Allergies – The Straw That Broke the Camel’s Back
The Secret Cause of Hyper-Sensitivity
There is only one physiological disease – the over-acidification of the body, due primarily to an inverted way of eating and living. – Dr. Robert O Young
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), food allergies among children increased approximately 50% between 1997 and 2011. From 2001 to 2011, the number of Americans with asthma grew by 28 percent with a corresponding rise in allergy rates as well. Allergies are estimated to affect approximately 50 million people in the United States, and its prevalence is increasing, affecting as many as 30% of adults and up to 40% of children, according to the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.
Food allergies affect 1 in every 13 children under 18 years of age in the U.S. That’s roughly two in every classroom.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 The Source of the Rise in Allergy Rates
Chapter 2 The Role of Congestion and Inflammation
Chapter 3 Three More Allergy Tips
Chapter 4 Gut Flora
Chapter 5 Your Intestinal Lining and Allergies
Chapter 6 Leaky Gut
Chapter 7 Toxins Damage the Gut
Chapter 8 A Very Easy Way to Get the Toxins Out
Chapter 9 My Story
Chapter 10 Bibliography
The Source of the Rise in Allergy Rates
Allergies arise as a response to an overload of congestion. It is, unfortunately, true that these days in our modern world, many of us are clogged up with toxic chemicals and heavy metals.
Just as this poisonous congestion accumulated over a period of time, little by little, it can be cleared out. It can come as welcome news to find out this relieves the hypersensitivity to the many substances that can trigger an allergic reaction.
Allergies seem to be caused by many things – mold, dust, pollen, dander or food, to name a few. However, how did you become so hyper-sensitive in the first place?
Allergies are a secondary response to an underlying condition of congestion and it can be reversed!
In a discussion of reflexology, Victoras Kalvinskas, MS, co – founder of the Hippocrates Health Institute, says that “Pain will persist until its cause – congestion – has been removed.” Congestion is an accumulation of toxins and acidic waste.
He goes on to say, “Toxemia and enervation are the underlying cause of all disease whether acute or chronic”. Toxins in the body originate from wrong choice of food, worn-out body cells, drugs, unloving thoughts, polluted air and water. Enervation comes from overactivity, noise, radiation, and extreme climate, overeating, sexual excesses, vaccination, toxins, stress or rapid detoxification. Waste accumulates from infancy because of toxemia and enervation, eventually, to a level that may interfere with the functioning of the body. How long it takes to become sick depends upon the constitution inherited from the parents and how much toxemia and enervation one’s lifestyle generates.”
J. H. Tilden, M.D. in Toxemia Explained says, “Every so – called DISEASE is a crisis of Toxemia, which means that toxins have accumulated in the blood above the toleration point, and the crisis – the so-called disease – is a vicarious elimination.” The “pushing out” process of cleansing may take the form of a cold, the flu or a rash or many other symptoms often thought of as illness. Suppressing those symptoms simply creates more congestion, however.
This congestion creates hypersensitivity, like the “straw that broke the camel’s back.”
Toxic Congestion Creates Hyper-Sensitivity Creates Allergic Responses
The Role of Congestion and Inflammation
Here’s How That Works…
Congestion Creates Inflammation
Inflammation actually has a purpose in the body. It brings white blood cells and other healing factors into an area in need of healing. This process is triggered by mast cells, which releases histamine. Histamine signals the body to bring inflammation into the area.
This inflammation can feel very uncomfortable and leads to all of the symptoms we experience as allergies, including headaches, nasal inflammations, asthma, fatigue, intestinal problems, bloating, cramps, gas, mood swings and irritability to name only a few.
in a 2011 article released by the American Academy of Pediatrics, they state that 74 billion pounds of chemicals, per day, are being imported or produced in the United States. That is 250 pounds per day, per person. This unprecedented overwhelming amount of chemicals is responsible for epidemic rates of chronic disease, including allergies. Between 80 and 100,000 chemicals have been introduced since the 1940s. Only 5% of them have been tested for safety. For example, they don’t test if something is an endocrine disruptor.
Almost all people these days have 108 chemicals in their bodies that never existed even as recently as 15 years ago.
Record levels of toxins and pollution in our water, air and food, including many additives, now exist. Medical and recreational drugs, nearly 85,000 man-made chemicals, smoking, radiation, electronic pollution (ELF) from computers, microwaves and TV plus physical, mental and emotional stresses are rampant. They’re everywhere!
It’s sad to realize that the body burden of chemicals increases faster than the body can expel them, finding out they are the first step to cancer and autoimmunity.
In our polluted world, excess free radicals produce chain reactions (like dominoes) and cause damage. This, in turn, leads to leads to inflammation destroying cell walls, proteins, even damaging genes, causing people to age prematurely.
This burden even causes weight gain as the body, in its wisdom, uses fat to protect us by storing excess toxins in fat cells. Since fat is an insulator it does this particularly in the abdomen to protect the internal organs from the damage generated by our modern lifestyles. Beer Bellies Indeed!
This is what underlies so many chronic diseases such as allergies, diabetics, cardiovascular diseases, asthma, cancer and arthritis.
These chemicals attach themselves to our proteins, causing the body to recognize them as foreign, attack them and create autoimmune conditions anywhere in the body. Then the body is unable to distinguish between self and non-self and this perpetuates a cascade of auto-immunity
In other words, this process causes the immune system to become confused.
Allergies are only one of the many problems created by autoimmune conditions due to toxic overload and the resulting gastrointestinal imbalance they create.
Conventional medicine focuses on the short-term suppression of symptoms. For example, inflammation is not a cause because what causes the inflammation? It’s a symptom. These symptoms appear as results of the initial irritation caused by toxic damage.
Fortunately, you have an opportunity to take action when you don’t want to wait as problems worsen over time. You can make changes before the fires rage out of control.
It can come as a relief to realize we do not need to be victimized by this, as there is a way to take our health, vitality and well-being into our own hands!
Three More Allergy Tips
1. A few things to know are that 80% of food allergists are hypoglycemic.” Expand and rotate your food choices so you aren’t eating the same thing every day.
2. Also, “Most allergens are un-metabolized proteins.” (p. 673, Anti-Aging Manual) Papayas contain a very effective protein-digesting enzyme. Organic papayas are very delicious. Commercial papayas can be mealy and tasteless, now even full of GMOs which are becoming recognized as allergy triggers in themselves. I like to make a smoothie and add in blueberries with the papaya and a few soaked almonds for added creaminess.
3. Toxins and pollutants damage the cellular tissue that makes up all parts of your body. Use air and water filters, non-toxic soaps, beauty supplies and cleaning products. Most commercial ones are petroleum-based. Would you rub gasoline on your skin? The price difference is minimal. Also, avoid chemical, GMO and pesticide-laden packaged foods and eat clean fresh food. It tastes much better anyway! Contrary to popular belief, pre-packaged foods can actually cost more than buying fresh food.
Release Toxic Acidic Waste to Release Hypersensitivity to Allergens
When you create a vibrant state of health you don’t have to cure any disease because you don’t have any disease. This may sound glib at first, but we have been taught to think of symptoms as diseases. Symptoms are like the warning light on your car that alerts you to an underlying problem. If you don’t change the oil in your car, your whole car can seize up and stop running if you run out of oil. Likewise, your body knows how to heal itself and run smoothly when you get the bad stuff out and the good stuff in.
We are not going to address managing symptoms and removing individual foods you may have an allergy to.
Rather, we are going to address how removing the underlying sensitivity triggers can reactivate your body’s self-healing mechanism and reduce or eliminate the hypersensitivity that is making you so vulnerable in the first place.
Read on to discover a very easy way to alkalize the body and clear congestive toxic (acid) pollution from the body. But first a note about…
Gut Flora
“Once you heal and seal your gut lining, and once you make your digestive system healthy and working properly again, you’ll be surprised how many various symptoms in your body originated from your digestive system. Most [symptoms] start disappearing because the health and the disease are usually born inside your digestive system. That’s where they originate from,” – Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, a Russian-trained neurologist with a full-time medical practice in the UK.
She treats children and adults with autism, learning disabilities, neurological disorders, psychiatric disorders, immune disorders, and digestive problems, using her Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) Nutritional Program.
She says that the importance of your gut flora and its influence on your health cannot be overstated. It’s truly profound.
Your gut literally serves as your second brain. It produces more of the feel-good neurotransmitter, serotonin than your brain does and is known to have a beneficial influence on your mood.
Your gut is also home to both good and bad bacteria. They outnumber the cells in your body by at least 10 to one. The foundation for physical, mental and emotional good health is formed by maintaining the ideal balance of good and bad bacteria.
Here is something else that interferes with healthy bacteria:
The Real Reason Wheat is Toxic (it’s not the gluten)
There is a way to remove this stuff so read on.
Your Intestinal Lining and Allergies
Also, your intestines are lined with a type of cell called an enterocyte that absorbs water and nutrients from the digestive tract. It is tall and narrow in shape, with a “brush” border made of tiny protrusions which project into the space inside the gut. Enterocytes reside in the small intestine and colon. In the small intestine, they produce and secrete digestive enzymes, which bind to their brush borders. They help break down sugars and proteins, making them smaller and easier to absorb. Enterocytes in the large intestine absorb water and electrolytes.
According to Wise Geek, substances pass from the gut into enterocytes and from there they move out into the fluid that surrounds the cells, known as interstitial fluid. Once they reach the interstitial fluid, nutrients are able to pass into tiny blood vessels called capillaries, which connect to the general blood circulatory system to reach and nourish every cell in the body.
Running out of building blocks due to improper nutrition prevents the proliferation of new, healthy enterocytes, Then the gut lining is overpopulated with pathogenic bacteria, virus, fungi, worms, protozoa, and other pathogenic microbes. The beneficial microbes are virtually nonexistent, as a result, and the balance of good and bad bacteria is dramatically skewed. The digestion problems that arise from this imbalance leads to problems such as leaky gut and allergies, to name a few.
Leaky Gut
It’s important to avoid processed foods. They have been stripped of essential nutrients and contain chemicals and preservatives which damage your health. Basically, this means anything that comes from a can or package, unless it is organic. They have artificial ingredients and preservatives that cause your body to be congested with toxins creating inflammation and affecting your whole body, including your brain. Even kids with autism have been shown to improve by healing their gut.
Unmetabolized proteins that leak from the gut can also cause autoimmune problems, as well as hypersensitivity to allergens
Probiotics and fermented foods help considerably, as well as avoiding sugars and refined starches.
The challenge is to identify strategies to optimize the bacterial population so that they can live in a beneficial, symbiotic relationship, Then they nourish you, help you fight disease, and optimize your health. This is where the GAPS Nutritional Program comes in.
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GMOs Linked to Allergies
Have you ever wondered how genetically modified organisms (GMOs) kill insects?
When an insect takes a bite of a genetically modified Bt toxin crop, it literally splits their guts open and they die when their intestines explode. Giant biotech corporations profit from this pesticide by splicing the Bt gene with corn, soybeans, sugar beets, potatoes, yellow squash, zucchinis, papayas and cotton. Now, these plants have Bt toxin genetically inserted in them. It cannot be washed off like you can when it is just sprayed on and it does not degrade during the growth cycle.
Once inside your stomach, these Bt toxins take can over by destroying your natural gut flora, contributing to leaky gut and autoimmune disease.
The lining of the intestines in a person with leaky gut syndrome is more porous than it should be. This increased intestinal permeability causes undigested food particles and toxins to enter the bloodstream where it causes chronic inflammation and autoimmune problems. This leads to multiple food allergies, in addition to skin disorders, fatigue, chronic stomach upset and alterations in mood and behavior, such as withdrawal and/or aggression.
GMOs are difficult to avoid as dairy cows, chickens, pigs and cattle are fed these GMO crops unless they are organic. GMO soy and corn are in most prepared foods.
Learn more at The Gut Destroying Toxin You Eat Everyday and find out how your health will improve by leaps and bounds you never thought possible when you avoid them.
Toxins Damage the Gut
The reason that toxins and pollutants are so damaging is that they are acidic and steal electrons (electrolytes) from the atoms in your cells, thus damaging the tissue that makes up your body.
You can test your urine pH with pH paper. 7.5 alkaline/blue is allergy free. A pH of 4.5 acid/yellow indicates an allergic reaction. A very easy way to alkalize the body and clear congestive toxic (acid) pollution from the body is by using a portable, yet powerful, far infrared sauna that is now available.
A Very Easy Way to Get the Toxins Out
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The body has the ability to heal itself when it is not overwhelmed by accumulated poisonous toxins and has proper nutrition.
More and more people are coming to realize that premature aging, fatigue and chronic ailments are not necessary and, indeed, are preventable. Reducing your risk is much more effective than treating your symptoms after the problem has already been created.
I found out, first-hand, just how true this is, as a life-threatening illness of mine was healed when I put what I have to share with you into practice. Briefly, this is my story…
My Story
I worked for 15 years doing architectural design and drafting, leaving that work to form an independent graphic design business, moving on to do murals and custom wall treatments in the San Francisco Bay Area. A few projects include murals in a 600-year-old converted monastery in Tuscany, Italy and murals for the Miami Florida Super Bowl Owners Pre-game Party.
I was quite successful until I was overcome by an overexposure to chemicals, solvents, fumes, molds and exposure to nuclear waste at a shipyard where I had a painting studio. My hair analysis test showed I had high levels of uranium and, also, cadmium, mercury and later, arsenic. A seemingly endless period of ulcerative colitis, multiple organ failure and every side effect known to man (well, almost every one) ensued. During this period I worked personally with practitioners who monitored my progress with blood tests, live cell blood tests and hair analysis tests. The uranium and heavy metals are gone now, removed by the Relax Far Infrared Sauna.
I tried every cleanse that I could get my hands on but none of them were powerful enough. I found out that due to the unprecedented onslaught of exposure we are all experiencing these days, more powerful means are what it takes to do the job.
According to Sherry Rogers, M.D., Northeast Center for Environmental Medicine – internationally known expert in environmental medicine and author of Detoxify or Die, and Tired or Toxic? , “High-tech pollution requires high-tech solutions.”
During the process of healing from this disaster and for very many additional years, I studied holistic health and nutrition by searching out the cutting-edge works of pioneering researchers in the field. I am grateful to have had the privilege to have had access to that eye-opening material and to have had the time, the inclination and the ability to absorb this knowledge. I discovered the underlying principles of creating glowing health and vitality, clarity and renewed youth and how incorporating them into daily living can turn our lives around.
I had been concerned that my previous natural state of well-being was lost to me forever. Not anymore!
And not only me. More and more people are experiencing these results, which is why these tiny saunas sell like hotcakes at expos and medical and practitioner conferences around the country. There is no more valuable investment that you can make than in your health.
Knowledge is Useless if You Don’t Act Upon It. Lifestyle Changes have to Happen.
Health is Wealth.
I wanted to know how to have optimal health and vitality to be able to be creative for my entire life. I didn’t know I would have to go through all of that to find out! But now that I have, I have discovered that I have a gift to share that may prove useful and be a blessing in the lives of others. And that feels pretty good to me!
Now I would like to share the fruits of my labors and the blessings of robust health, vitality and clarity that I believe is our birthright, which we all deserve in order to create a better world.
Creating a better world starts with creating a better you! Life is more fun when you feel great.
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