By Ray Rogers
Snip. Snip. The gateway to improved health for Kristin Malta began with a few strands of hair. After the birth of her fourth child, the restaurant group owner and lifestyle cookbook author found herself stuck, feeling “constantly sluggish and bloated,” she recalls. Not content to throw in the towel, she sought to dive deeper into root cause issues and how to transform her body. After finding out about bioresonance technology, a simple noninvasive energetic frequency testing, she discovered imbalances in her system and the results were startling: Food eliminations and swaps led to greater vitality for Malta. “Once I removed gluten, dairy and legumes from my diet, excess bloating and inflammation really came down,” she recalls, her bespoke regimen resulting in a 50-pound weight loss when combined with strength training and cardio conditioning.
The full-time Southampton resident also saw dramatic results in behavioral issues and skin concerns in her children after they were tested, and various foods were eliminated from their diets. “I always considered myself a healthy eater,” she says. “I was using alternatives like almond milk, feeding my daughter almonds, almond butter, until I realized that it was a triggering food for her, doing more harm than good.” When almond products were removed from her child’s diet, skin irritations soon vanished.
Seeing what it did for her and her family inspired Malta’s journey to help others on the path to better health. Her new company, The Foundry, makes it easy for anyone to try out bioresonance testing, a form of analysis categorized under complementary and alternative medicines, which covers therapies that fall outside of mainstream medicine. Clients send in four to five strands of hair cut close to the scalp, and within less than a week, results from a 1,770-item sensitivity test are compiled in a comprehensive report.
This form of energetic frequency testing, Malta explains, uses one’s hair strands to measure the body’s stress response against a normal range for a variety of biomarkers, testing for everything from food sensitivities to additives, hormone imbalances, gut health, anti-aging, stress, sleep and skin health. “It’s a deep dive into imbalances in your system,” she says. What follows is a process of elimination over six weeks, to test what foods are especially triggering.
When Purist took the Foundry test, a 34-page dossier came back calling out potential imbalances in the kidneys and liver, and a multitude of food sensitivities, among them bananas, gluten, certain cheeses and—sadly, as fall approaches—apples (even down to which varietals to skip: the sweet and juicy Gala and Fuji). Going over the results, Malta advised to “strive to eliminate or reduce high reactive foods and moderate reactive foods.”
But she cautioned against “overloading the body at once; fixing things in the right order makes all the difference. Healing your gut is like solving a puzzle—order matters. If you jump to supplements before addressing inflammation or drainage, you’ll keep spinning your wheels.” She sent a helpful document of food swaps, including things like flaxseed and cassava chips to replace the standard grain- and gluten-laden processed snacks. (What’s in your personal care—be it beauty products or home cleansers—is also part of the plan. “Consider switching to organic, plant-based household cleaners—Branch Basics is a good one,” says Malta.)
The process of going through the testing, making a few key swaps and paying better attention to what’s going into the body led to a 9-pound weight loss in three weeks, when combined with vigorous daily exercise. As Malta says, “It’s such a noninvasive approach and it goes back to almost caveman living: Treat food as thy medicine before medicine becomes thy food.” thefoundryny.com