Asyra Pro Food Intolerance Test – My Experience and Results
Posted 27 November 2011 15:11
by Paul
I lead a fairly healthy lifestyle by eating healthy food and competing in a lot of sports. I’ve learned a lot about which foods are good for you, which are not so good and which should be avoided, but I have never had a test to see which foods are good or bad for me as an individual. So when I saw an offer (£59 instead of £195) for an Asyra food intolerance test, I decided to give it a try.
According to their website, the Asyra Pro can test for all these things:
- Energetic Status of 40 major organs
- Nutritional Assessment
- Metabolic Disturbance
- Dental Profile
- Hormonal Profile
- Parasites and Infections
- Toxicity
- Phenolic Sensitivity
- Menstrual & Menopausal Problems
- Emotional Stressors
- Trace Minerals
- Vertebral Profile
- Miasm Influence
- TMJ Stress
- Constitutional Influence
- Neurotransmitter Disturbance
- Environmental Sensitivity
- Food Intolerance, Sensitivity and Allergy
- Vitamins and Minerals
- Cranial Suture
- Dental Causation
- Herbs
- Heavy Metals
- NAET
- … and much more!
Here is a video demonstrating the use of the Asyra.
My session was a three part process
- Answered a few questions (what do I eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner, do I get stressed, do I take medication or supplements, have I had any ill health – that sort of thing)
- Held 2 metal rods while an electric current was passed through my body – I didn’t feel anything while this was being done. This was done twice. They used an Asyra Pro device
- A brief run-through of the results, which were then e-mailed to me
What I liked about the Asyra test:
- The session was that the test is very quick, simple and non-invasive (i.e. you don’t have to roll up your sleeve to get poked, prodded, pricked or jabbed with a needle!)
- The person who conducted the test seemed quite knowledgeable about food and intolerances , he said he had conducted over 1,000 tests over the past year
- The session only took around 20 minutes (mostly talking) and it didn’t feel rushed
What I didn’t like about the Asyra test:
- The test seemed too easy – I mean, all it did was pass an electric current though my body. It seemed far too fast. I’m not a doctor and I don’t know any detail behind the science of the test (only what I’ve read online, which is an overview), but it just felt ‘too easy’ – having said that, it is a medically approved device and is claimed to have a very high accuracy
- The technology is based on bio-energetic medicine and (according to their website) ‘thousands of years of development in Chinese medicine and over 50 years of technology refinement’. I am not a fan of traditional Chinese medicine
- It claims to be able to test for ‘too many’ things in my opinion
- I’m glad I didn’t pay the full price of £195!
My Asyra test results
- Helping You Understand Your Asyra Report
- Foods (this lists the food intolerances the Asyra has detected I have)
- Vitamins (this lists which vitamins the Asyra suggests I am deficient in)
Some points
- Intolerance to cucumbers: I have cucumbers most weekdays (only about 5 slices, in the Pret a Manger chicken salad). The practitioner said I should try not eating any for a week
- Blueberries: A few years ago I went through a ‘summer-phase’ of eating a lot of blueberries – to snack on while at work and every day at home. I didn’t have any obvious adverse reactions
- Baking powder: I don’t recall ever having an adverse reaction to cake – only a compulsion to eat more!
- Connective Tissue Resonance: I currently have a bad knee due to a sports-related injury
- Enzyme Deficiencies (generic): The practitioner said I may lack some enzymes needed to fully break down and digest pasta. I sometimes get indigestion if I eat a lot of pasta, so I could try eating pineapples (or pineapple juice) or taking supplements
What next?
It’s too hard to avoid treats at work and at home between now and Christmas (the worst time of the year for people to try to eat sensibly), so I’m going to write up a ‘cue card’ for myself and ensure that I stay away from foods that this test says may be bad for me between January and March.
Find out more about the Asyra Test
The Asyra website (in particular their FAQ page) is a good place to start.
What else?
What wasn’t explained to me is what effects (if true) these intolerances might have on my body.
What do you think? If you have had an Asyra test, what did you think of the results? Did avoiding food that it says you are intolerant to result in any noticable difference to your wellbeing?
Also, I have e-mailed them to ask if the Asyra results can be output in a format other than PDF, but they haven’t replied. Please let me know if you know!
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It sounds like you spent a lot more time with the consultant than I did - and you didn't get an intolerance test! Why was that? The intolerance test took less than a minute for me. I didn't get scanned by a laser, or have any drops.
It would be interesting to see how your results compare to mine :-)
I don't know if the Asyra Pro test is good or not - and I haven't found any conclusive evidence on the Internet either way. That's partly why I wrote this article - I'm hoping that someone independent will come along and give me evidence to say if it's scientifically proven or not.
Have you had any follow up sessions since or found out any more?
I had my first session at the weekend. I was hoping for a food intolerance test but just got tested for weaknesses/problem areas.
It took 90 mins and there was lots of questions about my lifestyle and health.
I was also scanned with a laser (pen type of device) and given some drops that had been programmed by the machine. Am still awaiting the email breakdown and herbs to be prescribed.
I'm unsure what to make of it, and I notice that there are some sites in America claiming it is not only a scam, but that it is illegal and practitioners can be prosecuted for using it!