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I've attached photos of my results since none have been posted on amazon yet and I see a lot of people asking for examples in the product questions. The only info I've removed was the company's info, the date of my results and my personal info. I had 18 pages worth of results so I've shown 4 examples, one from each group of results. I had bought this deluxe kit because I had been showing signs of a reaction off and on for 6 months to 1 year. At 1st it was somewhat rare, but eventually would become more common. I was having hives appear on my lower arms and hands which were extremely itchy and would increase in size within hours and wouldn't fully go away until 2-3 days later. I needed answers because it was starting to effect my work tasks. I got my results about a week and a half after mailing my samples to them. The kit comes with what you would expect, but the return envelope isn't the pre-paid kind so you will need to buy stamps or go to your local mailing services in order to have it mailed. The results will break things down into 3 levels, level 3 is a severe intolerance or deficiency, level 2 is a moderate intolerance or deficiency, a level 1 is a mild intolerance or deficiency. I had seen review complaints that people were seeing multiple of the same intolerance in different levels on their results so I ended up printing off the full list of items that they test for and marking them off color coded and found that none of mine overlapped. There are examples of different types of 1 item (Example: Milk (Almond), Milk (Evaporated) and Milk (Cow)) so maybe people are getting some of those mixed up and thinking that got mixed results? I found that printing off their entire list and color coding it made it easier for me to read and review my results as a whole anyways and I've been using that more then I have the actual results list sent to me unless I'm needing to do a quick search for something specific using the CTRL+F computer feature. I've learned that even though my 1st suspicion was almond milk, I didn't give my elimination test long enough and had a delayed reaction occur which made be believe I hadn't removed my issue. I found out later that an intolerance can occur anywhere from 2 hours to 10 days after having been exposed to them and I was only giving my elimination tests 5-7 days. For now I'm only working with the items in my list I regularly use in my daily life and will remove them as needed if removing almond milk doesn't do the job, but so far my reactions have gone away. I've also started taking Vitamin B1 pills because in my results it shows that I'm -99 so I'm extremely deficient and plan on eating more foods that also help with that. In my results it did show I had both an intolerance and deficiency of Iron. I had wondered if this was an issue with the test somehow and looked at their website's FAQ and found my answer there. Apparently it can mean that my body isn't processing Iron correctly. My body is storing my Iron where it shouldn't (So it shows up as an intolerance/overexposure) and because it's storing it where it shouldn't, my body isn't getting enough of it where it would be beneficial for me (So it shows up as a deficiency). The FAQ didn't cover how I should react to this issue so I'll have to find answers for that elsewhere after I've fully dealt with my main concerns 1st.
February 2020 · Health and Household · verified purchase
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