Food Allergies & Nutritional Supplements

Dr. Joanne Clough's book Understanding Allergies is a good read.

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Calmness coupled with energy
People who eat Essential 7 realize that their stamina is up and they feel “good”... “calm”... their body now has something that it was missing.

Here’s one woman’s report:

Karin Diem from Utah says, "eating Essential 7 has made it much easier to train for the marathon. I love to run. In particular, my leg muscles aren’t cramped and worn out. Sometimes I feel like I could run again right after finishing a race. In addition, I no longer have the “hunt” for food desire. My body feels calm and satisfied. What a welcome surprise.

A food allergy is an immune system response to a food that the body mistakenly believes is harmful.  Although an individual could be allergic to any food, such as fruits, vegetables, and meats, there are eight foods that account for 90% of all food-allergic reactions. These are: milk, egg, peanut, tree nut (walnut, cashew, etc.), fish, shellfish, soy, and wheat.

Goal! To Detoxify and Fortify the body so the immune system will calm down and stop causing havoc for the rest of the body.

Recommendations:

• The 8-Day Cleanse. This cleanse is the best first course of action in attacking the root cause of any illness or disease.  Because the cleanse corrects so many different bodily disorders, while it detoxifies you, it calms the immune system.  Allergies, although not commonly thought of as an illness, are a bodily malfunction that often can be corrected when the immune system stops over reacting to toxic particles from food and the environment.

• Essential 7.  Your body was designed to make correct use of nutrients received from food both for fortification and detoxifying purposes.  Not from multi-Vitamins and isolated nutrients.  Essential 7 is the best source of whole-food nutrients available today.  If given the very best source of nutrients the body can correct itself.  To over come allergens you need the very best nutrients and minerals nature has to provide.

• Aloe 7K.  The Aloe Plant has often been called the Miracle Plant because of the hundreds of healing properties it provides.  Among them is Aloe's incredible ability to slow down the immune systems attack of its owner.  This reaction to Aloe happens because Aloe is an immune system modulator.  Aloe helps the immune system speed up when urgently needed.  And it helps the immune system slow down when it has been over reactive.  Aloe 7K is 20X concentrated whole leaf aloe.  The whole plant is processed not just the fleshy part of the leaf. It is the best Aloe.

All of these conditions have been linked to food allergies.
ADHD * Arthritis * Asthma * Autism * Candidacies * Celiac Disease * Chronic Fatigue Diabetes * Ear Infections * Fibromyalgia * Headaches * Hay Fever * Hyperactivity * Hypertension * Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) * Leaky Gut * Migraine & Cluster Headaches * Skin Rashes * Sinusitis * Stress/Tension * Weight Challenges & Obesity

Every substance on earth that can be eaten, inhaled or touched is a potential allergen. Whether or not it negatively affects you depends on your individual genetic profile and how well your body is running.

Much is made of the genetic factors in allergies, but often your emotional inheritance, lifestyle, diet and physical environment are more important, in part because they define the “Toxic Load” your system must detoxify and process on a daily basis.

How allergic you are at any one time relates to how well you process this “Toxic Load.” One reason people have adult onset food allergies is that the older we are the greater this burden is and the less able our bodies are to deal with it.

Even if you eat well and live a healthy lifestyle, you are constantly exposed to numerous chemicals and potential allergens. There are over 3,000 chemicals added to our food supply and more than 70,000 chemicals used for other purposes in North America.

If you want to overcome food allergies you must detoxify and consume only the best nutrients you can find.  Do the 8-Day Cleanse to detoxify your body and then support your system with Essential 7 and Aloe 7K.

Life amid thousands of chemicals and allergens can be blissful!

What Exactly Is A Food Intolerance?

"Food allergy/intolerance occurs when the immune system, by means of a mixture of immune cells, antibodies and chemical mediators, reacts in an attempt to reject a food."

Type 1 Immediate-Onset and Type 3 Delayed-Onset are the most common.  More than one type of reaction can occur at the same time in an allergic individual.  Types 1 and 3 are the focus of this study.

Type 1 (Immediate-Onset) Food Allergy
The best-known and well-studied form of food allergies is “Type 1” immune reaction (aka - a classical food allergy, immediate-onset).  Type 1-food allergies occur in approximately only 2-5% of the population.  Type 1 occurs mostly in children and is found less frequently in adults.  Usually occurring in the genetically predisposed individual, the immune system begins creating a specific type of antibody called Immunoglobulin E (IgE) to certain foods.

One side of the IgE antibody will recognize and bind to the allergic food. The other side of the antibody attaches to a specialized immune cell packed with histamine, called a Mast cell.  Primed for action, the IgE antibodies now only have to wait patiently for re-exposure to food allergens. 

When you eat the food to which the body is allergic the next time, IgE antibodies hungrily latch onto the food.  Instantaneously, histamine and other allergy-related chemicals (chemical mediators) are released from the Mast Cell.  This quickly brings on the unwelcome symptoms of stomach cramping, diarrhea, skin rashes, hives, swelling, wheezing or the most dreaded of all Type 1 reactions, anaphylaxis, which is primarily the presence of fainting and respiratory distress.

Type 3 (Delayed-Onset) Food Allergy

Type 3 immune reactions are more commonly involved in food allergy than Type 1 reactions.  Studies show that 45-60% of the population has been reported as having Type 3 food allergies.  (Note: According to world authority James Braly, M.D., "70%-80% of Americans currently suffering from chronic medical conditions of unknown cause, who have proven poorly responsive to conventional medical interventions, are suffering from IgG-mediated delayed-onset food allergies.")  Type 3 food allergy (aka - delayed food allergy, food sensitivity, food intolerance, etc.) also involves the immune system.  These Type 3 allergies occur when your immune system creates an overabundance of the antibody, Immunoglobulin G (IgG) to a specific food.

The IgG antibodies, instead of attaching to mast cells, like IgE antibodies in Type 1 allergies, bind directly to the food as it enters the bloodstream, forming different sizes of circulating immune complexes (food allergens bound to antibodies circulating in the bloodstream).  The allergic symptoms in Type 3 immune reactions are delayed in onset - appearing from several hours to several days after consuming foods to which the body is allergic. 

Delayed food reactions may occur in any organ or tissue in the body. These reactions have been linked to either causing and/or provoking over 100 allergic symptoms and well over 150 different medical diseases.  An estimated 60 to 80 million Americans suffer from clinically significant food allergies, most all of whom suffer delayed symptoms. 

The Difference Between An Immediate & A Delayed Food Allergy
1). Once thought to be the only "real" food allergy, immediate food allergy is common in children, but rare in adults. Once thought to be uncommon at best, delayed food allergy is now considered the most common form of food allergy in children and adults.

2). Allergic symptoms in immediate reactions occur within two hours of eating. Allergic symptoms in delayed reactions do not appear anywhere from at least 2 hours to 2 days (there are even reports of delayed symptoms appearing 3 to 7 days after eating).

3). As a rule, immediate-onset food allergy involves one or two foods in the diet. Delayed reactions characteristically involve 3 to 10 foods, sometimes as many of 20 foods in very allergic individuals.

4). Because a small amount of a single food is involved and the allergic symptoms appear immediately, immediate food allergy is usually self-diagnosed. Example: You eat the food, it causes symptoms quickly, you are able to see the connection and you stop eating the food. Due to a combination of delayed symptoms, multiple foods, and food cravings, Type 3 delayed-onset food allergies are extremely hard, if not impossible, to self-diagnose. The only accurate and reliable way to detect the delayed allergic foods is by means of laboratory testing.

5). Immediate food allergy involves foods that are rarely eaten. Delayed food allergy involves commonly eaten foods (i.e. - foods that you eat every day and may even have a craving for).

6). When people quit eating foods that cause immediate symptoms, they have no withdrawal or detoxification symptoms. Powerful addictive cravings and disabling withdrawal symptoms are reported in over 30 percent of delayed food allergy patients when they stop eating food.

7). Immediate food allergens primarily affect the skin, airway and the digestive tract. Virtually any tissue, organ or system of the body can be affected by delayed food allergy. This includes the brain, joints, muscles, hormone-producing glands, lungs, kidneys, and nervous system. Additionally, delayed-onset food allergy is linked to over 100 medical conditions involving every single part of the body and some 100 different allergic symptoms.

8). Immediate-onset food allergies are frequently permanent and fixed allergies. Example: Once you develop an allergy to peanuts or shellfish, it's for life. Delayed-onset food allergies are commonly reversible. If you completely eliminate the allergic foods for 3 to 6 months, you can reintroduce most of them (approx. 86%) back into your diet and remain symptom-free. Because delayed-onset food allergies are so often undetected and untreated, they lie behind many chronic medical conditions of unknown cause. The allergic person suffers for years, even decades, without ever suspecting that their health problems are being caused by what they eat.

9). Immediate-onset food allergy is a skin ("scratch") test positive allergy. Delayed food allergies are skin ("scratch") test negative. The traditional skin tests are poor tests for detecting delayed food allergies. Instead, delayed reactions food require state-of-the-art blood tests. These tests detect serum levels of IgG antibodies to foods.

10). Because delayed food allergies do not make themselves apparent immediately and can be caused by multiple foods, they are very difficult to detect without specialized laboratory testing. There are many forms of allergy testing available such as cytotoxic, computerized cytotoxic, applied kinesiology, vega tests, and others, but each of these tests share the same critical disadvantage - they are frequently unreliable.

If your goal is to overcome food allergies, you must detoxify your body and consume only the best nutrients you can find.  Do the 8-Day Cleanse to detoxify and then support your system optimally with Essential 7 and Aloe 7K.