Can you list your sources for these endorsement of the ALCAT? I can't find any medical organizations backing your stated claims.
But I do like your pose on the couch.

David,
I have made a post, I am thrilled with what ALCAT has done for me!!

I happened across this article by chance and although it is a 2 year old blog, I feel compelled to put the record straight. am very au fait with both the Alcat procedure (I wouldn't give it the credence of calling it a test) and the other tests used to diagnose allergy, having previously been closely involved with the lab based allergy assays, and currently with the in vivo diagnostic tests. I can honestly state, in my sincere professional opinion based on over 20 years in the related industry, that the Alcat product has been thoroughly discredited by and amongst Specialist Allergists around the world, and so its continued promotion to the great unsuspecting public is not only a con trick of the highest order, but the marketing strategies and sales promotion tactics and activities used by its' proponents borders on professional misconduct.

If Alcat is so darn good, then why is every reputable professional medical society in the world against Alcat; not just passively, but often with vociferous authority. Examples are WAO (World Allergy Organisation) EAACI (European Academy of Allergy & Clinical Immunology), ALLSA (Allergy Society of South Africa), ASCIA (Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology & Allergy), to name but four. Let's also add "Quackwatch", which justifiably features Alcat prominently.

Why is no state medical reimbursement authority recognising Alcat by providing state-funded reimbursement? Why are individual world-class opinion leader professional Allergists (and I can name several of whom I am personally familiar) so dogmatically anti-Alcat? Have they all been bought off as your proponent in South Africa has stated is the case in that country?? Is this a world-wide conspiracy of professional Allergists against this product, or is it a case of a few very-commercially motivated Florida-based marketeers and their few disciples around the world trying to make a buck whilst swimming desperately against the overwhelming tide of worldwide expert medical opinion??

The field of allergy diagnosis and treatment is still today riddled with false and misleading medical claims about dubious quasi-medical products. Unfortunately, for the great majority of professional medical experts in allergy, Alcat is the archetypical example of such products and practices. Fortunately, the theory and practice allergy is emerging from this quagmire, due largely to the great advances made in the knowledge and understanding of the underlying immunological processes involved in the various allergic diseases, but unfortunately the commercial promoters of Alcat persist in their active marketing and so it remains even today available in some countries to the gullible who have money to burn and who don't know any better.

The text of this blog appears to have been written by a non-English-speaker, (Scientific Editor, Stefan Anitei, back on 2007) so may not be the work of the slick American marketeers, but the message is the same one of false or at least incorrect medical claims that are not and in fact cannot be substantiated with reputable documentation scientific or even clinical documentation.

Shame really on this Science Editor, who should have done some background spadework before presenting the one-sided commercially motivated promotional claims.

You want more info and specific data and examples on how Alcat is a medical con trick; just go check the mainstream medical literature at PubMed or any other reputable medical publisher, ask your local Specialist Allergist, or just get back to me.

Steve,
can you get in touch with me i'm trying to get to the bottom of this and decide how to go about having a food allergy ran. let me know, just respond to my comment and i'll provide you my email...

I can't believe someone took out the time to actually write a negative response against this article. Have you even tried it or know someone who has? It was recommended to me by my regular MD and has helped thousands of people in poor health. You know why it may not be widely reconized by allergist and main stream medicine, because it doesn't make them any money!!!!! It's all about how much money the pharmacutical company makes. Of course there is no pill that needs to be bought when you find out whats really causing someone to be sick.. hint (thats why its not widely reconized). Another thing.... my so called allergist who is supposidly the best in the state missed the very things that were making me deathly ill however the Alcat did not.

Hi Marlena,
I have no doubt that any dietary intervention may occasionally help individuals, either by the fact that the individual by chance removes the correct food(s) or by placebo effect. I was involved in a proper scientific study evaluating 250 patients with a range of diseases, and found the ALCAT unhelpful. I had high hopes for the test, and was very dissapointed with the results. A small number of patients claimed to be better on the ALCAT diet, but what we had done, was that in one group of patients we took away the positive testing foods and challenged them with negative testing foods, and in the control group, we took away the negative testing foods and challenged them with the positive testing foods, and approximately the same number of patients in each group claimed to be better. In other words, even in the group where we deliberately gave the patients the foods that they tested positive to, some claimed to be better, and the others no worse. As I say, I was really hopeful the test would work, and was very dissapointed when we found it to be not worth the cost. Yes, few patients will benefit but not because of the test, but other coincidental or placebo reasons. For example, individuals asked to focus on the foods they eat, without going on a deliberate diet, will already start losing weight merely for considering what they eat!

I have taken the ALCAT, it is a week short of 3 months since I began the emilnation program. Let me reinforce, this is NOT allergy testing per se, they very clearly tell you it is a food intolerance test.
Prior to taking the test I was in terrible shape, overweight, lethargic, horrible sinus allergies, female problems, upper GI distress, galbladder problems nausea, heartburn indigestion, I was on zoloft and thyroid meds along with claritin D 24 hour. My female problems and general malaise were so bad I thought I was starting the change (I am 43). The Dr (an internist) did the test and testing my female hormones, turns out my female hormones were at perfect levels. I started the ALCAT elimination program on February 20 of this year, and to date I have lost 40 lbs, my blood pressure has dropped 20 points top and bottom, my cholesterol is near perfect and I am off anti depressants and thyroid meds as well as allergy pills. I have some sinus symptoms but they are so mild I dont need to do anything but use my neti pot and blow my nose.....
I am breezing through 45 minutes on the elliptical were I was struggling to do 20 minutes (I have been going to the gym regulary for over 2 years with next to no results or increase in endurance). Intitally I was telling people I felt 10 years younger, but I dont say that anymore, because I have NEVER felt this good in my entire life, even at 20 years old and thin!!!
My skin has cleared up, I have no eczema anymore, no heaches, no GI issues, including the gallbladder pain vanishing, no more IBS, and flatulence and belching are very rare occurances for me now. I remember how miserable and impotent I felt 3 months ago and am eternally grateful to my Dr for ordering this test.
Honestly I am a skeptical person by nature, but I havent seen anything hokey about this, you take the test, you eliminate foods that you are sensitive to and thats it. You do have to be willing to give these foods up for 6 months before reintroduing them in a rotation diet. They didnt try to sell me things I didnt need, no supplements, no exercise gear, no nothing. I got the results and it was up to me to follow the recommendations. I have and I am thrilled with the results.
By the way, giving up some of those foods is as hard as what I imagine detoxing from drugs can be, the first 7-10 days were very hard, but I would do it all over again to feel as good as I do now.
I cant tell people what to do or advise them how to live, but this is working for me!
Good luck!

Hi Kat,
I am not surprised that you benefited from the applying the ALCAT test - I have a masters student who is testing a scam weight loss product and comparing it with a placebo, and even among those taking a placebo, remarkable weight-loss is being recorded! That does not mean that the placebo is effective! ALCAT does NOT measure intolerances - we know the science of histamine intolerance, lactose intolerance, etc, and there is NO way that the ALCAT can be measuring them. Furthermore, for the "thousands" of people claiming to be helped by the ALCAT, there are "thousands" who were not helped. I have a good friend, a doctor, who has severe eczema and believed that the ALCAT will help her. By following the ALCAT diet, she was so severely affected that she has to be hospitalised for two weeks!