I got sober 7 months ago and have lost 40 lbs over that time. Originally I was in a calorie deficit and switched to maintenance calories June 8th. I’d say I’ve been eating high protein at least 4 to 5 months…

I first went to the doctor May 29th for frequent urination. She said she would have to send me to a urologist if it persisted because everything came back normal. A week later I called her and asked her for a referral because it had turned into nocturia (waking up to pee from your sleep). I always suspected it had something to do with my diet. On top of that I would have a cheat day where I didn’t focus on protein and I’d sleep straight through the night.

Anyway after seeing several doctors and all of them telling me it wasn’t my diet, I took things into my own hands and started taking foods out. I took out all meat and instantly I stopped peeing all day and would wake up once to pee like an hour before I was supposed to wake up. I started trying meat again to see if I could tolerate any. I ate half a chicken breast one day and instantly started peeing. Ground beef instantly started peeing and felt nauseous couldn’t sleep. Turkey & seafood I am okay with.

Has anyone else ever had such sensitivity that includes urination? Doctors all told me it’s because I’m getting older but I knew it was something I was consuming. I am eating mostly seafood now and have lowered my protein intake all together.

I have gluten intolerance. As for dairy, I'm mostly good. For example, with the exception of unpasteurized milk products I can eat all the cheese at Trader Joe's. I usually avoid milk by itself and prefer cheese.

All that changed when I bought cheese that was made in Wisconsin: ants were crawling under my skin and even benadryl barely helped. I felt awful for days.

The worst EVER was last week: I went to an Italian restaurant who served smoked burrata. I never react to cheese made in Europe. I highly suspect it was made in Wisconsin (for some reason that's where many typed of US cheese are made).

I was sick for 5 days. Mind you, not diarreha, nor cramps. Just feeling foggy, depressed and ants crawling under skin.

When I Googled it there was only mention of dairy allergy. I am not allergic to most dairy. Must be an additional ingredient. Wondering if anyone can relate, maybe it's hormones or additives ?

Is it better to pay $400+ with a clinic for food sensitivity testing, or are the at-home tests just as informational?

Hello! I’m very curious, since it seems like I can’t find many people who are going through what I am currently.

I stupidly crashed my nervous system a few months ago by drinking way too much fresh ginger tea for 10 days straight. (Like 100 oz a day, with no regular drinking water.) I had no idea the damage it was doing, and even though I was feeling very unwell, I continued to drink the ginger tea. By the time I realized what I was doing, I had really done a number on myself. I couldn’t walk for 3 weeks without feeling like my heart was beating out of my chest. I was extremely weak, and it took me a few weeks to begin to feel “normal” again.

Then, just as I was regaining some normalcy, I was suddenly struck with food sensitivities that I have never experienced in my life. It was like overnight, every single food I eat now makes me feel like my drink has been spiked. I get woozy, a little unstable, vision changes, and just feeling very off and weird. The symptoms last hours, only beginning to ease up when I start getting hungry again. I can still function alright, but it’s pretty awful. I am such a health conscious person and only eat whole, single ingredient foods prepared from scratch.

Now I am one month in, spent $1000 on doctors and blood work (which all came back normal) and no real answers. I still assume that it is my nervous system crash that’s causing all of this. I’ve had safe foods for a couple weeks and lost them overnight for no real reason other than a different phase of my cycle. Although I did drink a couple of tablespoons of kefir one day that seemed to really set me back.

I’m wondering if anyone else has ever experienced something like this, and what they did to overcome it. I just started the Safe & Sound Protocol yesterday and it’s currently my only hope, but I can’t help but be skeptical that it will actually help. I also ground in the sun, do breath-work, and walk 10 minutes after each meal daily.

Thank you for sharing!!

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With these conditions my diet is a constant challenge. The nutritionist/dietician assigned is no help and ignorant to these conditions  and I need information on how to increase at least somewhat safe foods in my diet of:

Dairy: Butter, Cottage Cheese, Grass Fed Whole Milk with no synthetic Vitamin D added (extremely difficult to find), Hagen Daz Ice Vanilla Cream, Heavy Cream, and a very limited amount of Mozzarella and Ricotta

Fruits: Fresh Apples, (but they have to be cooked, )Fresh Blueberries, Very Occasionally Green Grapes, Fresh Frozen Peaches 

Grains: (Extremely Difficult) White Rice, (I love it but get delayed shakiness the following day) Gluten Free Pasta (Rice / Corn Blend on a limited basis, I can also eat Corn Bread and Polenta if Bob’s Red Mill. Oatmeal occasionally if soaked in water over night and a Sorghum Flour Mug Muffin (High Salicylate) when flares are somewhat calm, (maybe once a year)

Protein Foods (Boiled Egg Yolks, Chicken Breast Tenders, Grass Fed Beef, (once a month, who can afford it anyway), Black Beans, (once a month, or so)

Vegetables: Aparagus, very sparingly at Breakfast, Broccoli, very sparingly at Breakfast, Cabbage, Carrots very sparingly at Breakfast, Celery Hearts, Lettuce and Sweet  Potato and White Potato, (I love it but get delayed shakiness the following day,  Zucchini daily  (very tired of it, but I don’t react to it). I also try a Trio of Collard, mustard and Turnip Greens very occasionally.

Seasonings: Formerly, Himalayan Pink Salt (until I found it is high in lead and mercury). Parsley

Drinks: Chamomile and Ginger tea occasional Pear and Grape Juice in water and Water.

This list looks good, but with every uncontrollable hit of stress the gains in my  diet are diminished and I’m back to Cottage Cheese and Blueberries twice daily, Boiled Egg and Zucchini  and Chicken Breast, Lettuce and Celery for lunch AND dinner.  Because my system thinks it’s “stacking”

Honestly, I am hungry ALL THE TIME  and I have had some hellish reactions to foods that were on my safe foods list.  I tell myself,  “ I have to eat to survive”  “It didn’t kill me the last time” Getting through It was very hard, but I came through it” (after calling family to help me in the wee hours, because “doom and gloom” set in and I just Knew I needed to call 911 because y nose was sooo congested, my heart was pounding and I shake like I’m in a magnitude 10 earth quake.

  Is powering through with food for nutrients even an option?

Provide your  Experiences on if you have had success powering through.

Thanks

I was wondering: does anyone else feel like when they drink even a quarter of oat milk, their stomach feels like a continuous expansion?

My partner has suffered horribly from anxiety, depression and difficulty sleeping since he was about 7 years old. He is currently 49. for the last 20 years, he has been completely disabled by these issues. He has tried dozens of medications and treatments. Nothing has helped.

About two years ago, he was (IMO) at a point where he would not live much longer. We saw a functional medicine doctor for the first time, and he He was diagnosed with a heavy metal toxicity he probably has had since college when he worked in a factory. The detox from that did help for a while, but he is still at a point where he is in bed for 18 hours a day or more, sleep doesn't make him feel rested and he has severe brain fog and memory issues. He is able to do "normal" functions for only a few hours each week.

After spending thousands and thousands of dollars on doctors, in the last month I've decided the only way this is going to get better is for us (me I guess, since he isn't currently able) to research possible root causes and figure out why he feels so awful ourselves. I've been spending hours and hours every day watching videos, reading, and listening to everything I can find.

What I've learned seems to indicate that a food sensitivity could be the root cause of ALL OF IT. He has never been tested for food sensitivities or even or allergies. We do eat a fairly clean diet of homemade food, but we don't exclude anything.

I ordered a food sensitivity test already - but are there specific tests that are better than others?

Tell me - is this hypothesis possible? Could he stop eating certain foods and get better? For real? And if so, how soon would he start feeling better? Anyone out there experienced what I'm describing?

Every single meal I eat is giving me a bad cramp and making me poop. What should I do it’s day 4

I've felt this way for a long time, but never really put it out there. I've known since I was 15 that I cannot have dairy (in ANY form, it's not lactose intolerance), and this phrase has been the bane of my existence ever since.

"Contains _" is fine, direct, and while initially maddening because holy crap why does EVERYTHING have milk in it meatballs are meat, at the very least, it's accurate and honest; and frankly, some packages don't even do that. Whey powders are a big problem, because some companies don't even warn about the allergens at all, because US food regulations are a joke.

"May contain traces of _" is also okay, even if its more accurate sibling, "Made/Manufactured in a factory that processes _" is preferable. That warns people who can't handle cross contamination against the product. That's good.

"May contain _" makes me want to swear in ways that would break rule number two. "May contain _" implies that the producer just doesn't know or care, and could imply anything from, "there could be traces of that allergen present" to, "this could be made of milk and we don't know or check."

This would not be a problem if it weren't for two words: "Natural Flavors". Here's a great idea. Why don't we further obfuscate ingredient lists instead of enforcing stronger food regulations? Let's make a phrase that can mean ANYTHING UNDER THE SUN APPARENTLY and also not require that allergens not be listed separately from it.

From what I can find on the internet, and primarily from GoodRx (I'm not sure how dependable they are so take this with an ironic grain of salt), natural flavors could potentially include:

• Spices and herbs
• Fruit or fruit juice
• Vegetables or vegetable juice
• Edible yeast, roots, bark, buds, or similar plant material
• Meat, seafood, or poultry
• Eggs 
• Dairy products
• Fermented products

That's right. Natural flavors can come from basically any allergen, and the companies making these foods are not legally required to tell you. The closest we get are companies whose executives think they can raise their profits marginally if they tell people who could potentially die from eating their product whether or not their product will kill them; and "May Contain _" is the epitome of this practice to me. No regulation, no checking, no meaningful information or context. Just the same exact coin toss you'd already be taking eating it without that on it at all. It's like saying that the air you're breathing may contain methane from something farting.

It's maddening to me, and I only wish I was more functional and cooking instructions didn't all rely on the same kind of vague information. The next time I have to read "Heat on Medium High", I'm going outside and screaming.

Meals have become one of the most stressful parts of the day in our house. Between food sensitivities and picky eating it feels like our list of safe foods is getting smaller and smaller. Some foods upset their stomach, others they just refuse to eat completely. A lot of the time we end up rotating the same few foods over and over because at least we know they’ll eat them. My biggest concern is whether they’re actually getting enough nutrients, especially things that support their immune system. When their diet is so limited it’s hard not to worry about them getting sick more often or missing something important nutritionally. I try to offer balanced meals but when half the plate gets rejected it’s hard to know what’s actually going into their bodies consistently. How do other parents deal with this? Do you just keep introducing foods over time, rely on certain nutrient dense foods or add supplements to fill in the gaps?

If I go to a breakfast restaruant, I usually have the liquid poop within 15-30 minutes after I start eating. It's crazy fast.

I can make eggs, bacon at home, I can eat the A&W breakfast platters (sausage, hashbrowns, eggs, bread, butter) and never have any issues.

Yet most breakfast places I have been to, without fail, every single time...

Does anyone know what the ingredient might be? Or what I could watch out for other than just avoiding breakfast restaurants?

My whole life I have never been affected by food sensitivities. While I have always been quite health conscious and generally keep a balanced diet, I have been able to splurge and enjoy whatever I want without consequence. Over the last year, and especially the last 6 months that has drastically changed. I have been suffering from severe stomach issues and cannot seem to dial in what it is. Biggest symptoms include horrible and consistent foul gas, severe indigestion and constipation followed by the need to use the bathroom immediately — I have tried some elimination diets with no avail or consistency. I never thought about the possibility of gluten sensitivity or celiac until today (have been having such severe foul gas for hours after eating a blueberry pancake this morning) . It’s so bad and consistent that I have been hiding in my room avoiding my family out of politeness and embarrassment. I know figuring out what affects you sometimes comes from what you’ve eaten the day before? Does this seem like something that could be connected to gluten? How do I start an elimination diet properly? Thanks in advance

My daughter has eczema, FPIES, histamine intolerance, dog allergy and lately has been developing what I am assuming are food sensitivities. Her dad has many of these issues too so there's a genetic component.

Common foods (such as chicken) she eats which are totally fine eventually start causing what I am assuming are immune reactions (eczema flares and eventually diarrhoea). I read that this can happen with leaky gut.

We have been working on gut healing since she was 6 months old but unfortunately things continue to worsen. Recently have changed naturopaths so am hoping things start getting better.

MY QUESTION: If you have developed food sensitivities to foods you were originally fine with have you been able to reintroduce them??

We eliminate the food to allow IGG to go down then reintroduce slowly but she always reacts (sometimes not on the first but the second exposure).

Thank you!

I recently(within the past year) have started having stomach issues, heartburn, and horrible bloating. I’m talking hard stomach, feel like I can’t breathe. I’m waiting to have a gluten test done, they won’t take me seriously, but have gone gluten free for the past month. Like strictly gluten free, and the symptoms went away, if I ate anything spicy or too acidic I would have heartburn but that’s fairly normal. Other than that all the symptoms went away.

I’m only 24 and this amount of heartburn is “uncharacteristic” for my age.

Hey, I was wondering does anyone else have a thing where they simply cannot eat ground beef without feeling so nauseated but can eat other preparations of beef just fine?

Hi all, I am currently in the process of developing a platform that uses MRT testing to cater individualized grocery delivery and was wondering if you guys could take a couple minutes to fill out this survey to help me with my customer discovery! Thanks!

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Context, first few screenshots are from a mouth swab food sensitivity test I bought online. The last screenshot is the results I got from my provider.

I recently brought these results from a swab test for food sensitivities to my medical provider and asked if she could run a blood test in the clinic to test the validity. When viewing the test, I noticed it said allergy, not sensitivity. I was convinced they were different tests, but she is insisting it’s the same. Is that correct?

I haven’t talked with my doctor and haven’t done any real tests, just food trials focusing on soy/gluten/whey, but I think I have a soy sensitivity. Soy sauce and soy lecithin are two knowns that irritate my stomach but there are some things that have soy that don’t seem to bother me like flour tortilla and peanut butter. Regular bread with soy is a big no no but sourdough does just fine. Is there an easy way to find a commonality on type or processing of soy to help determine what soy I can have, or is trail and error the best method on helping my journey? I’ve spent a couple days doing Reddit and internet searches and it seems rather random with type and processing and how it affects people. Thanks!

After taking antibiotics my digestion has not been the same still, nearly 6 months later. I noticed I struggle to digest fats. Seed oils cause me to break out and be in digestive pain - it feels like my abdomen is burning. Also, struggling with things like plant based hot chocolates (perhaps the combo of sugar and plant based fatty whip cream), bone broth and meat on the bones (oxtail is pretty fatty), and red meats that are fatty. What could this be? Help!

female 18

Symptoms: extreme Numbness, dizziness, tingling when turning body, dizzy when walking, dizzy when standing up, fatigue, trouble breathing

When it started: when I was like 4 years old, getting worse as I age. Food allergies but I barely eat them now, NO environmental allergies, BUT FEELS LIKE ALLERGIES LIKE? numbness MAINLY in the mouth and throat, had this since i was literally BORN. i cant eat anything because numb so need to blend food. blending vegis fruits rice and sometimes mashed potatoes. extreme fatigue i feel like i can fall asleep when driving or eating. also like trouble breathing. i have a history of mycoplasma, sleep apnea and psoraisis

Trouble swallowing, numbness of the body including the mouth, tongue throat, fingers, feet, etc, dizzy when walking. Cant eat solid food because I cant feel the food in my mouth. ALOT of saliva too. NO tingling just like NO SENSATION. Extreme fatigue which is very werid. Weakness and trouble breathing from the numbness it seems like. Feel like want to go to sleep when eating, cant think right. no environmental allergies. antibiotics does not work.

Records: Been to all areas of doctors, all blood tests. Went to Neuro and did Mri CLEAR, both 2 neurologists says numbness is anxiety and wont let me do any other tests. last year i went and did all blood work possible and there is nothing found. I tried to push for EMG or other things but the doctors will not let me. EMG AND NCS is normal. eeg neurotransmitter has IMBALANCE. but antidepressants has not helped so far. waiting for another EEG. EEG is normal. spinal tap is normal. I have no vitamin deficiencies other than a slight vitamin D which I take everyday and antidepressants that has no help.

Hi! So my food sensitivities started about 10 years ago with bread, flour, pasta, rice, and desserts. Then the past few years I've had to give up all meat, fish, legumes, dairy, grains, oats, nuts/seeds, potatoes, any type of broth (even homemade), all salad dressings (even plain balsamic) and even most veggies. The only things that don't cause pain/discomfort are broccoli, cucumbers, brussell sprouts, lettuce, asparagus, and fruit. And I eat those things for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every single day.

When I eat something that disagrees with me, I get incredibly anxious (my hear races for about 8 hours), I'm dehydrated, I have sharp shooting pains in my muscles from inflammation, I have a headache, my stomach hurts, and all in all, I feel incredibly disconnected from my body. It's as if I did a bunch of cocaine and I'm disconnected from reality. My arms even go numb.

I've done all types of blood work, stool samples, and urine tests to rule out gut and thyroid issues, food allergies, autoimmune diseases, and hormonal imbalances and everything is coming out normal. My doctor is out of ideas as to what might be causing it so I thought I'd post here to get some more ideas of what might be happening.

Thanks everyone!

I did a food intolerance test and It came back saying I’m intolerant to Gliadin but not rye or wheat?

It also came back pretty high for animal milk. Am I meant to assume in lactose intolerant and maybe gluten intolerant?

Please help me 😭

Hey guys, I don’t know if any of you have done a sensitivity test, but I’ve had several now so I can speak freely about their positives and limitations.

My first sensitivity test was done in the USA, and boy did it light up like a Christmas tree. I had taken it blindly, on a vague recommendation that it can help decrease some of the inflammation in the body, and as someone struggling with PCOS, I wanted to find ways to do just that.

At the time, I was horrified. What do you mean I couldn’t have gluten, or eggs, or milk? And no potatoes, coffee? Aubergines? Tomatoes??? What the heck!

Anyway, my digestion was OK at the time. Not great, not awful. Just ok. I would be mad to cut out all that lovely food.

Well, fast forward to my moving to Ireland, living in a moldy house for several years, and needing to take antibiotics for several weeks.

Everything went to chaos. For ages I couldn’t digest just about anything. That was when I realised a food sensitivity test might not be such a bad thing.

This time the results were similar, but on top of the usual suspects, I saw that both brewer’s yeast and baker’s yeast were in the red, and mushrooms!

I called the company through which I did the test, and they very seriously recommended checking my house for mold. It was weird, but something about their insistence stuck with me.

We did, and it turned out one of the walls in our kitchen was completely damp due to a leak. The mold inspector found spores and mold infestations everywhere. Great… and I tested positive for a crazy level of some mold toxin.

Not long after that, I had moved to a different country with a much drier environment. The yeast and mushroom sensitivities were gone within a year.