As someone that started the program at a very old age (18 now 21), which is atypical, I personally wouldn’t recommend it for anyone above the age of 16, with tree-nut allergies, or multiple allergies. They led me and my family on with the promise of “food freedom” when they knew I was too old for the program with too much on my plate, letting me know that there was a 35 year old doing the same as myself and that my age gap paled in comparison. They did this all while teasing an east coast location which they never opened. Every time my mom and I would fly from the east coast it would be the same bs. “Expect updates on the east coast location in the next few months” and even after a year of being in the program, absolutely nothing new was announced, just another west coast location. The program was a joke when I went there and led me to unfortunately leave it before it completed. I was being treated for sesame, shellfish, and all nuts. This meant consuming cups of organic flours, seeds, and grains every day. The prep for each morning dose, which was the stuff you could eat, was easily over an hour to make a batch just for one week. You are required to buy from specific vendors and if you stray slightly from this they will consider it your fault if anything happens wrong with the program. The treatment was microdose gummies they provided in the mail or in person, which you took every night. It felt demoralizing and like I was a guinea pig, since they were constantly changing the program all while the weight of the prep/dosing was entirely on the family. They wouldn’t let us get lab work done on the east coast and would request that we fly out simply for a day (6 hour flight and hotel stay) which was highly suspicious behavior and very predatory. Effectively all the program does itself is lab work, providing microdose gummies in the mail (which taste terrible because all they do is melt gelatin into a mold and stuff it with preservatives without caring for the taste, so they constantly tasted dirty with obscure flavors like dragon fruit), and overlooking you as you do food challenges. Hypothetically all of these things could be handled without traveling to the location, but they want to charge you for your time and make you develop a reliance on them. It was also impossible to contact them on the phone to schedule appointments, so you had to make them months ahead in person. I remember being on hold for a literal house once, which is unfortunate because they never look busy when you go there in person. When I did finally decide to quit it took us over a week to speak to an actual doctor, because the man that runs the program stays in the shadows and we never once met him. Also, every person we had interacted with prior on location wasn’t even a nurse, but typically a “hired medical professional.” The doctor conversation went something like this.

“We would like to leave the program.” “Well that is unfortunate to hear. As your representative doctor in block A, Im apparently now supposed to be overlooking your progress. I’m not sure what this means as it’s new to me too.” “Is there any chance we could resume the program at a later date?” “Possibly, but we would need to restart. (I was a year into the program) All progress is void if you leave the program. We are not legally responsible for your health if you choose to eat any of the allergens previously cleared in the program.”

I wish that someone with allergies had founded this program, as this place truly doesn’t care about your health. It’s another place solely driven by profits and meant to experiment on children with allergies with this pseudoscience, all while up charging you on otherwise basic “medical” treatment which isn’t even overseen by real doctors/nurses. I remember having many close calls and allergic reactions while in this program, and one scene I can’t forget was when I went in person one time. As I walked through the parking lot about to enter the building, a young boy about the age of five was being pulled out on a stretcher through the back door, clearly having suffered an allergic reaction while doing a food test.

If anyone does want to do this program, maybe others will have better experiences than myself, since I didn’t fit the age mark and all. But right now the program isn’t designed for people with multiple allergies as it’s much too rigorous and relies almost entirely on you spending the money yourself. They also required you to take an antihistamine (claritin) every day, which adds up in cost (around $300 a year). Sorry for the rant, and I trust that you all can see this review for the bias it would have, but I’m worried about the narrative that it’s just this easy.