{"id":86705,"date":"2025-10-27T14:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T14:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/us\/?post_type=reviews&p=86705"},"modified":"2025-10-31T14:10:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:10:52","slug":"sin-hue-tan","status":"publish","type":"reviews","link":"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/us\/case-study\/sin-hue-tan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sin Hue Tan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cWay Better! More Energetic and No Mouth Ulcers!\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

34-year-old tour operator Sin Hue Tan had been through a rough few months. After a stomach bug while travelling in Morocco, she tested positive for H. pylori: a bacterial infection that caused ongoing acid reflux, nausea, and vomiting multiple times a day. Her energy levels dropped significantly, and painful mouth ulcers became a constant part of her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These symptoms weren\u2019t just frustrating; they were debilitating. The mouth ulcers made it painful to speak, eat, smile, or even sleep. Regular vomiting and bowel issues meant she couldn\u2019t go into the office, despite her hybrid role requiring her to be there three times a week. After a full day\u2019s work from home, she had no energy left for the sports and exercise she once enjoyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Desperate for answers, Sin Hue turned to her GP\u2026 again and again. From January to June 2025, she visited her doctor almost every week. Despite her persistence and repeated requests for food intolerance or allergy testing, her symptoms were dismissed as hormonal, mental health-related, or simply unexplained. She was told to \u201ckeep a food diary\u201d and left without real support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frustrated, she took matters into her own hands and found YorkTest online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She ordered a test in June 2025, and the results were eye-opening. Sin Hue discovered she was intolerant to several foods, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Cow\u2019s milk
\u2022 Egg whites
\u2022 Gluten (gliadin)
\u2022 Wheat
\u2022 Yeast
\u2022 Bean sprouts
\u2022 Turnip
\u2022 Jasmine
\u2022 Bamboo
\u2022 Water chestnuts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While she had suspected a possible issue with cow\u2019s milk, the rest, especially the Asian ingredients, were a total surprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Removing so many foods from her diet wasn\u2019t easy. She described the process as \u201cinsanely hard and depressing\u201d at times, given how many of her favourite meals were now off-limits. But with guidance from her YorkTest nutritional consultant, who reassured her to focus only on the red-category foods (and not the orange ones), she felt more supported and less overwhelmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within eight weeks of changing her diet, things started to turn around. The vomiting stopped. Her energy levels improved. Perhaps most importantly, the mouth ulcers disappeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was able to return to exercising again, which was something she hadn\u2019t had the strength to do in months. Her weight began to stabilise too, having previously dropped to a BMI of just 18.4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, Sin Hue says she feels \u201cway better, way more energetic and no mouth ulcers!\u201d Though it saddens her to avoid foods she once loved, she\u2019s grateful to finally feel like herself again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWay Better! More Energetic and No Mouth Ulcers!\u201d 34-year-old tour operator Sin Hue Tan had been through a rough few months. After a stomach bug while travelling in Morocco, she tested positive for H. pylori: a bacterial infection that caused ongoing acid reflux, nausea, and vomiting multiple times a day. Her energy levels dropped significantly, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":86706,"template":"","review_category":[161,162],"class_list":["post-86705","reviews","type-reviews","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","review_category-skin-conditions","review_category-stomach-issues"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reviews\/86705","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\/86706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"review_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorktest.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review_category?post=86705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}