Food Intolerance Testing 

Currently we are aware of several different kinds of reactivity to foods – food intolerance, food allergy and food sensitivity. 

Food intolerance is the inability to break down and use a certain food, resulting in a toxicity level and stress load.  An allergy occurs as the result of an immune system that is already malfunctioning for some reason. A food sensitivity includes those items that obviously cause discomfort, but don’t show up as a food intolerance and aren’t an immune-mediated allergy. 

Food allergies and sensitivities are more likely part of the symptom picture, rather than underlying causes.  They are often secondary to the hypersensitive system created by more fundamental stresses.  It has been shown that previously diagnosed allergies and sensitivities may clear up once the underlying food intolerance is identified and removed.

Everyone has a food intolerance…a food that their body was just not designed to process. You lack the ability to digest this food properly. Bacterial digestion of these foods creates by-products that are toxic and inflammatory to the body.   The extra energy that your body needs to spend to process these foods and their harmful by-products diverts energy away from necessary body activities. Over time, the body develops a toxic state and loses the ability to function properly. Illness or imbalance will show up in your genetically weakest system. (Ex. Asthma in someone who has a genetic weakness in their lungs; Arthritis in someone who has a genetic weakness in their joints, etc.)

The main food intolerances are traditionally considered healthy foods (such as dairy, potato, fruit, eggs, etc), but when you are intolerant to a food you are not able to benefit from the nutrients it contains. Thus, it becomes a double-edged sword – acting as a stress without providing nutrients, and taking up the space of foods that could be providing you with nutrients.

Carroll Food Intolerance Testing is part of the one on one consultation process in determining a healthy diet for clients of Vitasential Nutrition.  Once the intolerance is determined, our practitioner will work with you to remove it and replace it with better choices for your body, as determined through the health assessment.  We help you include foods that work best with your body, so your body can work best for you.

Health is a state of vibrant aliveness that you create from the inside out. Start living your full blueprint, and stop settling for less than who you can be.