Would you eat poison if you knew it was in your food? Almost certainly not — and yet most of us are eating foods that harm us every single day without realising it. The good news is there’s a simple food sensitivity test you can do at home, with no equipment and no lab work, that tells you exactly which foods are helping you and which ones are quietly working against you.
That test is called energy kinesiology (also known as muscle testing), and it’s the subject of this first video in our “Foods That Harm & Heal” series.
Why You Need a Food Sensitivity Test in the First Place
Here’s the tricky part: what harms one person’s body may be perfectly fine for someone else. We’re all uniquely different, which means there’s no single list of “good foods” and “bad foods” that applies to everyone. The only way to know for certain is to ask your own body — and your body already knows the answer. It just doesn’t have a way of telling you, until you learn a simple muscle testing technique that takes seconds to do.
The Big Picture: Foods That Harm vs. Foods That Heal
Broadly speaking, the foods with the greatest healing power are plant-based foods — vegetables, fruits, cereals, pulses, nuts, seeds, and dried fruit. These are the foods your digestive system was designed to work with, and they give your body the best chance to heal itself.
That doesn’t mean other foods have no place. But if you’re looking for the most healing power, start with what comes out of the ground.
Organic vs. Non-Organic: Why It Matters
Two things drive healing in the body:
- Reducing inflammation
- Getting toxins out
Non-organic, commercially grown food is typically raised on land that’s been mined of minerals through repeated cropping, then propped up with fertilisers, pesticides, and sprays. That means two problems at once: the food is often nutritionally deficient and more toxic than organic alternatives.
Organic farming uses crop rotation to let the soil regenerate naturally — which means more balanced nutrition and far fewer added chemicals in what ends up on your plate. Organic isn’t perfect (nothing grown under today’s skies fully escapes environmental contamination), but it’s a meaningfully better starting point, especially if you’re already dealing with a chronic health issue.
What About Meat, Fish, Chicken, and Bread?
A few quick, practical pointers from the video:
- Beef & lamb: Generally good foods, especially grass-fed Irish beef and lamb — cleaner and lower in additives than feedlot-raised alternatives.
- Pork: More likely to cause a reaction for some people — test it individually, and watch out for nitrites in ham.
- Fish: Useful, but check the label. Avoid fish caught in the Northeast Pacific due to ongoing nuclear contamination; North Atlantic fish is generally a safer bet.
- Chicken: Commercial chicken (especially mass-produced or imported) often carries antibiotic residue that can disrupt your gut. Free-range or organic chicken is a better choice.
- Bread & gluten: Each cereal — oats, rye, barley, wheat — contains a different type of gluten, so a sensitivity to one doesn’t necessarily mean a sensitivity to all. Modern wheat has also been bred for yield rather than nutrition, changing its gluten structure along the way. Wholemeal bread, with its fibre and full nutrient profile intact, is a far better choice than processed white flour.
Your Gut Is the Real Key
Your digestive system is home to roughly 70% of your immune system, and your gut bacteria play a critical role in keeping you well. If your bowel isn’t moving properly, toxins get recycled back through your bloodstream instead of leaving your body — which is why fibre, hydration, and avoiding foods that harm your gut are so important.
A simple rule of thumb from the video: if you’re eating three meals a day, you should be having three bowel movements a day. If you’re not, something in your diet (or your gut health) needs attention.
So How Do You Actually Find Out What’s Right for You?
This is where energy kinesiology comes in. Rather than guessing, tracking symptoms for weeks, or relying on generic advice, you can use a simple muscle testing technique to ask your body directly — in the shop, in your kitchen, before you even take a bite. It takes seconds once you know how, and it works because your nervous system already knows the answer; muscle testing simply gives it a way to “speak.”
Next Step: Learn the Technique for Free
This isn’t complicated, and you don’t need any special equipment to learn it. Nigel walks through exactly how to test any food for yourself in the free Energy Kinesiology introductory course — the same one referenced throughout this video.