

Food Intolerance, Low Carb Diets and ALCAT Testing
Food Intolerance and Weight Loss Accurate identification of food sensitivities is vital to a successful weight loss and healthy eating program. Food sensitivities can cause sugar cravings by inducing a serotonin deficit in the brain chemistry. The sufferer will attempt to compensate for this deficit, and the resulting feelings of discomfort, by consuming refined carbohydrates. The insulin surge that follows will drive branch chained amino acids out of the blood thus allowing


We May Not Have to Age So Fast
We all age chronologically with the passage of time, but what about our bodies? Is physiological aging inevitable too? A growing cadre of biologists is starting to say no, thanks to developments in the field of epigenetics, which studies not our DNA itself but the processes that determine how our genes “express” themselves in directing our cells throughout our lives. If you think of your inherited genetics, your DNA, as a piano keyboard, then epigenetics determines how the ke

Tailored Diet? Scientist Stalk the Dream of Personalized Nutrition.
No single food regimen works for everyone. A new study is the most comprehensive effort yet to understand why. A decade ago, spurred by the success of the Human Genome Project and the affordability of genetic sequencing, scientists began to explore the promise of “nutrigenomics.” Could personalized nutrition, informed by knowledge of an individual’s DNA, help prevent and even treat diet-related diseases? The results of early studies from Harvard, Stanford and elsewhere were c


Unprocessed Foods Make you Eat More
Something about the industrial processing of food makes us more likely to overeat, according to a new study. Volunteers ate more and gained more weight on a heavily processed diet than an unprocessed one, even when the two diets had the same available calories and nutrients. The study is “a landmark first,” and a “shot over the bow” in a debate over the health of processed food, says Steven Heymsfield, an obesity researcher at Louisiana State University’s Pennington Biomedica

Symptoms of Food Sensitivities
Gastrointestinal Abdominal pain Bloating Constipation Diarrhea, loose stools Heartburn Indigestion Nausea Vomiting Musculoskeletal, joints, muscles, connective tissue Arthritis Inflammatory myopathies, myelopathies Joint discomfort, pain, stiffness, swelling Musculoskeletal discomfort Respiratory Food-induced bronchitis and asthma Sneezing Skin Dryness Itching Rashes Redness Scaling (as in eczema or psoriasis) Swelling Thickening Systemic Chills Fatigue Fever Sweating Weaknes


Mayo Clinic & Yale University Endorsing Food Sensitivity ALCAT Test
Mayo Clinic & Yale University Endorsing Food Sensitivity ALCAT Test and their scientific finds for food intolerance


ALCAT Test FAQs
Do I need to fill each tube completely?Each tube must be filled to capacity. Failure to do so may require recollection. How long will it tak


Inflammatory symptoms, immune system and food intolerance
Dr. ner. rat. Silvia Slazenger Inflammatory diseases and degenerative processes have greatly increased in the last decades and parallel the industrialization of food and modern life style. According to the GEK health report 2011 the most common disease of the German population is high blood pressure followed by depression and metabolic disorders such as diabetes 2 and over weight. Atopic disorders affect 5 -20%, about 50% of those patients suffer from atopic eczema. A 2010 su