Food Sensitivity Testing

We utilize MRT (Mediator Release Testing) from Oxford Biomedical. (see a sample report here). To learn more about the MRT Laboratory Testing, see their website here.

Most allergy tests utilize antibody measurements, but not all antibody responses lead to inflammation and symptoms. What makes MRT unique is that it measures live white blood cell response to identify foods and food chemicals that create an inflammatory, symptomatic response in the body. Each report comes with a list of the least to most reactive foods/food chemicals and a rotation diet that will prioritize beginning with the lowest reactive foods. Each week, new foods are introduced that are slightly more reactive.

From MRT Website:

“Despite all of the clinical and immunologic complexities associated with food sensitivities, the single common component of all diet-induced inflammatory reactions is proinflammatory and proalgesic mediator release from white cells. It’s the release of cytokines, histamine, leukotrienes, prostaglandins, etc., from neutrophils, monocytes, eosinophils and lymphocytes that lead to all the negative clinical effects a food sensitivity sufferer endures.” (MRT website). That is why the MRT lab takes this approach to testing.”

To identify and remove foods that are causing inflammation is crucial to healing .