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Originally Posted by Lovetodream88  I'm guessing they would find out it doesn't work and when they did it would mean she couldn't make money off of it anymore. Thanks for looking I think it really says a lot that there are none on it. |
I did a little more poking around, and I found several of Dr. Dodd's patents and patent applications, which explain the method, but without much research backing it up (despite the claims in the patents):
Patent US8450074 - Multi-stage nutrigenomic diagnostic food sensitivity testing in animals - Google Patents Patent US7867720 - Food sensitivity testing in animals - Google Patents Patent US20130183692 - Intolerance testing for ingredients in nutrients, flavorings and therapeutics - Google Patents
I also found this on her Nutriscan page (
http://www.nutriscan.org/veterinaria...nalysis.html): Since starting the NutriScan clinical testing in May 2011, Dr. Dodds and Hemolife's diagnostic team have compiled and analyzed 566 sequential canine case samples plus 29 other canine controls in preparation for formal refereed publication. This analysis compared results from 208 healthy control dogs, 289 suspected food intolerant dogs and 98 proven food intolerant dogs and unequivocally showed a progressive increase in the reactivities measured in each group, respectively. Statistically significant differences were found as would be expected based on the clinical classification of these three case cohorts. These data clearly affirmed the validation of our results and the clinical utility of the test. The team has follow up profiles now on 80 of these dogs, and is preparing the data for a refereed scientific publication. Hemolife Diagnostics has tested nearly 5000 canine samples now. Since starting cats at the end of September 2013, the team has tested nearly 100 as of December 2013. As with any new testing, there will be skeptics. This is especially when the existing serum-based food “allergy” testing is well-recognized to be fraught with errors both in the test systems used and their clinical applicability to human (or animal) patients.
So it looks to me like she is working on a refereed journal article, but hasn't submitted it yet. As a scientist, this seems to me to be a backwards way of doing things. If it were me, I would have published the results before releasing a commercial test--that would have resulted in less controversy and more acceptance of the test in the veterinary community.