Mike came to see me at the end of January with skin and stomach problems - mainly his stomach. He didn't smoke, wasn't a heavy drinker, had a healthy diet and exercised.

After a consultation, we decided that a food intolerance test was suitable and went ahead with the 59-food test. The results came back positive, showing a reaction to brazil nuts, mushrooms and yeast.

Yeast plays a major part in Western diets - as well as the obvious foods such as bread and pizza, yeast extracts such as Bovril, stock cubes etc..., there are also fermented foods to consider such as beer, vinegar and soy sauce. This is by no means an exhaustive list, so a major dietary change was required, which would not be easy.

However, I recently received an e-mail from Mike:

Hi Emma,
Been meaning to send an email for a while now.
You did a food intolerence test for me in January which showed I had an intolerence to yeast.I have cut out alot of foods which contain yeast- mainly bread-and the results have been really good, I no longer get stomach problems which had caused me a lot of grief in the past.I hope this continues and I am very pleased the food intolerence showed this up,the test was worth every penny!
Kind regards
Mike

I'm really pleased for Mike that the test worked and has such a positive result.

Food intolerance testing for 59 foods costs £89 and results can be obtained within an hour. Alternatively, there is an indicator test costing £20 that will tell you whether you have an intolerance or not, if you are not sure that your symptoms are caused by foods.