Food Allergy
Food allergy is a silent scourge. It can strike insidiously. How does it happen?
FOOD ADDICTION
When you eat an allergenic food, it will inflame your gut and cause it to secrete “alarm” chemicals. Your pituitary gland is alerted by them to release natural opiates or endorphins. This gland is located above the nose, behind the forehead. (In Ayuverda, this is the second chakra). But wait – there’s more. It happens that codeine, morphine and heroin are similar to our endorphins. What then do endorphins do? Mainly, they eliminate pain and make you feel good – sometimes, very, very good.
The real problem with leaky gut and food sensitivity is that because the gut has no sensory nerves to tell you that it is itchy and endorphins are addictive, paradoxically this makes you become “hooked” on a food which may trigger release of endorphins, all the while silently harming your gut lining.
SNEEZING
The bottom line is that the specialised mast cells in the lungs and nose which react to these insults give a lusty squirt of histamine and antibodies, and may sensitise mast cells in other mucous membrane tracts in your body. And also skin. These include the nose and lungs. So, ANY “foreign body” entering your body triggers off an abnormal histamine response as soon as a pretty flower so much as looks sideways at you.
And that makes you sneeze. And may give you an itchy rash.
You cannot tell when you react to a ‘naughty’ food because the membrane of the tube (lumen) of your gut has no sensory nerves – only motor nerves. To make matters worse, your gut lining becomes inflamed and distressed when this phenomenon occurs, shooting out chemicals called cytokines.
These eventually cause your pituitary gland to secrete addictive endorphins and you then get “hooked” on the food that causes them.
Worse still, the inflammation compromises your ability to digest food. So, food cannot be absorbed very well.
So, your body in a sense becomes starved of these micronutrients.
This leads to eventual malfunction of various parts of organs and tissue, causing poor health.
Next, undigested Protein particles may enter the bloodstream through this leaky gut and cause your immune cells to create antibodies against them as it mistakes them for foreign bodies.
Not only that but also, some of these particles, that are derived from two common food proteins, may closely resemble parts of your own connective tissue (collagen) and consequently will produce antibodies capable of attacking your own collagen.
This classic auto-immune attack on self can cause auto-immune health challenges, such as Type 1 blood sugar fluctuations leading to health challenges, inflammation of joints, bone abnormalities and other of the auto-immune health challenges to occur.
Anastanopoulos, a Greek psychiatrist, discovered in WWII that his mentally deranged patients improved during the war. He identified dietary changes that ultimately proved to be responsible. The reason was that one of these proteins was irritating the brain, bringing on mental symptoms.
A classic example of this happening is osteoporosis in milk drinkers. That’s right – the Nurse’s Study showed that people who drink milk are more likely to develop osteoporosis than those who do not drink it. Is this likely to affect teenagers particularly? Most definitely.
So, just who is most likely to develop a food allergy? The inherited trait regarding food allergy is the tendency to become allergic. This is called an atopic tendency.
Our solution
Choose different parents. In case you cannot achieve that, then:
Eliminate possible food allergy.
Food allergy can be a major cause of leaky gut and you may be prone to this issue when your immune system is at a low ebb. A simple in-house test will help us to determine the probable range of foods that you can tolerate and thrive on and also those that are not good for you.
Restore mineral balance. We suggest that the most efficient way to do this is with our Wade’s Mineral Capsules. These capsules have been formulated to provide all 72 of the minerals or trace elements that your body needs – not just a few that are seen in popular “multivitamins”. And they are made in our own lab. Our mineral capsules give you your daily calcium needs also as well as the dozens of trace elements that drive your body’s myriad of chemical “systems” within your cells that are critical to health. Importantly, they are balanced in the proportion that the body needs them. They cost $59 for a month’s supply.
Treat leaky gut. A simple test determines whether or not you have this condition. If you do, it is well worth finding out and treating it with Wade’s Healthy Gut Mix. This Gut Mix is also made in our lab. and is a special “recipe” of ingredients that is designed to treat and restore your gut to normal. This enables normal digestion and assimilation of vital nutrients from your diet. Incidentally, Our price is substantially cheaper than most pathology labs. Enquire at info@wellnesscentre.com.au or phone 1300 722 625
Test for low zinc reserves. Zinc can be deficient in your diet and your body needs lots of it at this time. If it needs replenishing, then it must be accompanied with five select nutrients that work along with zinc in your body. Supplementing with zinc on its own may be dangerous. That’s why we manufacture our own Zinac capsules in the lab. The test costs $10. The capsules cost $39 for one month’s supply.
Assess for vitamin deficiency. One of the causes of what I laughingly call “teenage schizophrenia” is deficiency of certain of the B group vitamins. We can go a long way to determining if your child or you are suffering from a dietary deficiency of these by filling in our “Nutrition Assessment” questionnaire. You can obtain one of these by contacting our office. If you believe that supplementing with vitamins is for you, we make a pleasant-to-take vitamin powder that is fizzy when you dissolve it in water. The fizzy stuff is all natural. It is popular with children and adults and – you guessed it – is balanced. I have resorted to making this myself because it is vital to ensure that B group vitamins are combined in the correct proportion that the body requires to absorb them evenly. If you include too much of any one, it can crowd out the absorption sites in the gut and prevent absorption of one or more of the others. This may result in an induced deficiency and cause deficiency illness – as well as toxic symptoms of overdose of the offending one included to excess. Our vitamin powder includes traces of all of the minerals as well as the natural bioflavonoids found in plants that always accompany vitamins in nature and costs $49 for one month’s supply.
Children and supplements. Just to ease your mind and put you in the picture, it is known that children over the age of 2 Years Old require 80% of the intake of vitamins and minerals of a grown adult. So, they can have some of the Vitamin Powder as well, quite safely because – you guessed it again – it is balanced for optimum absorption and assimilation of the nutrients contained within.
To order assessment forms and supplements, or to arrange for a consultation, contact us.
If you suspect that you may have developed such an issue, please inform us and we will send you more detailed Health Assessment Questionnaires, a diet diary and a Constitutional Questionnaire. We can then arrange a telephone consultation if you cannot attend the office and if necessary work with your practitioner to obtain results of your detailed physical examination on which we will collaborate.