Food Intolerance Testing
Understanding your Food Sensitivities
St Clair Shores OBGYN is now offering Food Intolerance Testing. If you are dealing with issues such as weight gain, bloating, joint aches, anxiety, digestive issues or skin breakouts, it could be something that you’re eating. Over 80% of the population has some kind of food sensitivity and do not even know it. Symptoms don’t show up for 2-3 days making it difficult to pinpoint what food is causing the issue. Food intolerance testing provides a scientifically proven report with your food sensitivities and intolerances.
Food intolerance can occur when our bodies cannot properly digest and convert the foods we eat into the necessary nutrients that fuel our systems. More simply, food intolerance can occur when you eat something but it fails to be properly broken down in the intestines. The main reason for this failure (maldigestion) is due to a lack of digestive enzymes – it’s their job to break down food molecules so that they can be properly absorbed into the bloodstream.
When the body doesn’t produce enough (or any) of an enzyme that a food requires for proper digestion, the proteins cannot convert into amino acids or nutrients, and will start accumulating in the gut and eventually make their way into the bloodstream improperly.
Call St Clair Shores OBGYN (586) 779-9400 to schedule your Food Intolerance test or let your doctor know at your annual exam if you’d like this done.