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Once you have your lab test results, exclude the culprit foods 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 retaking the questionnaire (which is also available on-line, see Appendix V). For most people, symptoms should have diminished over a matter of weeks, and therefore you should see improved scores in your questionnaire each time you retake it.

To determine if you can eat any of the tested positive foods again with impunity, after three months plan a reintroduction schedule. Consume a normal, moderate portion of each food every four days, and observe your symptoms. If you still react to a food, then avoid it for a further three months. Even for those foods you do not react to, don’t start eating them again every day – eat them every third or fourth day so that you do not re-create the intolerance.

Continue the Digestive Support Plan for the first three months; if your symptoms have improved after this, then stop. If symptoms emerge because you have stopped the Digestive Support Plan, then start it again for another month. If you feel that the Digestive Support Plan is helping you, there’s no reason you can’t continue it indefinitely – though you should take a break from it every few months so you can make sure it still meets your needs.

If your score does not drop to below 15 even after you have excluded the culprit foods for three months, then other imbalances may also exist. Retake the questionnaires for other conditions to see if your scores have dropped. If you do not score less than half what you did first-time round, you need to double-check that you are avoiding the culprit foods in all their forms. You should also:

i) Go and see a nutritionist, armed with all this information, or:

ii) Take a test for Intestinal Permeability if you have not already done so if positive, follow the Gut Lining Support Plan if negative, then:

iii) Take the next most important relevant test as highlighted by the questionnaires (e.g. Adrenal Stress Profile, Stool Analysis or Dysbiosis Profile). You may still need some help in addressing imbalances, so do seek out a good nutritionist near you (see Resources chapter).