FOOD INTOLERANCE / ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY

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1 FOOD INTOLERANCE / ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY Food Intolerance Many years ago, Lucretius expressed what we consider the basic concept for the ALCAT Test. He stated, One man s meat is another man s poison. Now more than ever, diet plays a critical role in preventing a wide range of degenerative diseases and premature aging. The immune system is a double-edged sword. It should react appropriately and protect against infection when confronted with harmful invaders or infectious agents like viruses or bacteria. Unfortunately for some, exposure to common foods, chemicals and molds may trigger chronic activation of the immune system. For over 24 years, the ALCAT Test has provided healthcare professionals and their patients with a tool for managing a wide variety of conditions linked to inflammation and chronic activation of the immune system, such as: Digestive Disorders Migraines Obesity Chronic Fatigue Aching Joints Skin Disorders Autism And many more About the Technology Cell Science Systems, Corp. developed the ALCAT Test to measure personalized nutrition at the cellular level. The core technology is a blood test that measures the body's cellular response to challenges from a wide array of substances including foods, food additives and colorings, molds and environmental chemicals. The ALCAT Test is NOT an allergy or IgE test. The ALCAT is the most effective and comprehensive sensitivity/intolerance test available. The ALCAT Test has been validated by demonstrating a high correlation with double-blind oral challenges with both foods and food additives. In addition, a controlled study from Baylor Medical College reported 98% success for weight loss and/or improvement in body composition from patients that followed the recommended ALCAT Rotation Diet, an unparalleled achievement. Research is underway to develop new applications for the ALCAT Technology platform that will lead to tests for measuring the effects of nutrients and biological response modifiers on immune function. 1

2 Why ALCAT? Why ALCAT? In 2008 over 24 million adults and children in the United States were suffering from diabetes and over 64 percent of adults were overweight or obese. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, it is estimated that over 34 million people in the United States have food sensitivity. According to the Mayo Clinic, as many as 1 in 5 people have Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), yet fewer than half seek medical attention. Nearly 12 percent of the United States suffers from migraine headaches, with one-third of sufferers getting them more than three times per month. Common, everyday problems like migraines, aching joints, fatigue, gastrointestinal disorders, eczema, hyperactivity, ADD, asthma and even obesity have been linked to food sensitivity and chronic activation of the immune system. FDA Registered/Inspected Device Manufacturer Available in over 20 countries worldwide The ALCAT Test is a simple blood test that can be used to identify food and other factors that induce innate immune system activation. It measures changes in size and volume of white blood cells in response to ex vivo challenges with foods, chemicals and other environmental stimuli. The ALCAT Test is NOT an allergy or IgE test. The ALCAT is the most effective and comprehensive sensitivity/intolerance test available. It is more effective than standard Immunoglobulin G (IgG) tests because they rely exclusively on one immune pathway: serum levels of IgG. High food specific IgG titers are indicative only of exposure, not necessarily intolerance. Therefore, high frequency of consumption or overexposure may lead to false positives. Over 350 available test agents - Foods, Food Additives, Medicinal Herbs and Functional Foods, Food Colorings, Molds and Chemicals Meal plans/ Recipes available On site Nutritional Counselors are available to help you maximize your ALCAT experience Mobile/Walk-In Blood Draws Available in U.S and Canada 2

3 SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD For ten years I have used the ALCAT Test in my practice - no other test is as useful. Fred Pescatore, MD, MPH. Medical Director Partners in Integrative Medicine, York, NY The ALCAT Test has helped in a multitude of chronic cases where other investigation and treatment had reached a dead end. David M. Brady, ND, CCN, DACBN Whole Body Medicine, Trumbull, CT I strongly believe that everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, should have an ALCAT Test. Michael Brown, NMD Practicing Physician Your Wellness Connection, Shawnee Mission, KS The ALCAT Test is the most effective tool I use in my practice to assist my patients in the management of food sensitivity and intolerance Lea Russell, MBA, RD, LD/N Nutritional Health Services, Tampa, FL Most of my patients who have the ALCAT Test have marked improvements of their symptoms. Donald Dennis, MD, FACS Medical Director Atlanta Center for ENT, Atlanta, GA I have found that with the elimination of food sensitivities through the ALCAT Test, I am able to obtain better and more dramatic results. Juan Remos, MD, MBA Wellness Director The Miami Institute, Miami, FL "In my opinion, the ALCAT is the most clinically relevant test in all of functional medicine. I am consistently shocked by the results achieved for my most complicated patients." Jamie Wright DO, FACOOG, FAARM, ABAARM Practicing Physician Center for Healthy Living and Longevity, Ann Arbor, MI In my professional opinion the ALCAT Test can be successfully utilized in a broad spectrum of disease conditions cost-effectively. David J. Blyweiss, M.D. Director of Functional Medicine Sanctuary Medical Center, Boca Raton, FL 3

4 COMPREHENSIVE PANELS Platinum Comprehensive: $1, items Comprehensive Wellness 4: $ items Herbal Wellness 1: $ items total Now Available! 50 Functional Foods & Medicinal Herbs 20 Antibiotics/Anti-Inflammatory Agents Comprehensive Wellness 1: $ items Comprehensive Wellness 2: $ items Comprehensive Wellness 3: $ items 150 Foods Comprehensive Wellness 5: $ items 100 Foods Comprehensive Wellness 6: $ items 100 Foods Pediatric Wellness: $ items total 50 Foods Now Available! 50 Functional Foods & Medicinal Herbs Herbal Wellness 2: $ items total 150 Foods 50 Functional Foods & Medicinal Herbs For a limited time only: Add 50 female herbs to any Comprehensive Panel for $150 Add 40 male herbs to any Comprehensive Panel for $ Foods FOOD PANELS Apple Baker s Yeast Banana Barley Beef Black Pepper Broccoli Butternut Squash Cabbage Cane Sugar Cantaloupe Carrot Casein 50 FOOD PANEL 100 FOOD PANEL $250 Children 3 and Under Cauliflower Chicken Cinnamon Cocoa Corn Cottonseed Cow's Milk Egg White Egg Yolk Fructose Garlic Gluten/Gliadin Grape Green Pea Iceberg Lettuce Lamb Lemon Mustard Oat Onion Orange Peanut Pear Pork Rice (Brown/White) Shrimp Soybean Strawberry String Bean Sweet Potato Tomato Tuna Turkey Vanilla Wheat White Potato Yellow Squash Almond Asparagus Avocado Basil Bell Pepper Mix (green, red, yellow and orange peppers) Blueberry Brewer's Yeast Brussels Sprout Candida Albicans Carob Cashew $ Food Panel Plus Celery Cherry Clam Coconut Codfish Coffee Crab Cranberry Cucumber Eggplant Ginger Goat's Milk Grapefruit Halibut Honey Hops Lime Lobster Millet Mushroom Olive Oregano Parsley Peach Pecan Pineapple Pinto Bean Plum Psyllium Rye Salmon Scallop Sesame Snapper Sole Spinach Tea Watermelon Whey Amaranth Apricot Artichoke Bay Leaf Blackberry Black Beans Black-Eyed Pea Buckwheat Caraway Cayenne Pepper Chickpea Clove Cumin 150 FOOD PANEL $ Food Panel Plus Mango Navy Bean Nutmeg Oyster Papaya Paprika Peppermint Pistachio Pumpkin Radish Raspberry Date Dill Duck Fig Flaxseed Haddock Hazelnut Honeydew Melon Kidney Bean Kiwi Lentil Bean Lima Bean Malt Red Beet/Beet Sugar Safflower Sage Sardine/Herring Sea Bass Sunflower Tapioca Thyme Tilapia Trout Turnip Veal Walnut Acorn Squash Anchovy Black Currant Bok Choy Brazil Nut Buffalo Canola Oil Cardamom Catfish Chamomile Chicken Liver Chili Pepper Coriander 200 FOOD PANEL Endive Fava Bean Fennel Flounder Jalapeno Pepper Kale Kelp Leaf Lettuce Leek Licorice Macadamia Nut Mackerel Mahi Mahi $ Food Panel Plus Maple Sugar Mung Bean Mussel Nectarine Okra Parsnip Pine Nut Pomegranate Portobello Mushroom Quinoa Romaine Lettuce Rosemary Saffron Scallions Sheep s Milk Spelt Squid Swiss Chard Swordfish Turmeric Venison Watercress Wild Rice Zucchini 4 * 150 Vegetarian Panel Available Upon Request

5 50 FUNCTIONAL FOODS & MEDICINAL HERBS: $249 ADDITIONAL TEST PANELS Açai Berry Agave Aloe Ashwagandha Astragalus Barley Grass Bee Pollen Bilberry Black Walnut Hull Cascara Chlorella Dandelion Echinacea Angustifolia Elderberry Essiac Feverfew Ginkgo Biloba Goji Berry Goldenseal Grape Seed Extract Guarana Seed Gymnema Sylvestre Hawthorn Berry Huperzine Kava Kava Lo Han Lutein Maitake Mushroom Mangosteen Milk Thistle Mullein Leaf Noni Berry Pau d'arco Bark Pine Bark Red Clover Seed Red Yeast Rice Reishi Mushroom Resveratrol Rhodiola Rooibos Tea Schizandra Berry Senna Spirulina St John s Wort Stevia Leaf Valerian Vinpocetine Wheatgrass Wormwood Yellow Dock 20 FOOD ADDITIVES/ COLORINGS: $198 Aspartame Benzoic Acid Blue #1 & #2 Butylated Hydroxy Anisole (BHA) Butylated Hydroxy Toluene (BHT) Erythritol Green #3 MSG Polysorbate 80 Potassium Nitrite Red #1& #40 Saccharine Sodium Sulfite Sorbic Acid Sucralose Yellow #5 & #6 Xylitol 50 FEMALE HERBS: $249 Alfalfa Leaf Arnica Black Cohosh Blessed Thistle Blue Cohosh Bupleurum Root Boswellia Buchu Leaf Burdock Butcher s Broom Root Calendula Cat's Claw Chaparral Root Chasteberry Cramp Bark Damiana Dong Quai Evening Primrose False Unicorn Fo-Ti Root Gotu Kola Horse Chestnut Horsetail Irish Moss Juniper Berry Korean Ginseng Lavender Lemon Balm Lobelia Maca Root Marshmallow Root Mistletoe Motherwort Myrrh Nettle Leaf Pennyroyal Peony Root Red Clover Flower Red Raspberry Leaf Rehmannia Root Sarsaparilla Siberian Ginseng Skull Cap Slippery Elm Bark Squaw Vine Uva Ursi White Willow Bark Wild Yam Yarrow Yerba Maté 20 MOLDS: $198 Alternaria Aspergillus Botrytis Candida Albicans Cephalosporium Cladosporium Curvularia Specifera 10 ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICALS: List Price $99 Epicoccum Nigrum Fusarium Helminthosporium Hormodendrum Monilia Sitophila Mucor Racemosus Penicillium Phoma Herbarum Pullularia Rhizopus Nigricans Rhodotorula Spondylocladium Trichoderma 40 MALE HERBS: $199 Ammonium Chloride Benzene Chlorine Deltamethrin Fluoride Formaldehyde Glyophosate Orris Root Phenol Toluene Alfalfa Leaf American Ginseng Burdock Butcher s Broom Root Calendula Cat's Claw Catuba Chaparral Root Chondroitin Sulfate Cnidium Monnier Damiana Dong Quai Fo-Ti Root Glucosamine Gotu Kola Horny Goat Weed Juniper Berry Korean Ginseng Lobelia Lycopene Maca Root Mistletoe Mucuna Pruriens Muira Puama Myrrh Nettle Leaf Pumpkin Seed Pygeum Bark Rehmannia Root Sarsaparilla Saw Palmetto Siberian Ginseng Skull Cap Stinging Nettle Root Tribulus Terrestris Uva Ursi Velvet Deer Antler Yarrow Yerba Maté Yohimbe Bark Individual Antigen Testing Available. 5

6 TEST RESULTS Standard Test Results Rotation Plan The ALCAT Test results are presented in an easy to understand, colorcoded format. They highlight each patient's incompatible foods and the level of each reaction (severe, moderate or mild). The ALCAT Test results also clearly identify the foods which are non-reactive or safe foods by putting them in the green section of the results and organizing them by food groups. Each test result also includes a customized 4-Day Rotation Plan. Studies have shown that variety in the human diet is very important to health and wellbeing. Research in physical anthropology and nutritional science has shown that the human digestive system is more suited to coping with a seasonal diet as opposed to the traditional Westernized diet. By eating foods in a particular family one day and then omitting them for at least the next three days, a cumulative sensitizing effect is avoided. This time allows the food molecules to clear the system, avoiding overload. 01/18/10 : 01/18/10 Candida You have no reaction to Candida Albicans. Gluten / Gliadin You have no reaction to Gliadin and moderate reaction to Gluten, avoid these foods: BARLEY MALT OAT RYE WHEAT Casein / Whey You have no reaction to Casein or Whey. Cell Science Systems, Ltd 852 South Military Trail Deerfield Beach, FL Tel: FAX: Cell Science Systems, Ltd 852 South Military Trail Deerfield Beach, FL Tel: FAX:

7 TEST RESULTS Results Guide Education is an important component to the ALCAT Test and achieving optimal wellness. That s why the Understanding Your ALCAT Test Results booklet is included free with every test result. This booklet explains the format of your test results and rotation plan. It also provides a glossary of terms that will make interpreting your results much easier. Candida Albicans, gluten/gliaden and casein are explained in detail and guidelines for the reintroduction of foods is reviewed. Essential vitamin and mineral information are also provided as well as food preparation and cooking tips. Recently added to this guide is information on the 50 herbs and functional foods panel, 50 female herbs panel and 40 male herbs panel. Understanding Your ALCAT Test Results Optimal Wellness through Customized Nutrition W O R L D W I D E Wallet Size Results Card Included with every test result is a complimentary wallet size results card. This card conveniently lists all the reactive foods so you don t have to carry your results folder when at the fresh foods market or a restaurant. r clam apple banana veal Meal Plan Compliance with your ALCAT Test results is the most critical element to reaching your wellness goals. For an additional fee, our team of nutritionists will create meal plans/recipes customized to any patient s results. These meal plans are designed to be healthy, nutritious and easy to prepare. Detailed recipes are included for breakfast, lunch, dinner and even snacks. 7