What are my thoughts on the KBMO Diagnostics food sensitivity and zonulin testing?

Chris: I’ve never seen much evidence to really support it. I don’t personally think it’s a great option. I think I explained this in the content itself. Even the Cyrex Array 10, which we’re teaching you in the course, I shared my reservations about that test. I really like Cyrex Array 3X, the gluten and wheat sensitivity testing, and I think that’s quite reliable. The Cyrex Array 4 with some of the other proteins and sensitivities I would put slightly below that in terms of my confidence in it, but I still think it can be quite useful, and Array 10, I don’t know. I’ve used that test serially with some patients, and I’ve seen quite different results that don’t totally make sense to me. I don’t find myself using it a lot in clinical practice these days. If we do you use it, I always tell patients that you should only use it as a kind of jumping off point or a rubric or template for further experimentation. In other words, don’t ever just look at the test results and say, oh, I can eat strawberries, lettuce, kale, and all of these random foods that come up now because this test told me I can eat them. What you would do is the kind of a controlled process of experimentation where you remove some of these foods and then determine if they actually are an issue, and even if they are, will they always be? I certainly would hope not because the main goal with functional medicine is to heal the gut, heal the intestinal barrier, and treat the underlying cause of the problem, and in that case, many of these food intolerances could completely resolve. The same may not be true for gluten and gluten intolerance but certainly with some of the stuff that we come up on these other food intolerance test, I don’t think so. In terms of zonulin as a marker, I have a lot of concern about it too. We’re going to talk about those in depth that content of the course.