Re: preceptors

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Thanks everyone for your responses regarding precepting a student! Very helpful,

Theresa

Re: elimination diet -MRT/LEAP -retry without attachments

In a message dated 12/24/2007 7:00:37 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,

Dineright4 writes:

Hi Holly - and, Merry Chistmas!

I hope I don't sound too much like an advertisement on this listerv,

realizing that my post here wouldn't even be allowed on an ADA sponsored

listserv.

However, I've been an RD since 1982 and was a Dietetic Technician before that

for 5 years. MRT/LEAP is wonderful to help an RDs practice. At 50 y/o, I

wouldn't recommend something that I didn't fully experience as successful.

I've worked with exclusively MRT/LEAP clients for the past 5 1/2 years and

I've seen amazing results. I've had suicidal patients (due to migraine or

home-bound with diarrhea) get their lives back. I've seen people on disability

return to productive lives. It's truly the most rewarding work I've done as an

RD. It also challenges us as RDs to learn immunology and a completly new area

of dietetics!

So, that said. . .

The MRT (Mediator Release Test) is a blood test, testing a patients blood

for 150 foods and chemicals. The blood is then sent overnight via FedEx to the

lab in Florida. Then, based on their blood work, they (or you as the

ordering RD and/or MD) will be sent results along with their " recommended "

Elimination Diet. (Of course, as Certified LEAP Therapists, we modify their

elim.

diet based on clinical history, food preferences and chemical reactions. -

That's why Signet love the RDs!)

I've never seen such successful reactions to diet as I have with MRT/LEAP.

It is like having a detailed road map to a person's response to foods, instead

of wild a#*% guessing what's causing problems.

As a result, we see dramatic, quick improvements! And, after improved, if

patients " cheat " - they sometimes feel so horrible, immediately, that they are

convinced of the test results, and immediately return to their diet,

avoiding their reactive items.

I'd never be able to " guess " anybody's reactive items. They are just too

varied and individual. Would you ever guess that the mint in toothpaste was a

trigger food? How about nitrate in Sensodyne?

The MRT testing helps to pinpoint that.

So, you can get trained to use MRT testing an become a Certified LEAP

Therapist yourself, or consider referring your tough IBS, migraine, GERD,

arthritis. fibro patients to me, or one of us!

Merry Christmas!

Jan

PS. I so love this work, I'm even working Christmas Eve! I know one RD that

canceled her retirement and is now working full-time with LEAP clients! She

says it's the most interesting work she's done as an RD in over 40 years!

In a message dated 12/24/2007 6:29:19 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,

hgreulingcomcast (DOT) net writes:

Thank you so much for your response. She would want the 4x4 option instead

of the horse. What is the MRT test, is this with an allergist? Please give

us some guidance about whom she should take her daughter to.? thanks again.

--

Holly Greuling R.D.,L.D./N.

Consultant Dietitian

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From: Dineright4aol (DOT) com

Hi Holly,

Fully biased here, since I've been a consultant to Signet Diagnostic Corp

for nearly 6 years, working with clients that do elimination diets, BUT,

based

on their Mediator Release Test (MRT) blood test results. I've probably

worked

with 1000 or more happy clients since then.

Unless a client had minor symptoms and no money, I'd never recommend the

" old fashioned " elimination diets. They are just so frustrating and

sometimes

worthless compared to an elimination diet based on the individual's own

bloodwork.

Standard " Elimination Diets " include rice. Rice is VERY often a problem food

with my clients. Not always, but often enough to know that it's not

" non-reactive. "

Anyway, I used standard elimination diets many years ago, with some great

successes! But, to me, it's like saddling up a horse and riding the 30 miles

to town, instead of using my gasoline powered small SUV. (Okay, I live up a

4x4 road in the Colorado Rockies - nobody owns cars where I live, unless

they

never drive in the winter.)

Jan Patenaude, RD

Certified LEAP Therapist

Feel free to email me privately for more info.

In a message dated 12/23/2007 6:00:24 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,

hgreulingcomcast (DOT) net writes:

Hello all,

I have a friend with a daughter that has some behavioral issues. She wanted

to know what I thought of the elimination diet and its process. I don't know

much about it and thought I would ask the group for their input. Has anyone

tried this? are there any double blind studies out there that support this?

Does it have to be as drastic as it is outlined on the web? thanks so much

for

any input you can share.

--

Holly Greuling R.D.,L.D./N.

Consultant Dietitian