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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

A Simple Test to Determine Allergies

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Today I’m going to share a simple DIY allergy test. This is primarily for food allergies that you can't quite determine.


During an allergic reaction, your pulse increases. A pulse oximeter is a great tool to help you check your pulse easily, but you can also check your pulse using your wrist or carotid artery.


How to do a DIY allergy test:

1. Check and record your pulse rate:

• In the morning, before getting out of bed

• Before eating

• 30 minutes after eating

• 30 minutes after that

• 30 minutes after that

• Before bed


2. Record what you ate next to your pulse rate


Typically, you could have an allergy if there is a difference between the low and high pulse rates above 16 points. The pulse rate also needs to be above 84.


If you react to a meal, use this test over a few days, eliminating foods one at a time to help you isolate which ingredient is causing a problem.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

So I want to show you a very simple test that I think is pretty accurate in determining if you

0:06.3

have an allergy to a certain thing or not. Now I'm primarily talking about food allergies,

0:11.0

whether it's an allergy to peanuts, soy, wheat, eggs, dairy, shellfish. So to do this, it's very,

0:20.2

very inexpensive. You don't even need

0:23.6

anything. You just need to be able to check your pulse. You see, your pulse goes up when you're

0:27.9

reacting to an allergy. I mean, if you even think about an allergy reaction, you know, we think

0:32.0

sneezing, stuffy nose, a skin reaction, fatigue, mucus in our lungs, blood pressure, anxiety, dizziness, nausea,

0:43.6

bloating, or even a headache, right?

0:45.8

But you also have your pulse rate goes up, okay, as part of the stress response.

0:51.1

And so why can't someone just use the pulse rate to determine if there's an ologies,

0:54.8

especially there's like confusion on like, what are you allergic to really? And this information is based on Dr. Arthur Coker. He's an MD, and he wrote a whole book on this called the Pulse Test, which I will put a link down below. Now, there's a certain way to check your pulse, and I'm gonna put a link down below just to give you a little more details on that,

0:53.3

if you don't know way to check your pulse and I'm going to put a link down below just to give you a little more details on that if you don't know how to check your pulse.

1:14.6

But in a pulse oxymeter is a very inexpensive. It might be like $9 that you can buy.

1:20.6

You put it right over your finger and you can not only monitor your pulse rate and record that, you can also monitor your oxygen levels too.

1:29.3

But this is what you would do. You would get maybe a notebook and you start recording your pulse rate.

1:35.3

So the first thing you're going to do is when you wake up in the morning,

1:39.3

before you go out of bed, check your pulse rate, right? And you just log this by day. Then what you simply do is check your pulse rate before you get out of bed, check your pulse rate, right? And you just log this by day.

1:45.7

Then what you simply do is check your pulse rate before you eat,

1:48.9

and then you check it 30 minutes after you eat, okay,

1:52.7

and then check it another 30 minutes after,

1:55.5

and then an additional 30 minutes after.

1:57.8

So you actually checked your pulse rate before, and then a total of an hour and a half later with intervals of 30 minutes after. So you actually checked your pulse rate before and then a total of an hour and a half

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