Our Method

Todays modern diets and lifestyles mean that many of us are eating the wrong foods for our individual bodies leading to inflammation and/or digestive disorders, which in turn, can lead to more serious health problems. You may be experiencing allergies, food intolerances, nutritional insufficiencies, gut dysbiosis (SIBO, bloating, bacterial imbalance, fungal/candida, parasites etc), health issues (fertility, thyroid, autoimmune disease etc) and of course, these issues may well be adversely affecting your life.

During your first appointment (up to 1 hour) we will take the time to listen to you and take note of your health concerns. We will discuss your lifestyle, work environment, diet, sleep patterns, family medical history, current medications and/or supplements, and also your desired outcome.

We will also take a blood sample from you which is sent to a lab to analyse for the presence of allergy and intolerance antibodies (there is also the option to upgrade and include testing for thyroid, hormones etc).

Personalised, not generalised

Once the results are back from the lab, you will have a phone call with us to discuss your test results in context with your symptoms and put your personalised plan together – among other things, this may cover changes to your diet, adding in supplements to support digestion and, in some cases, writing to your GP to request further tests, or recommendations for further private tests where needed.

Following your call, you will receive your typed up personal plan detailing exactly what we would like you to do for the following 6-8 weeks with your diet, supplements and lifestyle in order to begin your journey towards optimum wellbeing.

Support throughout your journey

During the 6-8 weeks after your initial appointment we will check in regularly on phone calls to ensure that everything is working well and that you are seeing improvements. If you’re not seeing satisfactory results we will review your plan and make changes accordingly.

Following the initial 8 weeks we offer affordable follow-up packages of support calls where we can further monitor progress, adjust your personalised plan to a maintenance level intended to be followed for up to 1 year.

Will an allergy and intolerance test resolve my symptoms?

The answer to this question will depend on your symptoms.

Some symptoms may be caused by food intolerance (e.g. bloating, reflux, headaches, fatigue, nausea) while others may be caused by an acute allergy (e.g. anaphylactic shock following consumption of peanuts).

To further complicate matters, some symptoms (e.g. rashes, urticaria, eczema, asthma) could be caused by either allergies or intolerances, so you would need both an allergy test and an intolerance test to differentiate between the causes.

You may also have the symptoms of a food allergy or intolerance, but these may be caused by other issues such as low/high fibre intake, digestive dysfunction, intestinal dysbiosis (a bacterial overgrowth/undergrowth, a parasite, or a fungal infection in the digestive system), and more. We are trained to identify the symptoms of other possible causes of your symptoms, and recommend appropriate testing when needed. As a rule, we do not make commission on any external tests that we recommend for our clients.

If you have further questions that you would like to ask, please do not hesitate to call our London therapist, Kate Knowler, directly on 07951 740423 for a free, no-obligation discussion of your symptoms.