Food Detective Professional makes the work of detecting and managing food intolerances easier:
- It needs just a few drops of blood from a finger-prick and you can have results in under an hour
- You can rank antibody results by intensity, and work out a practical plan to improve food choices and control symptoms.
- The quickest and most affordable diagnostic test of its type in Ireland.
The technology used in the Food Detective is Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA), the same laboratory method used for most hospital lab-tests for antibodies. ELISA is used daily throughout Ireland to test for serious conditions such as HIV, Hepatitis and most infectious diseases.
40 minutes work
You start by disinfecting and pricking a finger (with the provided lancet device) and collecting a few drops of blood. In just 40 minutes – without needing to send samples to a laboratory – the Food Detective detects antibody levels against 59 common foods.
If there are strongly positive results to any of the food groups in the test (or several moderate results), the simple act of substituting the foods can help transform health and well-being.
Tip: We have developed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for proper documentation and record-keeping. We always advise taking a photo (taken with a phone) of the results as backup! Advise patients/clients to do the same. The mind is capable of great feats of fiction – you wouldn’t believe how easy it is to persuade yourself (in just a few weeks) that foods you like had weaker results than foods you don’t.
Is there a scientific basis for this test?
Absolutely! While the term “food intolerances” covers many possible symptoms and conditions, at Nutricentric we focus on those reactions for which there is clinical trial support:
- Proving a food intolerance requires an Elimination-Rechallenge protocol. This is the goal of testing. The results are used to design a workable Elimination Diet. The method often allows the Elimination Diet to have a narrower focus than would be possible through a “blind” Elimination protocol.
- The success of this method has been clinically studied (mainly in hospitals) in Departments of Gastroenterology (for Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Crohn’s Disease) and Neurology (migraines). These studies found the method significantly superior to the comparative intervention (or placebo).