Food intolerance blood test

[ThyroidObsessed]

Hey everyone 😊

Does anyone know a reputable accurate and decent priced blood test kit to buy online for food intolerances please?

Thanks in advance 😁

[TiggerMe Ambassador]

I used this lot a few years ago and it was really helpful at pin pointing the sneaky ones.... lifelabtesting.com/?raf=ref...

Do you think it's intolerance or a histamine issue which was the other thing I struggled with?

[ThyroidObsessed in reply to TiggerMe]

I do not think it’s histamine I do not have the symptoms of that..:

I’m just trying to get my leaky gut health in order.. so I need to know what I should avoid..: I’m following a doctor on instagram called @izabellawentzpharmd and follow a lot of her protocols she is incredible 😌

[Regenallotment Ambassador in reply to ThyroidObsessed]

I followed Izabella Wentz 6 week elimination protocol in her books. I have 3, they are so helpful. I tried every supplement she mentioned too. It worked, I still restrict the main culprits and am confident in what I’m doing now. My other recommendation is the book Supergut by Dr William Davies. Highly rate that one too. 🌱

[Be_agles in reply to TiggerMe]

What do you mean by Histamine issues? Thanks

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to Be_agles]

For me, if I overfill my 'histamine bucket' it leads to migraine, nausea, IBS... 🤢

Example... I could eat an avocado today..... no problem... but if I had one again tomorrow it could tip me over the limit and I'd be in bed for a couple of days till it cleared my system 😳

So some foods are fine in moderation but if you combine to many high histamine or even worse histamine releasers 🤢 this is on top of avoiding dairy, nightshades, barley....

histamineintolerance.org.uk...

We've had a chat about it here....   Jaydee1507 is very knowledgeable 🤗 healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...

[Be_agles in reply to TiggerMe]

Thank you, that is very helpful. And explains a lot about my situation. 😊

[Jaydee1507 Administrator]

None of the food intolerance tests re clinically validated.

The gold standard for food intolerance is an elimination diet.

zoe.com/learn/common-food-i...

[ThyroidObsessed in reply to Jaydee1507]

Thank you for this information 😊

[SteveT3]

In all my years of testing for many things 'food intolerance tests' are rubbish. The best food intolerance test is my own food diary. Period. It can take 3-5 days of food to pass through the gut and during this time pain can ensue at different points in the digestive cycle - liver, stomach, pancreas, small intestine, bowl and brain. You will only discover this through exclusion and inclusion. To complicate it also - the microbiome can be trained and adapt. What I was intolerant to I am now not. Other things I am still. Somethings are ok in smaller less regular doses but not in quantity. So I advise you to start a food diary and monitor what you consume and pain.

[janeroar in reply to SteveT3]

Sounds like good advice. Is your diary a narrative account or do you use a spread sheet or something special.

[SteveT3 in reply to janeroar]

Its practical, terse and short so I can keep up with it. I just use notes on my phone. example. £ = good. ! means bad

0720 wake

0740 feel tired, energy !

1010 kefir, vit d 2, k, niacin, querc

1200 salmon, veg, sausage

1320 bm £

[ThyroidObsessed in reply to SteveT3]

Thank you for this information and advice…

My problem is I do not suffer physically at all, I only suffer mentally (not sure which is worse)

I went gluten free for 3 months it did not change my mental health issues and didn’t notice one single difference… I do believe dairy is an issue for me, I feel tired if I have a milkshake or ice cream 🤔

I was allergic to milk when I was born where my mum had no option but to breast feed me..

I then grew out of it…

Alately I notice I can not tolerate deep fried or greasy food anymore without feeling sick so I avoid that..

I also rarely have any dairy products so don’t think that’s a problem…

I’m currently taking probiotics and making bone broth for help with my gut 😌

[janeroar]

v helpful thanks a lot. Like the abbreviations!

[Partiallythere]

it’s interesting, I never put any belief in these but a friend recommended York as it had identified dairy intolerance and giving just this up has completely transformed their health. I did it last year and I wasn’t completely intolerant (red) of anything but was amber for wheat and yeast. Nothing else. I have long suspected gluten, but the test I bought also came with a one-hour call with a nutritionist, who was so worth the money! We talked in depth about my hashis etc and she recommended great probiotics which I still use everyday, and how to avoid what and yeast (but gluten isn’t my issue). They may not be completely validated, but my results were spot on for me!

[Anderdi]

I don’t know how accurate Food Intolerance testing is, but I have done two tests over the years with York Testing and the results, however much I don’t like them, seem to be in keeping with my own thoughts. yorktest.Com

[Snqanq]

I just had Yorktest done the test for intolerance to 200 food and drink ingredients, It's higher price compare other life lab testing as its more foods test.

Hope it helps!

[Billycasper]

I’ve done York testing and bioresonance testing for food intolerances which helped in a small way but didn’t sort the problem completely and actually took out far more foods than was necessary. This year I decided to do something different because I’m so fed up with cutting foods out of my diet so I saw an IBS functional medicine clinic (although I only had slight symptoms of IBS (main symptom palpitations) but that could be because I’d taken such a lot of foods out of my diet). The biggest thing that has helped for me during this is a histamine/SIBO bi-phasic diet (which isn’t for too long) which helped me to reintroduce eggs, peppers, potatoes and lactose free dairy into my diet again and an all singing all dancing stool test which showed up a few things including an increased occurrence of Citrobacter freundii which can cause leaky gut and Bastocystis (not sure of spelling). The protocol builds on things gradually so the body doesn’t get overloaded. I’m not completely finished but much improved and now have more of an idea of what contributes to my symptoms. Good luck with your quest 😊

[ThyroidObsessed in reply to Billycasper]

Thank you 🙏

[Mothebear]

Hello ThyroidObsessed

Possibly not answering your question directly. I started being gluten intolerant and decided (simplistically) as a result of having Hashimoto’s, that my immune system was attacking my thyroid because of the antibodies it generated.

So it became my focus to try and reduce any stimulus to my immune system so it would not be always hunting down and destroying antibodies (thereby on high alert for my thyroid cells).

I therefore got Regenerus lab to test me for all or any foods that I produced antibodies to…. He ho casein came up (protein in dairy, eggs) came up red, meaning high antibodies. So I stopped eating them along with gluten. A few others were amber, pumpkin seeds for example, so I don’t eat them very often.

I feel very good, healthy, active and I have few symptoms I can complain about.

Whether it’s the strict diet, who knows, but it really works for me.

As I say possibly not answering your question.

All the best and hopefully someone specifically answers your question.

[ThyroidObsessed in reply to Mothebear]

Thank you I do think I will do a test I do think it may be beneficial in some ways 😊

[Emuflea in reply to ThyroidObsessed]

I recommend regenerus too. There is school of thought that the foods aren’t the root cause, but gut health. Once you sort that the food intolerances and histamine problems calm down.