Do you have allergies / sensitivities and how can you fix them?

in #health6 years ago

Today I want to talk a bit about allergies and sensitivities, why we might have them, and what to do about them. (With a side note of what I found for myself.)

Now, of course, this is a huge topic, so this is an overview, and I may miss some possibilities. But hopefully it’s enough to give you some insights or answers about what might be happening for you.

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First off, when I talk about allergies, I don’t mean the medical definition, which is quite narrow. I mean any kind of bad reaction to a substance. So if you have any type of chronic health condition, food or environmental allergies or sensitivities are something you might want to consider.

This might include any type of chronic pain, autoimmune diseases, chronic fatigue, respiratory illnesses, brain fog, ADD or ADHD, depression or anxiety, inability to maintain a healthy weight, or even when you just know you’re not well but can’t pinpoint why.

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I’m also not talking about curing the kind of allergies that cause anaphylaxis and can kill you. While some of these approaches might lessen your reaction, we can’t be sure they would and it is far too dangerous to ever test it.

The first step is to identify what you’re reacting to.

A medical doctor who specialises in allergies will be able to do certain tests which could identify some problem foods or elements in your environment. But this is unlikely to pick up non-allergic sensitivities. For example, tests for celiac disease won’t identify non-celiac gluten sensitivity.

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Sometimes you can narrow it down by keeping a food, activity and symptom diary, and getting really clear on when your symptoms are worst. But sometimes, your body will have developed coping mechanisms, and although you are “allergic” you could also be “addicted”. So this means, you might feel worse for a while after you take a suspect food out, which makes it trickier to identify.

As a kinesiologist, I often muscle test people for their sensitivities, which is usually helpful. But it won’t tell you what kind of bad reaction you get. And some kinesiologists will do a single test for each item. This isn’t accurate enough to identify everything.

Probably the most accurate way is to do an elimination diet. Cut out the majority of foods for about a week, till your symptoms have gone away. (Consult an expert about what foods you should or shouldn’t eat. If there is enough interest, I could do a more in depth post on how to do this.) It needs to be that long, for you to recover from withdrawal from your allergy/addictions. Then reintroduce foods one at a time. (If they don’t go away, either you don’t have food sensitivities, your core foods included a sensitivity, or there are other aspects muddying the picture. In that case, if you have some improvement, you might need to start there.)

Back in the day (about 1996), @sift666 and I did our first elimination diet. This was way before I had any other ways of finding problems foods. We found some foods that made perfect sense, and others that were mystifying. But when you’ve been on a limited diet for a while, the reactions to problem foods are usually very clear.

Now what do I do?

At that time, the only thing we knew to do was to stop eating the problem foods. Over time, I became a nutrition consultant and a lot of my work was helping people to identify their problem foods, and teach them new ways of eating. This helped them manage their situation but didn’t fix it.

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But more time went on, and I became aware of ways to reset the body, so that more foods could be eaten again.

This doesn’t usually apply to foods that are really not good for anybody, such as excess sugar, processed foods, anything artificial. And sometimes there might be foods that are not sensitivities, but are just not appropriate for how your body works.

The next step would be to look at how many allergies a person has.

Numerous allergies

If a person has lots of allergies, chances are the problem is something systemic. These might include:

• Gut dysbiosis - that is, the bacteria and yeast in the gut are out of balance. Often this will be described as having candida, but it could be a number of different elements that are out of balance
• Nutritional deficiencies
• Adrenal fatigue
• Dehydration

If the systemic issue is corrected, you would be able to eat a much wider variety of foods.

I often work with people using the GAPS diet (Gut and Psychology Syndrome) to repair gut function, for example. Some of my other posts about GAPS:
About the Gut & Psychology syndrome (GAPS) diet Part 1 – Can it help autism?
GAPS diet Part 2: Foods we can’t have
GAPS diet Part 3: Foods we CAN have
GAPS diet Part 4: What if I can’t eat some animal foods

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Only a few allergies

This can often be caused by an emotional issue, which has set up a conditioned response in the body. Imagine if you were a young child, having eggs for breakfast every day. And every morning your parents are fighting at the breakfast table. This would cause the child’s body to be very stressed and anxious and, over time, that feeling would be associated with eggs.

These types of sensitivities can often be cleared with energy medicine.

I have learnt a variety of energy corrections from great teachers such as Sandy Radomski, Philip Rafferty and Wayne Topping. Some of these include:

• EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)
• Ask & Receive
• Kinergetics
• Tapping down the meridian points either side of the spine
• Laser therapy on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
• Identifying the underlying negative emotions and rebalancing with positive emotions and nutrition

What came up for me this time?

I have spent years working on my systemic health, and on rebalancing my gut health. But even so, when I did my water fast recently, I reacted to some foods when I reintroduced them.

They were almonds and peaches (which are the same botanical family) and ghee (which means I would react to any dairy).

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I used some kinesiology to test myself, and found that I had an underlying negative emotion of “drained” which wasn’t surprising, given how last year went. The positive emotions I needed to install to offset it were “kind” and “respected”. I also need to supplement with zinc for 2 weeks, though I can reintroduce one of the new foods tomorrow, without waiting for the 2 weeks to be up.

I used some EFT to clear the “drained” emotion and install the two positive emotions, and have taken my first dose of zinc.

I’ll keep you posted on how reintroducing the foods goes!

Thanks for reading and don’t hesitate to ask questions

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Hi kiwi.. You describe all so amazingly in good manner.. Allergy is really worse thing.. I am patient of acute dust and sone other allergies like pollen grains.. It laid me to miserable condition and chronic attack of asthma..
But its not possible for me to avoid them.. Dust is everywhere.. Kitchen spices cause it.. Pollen grains and wheat cutting season cause it..
I cant forget my last horrible attacks.. When i go to my inlaws home that is fully carpeted i affected within 2 or 3 hours and remain sick for several day until my stay there..
God bless you and keep you healthy and happy..

You could try some EFT / tapping for the symptoms. Here's a youtube video (not mine, someone else's) that you could try tapping along to , to see if it helps.

or this one

If you search on youtube for "EFT allergies", there are more. But there's 2 to get you started.

Tanks kiwi dear.. I ll try this technique.. Did you try it? Its different thing.. One thing very effective is pure honey.. Eat regularly 1Tbsp early morning empty stomach help to overcome all type of allergy and big diseases.. When i take it regularly i did not face trouble or minute trouble..

Yes, I have used tapping to clear some environmental allergies.
I think it's the traces of bee pollen in the honey that help. Is that what you think?

Yeah i think.. Researches peoved that honey has anti allergy properties.. In east people used it for many diseases treatment since years.. When i faced severe attack i used it in warm water 2 to three times daily and also take Tbsp of olive oil before sleep.. And both works good.. It helps me in fast recovery..

Fascinating. Could you describe muscle testing? I'm not familiar with that technique. It's very interesting to me how much diagnostic information the human body can give, if we pay attention.

In this post here, I describe it a bit, and show the test I use to test myself:
https://steemit.com/fasting/@kiwideb/1000-followers-gratitude-day-6-and-water-fast-day-3

Basically what we're doing is getting a feel for how much energy is flowing through the muscle we're "testing". If a substance disrupts the energy flow, the muscle will either go weak, or lock up.

Probably the easiest way to start learning to test yourself would be the sway test. You stand with your feet hip width apart, knees bent and relaxed. Hold the substance you want to test to your chest or navel, close your eyes and relax, then wait and see if your body sways towards the substance or away from it. If you start to fall backwards, your body doesn't like it.

You can start by using test questions like my name is..., to see if you seem to be calibrated right. Then start testing suspect foods. If you don't move or sway forward, the item is probably ok. But a trained kinesiologist would do further, deeper tests to find imbalances that might not show up with the sway test.

Huh, and, no offense, you find improvement in physical condition based on recommendations from this? I don't doubt it works, just never heard of it before.

Just cutting out the offending foods does give an improvement straight away, in most cases. But it doesn't address the underlying issues that caused the problem in the first place, so in my view, it's only managing the issue. But sadly it's not usually my call as to whether the client moves on from managing to addressing. The client is the boss, i am just the facilitator.


Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacterium bifidum help protect the intestinal and urinary tract pathogens while helping to remove vitamins and minerals from the food.
crusted apples, oranges, strawberries and bananas

Thanks for adding to the discussion. Yes, absolutely they are great probiotics, and one of the tools we'd use for healing gut dysbiosis.


there is no need to use medication for every allergy.plants can help in this regard.
stinging nettle, rootstock, eucalyptus, oregane.
these plants are good

I don't use medication for any allergy. So I fully support using herbs instead.

Truly informative !! Great effort my friend !!

Thank you.

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