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From the desk of Richard
Penfounde, your Naturally Healthy Lifestyle specialist. I HAVE always been convinced that our bodies are their own best
healers. All we need do is stimulate the body's healing processes
and just let it get on with things.
However, this doesn't work for everybody. Some schools of thought
have declared that this is due to suspected poisoning of the body,
and research into food allergies/sensitivities is underway. I was in London recently where Dr Anders Hoy - who has a
world-renowned allergy clinic in Copenhagen with above-average
results in this field - delivered a paper at St Thomas Hospital on
"Food Intolerance".
Food intolerance/allergy appears to be a state of modern-day
malnutrition caused by food in the intestinal tract not breaking
down properly, and then erroneously entering the bloodstream. Once
there, food particles are in a partially "undigested" form and
engage the immune system's "B" Lymphocytes. These chaps get called
in to detoxify, and in doing so produce IgG anti-bodies whose job it
is to identify the invaders. All this effort more or less exhausts the immune system's capacity
and the toxic particles end up being deposited into our tissues,
joints and muscles. Once there, degeneration, inflammation and even
water retention start to manifest. Fatigue and brain function can
also be affected later on. That's why food intolerance reactions to a meal or individual foods
are invariably delayed. Because of the passing of time, wrong
conclusions are often reached. Allergy therapists now recognise that eliminating offending foods is
the best you can do for your immune system. This is not for life
either. Apparently the "B" Lymphocytes only have a memory period of
2-3 months, so by withdrawing a food for that length of time they
forget it. You can go back to eating it again -provided you have properly
healed the condition that caused the problem in the first place.
Hoy quoted cases of chronic migraine sufferers who have eliminated
offending foods, obtaining quite dramatic relief for years at a
time. And patients suffering from fatigue, postprandial fatigue,
constipation, diarrhoea, bloating, Chron's disease, colitis,
irritable bowel syndrome,
eczema, MS, asthma, urticaria, rheumatism
and poor eyesight have all shown major positive reversals.
For those of you who have experienced difficulty in losing weight
and who've tried every diet and crash course on offer, you are
likely to be affected by these toxic deposits from food
intolerances. They bind large amounts of water and weight never
seems to come off - it also goes back on for the same reasons. One major self-help step we can immediately take to reduce any
current or "pending" food intolerances, is to attend to the cumulate
effects of antibiotic accumulations in our intestines by restoring
this whole area to its natural aerobic ecological state. This means
repopulating programmes of Acidophilus and Bifido friendly bacteria.
They are highly important in your immune system's ability to fight
oncoming winter ills. Interested practitioners can obtain a copy of
Hoy's full protocol by clicking here. |
