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DIY Food Intolerance & Allergy Test
By Melissa Breyer, Senior Editor, Healthy & Green Living
Unexplained headaches, fatigue, depression or weight problems? The culprit might be a food intolerance. In fact, the list of symptoms related to food intolerance (also called a food sensitivities) is jaw-dropping, and intolerance is surprisingly common. In contrast to a food allergy, which is an immune system response and not as common, food intolerance/sensitivity is a digestive system response–both can cause serious discomfort.
In order to determine if you have any food sensitivities, you can see your doctor for a blood test or use an at-home mail-order sample test. But if you’d prefer to save money and/or not have to collect and send bodily waste to a lab, you can use the simple and effective at-home pulse test to monitor how your body is reacting to the foods you eat. Following are instructions as described by Antony J. Haynes and Antoinette Savill in The Food Intolerance Bible (Conari Press, 2008).
About the pulse test. In the 1950s, Dr. Arthur Coca identified that his wife’s heart rate would increase if she ate a food that provoked an inappropriate or allergic response. This was, as Dr. Coca put it, ‘accidentally acquired knowledge’ which he then applied to patients as well as his wife. The results were very effective and consistent.
Dr. Coca had to rely on observation, given the relative lack of sophisticated blood tests that are more available today. He developed a rational approach to measuring the pulse and its connection with foods, and used the technique to help many thousands of people. He also identified a number of symptoms.
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add your comment »I made this test a few months ago and I found out that I have a food intolerance I couldn't get rid of and now because if my doctor's diagnostic I managed to solve this problem. I thank to him trough this website.
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The pulse test is okay for people with simple allergies (ie: allergies to one or just a few simple, uncomplicated food groups), but still works best in combination with an elimination diet.
Personally, I'm allergic to so many things (and so many families of things seemingly unrelated) that there is no way this would have worked to pinpoint the multiple sensitivities I encounter (my pulse would rise literally every single time I ate). Now that I've been able to successfully limit most of these from my diet, however, the pulse test is great for finding hidden allergens in foods and also for retesting.
If you really investigate the pulse test, however, you'll find that each allergen would need to be individually tested for on a 5 to 7 day track all by itself. It can take a couple of days for the allergen to cause a reaction and can take 3-5 days for that allergen to clear from your body and not disrupt further pulse study. [In other words, without using the elimination diet and strict introduction procedure, your pulse may indeed rise after a meal, but it could technically be partially due to something you ingested up to 3 days ago. This information was actually the biggest lifesaver for my personal allergy endeavor as I now know I can ingest certain foods once every 3-5 days without reaction whereas if I eat them twice or more in that period, I get seriously ill.]
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The best way to find out is to suck it up and get the actual test done. Immuno labs in the best place for this. You can ask your doctor about this and see if your insurance covers it.
http://www.immunolabs.com/
The food stress test will make a huge difference in your life. It did in mine.
They also have a small book called "Food Stress" by the founder of this lab that is a good read.
**Good luck to all of you out there who decide to take the time to do this - it will change your life and is well worth the money. There are doctors who will get you the test if you have to pay out of pocket for about 1/2 of the actual price!!
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This is great! I've known for awhile that most things "boxed" such has hamburger helper, rice-a-roni, or quick meals caused my heart rate to accelerate after eating them and have cut them out of my and my families diet. I tried to blame msg but have found that's not the culprit for me.
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How interesting! At an holistic health fayre recently, I purchased a DIY blood testing kit for food intolerances, suspecting that I may be intolerant to cocoa (chocolate :-( ). I was astounded to find that I'm intolerant to cocoa, cow's milk, rice, ginger and yeast and was a little sceptical to be frank. But having now gone two weeks without these things in my diet, I have to admit that I'm noticing significant differences, not least in digestive processes and energy levels. I'm finding it hard work to cut the 'culprits' out of my diet as I now have to really *think* about what I'm buying (for example, I almost bought Rice Crispies yesterday, forgetting that they're made of rice! Duh!) but hopefully it will be worthwhile in the long term.
I bet most of us do have food intolerances that we dont know about so if you get a chance to check yours, I do recommend that you do so!
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Pulse rates do change - for any number of reasons, but it's certainly worth trying out.
Pulse reading has been standard practice in oriental medicine for thousands of years, and is frequently combined with visual diagnostic exams of the tongue & other techniques as well.
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The pulse test works, and is the only self test I have seen with almost zero false positives. I have not experienced any yet personally.. The key is starting with a resting pulse rate before ingesting anything, which I am sure they explain in the book.
Just like any holistic modality or tool, it is not meant to do everything for everyone.. It is just a very powerful tool that empowers people and gives them lots of information to work with... at zero cost.
Other modalities or self tests or tools added on to this one makes up a holistic program... I call it adding arrows to the quiver. If your goal is to return to high energy, happiness and vibrant health, more than likely it will take lots of arrows in the quiver, not just one...
Health is kind of like archery. It takes practice, dedication and learning, plus skill. Having lots of arrows to shoot at a target means the likelhood of hitting a bulls eye goes up that much higher..
With enough holistic modalities, just about anyone can get to their goal.
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LOL - I just noticed that Psoriosis is not on the list but my husband has had it his entire life and has always been told it is due to a food sensitivity. Excema is not on the list either...
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This IS great information. According to the list of symptoms, the problem with almost everyone in the world is that they are having food sensitivities. Interesting.
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