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.
The non-negotiables
Out of network, superbill, HSA/FSA. No referral. We do not replace your physician, your vet is not our department, and we do not give riding clearance against another clinician's restriction. Bring that restriction with you.
Drs. Sani and Tara Kohen practice at the Mission Viejo suite. The about page and office page introduce them and the building.
Hills, horses, and the 241
Yorba Linda is hills, larger lots, and a trail culture that includes horses as well as hikers. Black Gold and the canyon edges mean repeated time in a saddle or on a grade. The 241 is how a lot of the city reaches south county for work. Sitting the toll road and then riding, or the reverse, is a specific week. Hip and SI pain, low back pain, and neck pain all show up in that combination. A saddle and a car seat are not the same posture, and the exam should not pretend they are.
Brush-canyon fire season and hot training days also change hydration and headaches. Headaches still get a neurologic screen. We do not blame every headache on the Santa Ana winds. Knee pain on the descents gets a loading plan that includes the hill you live on.
Using the 241 instead of crossing the county sideways
The 241 south is the route that makes Yorba Linda to Mission Viejo rational. It is a toll road, about 28 miles, often 35 to 55 minutes depending on where in town you start and whether you hit the 91 first. Exit toward La Alameda and come to 26400 La Alameda, Suite 100, Mission Viejo, CA 92691. Monday through Thursday, 9 to 6. Parking at the building.
If you already take the 241 toward Irvine for work, a Mission Viejo appointment can sit on the south end of a day you were driving anyway. Say so when you book. Call (949) 312-1754. The 20-minute consultation is reasonable before you commit a toll-road morning to a full evaluation.
Rehab that respects the hill and the saddle
Gait and posture and corrective exercise are more useful than a generic core list. Joint mobilization is often kinder than a hard thrust when a hip or spine is already irritable from the week's riding. ART is there for specific soft-tissue restrictions, not as a standing massage appointment.
Hormone and sleep questions from this commute are real. Perimenopause and sleep pages describe the limits of what we take on. The Yorba Linda chiropractor page is the hub.
Extra context on Food Sensitivities
Keep a three-day food log with times and the symptom you care about, written before you see any panel. Memory after a positive result is unreliable. You will suddenly remember that a food bothered you because the paper says so. A log made first keeps the experiment honest. Note portions, not just food names, and note alcohol, because a drink can mimic a sensitivity. If you already avoid a long list, bring that list and the reason each food left. Some of those reasons may be ready to retire. Bring the log with you.
Reintroduction is the part people skip, and it is the part that teaches you. Add one food back, in a normal portion, and watch the symptom you named. If nothing happens, the food returns. If a clear symptom returns, you and your physician decide what that means. FRI will not turn a single bad day into a permanent rule. Supplements are not required to make a food trial valid. The point is information you can live with, not a smaller and smaller diet. One clear symptom is enough to track.
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 Yorba Linda
Food Sensitivities is handled at the Mission Viejo clinic, not in a satellite office in Yorba Linda. The related pages below stay on that same visit and add the methods or neighboring problems that usually come up in the history.
- Yorba Linda chiropractor
How people from Yorba Linda 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.
