We are encouraged to eat a well-balanced diet rich in variety. What happens when your food causes negative symptoms such as nausea, headache, tiredness, constipation, aches and pains, or rashes?
This simple blood test will help you eliminate possible causative foods.
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Macro Array Diagnostics are a Vienna-based MedTech company. They develop, produce and distribute tests, instruments and software for allergy and intolerance diagnostics, and research applications. Their products allow flexible, reliable and affordable sensitisation profiling of each patient.
The FOX Food Explorer is a state-of-the art combined food intolerance test that can rapidly and reliably test your antibody response to over 250 food extracts simultaneously. Molecular antigens for wheat gliadin and cow’s milk are also included for enhanced insight into the sensitivity of those two potentially immunogenic foods.
One blood sample is all that is needed to carry out a comprehensive analysis, making it a valuable diagnostic tool for the assessment of even complex food intolerance related cases.
The full range of antigens that are tested for can be found here.
Food intolerance is a reaction often referred to as “hidden” or “masked” hypersensitivity, which is a systemic response of the whole body. This is not an allergy, but a reaction of the immune system leading to the formation of immunoglobulin (IgG) antibodies against certain foods. These food sensitivities are highly individualised, and symptoms are subtle and often delayed. Adverse reactions can occur from 3 to 72 hours after ingesting the offending food.
Elevated IgG antibodies can promote systemic (whole-body) inflammation, leading to a variety of unwanted symptoms.
The FOX Food Explorer tests your IgG antibodies to a extensive variety of common foods. This level of food sensitivity testing provides an in-depth insight into adverse food reactions and the symptoms they create. The results can be used by you or your practitioner to personalise your diet and lifestyle to reduce and eliminate symptoms related to these adverse food reactions.
Usually, eliminating foods that promote an IgG antibody response can reduce stress on the immune system, lower whole-body inflammation, and help heal the gut. An antibody-guided elimination diet is more reliable and preferable than the more generalised diet plans or exclusion diets which are simply based on food journaling and diet history alone.
Food sensitivities are common and on the rise. As a result, most people can benefit from food sensitivity testing. The FOX Food Explorer can help patients who wish to optimise their health and those who have experienced chronic symptoms for years.
The range of symptoms related to food sensitivities is vast and varies for each patient. Symptoms may be gut-related or extraintestinal, including but not limited to the following:
You can contact clinic to make your appointment, it will take no longer than 15 minutes to have your blood drawn and no fasting is required. Alternatively, we can send you a blood test kit and recommend a nationwide clinic service with locations all over the UK where you can take your kit to have your blood sample drawn. They charge £45 for this service.
You will receive your comprehensive test results by email within five working days.
Further information on this unique food intolerance testing system can be found here and here. An example lab report can also be found here.
Speak to our team, book online or email us with any questions that you may have.
