Do you ever feel like your body is reacting negatively to some of the foods that you eat?

Well, it might be.

Adverse reactions to foods are a very real thing and we can react negatively to pretty much any food for a variety

of different reasons. So what we're going to do in this episode today is we're going to break down

the topic of food intolerances, which are also referred to as food sensitivities or like I

mentioned earlier, adverse reactions to foods. We're going to discuss what those different sensitivity reactions are, what some underlying

contributing factors for those reactions can be, how we can identify if we are reacting negatively

to certain foods and what we can do in terms of improving our underlying health so that we experience less of

these adverse reactions because some people will start to experience negative reactions to a

variety of different foods and that usually is an indication that there may be some

underlying health problems. So that is what we're going to discuss in this episode today. Let's go ahead and start off by defining what these adverse reactions or

food intolerances are. So when we say food intolerance or adverse reactions to food, we are

referring to any negative reaction that you experience when you eat at food.

So this can be anything. This can be bloating. This can be heartburn, discomfort,

spasms in your stomach, skin pain, brain fog, fatigue that you may experience afterwards.

There's a variety of different reactions that can occur. All of these fall under the umbrella of

adverse reactions to foods. Now, there are two main types of reactions that can occur in response

to eating of food. There are immune mediated reactions and there are non-immune mediated reactions.

And what this means is the immune-mediated reactions are interacting with

our immune system, and the immune system response is what's driving some of the symptoms that we're

experiencing. So classic food allergies where you are having a negative reaction to a food is an

immune-driven adverse reaction to a food. This is an IGE-driven immune response,

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