What is it?
The food intolerance testing kit and 6-Week Discovery Plan is a FODMAP testing and breath testing program designed to help you find the foods that work with your unique digestive system.
In 6 weeks you will test your tolerance to 4 hard-to-digest food components; Lactose, Fructose, Sorbitol, and Inulin. The plan is broken down into three stages, Baseline, Reset, and Discovery. Each stage is important and is part of the journey to healing your gut. After six weeks, you will have concrete data on what foods suit your digestion, so you can shop, cook, and eat foods with confidence.
How does it work?
The 6-Week Discovery Plan is broken down into three stages, let’s go through them…
STAGE 1. Baseline Stage
The Baseline Stage is about routine and takes a week. During Baseline you set the foundation, you establish your normal breath scores, FODMAP intake, symptoms, stress, and sleep levels. This stage is very important as this baseline stage acts as a comparison once you start testing.
STAGE 2. Reset Stage
Reset is about preparation before you test your tolerance levels to one of the four FODMAPS, or as we like to call it a ‘challenge’. A challenge measures your gas production response to a particular carbohydrate or food (by using your AIRE device). By measuring the amount of hydrogen you breathe out we can work out how well that carbohydrate was absorbed. To ensure that we are only measuring your response to that particular carbohydrate you should avoid foods that are highly fermentable and slowly digested the day before your challenge.
STAGE 3. Discovery Stage
The Discovery Stage is about testing FODMAPs – Lactose, Fructose, Sorbitol, and Inulin. We recommend that you test one FODMAP per week, so one challenge per week. These testing days are called Discovery Days and the app will guide you with the preparation and through the actual test.
