Tamara, thanks for the input. I'm not new to the EFI diet and I did follow it to the T for a couple months with only moderate results. I was already eating very low fat before starting the diet so maybe that's why I didn't feel significantly better afterwards. I am using my common sense and that's exactly why I'm looking for answers and explanation. The EFI diet doesn't work for me "as is" and that's why I need to tweak it a little. So I'm wondering, since they're are additional things that I need to cut out of my diet because they trigger a reaction, if that also means that some of the "triggers" as they're listed may not really be triggers for me. I actually believe that there's a lot of science in this. Even Heather explains that the reason dairy is on the trigger list are the proteins (beside fat and lactose). That's what makes me wonder about this exact same protein in dairy substitutes. I'm just trying to eat as many things as I can tolerate without unnecessarily cutting out everything I used to love (provided it's not a trigger for me). As we all know, the right diet for us is very hard to figure out .