3.Is It a Test or Treatment?
An elimination diet is both. You first use it to figure out which foods, if any, cause the problem you want to get rid of. Then you limit them or cut them from your diet — that’s the treatment part.
4.What Can It Tell Me?
More research is needed, but this diet has been used as a possible way to diagnose and treat allergies, gluten intolerance (celiac disease), lactose intolerance, chronic pain, fatigue, irritable bowel syndrome, mood and attention disorders, and other conditions.
