MRT®: The Gold Standard for Food Sensitivity Testing
Gold Standard: term used to describe a procedure that is widely recognized as the best available/Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary ©Farlex 2012
Without MRT® (Mediator Release Test), identifying dietary triggers in food sensitivity is an enormous challenge for many reasons, including:
- Reactions are often dose-dependent - a small amount of an offending food may not produce any noticeable symptoms, but a large amount does
- Reactions may be delayed by many hours or even days after ingestion
- Even so-called healthy, anti-inflammatory foods, such as salmon, parsley, turmeric, apples (or any food) can be reactive; often, naturally occurring food-chemicals play a role
No other blood test accounts for the numerous complexities of food sensitivities as well as MRT®. Even oral challenge cannot provide the clinically relevant information that MRT® provides, as it can only determine if a food provokes noticeable symptoms - it cannot give any insight into symptomless inflammatory effects, or dose-dependent reactions.
Whether reactions are governed by the innate or adaptive immune systems; whether reactions are caused by foods or food-chemicals; whether they are dose-dependent or delayed, MRT® provides the most complete information regarding hidden inflammation producing foods and food-chemicals.
MRT® is a functional "endpoint" test, meaning it measures and quantifies the endpoint of all inflammation generating sensitivity pathways - mediator release from white blood cells. MRT® has been awarded multiple US and International patents and is the only food sensitivity test in the world that can measure reactions of different types of inflammatory cells simultaneously and because MRT® quantifies reactions, it is able to reliably predict the safest eating plan for you.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Q. How does MRT® work?
A. MRT® is an indirect method of accurately measuring mediator release. MRT® does this by measuring changes in the liquids to solids ratio of your blood after your blood has been exposed and incubated with the test substance. It accounts for all reactions by your immune cells. This is done as an indicator that your immune cells have released chemical mediators such as histamines and others. Significant reactions are broken into either High Reactive, or Moderately Reactive categories and insignificant reactions are placed in the Low Reactive category. All measurements are made using the most accurate method of measurement (Ribbon Technology) currently available.
Q. I know that I am allergic to a particular food but MRT® results indicate that I was not. Why?
A. MRT® identifies foods and food chemicals involved in food sensitivities, and it is the most comprehensive blood test for these types of reactions. If you know that you are allergic to a particular food, it most likely will not show up on MRT® because mast cells, the main cells involved in allergic reactions are found in tissue, not in the circulation. MRT® measures the circulating cells which tend to be involved in sensitivities.
Q. How can I be reactive to this food; I eat it all the time and it is a healthy food?
A. One of the problems with food sensitivities is that any food or food chemical that you consume can potentially be a culprit. Foods that you eat regularly are even more likely to be causing a problem. Food sensitivities often develop over time in a gradual manner and this causes you to become accustomed to a certain amount of suffering which you experience as "normal" - when you eat reactive substances in this situation, it may not cause a dramatic reaction. However, if you avoid your reactive foods for a while and then reintroduce them, you may experience a very pronounced reaction. Then you know that particular food is not healthy for you, no matter what the other health benefits of that food may be.
Q. Why are milk, cottage cheese, and yogurt different in reactivity?
A. While milk, cottage cheese, and yogurt are all in the same food family (dairy), the antigenic protein structure varies considerably as the milk changes into a new product.
Q. Is MRT® accurate?
A. A blinded peer reviewed scientific study showed MRT® to have the highest level of accuracy of any food sensitivity blood test (94.5% sensitivity and 91.8% specificity).