🍽️ Food Sensitivity Testing

Stop Guessing What’s Hurting You. Let Your Immune System Tell Us.

Many people eat “clean,” take supplements, and still struggle with:

• Chronic inflammation

• Bloating, reflux, constipation, or diarrhea

• Brain fog and fatigue

• Joint pain and skin issues

• Anxiety, depression, and hormonal imbalance

• Stubborn weight or sugar cravings

Often, the problem isn’t what you eat—it’s how your immune system is reacting to what you eat.

Food Sensitivity Testing shows us the invisible immune reactions driving inflammation beneath the surface—often without obvious allergy symptoms.

🔬 What This Test Measures

This is a 96-Food Immune Reactivity Panel that measures:

• IgA antibodies – reactions on the gut lining

• IgG antibodies – delayed systemic immune reactions

• IgG4 antibodies – chronic, repeated immune exposure

These immune reactions are not food allergies (which are IgE and cause immediate anaphylaxis).
These are delayed inflammatory reactions, often appearing 6–72 hours later as:

• Fatigue

• Joint stiffness

• Headaches

• Brain fog

• Mood changes

• Digestive distress

• Autoimmune flare-ups

✅ What Foods Are Tested?

This panel evaluates immune responses to 96 of the most commonly consumed foods, including:

🥛 Dairy

• Casein

• Cow’s milk

• Goat’s milk

• Whey

• Cheddar cheese

🌾 Grains, Legumes & Nuts

• Wheat, gluten, gliadin, spelt, rye, oat

• Corn, rice

• Lentils, peas, kidney beans, chickpeas

• Almond, peanut, walnut, pecan

🥦 Vegetables

• Broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage

• Onion, garlic, carrot, celery

• Tomato, sweet potato, lettuce, spinach

• Cucumber, pumpkin, peppers

🍎 Fruits

• Apple, banana, berries, citrus

• Pineapple, peach, pear, papaya

• Grape, cranberry, raspberry

🍳 Eggs, Meat & Poultry

• Egg white, egg yolk

• Chicken, turkey, beef, pork, lamb

🐟 Fish & Shellfish

• Salmon, tuna, shrimp, crab, scallop, lobster

🌿 Herbs, Seeds & Miscellaneous

• Ginger, oregano

• Coffee, chocolate, yeast

• Cane sugar, flaxseed, sesame, sunflower

• Candida albicans immune screen

Each food is graded from:

• Very Low → Low → Moderate → High → Very High immune reactivity

🔥 How Food Sensitivities Drive Inflammation

When a reactive food is eaten repeatedly:

• The immune system releases inflammatory cytokines

• The gut lining becomes irritated and permeable

• Inflammation spills into the bloodstream

• Joints, brain, skin, thyroid, and hormones become affected

This is why food sensitivities are linked to:

• Autoimmune disease

• Chronic pain

• Migraines

• Anxiety & depression

• Insulin resistance

• Weight gain

• Hormone disruption

This test shows us which foods are silently keeping the fire burning.

⚡ Food Sensitivities, Stress & Immunity

Chronic stress weakens the gut barrier and increases immune overreaction.

That means:

• Stress → leaky gut

• Leaky gut → more immune reactions

• More immune reactions → more inflammation and fatigue

Food sensitivity testing helps us break this stress–immune loop by removing the immune triggers while we rebuild resilience.

🔁 Food Sensitivities & Metabolism

Reactive foods can:

• Drive insulin resistance

• Increase water retention and bloating

• Disrupt thyroid signaling

• Stall fat loss despite clean eating

Many people are “doing everything right” metabolically—but eating one or two high-reactivity foods daily that keeps inflammation locked on.

🧬 Food Sensitivities & Repair / Regeneration

Your body cannot heal efficiently when:

• The immune system is constantly activated

• The gut cannot absorb nutrients properly

• Inflammation blocks hormone signaling

Removing reactive foods often results in:

• Improved sleep

• Clearer thinking

• Less joint pain

• Calmer digestion

• Better hormone balance

• Faster exercise recovery

This is where true repair becomes possible.

🧭 Who Should Consider Food Sensitivity Testing?

This test is ideal for people with:

• Chronic bloating, reflux, IBS, or alternating constipation/diarrhea

• Autoimmune conditions

• Joint pain, arthritis, or fibromyalgia

• Rashes, eczema, acne, or psoriasis

• Migraines or chronic headaches

• Fatigue, brain fog, dizziness

• Anxiety, depression, mood swings

• Sugar cravings, stubborn weight gain

• Long COVID or chronic infections

• History of antibiotics, steroids, or gut infections

If your symptoms don’t fully match one diagnosis, food sensitivities are often the missing layer.

🧪 How the Test Works

1. Simple at-home finger-stick blood sample

2. Sample is mailed to the lab

3. Lab measures IgA, IgG, and IgG4 reactions to 96 foods

4. You receive a color-coded immune reaction report

5. We translate those results into a precise food reintroduction and healing plan

No guessing. No generic elimination diets.

✅ What Makes This Different from “Elimination Diets”?

Most elimination diets:

• Remove dozens of foods

• Are emotionally exhausting

• Are nutritionally restrictive

• Often reintroduce foods blindly

With testing:

• You remove only what YOUR immune system is reacting to

• You keep safe foods that nourish you

• Reintroduction is strategy-based, not experimental

• Healing is measurable, not theoretical

🎯 The Outcome

When immune-reactive foods are removed and the gut is supported properly, people often report:

• Less pain

• More energy

• Better digestion

• Improved mood

• Calmer nervous system

• Easier fat loss

• Fewer autoimmune flares

Not because we “treated symptoms”—
but because we removed immune triggers at the root.

✅ The Bottom Line

Food sensitivity testing answers one powerful question:

“Which foods are feeding me—and which ones are quietly harming me?”

If you’re tired of guessing, rotating diets, and hoping supplements will fix what food reactions are driving…
this test gives us direct immune intelligence so healing becomes targeted and efficient.

Comprehensive Digestive Stool Analysis

What It Reveals About Your Gut (and Why It Matters)

Most people think of their gut as a “food tube.”
In reality, it’s a living ecosystem that affects energy, mood, immunity, hormones, skin, and inflammation from head to toe.

A Comprehensive Digestive Stool Analysis (CDSA) is one of the most powerful ways to see what’s really happening inside that ecosystem instead of guessing. It analyzes your stool for digestion, bacteria, yeast, parasites, inflammation and immune activity, so we can map what’s driving your symptoms at the root.

What This Test Looks At

1. Your Gut Microbiome: Beneficial vs Imbalanced vs Dysbiotic

The test measures:

• Expected/Beneficial bacteria
  (Lactobacillus, Bifidobacterium, Bacteroides, Clostridia, Enterococcus, E. coli, etc.)
  These species help you:

  • Digest proteins, fats, and carbs

  • Make vitamins and short-chain fatty acids

  • Crowd out pathogens and calm inflammation

• Commensal / Imbalanced bacteria
  These are “neutral” bacteria that can overgrow when the good guys are low. An imbalance can contribute to gas, bloating, IBS-like symptoms, or post-antibiotic issues.

• Dysbiotic / Pathogenic bacteria
  These are troublemakers that can trigger diarrhea, abdominal pain, toxins, and systemic inflammation.

• Yeast / Fungal overgrowth
  The test looks for yeast in culture and under the microscope. Excess yeast can fuel sugar cravings, bloating, rashes, brain fog, and recurrent infections.

• PCR GI Pathogen Panel
  A highly sensitive DNA test for common GI viruses, bacteria, and parasites that might not show on standard cultures.

• Microscopic Parasite Evaluation
  A trained technologist looks for protozoa, worms and eggs over multiple samples, because some parasites shed intermittently.

2. Digestion & Absorption: Are You Actually Getting Nutrition From Your Food?

Your stool tells us a lot about how well you break down and absorb what you eat:

• Pancreatic elastase – a marker of pancreatic enzyme output; low levels suggest poor digestion of fats, proteins and carbs.

• Fecal fat stain – screens for fat malabsorption and steatorrhea.

• Carbohydrate residues – can indicate carb malabsorption or overgrowth in the small intestine.

• Muscle and vegetable fibers – show whether food is being fully broken down or moving too quickly.

If these markers are off, we know that no matter how “clean” your diet is, your body may not be accessing the nutrients.

3. Inflammation & Immune Activity Inside the Gut

The CDSA includes sensitive markers that act like a “smoke alarm” for inflammation:

• Calprotectin & Lactoferrin – help distinguish functional IBS-type symptoms from organic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

• Lysozyme – an enzyme released at sites of gut inflammation.

• Occult blood – screens for hidden blood in the stool that you cannot see.

• White blood cells, red blood cells & mucus – microscopic indicators of irritation, infection, or inflammatory bowel conditions.

• Secretory IgA (sIgA) – your first-line immune antibody coating the gut lining. Low levels suggest weakened mucosal defense; high levels suggest an upregulated immune response.

Together, these markers show whether your gut lining is calm and protected—or under attack.

4. Intestinal Environment & Metabolism

The test also looks at the overall “terrain” of your gut:

• Short-Chain Fatty Acids (SCFAs) – acetate, propionate, butyrate, valerate

  • Produced when beneficial bacteria ferment fiber

  • Support colon cell health, decrease inflammation, and help maintain a healthy pH

• Total SCFAs & butyrate level – reflect the quality of your bacterial fermentation and fiber intake.

• Stool pH – many pathogens prefer a more alkaline environment; beneficial bacteria help keep pH in a healthier acidic range.

• Color & consistency – simple but important indicators of transit time and bile flow.

These pieces tell us whether your microbiome is actively protecting you or quietly fueling dysbiosis and inflammation.

Who Should Consider a Comprehensive Digestive Stool Analysis?

You may benefit from this test if you have:

• Chronic bloating, gas, constipation, diarrhea, or IBS diagnosis

• Acid reflux, belching, or feeling “too full” after small meals

• Food reactions, sensitivities, or unexplained nausea

• Autoimmune conditions, joint pain, rashes, or headaches

• Unexplained fatigue, brain fog, or mood changes

• History of frequent antibiotics, acid blockers, steroids, or oral contraceptives

• Long COVID, chronic infections, or recurrent yeast/UTIs

• A sense that “something is off” in your gut even when basic tests are “normal”

How the Results Help Shape Your Plan

Instead of throwing random diets and supplements at symptoms, we can use the CDSA to build a precise strategy:

• Support digestion and absorption with targeted enzymes, bile support, or pancreatic support if needed

• Rebalance beneficial vs dysbiotic bacteria using tailored probiotics, prebiotic fibers, herbal antimicrobials or (when appropriate) medications

• Calm inflammation and help heal the gut lining with nutrients, herbs, and changes in diet

• Strengthen mucosal immunity when secretory IgA is low, or calm it down when it’s overactive

• Optimize fiber intake and microbiome metabolism to improve SCFAs and pH

• Address parasites or pathogens safely and systematically when present

The goal is not just symptom relief, but restoring a healthy internal ecosystem so the gut can do what it’s designed to do: digest, absorb, detoxify, regulate immunity, and communicate with your brain and hormones.

What to Expect From the Test

• At-home collection: You receive a kit, collect samples in the privacy of your home, and ship them back to the lab.

• Multiple samples: Collecting over more than one day increases the chance of catching intermittent organisms.

• Detailed report: We review bacterial balance, yeast/parasites, digestion, inflammation, immune markers, and gut environment.

• Personalized review: Your results are interpreted in the context of your history, symptoms, diet, and other labs.

Is It Time to Test Your Gut Instead of Guessing?

If you’ve tried “all the gut supplements” or multiple diets without lasting relief, a Comprehensive Digestive Stool Analysis can finally show us why—and where to focus for real, lasting change.

Talk with me (or your functional medicine practitioner) about whether this test is appropriate for your situation. It’s one of the most direct ways to see what your gut is asking for, so we can help it heal from the inside out.