(laughs)
- I never knew we could be this close.
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We have this mail in food sensitivity test
we're going to use this, to find out
if we're sensitive to any foods.
- With the typical allergy test, you actually
need to be in a doctor's office since any one
of those little pricks might actually result
in you having a more serious reaction.
- With a sensitivity test,
you might be getting really fatigued, have stomach issues,
or even have eczema and you might not realize
that it's from the things that you're eating.
- I love food, I love eating, I love cooking.
- I'm always around a lot of food and often times
like unhealthy food.
- I was always a kid who liked to experiment in the kitchen
and make different things from different ingredients.
- I am interested in taking a food sensitivity test
because in the last year actually,
I've had a lot of symptoms arise that I've never had before.
And I don't really have any explanation.
I have a suspicion that they may be food related.
But I don't know and so I'm very interested to find out.
- I feel like I'm allergic to oysters because
whenever I eat oysters I throw up.
Four times out of five, I defeated by oysters.
Since I was little, start having eczema.
I feel like there are probably food sensitivity related
to that because I don't have it all the time.
- I've been having a lot of joint issues
and a lot of fatigue and some other things.
It's been really really frustrating.
I think it would be really interesting to learn
if things that I'm eating might actually be the cause.
- This is super emotional for me.
It's gonna be very hard for me to cut out
any specific food group.
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Well it's a really cute little box.
- Yeah, so cute.
- You might have to do this for me
because I'm really afraid to,
- You're afraid?
- Yeah.
(laughs)
- I might hold it well, there's a little man on the inside
of me right now panicking.
- All right, prep, drink a glass of water.
- Feel like I drink water.
- I drink coffee.
(laughs)
- That's for our blood to land on.
- Lord have mercy.
Activate the lancet, press down until an audible click.
I might pass out at the click.
- Stimulate blood flow by letting your hand
hang to your side, shake your hand back
and forth several times.
♪ Put your hand in the line ♪
♪ Put your hand in, you shake it all about ♪
(laughs)
- Here we go.
(rips) (laughs)
- It's funny, I feel like I'm playing operation.
We're ready for a disaster.
- There's no little actual needle.
- Oh it's in there. - That you can see.
- Yeah, you don't even know it's going to happen.
- Ah, I'm scared.
(shouts)
(laughs)
- [Rie] One,
- Oh that was not bad.
- There it goes.
- I didn't do it, I got scared, I chickened out.
- Do you want me to do it while I'm bleeding.
(laughs)
- Ah.
(laughs)
- Oh.
That wasn't so bad.
(laughs)
- I feel like I'm like milking a cow.
- Yours is like already done
and I can barely get anyone out.
- It's so hard.
- You think this'll work.
- All right, this finger has way better blood flow,
I should have started with this finger.
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- So I have one high reactivity.
- Oh.
- Two moderate reactivity.
22 mild reactivity and 71 low reactivity.
- Hmm.
You're reactive.
(laughs)
- I have zero high reactivity, zero moderate reactivity.
25 mild reactivity, 71 low reactivity.
- Oh wow, you have zero?
I'm jealous.
(laughs)
- Number one thing that I am reactive too
is wheat and gluten.
- Almond.
(gasps)
- That sucks.
That sucks. - I love almonds.
- I got yeast, that's everything.
- Yeah.
- Chicken, I can't have, - chicken?
- Chicken.
- I've never heard of a chicken sensitivity.
- Yeah, I'm not gonna tell people.
- Pear, (laughs) what?
- Brewers's yeast, I don't really like beer that that much.
Celery, no problem, black pepper, oh this is a problem.
Yes, this is a problem with avocado toast,
like it's not gonna work.
- Just have your avocado toast, just without the pepper.
- Uh?
- Cheese, mozzarella,
it's weird that they single out mozzarella cheese.
- Yeah true.
- Brown rice, that's supposed to be good.
- Safflower,
peanut,
egg yolk,
cottage cheese,
again why singling out the cottage cheese
what is the cottage add to the cheese that I am allergic to?
- Baker's yeast, wheat and gluten.
(beeps)
- Cut out all the breads.
- Hey relax, what am I supposed to eat?
I can't even have chicken anymore, so apparently
I need to eat shrimp, swordfish and kale.
- That sounds kind of good.
- Milk,
- Milk, cow milk.
- I love milk.
- Oh wow that's, and now you can't have almond milk
or cow milk.
- Cinnamon, I just had salmon for lunch.
- You had just cinnamon for lunch?
- No, I mean salmon, I just had some salmon
so I was like, that, I just messed up my life apparently.
- Egg white,
banana,
mustard,
coconut.
(gasps)
- The milk, coconut milk, you can't do either.
- Pepper and cinnamon, this is my main,
and they're medium, I really need.
- It's like I need the pepper and the cinnamon.
- I don't even know what I put cinnamon on recently
but I know I'm a need some cinnamon.
Just the option that I can't, maybe it's the amount.
Teaspoon and above we're good.
- I can eat all the pepper I want.
(laughs)
- All right, I'm gonna pour a cup of milk later.
Bet you like that wouldn't you?
- Enjoy.
(laughs) I don't like milk so it's okay.
- What's your other yellow on, give me something
to get at her with.
- Cocoa.
- Oh, well I'm gonna go have some cocoa
with extra bay leaf.
See you can't do this test with friends
'cause you're just gonna end up like trying
to one up one another like yeah,
bet you can't have any egg yolk.
Well look at all the black pepper over here.
Now we have a grudge.
- Cottage cheese. - Cottage cheese.
Cauliflower, turkey, gluten, sesame, wheat,
cheddar cheese, white potato, sweet potato,
- You got two potatoes.
- I feel like a bunch of thing from thanksgiving dinner.
(laughs)
- Okay, if it means cocoa, like just chocolate though,
like cocoa powder.
- I feel like all forms, I mean yeah,
'cause it's pretty much gonna be cocoa powder
that's in the chocolate.
- That's gonna be a problem.
- Basically you can't have any chocolate
for the rest of your like, if she has chocolate again
it's gonna be bad.
- No.
- She'll develop a condition, you'll go blind in one eye
if she eats chocolate.
- I would rather go blind in one eye.
(laughs)
- Both of 'em.
- [Crystal] Than give up chocolate.
- Excuse me, where is the chocolate.
(laughs)
- I also get black walnut.
- What's a black walnut?
- Beef.
I am sensitive to beef. - Whoa.
- Apparently.
- Lima beans, I knew it, I told my mom.
I used to bury them in my napkin and hide 'em in the couch
or in plants, like house plants.
- Years later there's just a pile of Lima beans
in the couch.
- You know six years old that seemed like a good idea
like she's not gonna go looking in here,
no one's gonna look in this house plant for Lima beans.
(laughs)
- Yeah Rie, you have some decisions to make after this.
I get to have zero.
- So basically for me all of the dairy,
just out, I'm not surprised by that at all.
I am a little disappointed because I love cheese so much.
- Right.
- And I've always sort of known that I should be eating it.
Now I like don't have an excuse.
- I can't really say that I like surprised or not surprised.
- Mmmhmm.
- I guess I'm more surprised.
And I really thought I would be at least more
than a mild reaction to something.
Just 'cause I've had so many symptoms in just the last year
and I've been like so unexplained.
- Looking through the entire list I have to say
that I was really surprised to see salmon as well as chicken
within like my mild reactivity areas
because those are two things that I cook all the time,
eat all the time, even the wheat and what not
like I've always wondered like,
do I have a gluten sensitivity?
- I'm honestly really surprised by the wheat and gluten.
I feel like a lot of people claim to have a gluten allergy
but don't actually have a gluten allergy.
- Clearly I've been ignoring mine.
- I'm also surprised 'cause I thought I'm immune
to a lot of things.
- Yeah and you have more.
- Yeah and I never had a problem with food.
- I'm really upset about some of these like,
this is a problem.
- What if you stopped eating pepper for just like
a couple weeks and then all of a sudden,
you felt like (sings) like the angels shining down
and you had so much more energy and you felt really great
all the time and it turned out it was just pepper all along?
- You know, it's like if I had that guarantee,
I would be dedicated to do it right now
but then like my only fear is like okay,
I'm gonna stop eating the pepper,
one of these ingredients, feel exactly the same
and then just be like all right so what was the point.
- I'm gonna still eat almond,
I'm gonna still drink almond milk.
But it's not something I take every day,
- Yeah.
- So I think I should be fine. - It'd be fine.
- I already have arthritis but a big symptom
of autoimmune disease is inflammation
and I'm actually really curious to know if maybe
its from these things and then if I were
to cut them out, if all of these test
that keep coming back saying that I have
an autoimmune disease would actually dissipate
and like my test wouldn't say that anymore.
- I honestly wish I found out I was highly sensitive
or something because then I would maybe attribute that
to some of the symptoms I've been having but,
oh well, (laughs).
- I mean to be honest, now that I do know,
which items I could be sensitive to,
and especially in these varying ranges,
I am a bit disappointed in my body
for not you know, helping me out there,
knowing how much I love bread.
- I'm not gonna do anything differently.
(laughs)
- Same.
Girl same.
- [Alix] It's not like our lives are threatened, hopefully,
yeah I shouldn't speak too soon, I think my life
is always threatened on a daily basis, (laughs)
by me, (laughs)
I like on the edge.
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