IgG and IgA are not an IgE allergy
IgE allergy can involve hives, swelling, wheezing, or anaphylaxis. That is a medical emergency pattern and belongs with a physician or allergist. IgG and IgA panels ask a quieter question about immune reactivity on a blood test. FRI will not call a high IgG result an allergy.
You might feel bloated, foggy, or achy hours after a meal, with no dramatic swelling. That history can justify a conversation. It does not prove a food is unsafe. Dr. Sani Kohen, D.C. and Dr. Tara Kohen, D.C. start with what you actually eat, not with a ban list.
A panel beside the food you already eat
Food sensitivity testing reports IgG or IgA reactivity to specific foods. A high bar next to a food you never eat is easy to overread. A high bar next to a food you eat daily, followed by symptoms you can time, is more interesting. The panel is a prompt, not a verdict.
Celiac disease, true food allergy, and eosinophilic disease are physician diagnoses. Functional Medicine does not replace that workup. If wheat makes you acutely ill, you need medical evaluation before anyone talks about a sensitivity chart. Bring those records if they exist.
Elimination trials are experiments, not life sentences
If a food is removed, the trial has a start, a length, and a planned return. You track symptoms you named in advance, such as bloating or a rash, rather than every mood of the day. One test does not create a permanent forbidden list.
The gut health page explains when a stool test or a breath test should come before another food list. Pulling foods out while an overgrowth or an inflammatory bowel diagnosis goes unaddressed can make you smaller-plated and no clearer. GI-MAP stool testing is one of those earlier questions when the history fits.
How nutrition follows the experiment
Nutrition and supplementation replaces what you removed so the trial does not become a low-protein, low-fiber accident. There is no brand protocol and no supplement dose here. Foods come back unless a physician has told you they cannot.
Functional medicine at FRI does not replace a primary physician, endocrinologist, gastroenterologist, or mental health clinician. Chiropractic Sports Medicine and Neuromuscular Rehabilitation stay available if joint pain, not food, is the reason you came in. A food panel will not be used to explain that pain by default.
What to expect when you are seen for Food Sensitivities
A complimentary 20-minute consultation can decide whether a panel is even useful. FRI is out of network, offers a superbill, and accepts HSA and FSA funds. The schedule is Monday–Thursday, 9–6.
If you test, you review the chart next to a food log. Any elimination is short and planned with a reintroduction. You should not expect a lifelong menu from a single draw.
Office facts for a next-door patient
No referral. Bring trail shoes if the foot, knee, or hip is why you came. Imaging is optional unless another doctor already ordered it. Emergency symptoms, especially progressive weakness or bowel and bladder change with back pain, should not be driven to a chiropractic office.
Out of network, superbill, HSA/FSA. Drs. Sani and Tara Kohen see patients on site. Backgrounds are on the about page. The building is on the office page.
Foothill Ranch trails, Portola hills, and Bake Parkway desks
Lake Forest is several towns wearing one name. Foothill Ranch and the Whiting Ranch trailhead mean climbing and descending on dirt. Portola Hills is grades and families. Baker Ranch and the business parks along Bake Parkway mean new housing, sitting, and a short freeway hop. A knee that hurts after Whiting Ranch is not the same case as a neck that hurts after a day in a Bake office. Tell us which Lake Forest you are actually using.
The old El Toro base is now housing and shops, so a lot of daily walking is on new pavement between a car and a desk. That is a fair place to start a gait conversation if the foot or hip is the complaint. Plantar fasciitis shows up in people who added trail miles without adding calf capacity. We will say that plainly if the exam supports it.
The neighbor drive, which people underestimate
Six miles is not zero when El Toro Road is backed up. From Foothill Ranch, El Toro or Portola Parkway toward Mission Viejo is the usual path. From the south side, Trabuco Road. From Baker Ranch, Bake Parkway to local streets. Budget 12 to 20 minutes to 26400 La Alameda, Suite 100, Mission Viejo, CA 92691. Monday through Thursday, 9 to 6. Parking at the suite.
Being close tempts people to squeeze care between school pickup and a trail run. Book the visit when you can stay for the exam. Phone (949) 312-1754. The 20-minute consultation is appropriate if you are comparing this office with a closer high-volume clinic and you want to see the difference before you commit.
Problems that match these neighborhoods
Trail downs and soccer weekends point to knee pain, hip pain, and ankle-aware gait work. Desk parks point to neck pain and headaches. Corrective exercise is how a Whiting Ranch descent gets trained for, instead of avoided forever.
Energy and thyroid questions come from the same households. Thyroid dysfunction and chronic fatigue are worked up with history and selected labs, not with a promise that a trail run will fix your labs. The Lake Forest chiropractor page links the pillars for this city.
Questions patients ask
Is a high IgG result a food allergy?
No. IgE allergy is a different medical issue and can be dangerous. IgG and IgA results are not that diagnosis, and FRI will not treat them as one. Hives, swelling, or trouble breathing need urgent medical care, not a sensitivity panel. Bring any allergist records so the two conversations stay separate.
Do I have to avoid every food that flags?
No. A long ban list from one panel is not the plan. FRI looks at what you eat, which symptoms you can time, and which results are noise. An elimination trial, if you choose one, is discussed with you and has an end. Foods are reintroduced unless your physician has a medical reason to keep one out.
Should I do a stool test first?
Sometimes. If bloating, diarrhea, or constipation dominates, a GI-MAP or a breath test may answer a clearer question than another food list. The gut health page lays out that choice. A sensitivity panel is not the default first kit. You should hear why this test was picked over the others.
Can food sensitivity testing explain joint pain?
Maybe as a hypothesis, not as a conclusion. Joint pain has mechanical causes that Chiropractic Sports Medicine and Neuromuscular Rehabilitation are built to examine. A food panel does not replace that exam, and it does not replace rheumatology if you have an autoimmune diagnosis. Functional medicine at FRI does not replace those clinicians.
Related care for Lake Forest
Food Sensitivities is handled at the Mission Viejo clinic, not in a satellite office in Lake Forest. The related pages below stay on that same visit and add the methods or neighboring problems that usually come up in the history.
- Lake Forest chiropractor
How people from Lake Forest reach 26400 La Alameda and what the three pillars cover.
- Food Sensitivities clinical overview
The non-geographic condition page, if you want the clinic-wide explanation without the drive.
- Functional Medicine
The pillar this problem sits in at Functional Restoration Institute.
- Gut Health in this city
Digestion problems rarely arrive as one tidy symptom. Bloating, stool changes, and food reactions can travel together or take turns. This page.
- Leaky Gut in this city
People say leaky gut when they mean the gut barrier might be letting more through than it should. The plainer name is.
- SIBO in this city
Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth means microbes are fermenting food higher up than they should, which can bring bloating, gas, and stool changes..
- Chronic Inflammation in this city
Inflammation is a process your body uses, not a personality and not a mood. It can be useful while you heal and.
- Food Sensitivity Testing
Food sensitivity testing at Functional Restoration Institute looks at IgG and IgA antibodies to foods. It is not an allergy test, and.