{"id":716,"date":"2023-04-06T09:36:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T09:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/us\/case-study\/laura-beth-spouse\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T19:33:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T19:33:28","slug":"laura-beth-spouse","status":"publish","type":"reviews","link":"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/us\/case-study\/laura-beth-spouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura-Beth Spouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Doing this test has given me a lot of physical and mental freedom, which I&#8217;m really grateful for&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>27-year-old wedding and event marketing consultant, Laura-Beth Spouse, was dealing with a range of unpleasant symptoms. Laura had suffered with bad stomach ache, breakout in spots, chest pain, cramps and diarrhea all of her adult life.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about how these symptoms affected her life, Laura said: \u201cQuite a lot. With my job I do a lot of driving, so quite often I&#8217;d have to plan my route knowing I had a decent service station en route, just in case, and I&#8217;d have to allow extra time in between appointments in case I had a loose moment. I had very urgent symptoms whenever I ate certain foods but I couldn&#8217;t pinpoint what the foods were exactly. I constantly carried Rennies and Imodium with me.&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Laura added &#8220;I love going out for brunch, however up until recently I stopped going out as I was tired of feeling so rubbish afterwards. I&#8217;d generally have to race home, especially if I had eggs and then I&#8217;d spend the rest of the day looking 6 months pregnant and in pain.&#8221;. That&#8217;s when her mum told her about YorkTest and gifted Laura a food sensitivity test for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-194394 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/Laura-Beth-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After taking the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/us\/products\/premium-food-sensitivity\/\">Premium Food Sensitivity Test<\/a>, Laura&#8217;s results indicated that her body was reacting to eggs, milk and yeast. &#8220;The eggs and milk wasn&#8217;t too much of a shock, if anything it was a relief to know, however yeast was really shocking! I instantly thought I&#8217;ll never be able to eat food I enjoy again!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We asked Laura how she felt after removing these trigger foods, she said \u201cLiterally like a new person. Without going into too much detail, I found myself having much more time away from the bathroom, my skin looks and feels so much better. I only really bloat now when it&#8217;s my time of the month, my chest doesn&#8217;t feel so tight and I feel healthier.&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Laura can now also enjoy activities she previously found difficult, &#8220;I go out for brunch all of the time now! I tend to stick to a vegan diet whenever I can. Yeast is a difficult one though, but I try to make decisions that aren&#8217;t as bad. For example, instead of a nice cheesy bread bun, I&#8217;ll have gluten free bread or pitta bread so it&#8217;s not as heavy.&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Our test analyses your IgG reactions to 200 food and drinks \u2013 from common ingredients like gluten and cow&#8217;s milk, to health superfoods like kale and quinoa.<\/p>\n<p>The process involves sending a finger-prick blood sample back to YorkTest, Laura then received her results within 7-days through the Wellness Hub, in an easy-to-read traffic light-based format.<\/p>\n<p>Eliminating the trigger foods and sticking to her diet plan has helped clear Laura\u2019s symptoms and helped her be more active. When asked about her nutritional consultation, Laura commented: \u201cReally helpful! I was quite anxious about it as I thought the call was going to be about everything I can&#8217;t eat but actually it was the opposite. She was really supportive and positive which made me feel a lot better too.\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Laura also found the customer service team helpful and supportive, &#8220;I&#8217;ve struggled with this for a good 12 years and whenever I&#8217;ve gone to professional places, I always felt like a nuisance or an opportunity for someone to make money. However, YorkTest was completely the opposite. I felt heard and supported throughout the process and I always recommend them to my friends.&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>When asked how life had changed since taking the test and how she would summarize her experience, Laura concluded: \u201cSounds really cheesy, but I&#8217;d say that I feel free. I think unless you&#8217;ve suffered with a sensitivity before, you just think people are being dramatic, but that isn&#8217;t the case at all. Doing this test has given me a lot of physical and mental freedom which I&#8217;m really grateful for.\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doing this test has given me a lot of physical and mental freedom which I&#8217;m really grateful for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":717,"template":"","review_category":[],"class_list":["post-716","reviews","type-reviews","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reviews\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reviews"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reviews"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"review_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review_category?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}