The Truth About Food Sensitivities: Why You're Reacting to Everything | Ep 364
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Jun 10, 2025
Discover the hidden world of food sensitivities and how they differ from allergies. Symptoms can show up days later, ranging from headaches to brain fog, depending on your body's vulnerabilities. The root causes involve modern food production, gut health, and environmental stressors. Learn why common food sensitivity tests may misinterpret your body's needs and the importance of a balanced approach to elimination diets. Explore how poor digestion and hormone levels can aggravate reactions, leading to a holistic understanding of your dietary choices.
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Delayed and Variable Food Sensitivities
Food sensitivities cause delayed, systemic inflammation unlike immediate allergies.
Symptoms vary widely depending on where inflammation already exists in the body.
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Why Food Sensitivities Have Increased
Changes in food production and modern farming raise food antigenicity, increasing immune reactivity.
Environmental toxins and modern lifestyles cause immune system overreactions, including to foods.
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Gut Health's Role in Food Reactions
Poor digestion and gut microbiome imbalances increase immune reactions to foods.
Leaky gut lets food antigens into the bloodstream triggering inflammation and food sensitivities.
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If you’re stuck in a food reactivity rabbit hole, this episode will help you decode what’s really going on. Erin unpacks the difference between food allergies and sensitivities, highlighting how sensitivities can trigger delayed, systemic inflammation days after exposure. She shares why symptoms vary so widely - ranging from headaches to joint pain to brain fog, and how your body’s “weakest link” often determines where symptoms show up.
But rather than just treating food as the enemy, Erin digs into the root causes: changes in food production, immune system overreactions, and gut dysfunction. Environmental toxins, stress, and even poor digestion are priming your body to misfire against food, and your $200 at-home test might be leading you down the wrong path.
Tune in for a clear breakdown of how to properly execute an elimination and provocation diet, what red flags on a food sensitivity test REALLY mean, and why blindly removing a bunch of foods could actually make things worse in the long run.
In this episode:
Why food sensitivity tests showing 25+ reactions might say more about your gut integrity than the foods themselves
The two BIGGEST reasons our modern immune systems are freaking out, and how it connects to food
How poor digestion and low stomach acid make your body attack food like a threat
What Erin actually recommends before ever turning to food sensitivity testing
The unexpected role of hormones, Vitamin A, and stress in triggering food reactions
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