If everybody believes something,
it's probably wrong. We call that Conventional Wisdom. In
America, conventional wisdom that has mass acceptance is usually
contrived: somebody paid for it. Examples:
Pharmaceuticals restore health
Vaccination brings immunity
The cure for cancer is just around the corner
Menopause is a disease condition
When a child is sick, he needs immediate antibiotics
Hospitals are safe and clean.
America has the best health care in the world.
Americans have the best health in the world.
Milk is a good source of calcium.
Vitamin C is ascorbic acid.
Aspirin prevents heart attacks.
Heart drugs improve the heart.
Back and neck pain are the only reasons for spinal
adjustment.
The purpose of the health care industry is health.
Cipro will prevent anthrax
No child can get into school without vaccinations
The FDA thoroughly tests all drugs before they go on the
market
Pregnancy is a serious medical condition
Chemotherapy and radiation are effective cures for cancer
When your child is diagnosed with an ear infection,
antibiotics should be given immediately "just in case."
Ear tubes are for the good of the child.
Estrogen drugs prevent osteoporosis after menopause
Pediatricians are the most highly trained of all medical
specialists
The purpose of the health care industry is health
HIV is the cause of AIDS
AZT is the cure
Without vaccines, infectious diseases would return.
Fluoride in the city water protects your teeth. Flu shots
prevent the flu.
Vaccines are thoroughly tested before being placed on the
Mandated Schedule
The NASDAQ is a natural market controlled only by supply
and demand
Chronic pain is a natural consequence of aging
Soy is your healthiest source of protein
Insulin shots cure diabetes
After we take out your gall bladder you can eat anything
you want
Vaccines are safe now that all the mercury has been
removed
Allergy medicine will cure allergies
All the above statements are myths. Fortunes have been spent
to slam and re-slam them into the public's hard disk. Each can
easily be proven false with just a little research, provided the
student is determined to go wherever the data may lead. (The
Doors of Perception -
www.thedoctorwithin.com )
In this chapter we will only look at the last of these carefully
crafted bits of conventional wisdom.
WHAT ARE ALLERGIES?
Your friend looks at your bloodshot eyes, hears your stuffed-up
voice, and accepts the explanation "It's my allergies," as
though the symptoms he observes were the disease itself. This
word game is no accident. We are conditioned by a thousand
commercials a day to equate all diseases with their symptoms.
Headache, backache, arthritis, tinnitus, high blood pressure, on
and on - are not diseases themselves, but rather the signs
of disease. The illusion is that by covering up the signs, we
have now cured the disease. The illusion is that by naming the
signs, we have identified the disease. Nothing could be further
from the truth.
You have a headache. Solution, programmed every five minutes on
TV: Tylenol, Advil, whatever, that will do what? That's right:
take the pain away. But wait – the pain wasn't the cause of the
problem. The headache had a reason; it was a sign of something
else. Neck spasm, intoxication, emotional stress, sinus
allergies, trauma, spine misalignment, drugs, chemical
sensitivity, overwork, hunger – the pain can come from many
sources. The pill didn't solve anything, didn't cure anything.
Soon as it wears off, guess what? Right – the pain returns. So
then what are we taught to do? Right – more pills.
Same with allergies. Allergies are not watery eyes and stuffed
up noses. Allergies are reactions to irritants. Something
foreign is triggering the body's cleansing responses. Like
walking behind a smoky bus when it starts up. You breathe in the
fumes and start coughing and choking, with your eyes watering.
That's an allergic response. Humans are allergic to bus exhaust.
Eyes water to clear the eyes. Coughing reflex kicks in to
forcibly expel the toxic fumes before they get inhaled. Happens
in an instant.
Tolerance is a big problem. That means when we get used
to an irritant, the body gives up on trying to expel it. Like a
bus mechanic. After a few weeks or months of breathing those
fumes every day, the body doesn't try so hard. The sensitive
mucous membranes in the mouth and nose toughen up a little, and
the mechanic learns to "take it." He's becoming less sensitized
to a poison – carbon monoxide. Doesn't mean it won't kill him;
it just means the body's getting accustomed to that degree of
being poisoned. The irritant is no longer triggering such a
strong cleansing response as it used to.
Same with someone learning to smoke cigarettes. He coughs and
chokes at first, but soon gets the hang of it. The body's
ability to throw off the toxins is gradually weakened.
We've all heard of anti-histamines. Pills and sprays that
unclog stuffed noses. They work by blocking histamines.
Histamines are produced by our white cells to trigger protective
mechanisms, like stuffing up the nose, making the eyes water,
and shutting down digestion. Allergy medicine is generally an
antihistamine, which unnaturally interferes with the body's
normal attempts to protect itself. Mouth, nose, and eyes –
that's the first line of defense. When antihistamines block
these normal clearing responses from happening, the irritant or
allergen or antigen is being permitted to enter further into the
body than it would normally have gotten. This is a side effect
of antihistamines. You may thank God that you can breathe again,
but for any drug, there is always a downside. The problem wasn't
the stuffy nose or the watering eyes; the problem was the
allergen: the irritant. Antihistamines don't touch the
underlying cause; they just suspend the body's ability to
respond with its normal clearing mechanisms. Result: tolerance.
Toxification.
Isn't this obvious? Holistic doctors grow weary of explaining
this self-evident fact over and over a dozen times a day to
their patients. It's like if you're driving down the road and
suddenly you hear this horrendous knocking noise coming from the
engine. So you turn up the radio full blast in order to cover up
the noise. Pretty stupid, but that's precisely what we're doing
with allergy medication.
COVER UP THE SYMPTOMS
The focus of allergy treatment should be to eliminate the
underlying stimulus of the sinus blockage and the watery nose
and eyes. First of all, identify the causative factor. Cat hair,
dust, pollen, shellfish, wool, etc.? I don't think so. Normal
people can be around all of these and not react. Genetics? The
usual excuse, when the "experts" run out of ideas. We have no
idea, so let's just transfer it to an area that so far is
unprovable and unknowable – gene sequencing. That way we can
avoid pronouncing those three frightful words that separate the
career researcher from the true scientist: "I don't know."
As long as we don't know, the best we can do is keep on buying
and selling antihistamines and their derivatives. As a $10
billion a year industry, why would anyone want to question it?
Doctors sell drugs; that's why we go to them. If you want
health, well, that's a different topic altogether. You're on
your own for that.
There's another possibility here, another solution that
thousands of people have discovered within the past five years.
A whole new paradigm must be considered to explain the
consistent success all these patients are having in resolving
their chronic allergies. This point of view may be called the
Threshold of Reactivity. It's really quite simple.
Here's the key idea: what do 99% of allergic Americans have in
common? Undigested food. Too simple? Simplicity is the
hallmark of the classic solution. Undigested food accumulates in
the digestive tract, in the blood, in the tissues, organs and
joints. It remains for months and years and cannot be dislodged
by any of the body's methods. And the last and most persistent
of these methods is the Inflammatory Response – the body's
attempt to what? Right: attack and expel the intruder.
Chronic buildup of undigested food signals two main deficiencies
within the body: enzymes and flora.
First,
ENZYMES
The reader is directed to the chapter on enzymes
ENZYMES for review. To summarize, enzymes are what has been
removed from food in order to make it last as long as possible
on the shelves of American supermarkets. Enzymes are necessary
for breakdown and digestion of food. Without them, the body
makes a valiant effort to employ its own digestive enzymes to do
the job. Problem is, so many of the soft foods we eat today are
brand new to the human species within the past 75 years. New
chemicals and preservatives have been introduced into our food
supply for flavoring and preserving. The rancid, oxidizing fats
of chips and fries are too weird. Our bodies can't break them
down. After a certain amount of trying, the body gives up. At
that point, much goes in, but little goes out. That's the main
reason older people have difficulty eliminating. And many young
people as well.
Food allergists and clinical ecologists waste a great deal of
time setting up elimination diets to find out which exact foods
cause a patient's allergic symptoms. Far more applicable and
effective would be a shotgun approach: enzyme supplementation,
because in general we eat an enzyme-less processed diet. People
don't eat corn and bananas and cashews nearly as much as they
eat processed peanut butter, Hamburger Helper, Taco Supremes,
Big Macs, pizza, fries, Cheetos, chocolate pudding, hot dogs,
Fig Newtons, and potato chips. The American soft drink industry
is at $54 billion per year. (Wall Street Journal 18 Sep 98) 57
gallons per year per American. (Appleton)
Pasteurized milk has no enzymes any more. Canned food, none.
Dairy products, salad dressings, soft drinks, ice cream, cheese,
pastries, deep fried food, salty snacks, - see where this is
going? – contain no enzymes. So what, you ask? So John Wayne and
Elvis. Huh? On autopsy, according to the county coroner's
reports, these gentlemen had 44 and 20 lbs. of undigested food
in their respective colons at the time of death. According to
the FDA, the average American has between 4 and 22 lbs. of
undigested food in the colon at any given time. Rotting food in
the digestive tract sets up a condition that gastroenterologists
call Leaky Gut Syndrome. Review the colon chapter
THE COLON
Happens like this:
Putrefying sludge breaks down the cells of the gut lining
(epithelium) largely by choking off the blood supply to these
delicate cells (ischemia). The gut wall is supposed to be very
selective in what it allows to be absorbed into the blood.
Hyperpermeability takes place when there is so much cell damage
that the intestinal cells can no longer be selective. Stuff that
wasn't supposed to get through starts getting through. Big
stuff. Large molecules of half-digested fat, protein, and
carbohydrate are absorbed intact through the gut into the
bloodstream. Once in the blood, these foreign molecules can
lodge in any joint, tissue, or organ. Since they are rotting
food, they are toxins. As such, they can be the cause of
practically ANY disease condition you can name. We're talking
blood poisoning here: toxemia, bacteremia, septicemia. Don't be
put off by big words. Such a set-up is perfect as the
explanation for an allergic reaction. We're allergic, all right
– allergic to all the food we're taking in and never digesting.
Second,
FLORA
Flora means good bacteria. The normal colon should have three
lbs. of good bacteria at all times. (Shahani) They are also
called probiotics, and include species like
Lactobacillus, L. Salivarius, Acidophilus, and many others.
Their job is the final phase of digestion. Without them, food
rots in the colon. Rotting food becomes cemented within the
inner folds of the colon's lining, destroying the mucosal cells,
preventing normal function, and eventually blocking proper
elimination. Rotting food leaks back into the bloodstream, going
anywhere it can in the body.
World authority in probiotics, the late Dr. Khem Shahani,
described flora as the Second Immune System. He was
referring to the ability of the flora to remove a toxic stimulus
or allergen – undigested food - from the body. Understanding
this simple concept is the key to grasping the essential dynamic
between a healthy colon and the end of allergies. With rare
exception, allergies simply cannot coexist in a body that has a
healthy colon.
Why do most Americans have suppressed flora? That's easy.
Probiotic flora - the good bacteria - are fragile life forms
existing in the normal body in a dynamic balance along with
pathological (bad) bacteria, fungi, and viral forms. These good
bacteria get killed off by the following agents
antibiotics we take
antibiotics in the meat we eat
antacids, like Zantac, Tagamet, etc.
NSAIDs, like Advil, Tylenol, Excedrin, Motrin, etc.
other prescription and over the counter medications-
white sugar
carbonated drinks
antihistamines (!)
chlorinated drinking water
fluoridated water
Many holistic nutritionists estimate that 80% of American
women, and a significant proportion of men, have systemic
Candida albicans. Candida is a yeast proliferation throughout
the whole body whose existence was denied by American medical
doctors as recently as fifteen years ago. As the normal flora
become killed off, bad bacteria begin to multiply. Without
enough good bacteria to occupy the available living quarters,
there is nothing to check the bad ones. Fungal and yeast growths
are allowed to increase for the same reason. Doctors call this
phenomenon opportunistic infection. With the amount of
pasteurized dairy we consume, such chronic low-grade infections
are in epidemic proportions in America today.
The normal person has some viruses, some Candida, some
potentially pathogenic bacteria at all times. But the majority
of bacteria in the normal body are good ones. Think of it like
walking into a crowded theatre. If all the seats are taken,
there's no place to sit. Same for the pathogenics. If all the
seats are taken by the friendly bacteria, the opportunists don't
get the opportunity to replicate because there's no place to
sit. Is this rocket science?
AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES
Thirty years ago you couldn't use the word autoimmune in
conversation unless you were speaking with a doctor. With the
meteoric increase in these diseases, today even the uneducated
know what you're talking about, because someone in their family
probably has an autoimmune condition.
Autoimmune means the body is attacking itself. It means that for
some reason, the body is getting the idea that part of itself is
foreign and must be expelled, in exactly the same way as any
allergen, intruder or antigen would be. First that means
inflammation. Then comes swelling, followed by the onset of
fibrosis (crunchiness, from the laying down of cheap tissue),
and finally, if unchecked, actual calcification. Pain can jump
in at any time. It's almost biblical, like the body is turning
to stone because we have not honored its needs. Almost.
Lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic fatigue
syndrome, fibromyalgia, scleroderma, - we hear about most of
these all the time. What do they have in common? They're all of
"unknown" origin, according to the medical texts. They can't be
cured by drugs. They're all progressive. They can all be
life-threatening. They're autoimmune. And they're all on the
rise.
I won't be making revelatory statements here by saying what
hundreds of holistic healers have known for years: the cause of
these diseases is obvious, and they are all expressions of the
same process - toxemia. (Tilden) That means blood
poisoning. Another term is autointoxication, or
self-poisoning. It's simply that food has putrified in the
digestive tract for months or longer, which then leaks through
the intestinal wall into the bloodstream in its undigested,
rotting form. The debris is then free to lodge in any location
it can find, where the inflammatory process will promptly begin.
Easy to see why: in the blood, there are no digestive enzymes
any more. Those were left behind in the digestive system.
Remember, that was Nature's brilliant survival design: the
inside of the Tube is still the outside of the body. (The Tube
is the entire digestive tract, from one end to the other.)
Digestion of food only takes place within the Tube, outside the
body. So with no enzymes in the blood, the undigested food which
doesn't belong there anyway can no longer be broken down. All
the blood can hope to do is to attack the foreign stuff with
white cells to wall it off, or to engulf it in fat cells or
calcium.
Problem is, the inflow of this stuff never ends. With the
American high fat processed diet, more debris gets past the
intestinal walls every day in undigested forms that were never
meant to get into the blood - Leaky Gut Syndrome. Day after day,
week after week, the stuff accumulates in the joints, arteries,
and tissues, infiltrating wherever it can. After awhile the body
can no longer distinguish between the undigested food particles
and the tissues in which they are lodged. It sends its army -
the immune system - to attack the foreign area, no longer just
the foreign cells. So whatever the organ, whatever the tissue
where the rotting food accumulates - that part of the body will
be attacked as foreign. And we'll call it an autoimmune
response. It's really not mysterious at all. It's completely
natural. These empty, nutrition-deficient manmade foods of
commerce simply don't belong inside the body. They were never
food at all; they were just packaged and sold to look like food.
And that, my friends, is show business.
OTHER ALLERGENS
All the foregoing has to do with undigested processed foods as
the cause of allergic reactions. This doesn't even take into
account the pesticides, hormones, and chemical preservatives,
additives, and contaminants which end up in our food as the
results of preparation, processing and packaging. Half of all
antibiotics produced in the US today are for animals. Animals we
eat. Sprayed pesticides work their way into the inner cells of
supermarket fruit, and do not wash off. In our bodies such
poisons are fat-soluble: stored in our fat cells, for months or
years. Until the mid 1980s, sulfur dioxide compounds known as
sulfites were commonly sprayed on French fries, meat, and salad
bars to keep the food from browning too quickly. Sulfites were
also routinely added to wine, to prevent further fermentation.
Sulfur dioxide is toxic, and a cause of thousand of documented
allergic reactions reported to the FDA in the mid 1980s, many of
them fatal. Although sulfite use on meat and raw produce has
been banned, they still appear in bronchodilator sprays, and
also in wines, as long as the label states the percentage.
(Randolph, p83)
Ever notice how some bananas don't ripen, but just go from green
to rotten, with large black areas as though they had been
bruised? This is from "gas-ripened" bananas. After shipping, the
green bananas are put into a room and sprayed with ethylene gas,
which artificially ripens them just before going to the market.
Here's how you tell the difference: naturally ripening bananas
will have many small dark spots on the skin as they ripen, and
won't turn immediately rotten. Gassing is legal at this time,
but is usually the cause of allergic response in someone who
thinks he's allergic to bananas. (Randolph)
THE LAST STRAW
OK, back to the Threshold of Reactivity. You know the background
now. So here it is: since all this undigested food has no outlet
or way to be broken down, it builds up within the body over
months and years. Let's call the point at which a person
actually breaks out with symptoms of allergy (hives, rash, runny
nose, stuffed sinuses, etc) let's call that point the Threshold.
Below the Threshold, the person won't have symptoms. Stay with
me now for the punch line. Since the indulgent American is
packing away all this stored debris, he is pushing his body
steadily closer and closer to its toxic capacity. Day by day he
is jacking up his level of autointoxication, higher and higher.
He is so close to the Threshold at all times, because of his
indigestible diet, that contact with cat hair, dust, pollen,
phases of the moon, or whatever the Specialist said he was
"allergic to" – any contact is enough to raise him that last
little bit, the straw that broke the camel's back, above the
Threshold, and voila' - symptoms occur. And then the
"specialist" blames the whole allergy on that last straw.
So they give him antihistamine "allergy medication" which
prevents the body from offering its normal response to chronic
poisoning from all the undigested, weird foods it's still taking
in. And as soon as the medication wears off, he keeps breaking
out. This is why allergy medication never cures allergies.
People who take allergy medication continue to "have allergies"
year after year. Most of them actually develop further allergy
to the medication itself.
Same with allergy shots. They give you a little of what
you're supposedly allergic to, as determined by the Last Straw
diagnosis, with the promise that this will make you "immune" to
that last straw – the cat hair, pollen, fairy dust, eye of newt,
whatever. Allergy shots rarely work. If they did you wouldn't
have to rush back to the doctor every six months or so for your
shots. Ever notice how people on allergy shots always have
allergies? Ever hear of anyone getting cured by allergy shots?
How can it be this simple? Why doesn't everybody know this?
Thousands do, but the reason this information is not mainstream
starts with an M. The allergy industry is big business, both
prescription and over-the-counter. Changing one's diet is not.
It goes back to the first paragraph about conventional wisdom.
LAYER THAT STUCCO
One difficulty with food allergies is that they are
bio-accumulative. In addition to the digestive tract,
undigested residue is stored in fat cells and may last for
months or years. A sensitivity may persist for weeks or more
after new intake has stopped. In the case of dairy, it is only
necessary to take in a tiny amount of any processed milk or
cheese product every few days in order to keep a dairy allergy
going, to maintain the person's susceptibility to the allergen:
the coughing and the sneezing, etc. Even a few drops of milk
added to coffee is sufficient to support the chronic allergy.
And the person may think that he has "stopped" eating dairy. (Twogood)
The same is true of additives in the food and in the food's
packaging, and also of the contaminants that may be present.
Theron Randolph, MD, clinical ecologist, talks about the
material used in the lining of tin cans which is used to keep
the color of the metal can off the food. The material is called
phenol, a coal-tar derivative. It is used in virtually all
canned foods. Dr. Randolph has documented hundreds of cases of
reactions to the phenol alone. (An Alternative Approach to
Allergies)
For years Albuquerque, New Mexico has been a mecca for
asthmatics, TB patients, and those trying to escape their
"allergies." No more. Talk to any doctor in Albuquerque today
and you'll hear the same story: practically everyone in town has
allergies. And the government actually has researchers out there
climbing "trees" to find out what kind of pollen is making
people sick! It's a desert! The people aren't sick from dust,
angel hair, or cactus pollen. They're sick, and allergic, from
the homogenized, devitalized processed food of the metropolitan
American city, a diet which is unvaryingly standardized, from
Coney Island all the way to the Santa Monica Pier. Allergy in
America today occurs in epidemic proportions. Many researchers
are like Howard Rapaport, author of The Complete Allergy Guide,
in that they estimate that half the population suffers from some
form of allergy. And that book was written in 1970.
A FAIR TRIAL
Let's say your programming does not allow you to believe
anything I've said up to this point, and for various reasons it
simply makes no sense to you as far as your allergies go. Fine.
Ask yourself this: do I really want to get rid of these
allergies, or am I going to continue taking these medications
every year, with very little results? If you can admit to
yourself that you're really sick of your allergies and would
like to try an experiment that does not depend on drugs, try the
60 Day Test. For the next 60 days,
no drugs
no dairy
no white sugar or white flour
colon cleanse
New West Diet
Lest this sound too easy, by drugs, I mean no medications of
any kind, prescription or over the counter, unless you're on
some life-sustaining drug therapy program.
No dairy means no milk, no cheese, no butter, no alfredo sauce,
no yogurt, no ice cream, no white salad dressing for 60 days.
No white sugar means no soft drinks, no donuts, no cookies, no
refined flour, no ice cream for 60 days.
A program of enzymes and flora will intensify the detox process,
and maintain the new allergen-free status, once it's acquired.
(1 800 572 6204)
The 60 Day Test may not be fun, but how do you like your
allergies? The per cent success rate of such a program is in the
90s. If the 60 Day Test doesn't work, then individual
contaminants may have to be ruled out one by one. But this
program is workable and generally applicable, with no side
effects, except for its inconvenience. Thousands have done it.
The reason it's not millions is simple: this program requires
taking a step in the dangerous direction known as I Can Be
Responsible For My Own Health. Such a journey is discouraged by
any and every public medium possible – written and spoken,
online and digital, conscious and unconscious – that is under
the control of the nation's two biggest advertisers: food
manufacturers and drug manufacturers.
DRIVE-THRU CLUE
Here's my personal definition of pathological cluelessness. Your
child has had "allergies" most of his life, and is on
bronchodilators or antihistamines in spray or pill form. No
progress is noted. Blind trust has suppressed any wonder you may
have had about possible side effects of taking these drugs on a
daily basis for all these years. You've never even considered
looking up the Adverse Reactions to the drugs in the Physicians
Desk Reference, available at any library or WalMart or Costco
these days. But that's not even the bad part. The bad part is
where you go to the drive-thru at Wendy's and let your kid order
a giant Frosty, fries, and a Coke because you're both too hungry
to wait until you can get home to get at the milk, ice cream,
Pepsi, and cheese that awaits you in superabundance in your very
own fridge. And you talk about your child's allergies with your
friends with the same conversational tone you use to describe
the brake job your car just got at Midas. Yes, he has allergies,
BUT he takes the inhalator and the antihistamines, so he's OK,
you know. Anybody but me see anything insane about this little
bit of prosaic Americana?
OK, sorry. How would you have known? Well now you know. The vast
majority of allergies today are food allergies. We're addicted
to the things that poison us. Of course there can be other
causes, other irritants which effect allergic response:
environmental toxins, chemicals in housing materials, cleaning
materials, cosmetics, clothing, bedding, heating and air
conditioning, But why search the house high and low for some
elusive unknown bug, when there's an elephant sitting right in
the middle of the living room?
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