Food Intolerance & Food
Sensitivity Testing Using
Kinesiology
Dietary & Nutritional Advice
for Perthshire, Angus, Dundee, Tayside & Fife
What is a Food
Intolerance?
Food intolerance is distinct from coeliac disease
and also food allergy. Coeliac disease is the most severe form of gluten
intolerance affecting around 1 per cent of the population and is caused
when your immune system becomes sensitised to gliaden (a protein in
gluten). The only way to diagnose coeliac is to ask your GP for a blood
test to look for the antibodies. Food allergies are rare – probably less
than 0.1 per cent of the population have a genuine wheat allergy – and
again a blood test will be necessary to diagnose. If you think that you
might be intolerant to gluten, then you should get yourself properly
tested to exclude coeliac and wheat allergy.
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How Can I Test For Food Intolerance?
Food intolerance is much more common than food
allergy and is not caused by the immune system. Intolerance is less
straightforward to diagnose - kinesiology (muscle testing) is a
non-invasive method of testing a variety of foodstuffs which the body
may be finding difficult to tolerate at any given time. Following this
an exclusion diet
should be followed to see if the symptoms improve or resolve. This may
be followed by a reintroduction phase in order that a clear diagnosis
can be obtained.
What Symptoms May Suggest an Intolerance?
Dietary factors contributing to conditions such
as Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Bloating, Diarrhoea, Nausea,
Vomiting, Asthma, Eczema, Migraine, Thrush, PMT, High Blood Pressure,
Sinusitis, Skin Rashes, and Glue Ear in children can often be identified
by food intolerance testing. Symptoms which may indicate headaches, low
energy, tiredness, constipation, diarrhoea, chronic runny or blocked
nose, etc. may also be caused by underlying food intolerance or
sensitivity.
Your Food Intolerance Consultation
A food
intolerance consultation will include muscle testing for the
intolerances and advice regarding any required adjustments to diet and
lifestyle. Assistance is offered to support these changes, such as
nutritional advice and recipe suggestions. The initial consultation is
followed-up in a further session, either face to face or by telephone.
The initial consultation (including a telephone follow-up) costs £65
(£50 for a child).
Andrea also works in
association with
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HYPNOTHERAPY of Alyth, Blairgowrie, Perthshire, which can offer
professional hypnotherapy services to clients requesting additional help
with such issues as weight control, quitting smoking, etc. Please
enquire for further details.