The problems of IGg4 tests I have also done two new IgG4 tests. As mentioned in blog part 3, I ate a lot of herring before my first IgG4 test. Since I haven't eaten herring for over 20 years, this should significantly increase my IgG value "herring", after all, it should be pretty close to "0". However, as Dr. Kofler - allergy expert at the Allergy Outpatient Clinic in Hall - … [Read more...] about Part 7: IgG test and the Hering paradox
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Part 4/5: Flora status and eating disorders: the dark side of self-tests
Eating disorder thanks to self-diagnosis In the course of my research and my self-experiments, I came across an interesting topic that I hadn't anticipated when preparing for this blog series: eating disorders. Edburg Edlinger, dietician and nmi portal expert, tells me that she has more and more patients in her practice who have slipped into malnutrition as a result of such … [Read more...] about Part 4/5: Flora status and eating disorders: the dark side of self-tests
Part 3/5: IgG4 blood test and the horse milk scandal
In addition to the gluten story in the last blog entry, my IgG test has even more to offer, because according to the test I am "allergic" to a total of almost 20 foods. Now I knew in advance about the problems with the IgG tests and, mean as I am, I wanted to influence them. The seitan only worked to a limited extent. However, I also wanted to influence the herring value and … [Read more...] about Part 3/5: IgG4 blood test and the horse milk scandal
Part 2/5: What are IgG tests and how do you diagnose food allergies?
IgG is one of many immunoglobulins, i.e. antibodies, that are formed when you eat a certain food. Manufacturers and suppliers such as Kiweno say that a gut damaged by our lifestyle makes it permeable and our immune system reacts to food components that pass through the gut illegally, so to speak. This would be called a type III allergy to food (1,2). This then leads to … [Read more...] about Part 2/5: What are IgG tests and how do you diagnose food allergies?
Part 1/5: Self-tests in the self-test
Time and again I meet people who tell me that they also have a food intolerance. Not unusual given my job. Recently, I have noticed that more and more of the people I talk to have made their own diagnosis - with the help of a blood self-test or other home tests. Home tests from the internet Many have ordered a self-test on the Internet, carried it out at home, sent it by post … [Read more...] about Part 1/5: Self-tests in the self-test