Is Your Food Making You Sick?
Stop the guessing game and start eating with confidence. I provide advanced testing for food sensitivities to identify your unique triggers, calm systemic inflammation, and help you find lasting relief.
Rooted Nutrition Therapies accepts most major insurance plans
Tired of the guessing game around what's causing your symptoms?
You’ve eliminated gluten and dairy and you still feel bloated and miserable
You tried to eat “clean” but still feel inflamed and your joints hurt
- You struggle with “mystery symptoms” like joint pain, brain fog, or skin rashes that appear hours or even days after you eat
Headaches or migraines are ruling your life, making you miss out on going out with friends and family
You suspect that you have food triggers, but you can’t seem to figure out which food’s causing issues
- You constantly feel “puffy” and inflamed
Identifying the Cause of Inflammation
Food sensitivities are different from food allergies. While an allergy is an immediate, often life-threatening reaction, a food sensitivity is a delayed immune response. This delay is what makes it so difficult to identify your triggers on your own without professional testing for food sensitivities.
When you eat foods your body is sensitive to, your immune system releases pro-inflammatory chemicals called mediators. These chemicals travel through your bloodstream, causing inflammation and symptoms anywhere in the body—from your gut to your brain to your joints.
My goal is to help you identify these triggers with 94.5% accuracy so we can stop the inflammation at the source.
Why Professional Testing for Food Sensitivities Matters
Most people try to solve their symptoms with cheap, at-home IgG kits or by following a generic elimination diet. These methods are often inaccurate, inconsistent, and unnecessarily restrictive.
As a food sensitivity specialist, I utilize the MRT (Mediator Release Test) provided by Oxford Biomedical Laboratories This is widely considered the gold standard in testing for food sensitivities. Unlike standard antibody tests, this is a functional end-point test that measures exactly how your immune cells react to 170 different foods and chemicals.
By identifying your “Green Foods”—the foods that are the most anti-inflammatory for your specific body—we can create a plan that is built on variety and healing rather than restriction.
Even a “clean” diet can cause inflammatory symptoms if your body is sensitive to the foods you’re consuming a regular basis. Blindly eliminating “inflammatory” foods from your diet can just feel like a guessing game, not delivering any real results.
Food sensitivity testing provides you personalized information about which foods work for YOUR body.
No more guessing games.
How the MRT Test can help
The MRT test is the most accurate way to identify your inflammatory reaction to 176 foods and chemicals. The MRT test is designed to be paired with the LEAP (Lifestyle Eating And Performance) protocol, which calms inflammation in as little as 10-14 days.
As a Certified LEAP Therapist (CLT), I am specially trained and certified as a food sensitivity specialist. I will interpret your lab test for you and develop a personalized 3-phase diet protocol to drastically reduce inflammation in your body.
With a personalized protocol, based on data from your testing, you’ll have the tools to feel better quickly.
Dawn got her life back
“Becky is amazing, she is the only person that did not give up on me, have been to a few places before I met Becky and when the test results came different than what was expected they ignored me, not Becky she kept on digging and we finally found out what was going on I owe a lot to her. I have my life back.”
Is the MRT Test Right for You?
You’re a good fit for the MRT test and LEAP protocol if…
You’ve been tracking your food but you can’t seem to identify any specific foods that are causing your symptoms
You’re already eliminated several foods, but it doesn’t seem to make a difference
You’ve been to multiple providers looking for answers about why you feel so terrible, but no one has been able to identify what’s wrong
You’ve been diagnosed with one of the following conditions:
IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome)
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Migraine
Fibromyalgia (or undiagnosed chronic pain)
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Hashimoto’s
Eczema
You are NOT a good fit for the MRT test and LEAP protocol if…
You are not ready to make significant changes to your eating habits
You eat most of your meals at restaurants or from packaged food and you are not willing to cook meals at home
You are not ready to invest financially to get nutrition coaching to help you feel better fast
You have a history of an eating disorder
Jackie is able to thrive again
“My whole life has changed. I never thought I would be in this place where I am confident that I can manage my health and feel like, not just a functioning person, but a thriving one. It does not feel like a short-term fix either. It has completely shifted the way I live my life and view my relationship with food.”
How does it work?
Assess
We will meet for an initial appointment to assess your symptoms, as well as discuss you goals and how you’d like to feel better in your body.
Test
We will drop ship a test kit to your door and help you find a lab near you to get your blood drawn. You will get results from your MRT test within 2-3 days.
Personalize
You will receive a personalized diet protocol base on your results with meal ideas and recipes. You will have regular appointments to support you through the entire process.
Reintroduce
After your symptoms significantly improve (most clients start feeling better in 10-14 days), you will strategically reintroduce foods to increase variety and improve your gut health.
Investment
The Food Sensitivity Program utilizing the MRT test is a 3 month program with an investment of $1355 (or $695 with insurance*)
Payment plans available
The Food Sensitivity Program includes:
- The MRT Food Sensitivity Test
- A one hour lab review session
- Personalized protocols based on your lab results
- Personalized meal ideas and meal plans for each phase of the protocol
- Weekly sessions to guide you through the reintroduction
- Access to your dietitian via secure chat between sessions
- Weekly food and symptom journal review
*If you are using your health insurance, your insurance will be billed for nutrition counseling sessions and you will pay out-of-pocket for portions of the program that are not covered by insurance. This cost is an estimate and your actual out-of-pocket cost will be dependent on your individual insurance coverage.
FAQs
The MRT is the most accurate food sensitivity test on the market, with an estimated 94.7% sensitivity.
This test looks at a completely different pathway than most food sensitivity tests on the market. The MRT looks specifically at inflammation, which is the driver of most symptoms.
Most over-the-counter food sensitivity tests look at IgG (antibody) mediated reactions, which are known to have a lot of error. Many food sensitivities are inflammatory-mediated, but not antibody mediated.
A positive test for IgG antibodies could indicate food sensitivity, but you also often have IgG antibodies to foods you eat frequently.
If you have done a test like this in the past and still have symptoms, I would highly recommend doing the MRT test.
Not necessarily. The MRT is testing for a completely different pathway and is NOT testing for antibodies that indicate food allergy. It is possible to have an inflammatory reaction to a food that you’re allergic to show up on the MRT, but that’s not always the case.
You should still avoid foods you know you are allergic to.
Many of our clients notice at least a 50% reduction in symptoms in as little as 10-14 days. Complete symptom improvement may take several months, depending on your health and other contributing factors.
We will work with you to adjust the protocol so that it works for you! If it is not reasonable to follow the full LEAP protocol, we can use a modified version and still get great results.
The the 3-phase LEAP protocol is part of the reason that clients get such amazing results from the MRT test. For this reason, we do not offer the test by itself.
This depends on your situation. The benefit of MRT is that it calms inflammation very quickly, which makes it much easier to heal your gut. If you have longstanding digestive issues, I recommend following up with a GI Map stool test and optimize gut health and healing.
If you are not sure about the best place to start for you, you can schedule a free strategy call with me.