The Inconsistency of Food Intolerance Testing

You know what I hate food intolerance testing I don't want to say that it's completely pointless, but I am going to say this, that the food intolerance testing is incredibly inconsistent. you could i i know i'm not gonna say any names of who had done this since we're on a podcast but i have friends that are strength conditioning coaches and they train a lot of pro athletes and in a lot of cases they've taken three samples from an athlete put three different names on it sent it in they got three different fucking reports and it was the same athlete so when I see that I'm like okay why am I going to charge my client $500 to run this expensive testing when the testing isn't even that good like it's nothing that we can't accomplish with a good elimination diet which doesn't cost them anything but like 5 minutes so I can set you down and I can say alright cool what are the like tell me all the major proteins you eat a week tell me all the major vegetables and fruits and all that and what fat you eat. And the protein, you're going to get the same thing, like beef, chicken, eggs. That's going to be like your main ones, right? So depending on who you're talking to, you might get a few different things. Okay, so we're not going to eat those for the next like three weeks. We're going to instead eat turkey, more fish, prawns or whatever. So we're going to give them alternates to eat and we're going to eliminate the stuff that they eat all the time because we're going to assume that they probably have an issue with some of that food. So we'll just get rid of it. Right. So I don't need you to pay me $500. I don't need to interpret any fancy testing and IgG panel or MRT or any of that stuff. I'm just going to tell you, don't eat the shit you usually eat and let's give you a different menu. And then we eat that for three weeks. How do you feel? Oh, I feel amazing. All right, cool. Are you bloated? No, my bloat's gone away. I'm not gassy and that type of stuff. Oh, that's great. Okay, cool. Let's add some of those foods back in the next day. They're like, oh my God, I'm bloated. And I just farted and all the paint started peeling off the walls and my hair fell out and I'm like okay don't eat that again let's pull that back out you know so people try to over complicate things and and this industry is so so about just like ripping people off and making money it's like just keep shit simple until it needs to be complex like I don't even run I run zero labs on people unless we get to the four month mark and something's not working if i can't fix it in four months off symptoms now we're going to run tests because there's going to be something that only a test is going to show us at that point yeah yeah i think that's a powerful message uh that i guess coaches and people need to to get is is that you you know you don't have to start with looking at those biomarkers you can just make it completely uncomplicated and using the person's feedback is often just more powerful. And as we talked about before, the food panels aren't necessarily the most reliable things in the world. In terms of what are your non-negotiables in terms of the fundamentals that when you get someone and they say, okay, I want you to coach me, what I heard you've talked about before in terms of you've got a huge question section where they have to, you know, fill in a log of, you know, what they've done in the past and obviously food recall and that sort of stuff. What, just I guess to summarize, what are the key areas that you're looking at in that questions section that you see when you see a new client?