retest of food sensitivities--good news

i don't have candida!

and i'm sensitive to fewer foods than last year, with some sensitivities remaining the same, some gone--and some new ones.

first, the candida. early last year i tested "weakly positive" with a 1:3000 antibody titer ratio. 3000 is the borderline between negative and weakly positive. i followed the strict candida diet for 2 months and remained influenced by it for the rest of the year.

after a couple of months, i could tell a difference--like being able to read really difficult books that i wouldn't have even attempted previously. there were other positive health changes, but i'm not sure whether to attribute them to clearing candida or avoiding toxic foods. brain fog seems to clearly be attributed to candida. i FELT like i had probably cleared the excess candida, but didn't KNOW.

now i have scientific proof that the candida in my body is in balance. the antibody titer ratio on january 16 2008 was 1:500. yea! huge improvement!

now about the food sensitivities.

the ones that are the same are:
baker's yeast +3
brewer's yeast +3
wheat +1
kidney bean +1

they also did a gluten antibody assay, since wheat showed up 2 years in a row. i don't have gluten intolerance or celiac, just a sensitivity to anything wheat. i eat spelt bread (yeastless, of course), and...now i can have oats.

the foods that i was sensitive to last year but am no longer:
oat +1
pinto bean +1
white potato +1
radish +1
sugar cane +1
tomato +1

i stopped at whole foods and got some potato soup to celebrate. i can now have refried pinto beans and salsa with tomatoes. i can have oatmeal. but not too often... dr. cynthia schade said it would still be wise to limit servings of these formerly toxic items to once every 4 days. no problem!

i had already decided that if i turned out to no longer be sensitive to sugar cane, i would still avoid sugar, since it has no nutritive value and it feeds candida, and i want to keep my body balanced and not have to do that stringent candida diet again! i'm used to using stevia and agave syrup anyway now.

these are the new foods that i'm sensitive to, and i'm not sure how they turned up, since i don't eat them often:
amaranth +1
cherry +2
pea +1
snapper +1

i'll miss the cherries when they're in season. other than that, it's not that big a deal.

sad to say, i learned today that the state of texas' insurance, blue cross blue shield, is no longer covering the cost of the immuno1 bloodprint food sensitivity assay. the cost is about $550. so...next year, i'll do it out of pocket, or just do challenge testing on my own.