I just returned from speaking about diet and nutrition at the 5th Annual Patient Day at the Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation’s conference on NMO. Again, it was inspiring for me to meet and connect with the brave folks battling this rare autoimmune disease. Us autoimmune disorders have to stick together! In fact, many with NMO were […]
Category: food sensitivities
How to Survive an Influx of Halloween Candy… Without Losing Your Sanity
Halloween is just days away and so is the annual haul of candy that my kids will bring home from their night of traipsing around the neighborhood. All that junk! Our neighborhood is a Halloween magnet with people driving in from all around to trick-or-treat there. It’s a great time for costume-spotting, admiring Jack-o-Lanterns and […]
The MRT vs the ALCAT: Is Food Sensitivity Testing Reliable?
People ask me all the time if food sensitivity testing is reliable. My answer is always: “Depends on which test you use.” Food sensitivity/food allergy testing that looks for IgE or IgG antibodies can show us whether or not someone has been exposed to a food and created an antibody to it, but not necessarily […]
Dairy-Free New England Fish Chowder Recipe
I love the taste of creamy New England fish chowder, but that dairy base does not love me back. So, when I was faced with a few pounds of rapidly thawing fish fillets of various sorts after our recent freezer thaw, I created my own dairy-free version of that creamy chowder that may even surpass […]
Nausea, Vertigo Symptoms of Food Sensitivities
My son awoke on Monday morning complaining of vertigo and nausea. It was a clear food sensitivity reaction. These symptoms have happened before and I’m learning that, if I do a little detective work, I can directly correlate the episode with something he ate. I’ve also learned from past experience that if I insist he goes […]
