You have kept the food rules that worked for years. The portions are smaller, the sweets are rarer, and the scale has not moved in months. If ordinary meals now leave you bloated and heavy by evening, something you eat regularly may be part of the pattern. At Cambiati Wellness Programs, we test that suspicion with one orderly experiment that has a beginning and an end.
What the MRT Test Measures
MRT is a blood test, short for Mediator Release Test. The lab exposes your sample to individual foods and food chemicals, compares how the white cells change, and ranks those foods from more reactive to less reactive. A high rank does not prove that a food caused anything, and we never read it as a verdict. We treat the ranking as a starting map that sets the order for a focused food trial.
Your Own Record Finishes the Experiment
The report starts the experiment, and your own record is what finishes it. Our nutritionist sets aside a short, workable group of foods for a focused stretch, you keep a simple daily record of meals and symptoms, and then foods return to your plate one at a time. The record is designed to take a few minutes a day, and those notes are what we study most closely at each stage of the trial. When a symptom eases while a food is out and reappears when it comes back, you are looking at a repeatable finding from your own body. That observed pattern is the answer you are paying for.
We Remove as Little as the Trial Requires
A useful plan keeps the experiment small and your meals livable. We remove as little as the trial requires, we keep the remaining meals nutritionally complete, and we schedule the return of foods at the first appointment. Reintroduction is built into the protocol on purpose. Foods that show no repeatable link come back and stay in your rotation, so the list you live with widens again as the trial moves forward. If the record shows no food link at all, we return to the wider review and keep working through the other contributors with you.
We Start With Your Whole Pattern
Weight moves for many different reasons, and food is only one of them. Sleep, stress, activity, medicines, health conditions, and daily surroundings shape the same outcome, so we look at the full picture first. We reach for MRT when your history shows that certain meals repeatedly travel with bloating, heaviness, or other symptoms, because that is when a structured food trial can change the plan. We recommend the test only when it would change our next step. A suspected food allergy is a different question, and that one goes to an allergy professional and established allergy testing.
The First Conversation Settles the Fit
You bring your history, and we walk through it together before anything is ordered or removed. You will leave with a plain answer about whether a focused food trial is the right next step for you. If it is, you will also know how long the removal phase would run and when foods would start coming back. One orderly experiment turns that suspicion into a measured list and a plan. Our clinic is in Lafayette, a short drive from Alamo. Call Cambiati Wellness Programs at (925) 280-4442 and schedule that conversation.
