energy. Testing foods is important because so much time passes between when you consume a food and the symptoms, so you’re likely not to figure out for yourself which foods affect you.
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IgG4 reactions are usually beneficial. IgG4 is activated by the body to block the anaphylaxis that can occur from IgE reactions. If your IgG4 response is at a healthy level to a particular food, then it can block the immediately negative reactions to that food. If your IgG4 is low to a food, and the IgE reaction is high, you are likely at risk for more severe immediate reactions to that food.
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C3d reactions indicate that a certain food has triggered inflammation . Your GI symptoms might be more severe than with just an IgG reaction, and you may have generalized inflammation in other parts of the body. This inflammation may be chronic and can cause symptoms like brain fog, fatigue, lack of energy, and effects on the immune system.
The Report
When your tests are completed, you’ll receive a comprehensive report that details your reactions to IgE, IgG, IgG4, and C3d for each of the 88 foods tested. This report is color coded to indicate whether there is any reaction to each food and how severe that reaction is. It also includes explanations, guidance, and details for constructing an elimination diet to begin removing the foods that affect you.
Benefits
The first step to feeling better is to identify the triggers that make you hurt in the first place.
We all eat a varied diet, rotating between various foods throughout the day, and throughout the week. Because we eat so many types of food, and because many allergies don’t manifest their symptoms for ½ a week or more, it may be almost impossible to pinpoint which foods are causing your gut problems. Only with accurate and comprehensive sensitivity and allergy testing can you identify which foods are causing YOU problems.
Removing those foods from the diet will produce results relatively quickly. If you have symptoms like bloating and gas, not only will you feel less pressure and pain, you may notice yourself looking trimmer as the distension of your abdomen decreases. If you have cramping or diarrhea, you will likely find yourself more regular, and without that urgency to rush to the bathroom at the most inconvenient times. Your pain and discomfort should decrease. If you have symptoms like constipation and slow movement of food through the gut, you should also become more regular and less likely to strain to have a normal bathroom experience.
It may be that you are experiencing symptoms that you don’t even realize are related to your food sensitivities and allergies. You may feel fatigued all of the time. You may have a general lack of energy and find it difficult to accomplish what you ought. You feel hazy and have brain fog and not feel as sharp as you once did. The culprit in each of these cases may be the chronic inflammation that can affect your entire body as the result of your food allergies. Inflammation from food allergies can impact every organ in your body, and can shorten your life. It is a silent killer. Identifying and removing foods that you are sensitive to can eliminate these causes of inflammation, improve your immune system, help your mental acuity and memory, and give you more energy to accomplish all of the things you’d like to accomplish- and hopefully help you stick around longer to accomplish them.
Who Should Test?
This test is for the entire family!
Food sensitivities and allergies can start early and cause damage, pain, and suffering without realizing what the causes are. As we grow older, our ability to process certain foods may decrease over time, or because of our over reliance on particular foods. Identifying and taking these foods out of the diet will not only help us heal and prevent further damage, but will allow us to enjoy our favorite foods again at a later date after giving our bodies a break from them.
Our test kit allows you to easily draw your sample at home, and our proprietary micro-sampling device allows the most painless collection method currently in existence, making this test easy for the whole family.