Many people live with symptoms that quietly erode their quality of life, never realizing they may be responding adversely to foods they eat every day. What is considered a “superfood” to most of the world may be the trigger for tremendous suffering in a bio-individual whose body does not tolerate that food.

Symptoms of food intolerances and sensitivities can include bloating, gas, constipation, diarrhea, headaches, migraines, joint pain, skin problems, brain fog, fatigue, and other forms of digestive or systemic distress. Because some food reactions may be delayed, connecting a symptom to a specific food can be incredibly difficult.

In this episode of the Body Wisdom Podcast, Jamie Belz talks with James White, CEO and owner of KBMO Diagnostics, about food sensitivities, food intolerances, food allergies, inflammation, leaky gut/intestinal permeability, elimination diets, and bio-individual nutrition.

James explains the difference between an immediate IgE food allergy and a delayed food sensitivity, why delayed reactions can be so difficult to pinpoint, and how the FIT, or Food Inflammation Test, can be used by Nutritional Therapy Practitioners as one tool within a larger assessment.

Jamie also shares her family’s experience with food sensitivity testing, including her father’s dramatic health transformation and her own difficult discovery that eggs were causing digestive problems.

This conversation explores:

• Food allergies vs. food sensitivities vs. food intolerances

• Immediate IgE reactions and delayed immune responses

• Common symptoms associated with problematic foods

• Digestive distress, migraines, skin issues, joint pain, fatigue, and brain fog

• The relationship between inflammation, intestinal permeability (leaky gut)

Food sensitivity testing and the KBMO FIT Test

• Elimination diets and structured food reintroduction

There is no universally perfect diet. A food can be nutrient-dense and still not work well for your body at this particular time. The goal is not to fear food or permanently eliminate everything that produces a reaction. The goal is to gather useful information, reduce your total inflammatory burden, support healing, and make informed choices based on your individual body.

A test can provide information, but the work begins when the results arrive. You still have to decide what you are willing to do with that information.

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