{"id":208,"date":"2018-09-12T10:58:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T10:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/de\/case-study\/sally-gunnell\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T11:49:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:49:02","slug":"sally-gunnell","status":"publish","type":"reviews","link":"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/de\/case-study\/sally-gunnell\/","title":{"rendered":"Sally Gunnell OBE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>&#8220;I&#8217;m not waking up as much during the night, not as bunged up in my nose and I&#8217;ve got so much more energy. I feel great!&#8221;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Before taking the test, Sally did not consider herself to have any significant symptoms that could be caused by food intolerance, apart from a \u201clittle bloating\u201d and the \u201codd headache\u201d<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alongside her two sons, Luca and Fin, she followed a\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/products\/food-drink-scan-test\/\">Premium Food Intolerance* Test<\/a>, the results of which revealed that she was reacting to cow\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/intolerance\/milk\/\">milk<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/intolerance\/egg\/\">eggs<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">After three weeks of cutting out her trigger foods, Sally \u201cfelt so much better\u201d, noting that her quality of sleep had improved and she had more energy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aside from a \u201clittle bloating\u201d and \u201cthe odd headache\u201d, Olympic legend Sally Gunnell OBE considered herself symptom-free. After following a YorkTest programme, however, Sally learnt that elements of her diet may have been having a significant impact on her daily life.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sally Gunnell OBE Case Study\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0sbSKx4IYKo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sally and her two sons, Luca and Fin were to each collect a small blood sample by using the finger-prick lancet in their test kits, before posting these back to YorkTest\u2019s laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaking the test was really simple,\u201d explained Sally. \u201cWe ordered it online. It came through the post within days, which was brilliant. It was very self-explanatory. You opened up the box and it had all the instructions inside on what you needed to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Producing a few drops of blood was no big deal for the athletics champion but her sons took a little more convincing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was fine but I must admit one of my boys was a bit squeamish and danced around the kitchen for quite a while,\u201d Sally laughed. \u201cBut after we\u2019d actually done it, he said \u201cIs that it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sally, Luca and Fin\u2019s samples were tested in the YorkTest laboratory for IgG antibody reactions to over <strong>200<\/strong> foods and drinks. Ingredients tested ranged from commonplace foods and drinks like wheat and eggs to superfoods such as kale and quinoa. Each member of the family then received a results pack, which contained details of their reactions, arranged into a simple colour-coded table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the results come back, I think you are a little apprehensive,\u201d said Sally. \u201cBut then you read them and you\u2019re like, WOW!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The results revealed that Sally had intolerances* to both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/food-intolerance-advice\/problem-foods\/dairy-intolerance\/\">cow\u2019s milk<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/food-intolerance-advice\/problem-foods\/egg-intolerance\/\">eggs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was shocked,\u201d she commented. \u201cBecause I\u2019ve drunk cow\u2019s milk all my life and eaten eggs all my life. Then you start looking at all the packs and thinking, how am I going to do this (eliminate the ingredients)?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the end, I thought let\u2019s try this and see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As part of Sally\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/products\/food-drink-scan-test\/\">Premium Food Intolerance* Test<\/a>, she was entitled to a 30-minute consultation with a registered nutritional therapist. After taking a couple of days to digest her results, she booked her first consultation to get some guidance on how to find healthy alternatives for her diet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe YorkTest nutritionist, Ali, was absolutely brilliant. She supported us in that conversation and just made it (the new diet) feel achievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found it really reassuring because it was quite scary to think that you need to read every single packet of food. She told us to take it step by step.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sally did just that, following Ali\u2019s advice and finding alternatives to cow\u2019s milk, whilst doing her weekly online shop. She quickly found that the change in her diet appeared to be having a positive effect on her sleeping routine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all about making the changes slowly, not necessarily all at once. I found, because I was feeling better, I wanted to do more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sally took her programme to the next level and eliminated both cow\u2019s milk and eggs completely from her diet. After two weeks, she was amazed at the array of benefits she felt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt so much better, I\u2019m not needing to sleep as long, which is really good. I\u2019m not waking up as much during the night, not as bunged up in my nose and I\u2019ve got so much more energy. I feel great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/Sally-medals-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/Sallly-and-boys-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Improvements were also felt by Sally\u2019s sons, who also cut out their own food intolerances*, supported by YorkTest\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Luca, my middle son, there\u2019s been a massive transformation,\u201d commented Sally. Luca said he had been unable to stay awake much later than 7pm in the evening but the change in his diet had left him feeling much more \u201cenergised\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sally\u2019s 20-year old son, Fin, saw benefits to his running performance after following his own elimination diet and was even able to shave some milliseconds off his personal best 800 metre run time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s amazed me to learn that 45% of people actually suffer from a food intolerance of some sort,\u201d added Sally, who became a Brand Ambassador for YorkTest in the summer of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith that sort of figure you just think that there are people out there everywhere who aren\u2019t delivering how they need to and not feeling how they want to every single day. If we can try and help some of those percentage of people just to feel good about themselves, that\u2019d be great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve found that lots of people want to make those changes but they don\u2019t know how. They don\u2019t know where to start.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would just say to anybody that if they\u2019re thinking of doing this, you\u2019ve probably put up with so many years of things like bloating, headaches and pain. Do this test. It\u2019s so simple, it\u2019s easy to do and it can change your whole life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>YorkTest Nutritional Therapist, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/our-experts\/alison-orr\/\">Ali Orr<\/a>, helped her to optimise her diet safely and effectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would just say to anybody that if they\u2019re thinking of doing this, you\u2019ve probably put up with so many years of things like bloating, headaches and pain. Do this test. 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