The gentleman who served me cut off a small sample of my hair and put it into a zip-lock bag to send away for processing.
A few days later, a friend of mine also went into the store. He brought a sample of hair with him already in a bag.
Two weeks later and £70 poorer, we went back to collect a full report containing our allergy test results.
I suffer from hay-fever and am allergic to cat and rabbit fur. Despite this, my test came out negative for an allergy to tree pollen, grass pollen and plant pollen. It also came back negative for animal dander/hair.
More interesting was the huge difference between my friend’s test results and my own.
They told me I had a low reaction to wheat, pepper/spicy, nuts and a moderate reaction to dairy, caffeine and yeast. I could apparently benefit from more chromium and valerian.
My friend’s test reported a low reaction to nightshade family, citrus fruits, salt, sweet, beet/cane sugar, house and dust mite and a medium reaction to dairy, orange and grass pollen.
It said he could benefit from more Omega-3, Milk thistle herb and co-enzyme q10.
With the exception of dairy, our results were completely different. Which is strange, since the sample of hair that my friend took in came from my head.
That’s right. Two samples of hair from the same head. Two completely different results.
After watching Bullshit and their stunning expose on New Age Medicine (that is “alternative medicine,”) and then reading this, my lifelong suspicions are more solid than ever: alternative medicine is just a way of grabbing cash from rubes who believe in it.
Now where are my needles? I have a headache. My Chakras must be out of alignment.
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