{"id":255,"date":"2021-06-30T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/de\/case-study\/peter-foale\/"},"modified":"2021-06-30T11:00:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T11:00:38","slug":"peter-foale","status":"publish","type":"reviews","link":"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/de\/case-study\/peter-foale\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Foale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tell us about your symptoms before you took the test?<\/strong><\/p>\n

heavily congested, excessive sneezing, wheeziness, frequent coughing<\/p>\n

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How long have you had your symptoms?<\/strong><\/p>\n

To a greater or lesser extend, much of my life although they had become significantly worse over the 18 months before I took the test<\/p>\n

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How did your symptoms affect your day-to-day life?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Disrupting sleep, wheeziness after significant exertion, coughing and sneezing unpleasant for other people<\/p>\n

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What did you feel unable to do as a result of your symptoms? (Activities and hobbies that you could no longer do etc.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nothing specifically but I found myself tiring more quickly when working in the garden or playing golf<\/p>\n

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How did you hear about YorkTest? (Through a friend\/family member, on the internet etc.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Via a colleague of my wife whose husband had had similar problems and had benefited from taking the YorkTest.<\/p>\n

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Why did you take a YorkTest? Was there a specific incident that made you decide to take a test with us?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I had been thinking about doing something like this for a few months but got fed up with feeling rough over the Christmas period. It was my new year resolution to do something about it!<\/p>\n

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What solutions had you previously tried before coming to YorkTest?<\/strong><\/p>\n

None<\/p>\n

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Did you seek advice from a specialist\/GP? If so, what was the outcome\/advice given?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have been in contact with my GP in parallel with this process. Blood test and chest x-ray both clear. However, I have been using an inhaler alongside the changes to my diet. I have also been using a peak flow meter which is giving me some measurable data on my improved breathing capacity.<\/p>\n

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What food And drink ingredients were you intolerant to?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Particularly cows milk<\/a> and to a lesser extent, yeast<\/a>. I didn\u2019t know what to expert but wasn\u2019t entirely surprised given the amount of dairy products that I was consuming and what I had learned from talking to other people with similar problems.<\/p>\n

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Once you removed your trigger foods, how did you feel?<\/strong><\/p>\n

No immediate impact but I have got progressively better over a three month period, with a few ups and downs along the way.<\/p>\n

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Are you able to do things you couldn’t do before taking a test? (New hobbies and activities.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

No, but I can do more of the things that I was doing anyway.<\/p>\n

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How long did it take for you to see an improvement in your symptoms and overall health after removing your food intolerance?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some improvement after a couple of weeks but more significant over 2 months, after which time the improvement has been more marked and rapid.<\/p>\n

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Did you see any change in weight through this process?<\/strong><\/p>\n

No<\/p>\n

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How easy did you find the elimination process?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Surprisingly easy. I think that the potential benefits if it worked made it worth the sacrifices required. I miss cheese in particular but there are worse things to have to worry about.<\/p>\n

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Are you still following your diet plan?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, I have made and stuck to the changes suggested.<\/p>\n

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What happens if you eat your trigger foods?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am still experimenting with introducing dairy products but I haven\u2019t felt the need to go back to them. I have also been eating bread and other yeast containing products in small quantities without any apparent adverse reactions so far.<\/p>\n

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How helpful was the nutritional consultation?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Very useful, interesting and informative. Sarah helped me get a good understanding of the roots of my problems so the proposed changes had a proper context.<\/p>\n

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How helpful did you find the Customer Care Team?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Very helpful<\/p>\n

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How has your life changed since taking the test?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sleeping better, feeling far better in myself and certainly not congested in the way that I used to. I also have far more energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Simple steps based on my test results have improved my life more than I could have imagined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","review_category":[29],"class_list":["post-255","reviews","type-reviews","status-publish","hentry","review_category-atemwegserkrankungen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reviews\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reviews"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reviews"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"review_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review_category?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}