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If you have done a lab test and you now have a list of culprit foods, then eliminate them for three whole months – the recipes in this book will help you with what you can eat instead. Once a month during this time, review your symptom scores by redoing the questionnaire (which is also available on-line). For most people, the symptoms should diminish over a matter of weeks, and therefore you should see improved scores each time you retake the questionnaire.

After three months, plan a reintroduction schedule, reintroducing individual foods, four days apart, and consuming a normal, moderate portion of the food and observing your symptoms. If you still react to a food, then avoid it for a further three months. For those foods that you do not react to, eat them every third or fourth day. Continue the Digestive Support Plan for the first three months, after which, if your symptoms have improved, you can stop. If symptoms emerge because you have stopped the Digestive Support Plan, then begin it again for one more month.

If your score in The Food Intolerance Questionnaire does not drop to below 15 when you exclude these foods, then consider that other imbalances may well exist, and review your answers to the questionnaires in Part 2 with the intention of addressing the other most significant conditions present, such as stress or leaky gut syndrome, for example. Since it is not practical to follow more than two plans at any one time, follow the Plan indicated by the results of the questionnaires. Even if you score very highly in all the other questionnaires, then choose the test with the highest ranking, as detailed in Part 3.