{"id":264,"date":"2021-06-30T14:19:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T14:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/de\/case-study\/jacob-griffin\/"},"modified":"2021-06-30T14:19:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T14:19:34","slug":"jacob-griffin","status":"publish","type":"reviews","link":"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/de\/case-study\/jacob-griffin\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Griffin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I was suffering with rosacea-like symptoms. I would often find eating certain foods triggered these symptoms but was unable to narrow down the cause. I also found that exercising caused similar problems.<\/p>\n

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

I had suffered from these symptoms for many years, on and off. I found that they seemed to be worsening over time.<\/p>\n

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

The symptoms would cause general discomfort. The fact that they were getting worse over time was causing the greatest concern.<\/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

Exercising intensely almost always triggered these rosacea-like symptoms, as did heat and the sun.<\/p>\n

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

A family member had spoke with someone from YorkTest over 20 years ago and thoughts that it would be a solution.<\/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

A particularly bad experience after eating a particular meal, which made me thing that what I was eating could be causing the problem.<\/p>\n

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

Eliminating various foods types, usually having very little affects. I believed it was a completely hereditary condition so often just ignored it.<\/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 had read online that there were very few\/no treatments available for rosacea and similar conditions so tried to just ignore it.<\/p>\n

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What food and drink ingredients were you intolerant to? Were you surprised by the results?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cows milk<\/a> and egg<\/a> were the main ones. I also found less severe intolerance to wheat<\/a>, almond, tomato, and raspberry. I eliminated all except wheat.<\/p>\n

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

Symptoms improved significantly. No longer had as severe symptoms. This improve gradually the longer I avoided these foods.<\/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

Most notably is being able to enjoy food knowing that it won’t trigger my symptoms providing it doesn’t contain these foods. Also, hot conditions\/climate don’t trigger it any more and nor does going outside or exercising.<\/p>\n

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

The symptoms would appear immediately after consuming a particular trigger food and would then persist for several days up to several weeks. This meant that improvements were felt after a few days.<\/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

I didn’t eliminate wheat, and was advised this should be ok. I felt that this would restrict my diet too much. Otherwise, elimination has been ok but it is harder to avoid trigger foods when ordering takeaway or eating out.<\/p>\n

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

Yes.<\/p>\n

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

Rosacea appears far worse than before. Very severe symptoms presented when I accidentally ate food containing tomato over night.<\/p>\n

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

Helpful. It provided me with ideas on how to reintroduce and also about the kind of alternatives to my trigger foods.<\/p>\n

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

Very accommodating. Friendly and knowledgeable.<\/p>\n

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

My symptoms are slowly improving now and I am suffering from bouts of skin inflammation\/rosacea far less often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Relieved, having found the cause and more in control now I am able to reintroduce the foods in a measurable way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","review_category":[27],"class_list":["post-264","reviews","type-reviews","status-publish","hentry","review_category-hauterkrankungen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reviews\/264","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=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"review_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review_category?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}