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Hey everyone, welcome back to Dr. Ruscio Radio. This is Dr. Ruscio, and today let's jump in and try to give a somewhat definitive answer on the question, is there any validity to food allergy testing?

And this is an excerpt from our August 2021 Future of Functional Medicine Review.

And again, just trying to continually point you this month to this resource.

And we went through a review of the evidence to publish in our FFMR so that whoever is a member,

whether they be a clinician, provider, or a layperson, can access this overview of food allergy testing,

IGG food allergy testing or sensitivity testing.

Is this something that's clinically valid or validated?

And the short answer on this is no,

but let's dig into some of the detail.

And again, great right up here in the newsletter. And I'm just going to hit

some of the high points. The summary of the key points, IGG food sensitivity testing is not

robustly supported by research. And consumer and practitioner directed IGG testing suffers from a lack of clinically

or clinical validity and testing reliability. People who claim they benefited from

using or following the results of the testing may have achieved benefit as a result of an

enhanced placebo effect or indirectly because they essentially improve their diet quality

and reduce the amount of foods that are commonly problematic for people.

The majority of food reactions experienced by patients can likely be explained by gut dysbiosis,

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