Taking care of yourself means that you have to put some focus on both your physical health as well as your mental health. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could take care of both by focusing on one test? Well, a food intolerance test could just be the support that you’re looking for to give you a foothold in protecting your health from mental to physical.
The first step is a food intolerance test
When you’re looking at balancing out your mental and physical health, the first thing that you need to do is to get a food intolerance test. This test is designed to measure your IgG levels (the body’s antibodies) in response to fighting off a food ingredient that is hard to digest for you in particular. The test results will be emailed to you, and you’ll get a personalized record of problem foods that increase those IgG levels.
How can IgG levels indicate mental health issues?
There are a lot of factors that go into mental health issues, of course, but there is a lot of research to suggest that those who are dealing with inflammation or a leaky gut could suffer from more mental health issues. A food intolerance can be known for causing both inflammation and a leaky gut, so modifying your diet to lower your levels of IgG could be helpful with both of these conditions.
Inflammation is caused by the body fighting off problem foods (food intolerances), and the body reacts by creating an inflammatory response. Inflammation is known to cause low mood in those who are predisposed to mental health issues and can trigger a flare-up of depression, for example.
A leaky gut is when the walls of the gut are weakened and start to leak. This can be aggravated by high IgG levels. When someone is suffering from an unhealthy gut, this can even worsen IgG levels and create more reactions such as inflammation. So, high IgG levels can cause a leaky gut, and also be heightened even more so by the gut’s permeability. A double-whammy if there ever was one, in medicine.
IgG levels are not the cause of mental health issues, but moderating them and keeping them as low as possible can help with a lot of mood-related issues such as depression or anxiety. There is also a lot of research that eating a healthy diet and staying active ca nee helpful for inflammation, so combining a food intolerance test with healthy habits can also be supportive at a physical level.
Since more and more people are suffering from mental health issues and low moods, it’s now more important than ever to do what you can to help protect and strengthen yourself physically against them setting in. It appears as though low IgG levels could be a way to do that, and also make sure that you are taking care of your physical health, too. The healthier you are, the better you’ll feel both physically and emotionally.
Used resource: https://www.testyourintolerance.com/major-depressive-disorder/
