{"podcast":{"title":"Your Diet Sucks","slug":"your-diet-sucks-6971106","podcast_index_feed_id":6971106,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f80e2600/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://yourdietsuckspodcast.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/41516768/41516768-1719320406685-95de49af9cb17.jpg","author":"Zoë Rom","episode_count":58,"summary":"Diet culture, you've met your scientific match. Hosted by an elite ultrarunner/journalist and a registered dietitian, Your Diet Sucks dismantles the myths, trends, and pseudoscience that screw up how we think about food, health, and fitness. Subscribe to bonus episodes here: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/microcosm-coaching0/subscribe","last_synced_at":"2026-07-08T20:20:00.266832+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/your-diet-sucks-6971106"},"episode":{"title":"Food Allergies, Intolerances, and Sensitivity Tests","slug":"food-allergies-intolerances-and-sensitivity-tests","published_at":"2026-04-29T09:56:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/your-diet-sucks-6971106/food-allergies-intolerances-and-sensitivity-tests","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/your-diet-sucks-6971106","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/microcosm-coaching0/episodes/Food-Allergies--Intolerances--and-Sensitivity-Tests-e3ik72n","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f80e2600/podcast/play/119200279/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-3-29%2F01df2ec9-0a2e-4327-9958-8f258fdf6dc4.mp3","summary":"This week, Zoë mailed a chunk of her hair to a stranger in Florida. For science. For journalism. For your benefit, really. The $60 hair sample test came back flagging her as "highly reactive" to 210 foods, including emu, ostrich egg, hot dog, and ground horse meat. Reader, she has not eaten ground horse meat in over a decade. The food sensitivity industry is a multi-billion-dollar grift built on real symptoms and fake frameworks. We trace it from 1906, when allergy was first defined as a real clinical thing, through the 1950s clinical ecology movement, through cytotoxic testing, IgG panels, electrodermal screening, and bio-resonance, and finally to the at-home hair test in your DMs. It's the same idea in different packaging every decade. Like a body-snatcher, but for grift. (We use a lot of John Carpenter references in this one.) Then Kylee walks through what the science actually says: the difference between IgE allergies, IgG sensitivities, and intolerances. What real diagnostic testing looks like (skin prick tests, blood panels, hydrogen breath tests, structured elimination diets with a professional). Why hair testing, IgG panels, and bio-resonance devices have no validated diagnostic mechanism. And why these tests disproportionately target women, who are statistically more likely to feel dismissed by their doctors and more likely to seek answers in the wellness market. We also get into why endurance athletes are uniquely vulnerable to this stuff. When your gut acts up during training, the wellness industry hands you a list of 210 foods to eliminate. Your sports dietitian hands you a fueling plan. Guess which one tends to lead to a stress fracture. The bottom line: your symptoms deserve a real answer. Don't let a hair test substitute for actual care. This e…","meta_description":"This week, Zoë mailed a chunk of her hair to a stranger in Florida. For science. For journalism. For your benefit, really. The $60 hair sample test came b…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4900,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/your-diet-sucks-6971106/episodes/food-allergies-intolerances-and-sensitivity-tests/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/your-diet-sucks-6971106/food-allergies-intolerances-and-sensitivity-tests.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}