Hello again! Just wanted to post my enterolab results. I think overall they are much better than I expected! I would love input from my fellow MC friends! I especially have questions about the soy being 9 (should I try to minimize since it's borderline??). Also the tuna being positive confuses me. I don't eat tuna. I know I've read something here about how to proceed with that but I can't recall exactly.
Any help or interpretation is welcomed! I am currently GF and DF for 5 weeks. Thanks you guys!!
Comprehensive Gluten/Antigenic Food Sensitivity Stool Panel
Fecal Anti-gliadin IgA 79 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)
Fecal Anti-casein (cow’s milk) IgA 18 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)
Fecal Anti-ovalbumin (chicken egg) IgA 6 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)
Fecal Anti-soy IgA 9 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)
Mean Value 11 Antigenic Foods 10 Units (Normal Range is less than 10 Units)
While all of the foods tested can be immune-stimulating, the hierarchy of reactions detected were as follows:
Food to which there was no significant immunological reactivity:
Beef
Pork
Walnut
Cashew
White potato
Food to which there was some immunological reactivity (1+):
Corn
Oat
Rice
Tuna
Chicken
Almond
Food to which there was moderate immunological reactivity (2+):
None
Food to which there was significant and/or the most immunological reactivity (3+):
None
Within each class of foods to which you displayed multiple reactions, the hierarchy of those reactions detected were as follows:
Grains:
Grain toward which you displayed the most immunologic reactivity: Corn
Grain toward which you displayed intermediate immunologic reactivity: Oat
Grain toward which you displayed the least immunologic reactivity: Rice
Meats:
Meat toward which you displayed the most immunologic reactivity: Tuna
Meat toward which you were next most immunologically reactive: Chicken
Nuts:
Nut toward which you displayed the most immunologic reactivity: Almond
Enterolab Results!
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Hi,
Yes, your results are definitely better than most. Lucky you.
The question about soy has sort of a complex answer. I have always generally tried to avoid soy simply because I don't consider it to be fit for human consumption (mostly because of the hormonal issues associated with it). Theoretically it shouldn't matter whether you avoid it or not, because of your negative test result. But there is a risk associated with avoiding foods that don't cause us to react, but do cause many others to produce antibodies. It seems that by avoiding certain foods, if we happen to have even a tiny degree of sensitivity to them (far below the threshold required to trigger a reaction), the act of avoiding them makes our immune system more sensitive to them.
As I mentioned, I have always tried to mostly avoid soy in my food, but I have never avoided trace amounts, such as soy oil in vitamin supplements, medications, etc., or soy lecithin in foods. The "experts" claim that soy oil and soy lecithin cannot cause someone who is sensitive to soy to react, but in this case (as I explained in detail in my book) the "experts" are wrong on this one, unfortunately. About 8 years ago I tested negative for soy at EnteroLab. But last August after a suspicious reaction to peanuts, I ordered another test and sure enough I am now sensitive to soy. I have no proof of course, but I suspect that this happened because by avoiding all but tiny amounts, my sensitivity to soy increased.
So I suspect that if we are going to avoid a food such as soy, then we need to avoid even tiny trace amounts of it. If we only avoid larger amounts, this tends to lower our tolerance (increase our sensitivity) to it. This is only a theory of mine though, and there is no medical research about it that I am aware of, either pro or con.
Your overall score on the 11 other antigenic foods test is so low that corn, tuna, or almond might or might not be a problem. I would avoid oats though, not so much because of your test score, but because most of us here are also sensitive to oats (because the avenin protein in oats is very similar to the gluten in wheat). And if you're concerned about chicken, try turkey. Turkey is safe for virtually everyone here.
Good luck with your recovery.
Tex
Yes, your results are definitely better than most. Lucky you.
The question about soy has sort of a complex answer. I have always generally tried to avoid soy simply because I don't consider it to be fit for human consumption (mostly because of the hormonal issues associated with it). Theoretically it shouldn't matter whether you avoid it or not, because of your negative test result. But there is a risk associated with avoiding foods that don't cause us to react, but do cause many others to produce antibodies. It seems that by avoiding certain foods, if we happen to have even a tiny degree of sensitivity to them (far below the threshold required to trigger a reaction), the act of avoiding them makes our immune system more sensitive to them.
As I mentioned, I have always tried to mostly avoid soy in my food, but I have never avoided trace amounts, such as soy oil in vitamin supplements, medications, etc., or soy lecithin in foods. The "experts" claim that soy oil and soy lecithin cannot cause someone who is sensitive to soy to react, but in this case (as I explained in detail in my book) the "experts" are wrong on this one, unfortunately. About 8 years ago I tested negative for soy at EnteroLab. But last August after a suspicious reaction to peanuts, I ordered another test and sure enough I am now sensitive to soy. I have no proof of course, but I suspect that this happened because by avoiding all but tiny amounts, my sensitivity to soy increased.
So I suspect that if we are going to avoid a food such as soy, then we need to avoid even tiny trace amounts of it. If we only avoid larger amounts, this tends to lower our tolerance (increase our sensitivity) to it. This is only a theory of mine though, and there is no medical research about it that I am aware of, either pro or con.
Your overall score on the 11 other antigenic foods test is so low that corn, tuna, or almond might or might not be a problem. I would avoid oats though, not so much because of your test score, but because most of us here are also sensitive to oats (because the avenin protein in oats is very similar to the gluten in wheat). And if you're concerned about chicken, try turkey. Turkey is safe for virtually everyone here.
Good luck with your recovery.
Tex
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