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Old 04-01-2017, 07:53 AM #1
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Default Food Sensitivity Mediator Release Test

Hi, I'm new here and not sure where the best place to ask this would be, so if you think it should go under a different topic let me know.

I'm in pretty good health, no major problems other than celiac, but I do suffer from quite a few minor ones, fatigue, insomnia, hair loss, depression, hyperreflexia, dizziness, imbalance, nausea, esophagael spasms, the list goes on.

Despite numerous testing no doctor has been able to find the cause of any of my woes and they write it off to anxiety/depression. I am convinced it has to do with more than that and that my anxiety/depression is caused by all of these unknown problems rather than the other way around but I don't know who to turn to for help in finding out the cause.

I recently came across info on the food sensitivity mediator release test. I'm willing to shell out the $600 for this test if it has some worth but the reviews I'm reading are mixed. The nays come from the mainstream physicians who say there is no validity at all to the test and the yeas of course from the holistic docs, functional physicians and others who are seen as quacks by the mainstreamers.

Anyone have any first hand knowledge of this test? Is it worth it? Has it helped you?

For years and years and years I've thought the root of my problem was dietary and when I found out I had celiac years ago I was actually ecstatic as I thought finally my problems will go away, but despite being very diligent about no gluten a good number remain.
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Hi Flicker

Welcome to NeuroTalk.

If you have a formal diagnosis of coeliac disease (an auto-immune response to glutens), which is not always easy to diagnose, then for most people avoiding foods which do not contain them works well.

I am sorry to read about your woes - as far as I know they are usually not related to coeliac disease.

Based on Testing for food reactions: the good, the bad, and the ugly. - PubMed - NCBI, I am dubious about mediator release tests. From it, there are some validated tests for food allergies but mediator release tests are not among them.

In it mediator release tests are described as only being present on "consumer sites" which means that money changes hands for a test which has not been shown to be useful in a treatment sense.

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