Food Sensitivity and Intolerance Testing Changed Their Lives

Susan was tired; tired of feeling foggy, bloated and unable to lose weight.  Her thyroid levels were out of whack and she felt awful.  Having just recently passed her 50th birthday, she assumed that this was what it meant to be a woman of a “certain age”:  A little heavier and slower than she would have liked, not quite as sharp, and generally, just feeling old. It wasn’t until she watched other people coming into a lab that she co-owns and heard them talk about food intolerances did she consider that food might be causing her problems, not her age.  Changes to their diets, made after food intolerance testing, seemed to have worked miracles for her customers. Over time Susan Lynch listened while clients described symptoms, strikingly similar to her own, that disappeared with an elimination diet carefully designed to address their specific food intolerances. “What if it’s the food I’m eating that’s derailing all my attempts to exercise, lose weight and get healthy?” she thought. It wasn’t a clear connection at first because she didn’t have allergies and she wasn’t the type of person to react poorly to food, but over time she suffered more and more from indigestion, gas and irregularity.  The puzzle pieces started to fall into place, so Susan did some research and got tested for food intolerances. What are food intolerances and how are they different from allergies?  When confronted with intractable digestive issues, bloating and mental fogginess, ma...
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