- Do you have chronic, hard-to-treat irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or migraine headaches?
- Are you aware that you don’t react well to certain foods, and wonder what other foods you should be avoiding?
Food sensitivities can cause or worsen many health problems, especially IBS and migraine headaches. Food sensitivities are more likely to be causing your symptoms if:
 Symptoms are chronic and frequent- Evidence of active inflammatory process is present
- Chronic excessive mucous production is present
- You have more than one medical problem that might be related to food sensitivities. In addition to IBS and/or migraines, you might have some of the following: fibromyalgia, diarrhea, other types of headaches, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, chronic sinus problems, hives, eczema, inflammatory or rheumatoid arthritis, or attention deficit disorder.
Details about who can benefit from Mediator Release Testing
Your food sensitivities are unique to you!
Migraine patients are often advised to avoid aged cheeses, red wine and chocolate. This advice won’t do you much good if your migraines are really triggered by aspartame or corn. IBS patients are often advised to eat more high fiber foods. That won’t help if your IBS is really triggered by wheat or apples. If you found out you could control your migraines or IBS by avoiding, say, Red Dye #3, mushrooms, or soy, would you do it? What if there was a way to have your blood tested to see what your safe foods are and what foods you are more likely to be reactive to? Mediator Release Testing does just that!
Mediator Release Testing (MRT)
MRT is a simple blood test during which very small samples of your blood are exposed to a panel of 150 foods and food chemicals. The test works by measuring whether the immune cells in your blood react by releasing “mediators”, or chemical messengers capable of causing inflammation and pain in your body, when they are exposed to the test substance.
MRT is not diagnostic for anything. It is used to design a targeted, personalized elimination diet to reduce symptoms caused by delayed, immune-mediated food sensitivities.
More information about how the test works
Please call Nutrition Works at 772-6279 for more information about the MRT/LEAP program. |
