up symptoms badly, and trying to pinpoint the culprits can be very confusing. If you’re trying to reduce the total burden of food toxicity in
your child, a good place to start is with foods that are commonly pro-inflammatory, such as those listed in the sidebar. Avoiding foods from this group for two to four weeks, then carefully reintroducing each category in isolation from the others, can shed light on which are most toxic for your child. Even avoiding a couple of categories, if they are thoroughly cleared from the diet in every form for this two- to four-week timeframe, can provide useful information. However, if this exercise fails to clarify your child’s problem foods, it may be because his/her unique pro-inflammatory list includes otherwise perfectly healthy foods. Because this issue is caused by an immune system which has developed an abnormal attitude toward foods, any food can become inflammatory - even garlic or broccoli! Even let- tuce! Fortunately, there is testing available which uses a single blood sample to accurately determine which foods have become toxic for an individual by measuring immunoglobulin G antibody levels in the serum (standard allergy testing looks for elevated levels of immuno- globulin E). It is essential to use a lab with high standards of quality control for this testing in order to minimize false negatives (in which harmful foods are missed) and false positives (in which foods are incorrectly identified as inflammatory and avoided unnecessarily).
Dysbiosis: “Bad Bugs”
Our digestive tracts are home to a large number of microbe species, some ‘good bugs’ and some ‘bad bugs’. The majority of microbes present in the bowel ought to be beneficial, or probiotic species: the Lactobacilli, Bifidobacteria, and healthy types of E. coli
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