Food Sensitivities and Your Reactions

December 26th, 2008

To the surprise of many, food sensitivities are one of the most common causes of chronic health problems. Because food sensitivities can develop for healthy foods just as easily as they can for unhealthy foods, simply following a good diet is not enough.

Nearly everyone has sensitivities to certain foods, but they’re often difficult to identify. Unlike food allergies which tend to be dramatic and immediate, food sensitivities are more mild in nature and can take up to several days to manifest. While that may not seem like a big deal, these sensitivities invoke a response from your immune system. When this happens day after day and year after year, major malfunction can result and the effects aren’t so mild anymore.

Symptoms Can Easily Go Undetected

People who are unaware of their food sensitivities are typically eating foods on a regular basis that they are unknowingly reacting to. As a result, the reactions become commonplace and they sort of become numb to them. Conversely, if you are strict about following a clean diet and avoid the foods that you are sensitive to, your reactions clear up and you suddenly realize how much the food you’ve been eating has been negatively affecting you. And once you realize this, it becomes much easier to recognize a food sensitivity reaction as it’s happening. It also becomes easier to associate specific reactions with the foods that are causing them.

By aggravating your immune system and causing inflammation with nearly every meal you eat, you’re putting major wear and tear on your body and are setting the stage for infection and further trouble. Although I don’t tend to have serious food sensitivity reactions, I’m sensitive to quite a few foods and I’m certain this has played a significant role in the the health issues I’ve had to deal with.

Some of the symptoms I used to experience on a regular basis include fatigue, gas, bloating, pimples, headaches, muscle stiffness, aching joints, and itchy skin. Believe it or not, these complaints can all be tied to food sensitivities, and this is just a fraction of the possible symptoms! Now that I am almost completely free of these symptoms, it’s amazing how obvious it is when I eat something that I shouldn’t and one or more of these symptoms temporarily return.

Identifying Your Sensitivities

The most reliable way to identify food sensitivities is through blood testing, and in my opinion, the best test is the Mediator Release Test by Signet Diagnostic Corporation. Unlike allergy tests and other food sensitivity tests that measure specific immune responses, the MRT tests for the inflammatory result of the immune response. This enables the MRT to recognize sensitivities based on any type of immune response and leaves much less possibility of a food sensitivity going unnoticed.

If you’d like to take your health to the next level by identifying your food sensitivities and adjusting your diet accordingly, I highly recommend my food sensitivity program.

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