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The Inflammation Spectrum Quiz

DISCOVER WHERE YOU ARE AT ON THE INFLAMMATION SPECTRUM, AND RECEIVE AN ELIXIR RECIPE E-GUIDE AFTER YOUR RESULTS!

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Where Is Inflammation Impacting Your Wellness?

Discover Where You Are On The Inflammation Spectrum With This Illuminating, Insightful Quiz. Receive Your Inflammation Spectrum Elixir Recipe E-Guide To Calm Any Inflammation Based On Your Personalized Quiz Result

Approximate Time: 10 minutes

Are you more forgetful than usual—losing things, missing appointments, or forgetting what you are doing or saying?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Are you depressed for no apparent reason? Have you lost motivation and interest in things you used to enjoy?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Are you more anxious or worried than usual? Do you get anxiety or panic attacks or feel a general, constant sense of unease or foreboding?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Do you have “brain fog,” or more difficulty concentrating and focusing or staying with one task to completion than usual?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Do you experience unexplained mood swings?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Do you say words you don’t mean to say, or call things by the wrong name, and notice only after you say it or when someone else points it out?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Do you have sensory issues—i.e., are you experiencing sound, light, or touch in a different way than is normal for you?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Have you been diagnosed with (or do you suspect you have) mild cognitive decline, and/or do you have a family history of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Hidden
Brain and Nervous System Inflammation Score:

Are you often bloated or gassy, and/or does your stomach get distended after eating or between meals, so much so that you look pregnant?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Do you have diarrhea or loose, jagged, or watery stool that is difficult to control or comes on suddenly?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Do you get constipation, or go more than twenty-four hours without having a bowel movement, or do you have hard, dry stool that is difficult to pass, resembling small pellets?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Do you have alternating diarrhea and constipation more often than normal (firm but soft and easy to pass) stools?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Do you get heartburn or acid reflux after eating, when you’ve gone too long without eating, and/or at night?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Is your tongue covered with a fuzzy-looking coating, and/or do you have chronic bad breath even when you practice good oral hygiene?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Does your stomach hurt or cramp, or do you feel sick or nauseated, after eating, whether or not you can associate this with any particular food?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Do you get uncomfortable stomach or other gastric symptoms (like gas, bloating, or diarrhea) when you are experiencing extreme emotions such as nervousness, fear, or anxiety?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Hidden
Digestive System Inflammation Score:

Do you retain water easily, and/or feel like your body looks much larger on some days and much smaller and tighter on other days, in a way too extreme or sudden to be related to fat gain or loss? If you press your finger into your lower leg, does it leave a pit for a few seconds?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Does your weight fluctuate more than five pounds from morning to evening or from one day to the next?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Have you been diagnosed with any chronic infections such as mold toxicity, Lyme disease, or viral infection?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Do you have a vague feeling of “being toxic,” even if you can’t pin it on any particular symptom?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Have you noticed a yellowish tint to your skin or the whites of your eyes?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Do you have abdominal tenderness that seems unrelated to eating, especially in the upper right quadrant of your torso, or that spreads to your upper back or shoulder?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Does your urine tend to be dark yellow, and/or does your stool tend to float?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Do you have unexplained itching, flaking, or rashes on your hands and/or feet?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Hidden
Detoxification System Inflammation Score:

Do you crave sugary or starchy foods even when you have already eaten enough or feel full (such as after a big meal or too soon between meals)?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Have you noticed an increase in appetite and/or thirst and urination recently, or does your level of thirst/appetite and urine output seem higher than normal to you?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Do you get blurred vision that comes and goes?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Are you unusually tired even if you got enough sleep, but notice that your fatigue is relieved by eating something?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Do you feel light-headed, dizzy, shaky, jittery, irritable, or “hangry” (a combination of hungry and angry) when you haven’t eaten for a few hours or you skip a meal?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Is your waist girth equal to or greater than your hip girth?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Do you have difficulty losing weight, even when cutting calories and/or exercising?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Have you had your fasting blood sugar tested, and it was 100 dl/ml or higher, and/or did you have a hemoglobin A1C test and it was 5.7 or above, and/or do you have a diagnosis of prediabetes, metabolic syndrome, or type 2 diabetes?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Hidden
Blood Sugar/Insulin System Inflammation Score:

Do you tend to have fatigue and/or headaches in the afternoons, then get a second wind in the evening, which causes you to stay up late?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Do you feel dizzy when you stand up suddenly?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Do you often crave salty foods?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Are your hands and feet often cold, even when your environment is warm?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Do you sleep excessively, or feel as if you could sleep all day and still sleep at night?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Are the outer thirds of your eyebrows thinning, or missing?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Has your sex drive disappeared? Are you rarely if ever “in the mood”?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
For women: Are you experiencing irregular, painful, or unusually heavy menstrual periods? For men: Have you recently experienced any new occurrence of erectile dysfunction?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Hidden
Hormonal (Endocrine) System Inflammation Score:

Do your joints hurt periodically, constantly, or in flares, in random places, with the pain coming and going, seemingly unrelated to injuries?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Are you hypermobile, “double-jointed,” or are your joints hyper-flexible?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Are you accident-prone, often twisting your ankle, tripping or falling, or dropping things? Do you consider yourself clumsy? Do you often injure your tendons and/or ligaments?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Do your joints constantly pop, crack, snap, or get stuck in certain positions?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Do you wake up with stiff and/or aching joints and/or muscles but can relieve the stiffness by movement, only to find that it returns at the end of an active day?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Do you have chronic neck or back pain, tightness, and tension?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Do you get pins and needles, random stabbing pains, and/or numbness in your hands and feet, or shooting pains down your arms or legs?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Are massages painful, especially in your arms, legs, and buttocks?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Hidden
Musculoskeletal System Inflammation Score:

Are you experiencing obvious extreme reactions to certain foods or after eating—reactions such as vomiting, diarrhea, pain, skin reactions, or neurological episodes like brain fog or panic attacks?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Are you intolerant to cold or heat, and/or do your hands or feet turn bluish or gray when they are cold? And/or are your skin, mouth, or eyes unusually dry?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Do you have a family history of autoimmune issues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease/Crohn’s disease, or Hashimoto’s thyroiditis?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Do you have joint pain and swelling, and/or numbness and tingling, bilaterally (in the same place on both sides of your body, such as in both hands, elbows, knees, and/or feet)?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Do you have unexplained rashes, chronic acne, or recurring boils or cystic acne on your face or body?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Do you have extreme, constant, unrelenting fatigue that cannot be relieved by sleeping, eating, or other remedies?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Are you having unexplained muscle weakness, or have you noticed that your foot is dragging or you are dropping things more often?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Are any of the above symptoms episodic, flaring up, sometimes to an extreme degree, then dying down for a while, only to return days, weeks, or even months later?*
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
Hidden
Autoimmune-Inflammation Score:

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