An allergy occurs when your immune system reacts to something it identifies as foreign. This could be bee venom, plants, pet dander (e.g. skin, fur or feathers) or a food. Your immune system is a complex network of cells, tissues, organs and systems that work together to protect and instigate growth within the body. The immune system is controlled by the master communicating system, the nerve system.
An allergy is something we create in response to something. It is not something we catch. That’s an important distinction to make. Many assume that allergies are situations where the body has made a mistake, but our body doesn’t do anything by accident. We can be wise and listen to the whispers our body is giving us, or we can ignore them. If we suppress the whispers, we don’t notice them anymore, creating an illusion that they’re not there. That suppression can occur in a myriad of ways – drugs, food, over the counter medications, prescribed medications – all of which slowly erode the intricate workings of your nerve system.
Health is often mistakenly defined as having no signs or symptoms. Taking a medication to take something away deems you to be healthy again. What that approach is doing is masking what the body created but it has not gone away it has merely transformed it’s expression – usually to another place. When we do this often enough over time our ‘bucket’ becomes full and the slightest ‘thing’ can upset the balance within.
Most allergies are either one of, or a combination of, the following:
- Respiratory response (lungs, airways): e.g. hay fever (also called allergic rhinitis) affects the nose, eyes, skin and lungs and is a reaction to dust, pollen, pet dander (pet skin, fur, feathers)
- Digestive response (stomach, small and large intestines): e.g. bloating, gas, IBS, diarrhoea, brain fog
- Skin response (external): e.g. eczema, hives, dermatitis, psoriasis
All allergies are inflammatory responses to something that is impacting our front line of defence – our skin. Yes, all the above organs are skin organs.
Let me explain a little more…
Our skin is a crucial frontline wall of defence. We have skin on the outside of the body that we can see and as we enter into the body via the mouth our skin starts to differentiate but it remains skin tissue. So, both our respiratory system (lungs) and our digestive system (gut) are skin tissue called mucosa where mucosa is another name for mucous membrane. Its general functions include secretion, protection and absorption.
Here’s where it gets interesting…
Mucosa lines the insides of organs and cavities throughout your body. The mucosal lining plays a crucial role in protecting the body against allergens. Its secretions lubricate and protect your organs and cavities from particles identified to be foreign. Understandably in an allergic response the body creates more mucus because it’s irritated.
Your body is helping you by increasing production and secretion of the mucus to move something through your system, protect the area and provide you with feedback and to take note. This increase in production is not created by accident or to annoy you – it’s created to communicate with you. The most common allergens are wheat, dairy and refined sugar.
Wheat.
Wheat is not what it used to be. In the 1950-60’s wheat began to be hybridised. What started to be grown was a stronger plant that could hold more wheat which yielded more for the farmer. Doing this changed the cell structure of the wheat which made it more robust but harder to digest. A generation later in the 1980-1990’s people’s buckets began to fill up after consuming foods laced with this hybridised wheat – sauces and dressings, cereals and toast for breakfast, bread for sandwiches, biscuits for school lunches, pizza for a family night out, pies at the footy, pasta at nanna’s, crackers with some cheese with your friends, beer at the pub. And when you add the use of production chemicals you add insult to injury. In the 60’s and 70’s there was little gluten intolerance but now it is prolific.
Why?
Molecules unable to be digested from the hybridised wheat ‘super’ cell structure get into the blood and are seen as foreign. This increases your mucus production as a means of protection – your body does this to help – not hinder you. To add insult to injury the hybridised wheat will be laced with production chemicals and if you are taking some medication e.g. antibiotics or a Panadol you’re now eroding your important gut flora at a faster rate.
When something (e.g. wheat) is altered from its natural form it will never turn out well for the human to consume. People instead are turning to gluten free foods. However, many are not stopping to read the ingredients and are blindly buying because it says, ‘gluten free.’ A lot of gluten free products are made with corn or maize and rice. I predict corn will be the next BIG health problem and for some people it already is.
It would be wise for those that are reacting to foods like wheat to stop eating it all together. Why? Because the standard tissue healing time of the body is 8 weeks – regardless of what tissue it is. So, if someone is working with an allergy and they wish to change it then it will most likely take a minimum of two months for their body to heal, change and adapt.
Incorporating the following into the diet will be wise to do:
- Have a good food-based probiotic daily to replace the bacteria lost
- Have Colloidal Minerals daily because they help to heal the epithelial lining of the gut.
- Cook with virgin coconut oil which has neuroprotective effects.
- You can also drink aloe vera which is soothing to the gut lining, anti-inflammatory and can improve digestion.
You can also move to the ancient grains. The ancient grains still have some gluten, but their cell structure is different; a type we can usually handle.
When our family first made the move away from wheat back in the 1990’s we went to spelt first and then to Kamut and then went to gluten free altogether. You can still get einkorn which is an original wheat grain not changed over thousands of years. Some gluten free options include buckwheat, quinoa, millet (hulled), amaranth, sorghum, corn and rice.
Dairy.
The pasteurisation process (extreme heat) of milk destroys bacteria – ‘knocks ’em dead.’ When the milk is filtered the dead bacteria is so small they are unable to be filtered out and you, the unassuming consumer, drink it putting dead foreign bacteria into your gut.
You consume the milk and over time your bucket gets full and even small amounts of diary begin to wreak havoc with your intestinal tract, altering your gut flora contributing to bloating, gas and perhaps diarrhoea. Your body then creates an ‘allergic reaction’ because it sees the bacteria as foreign alerting you to something is not quite right.
Moving to coconut milk, cashew milk, almond milk or goat milk will be beneficial removing milk from your diet altogether. And… it is so easy to make your own almond milk that way at least you’ll know what has gone it to making it!
Refined Sugar.
I’ll keep this one short! Sugar goes through a nine step process the end result being bleached white sugar. I would stay away from it. We prefer to have either – organic coconut sugar, maple syrup, or honey depending on what we are making. All delicious, nutritious and you don’t need a lot.
Respiratory Allergens.
Bees.
Bees can be a key to overcoming allergies. When bees collect pollen, they also collect dust and whatever else is in the atmosphere in your area at that time. If you consume one teaspoon per day off a wooden spoon (not metal) of local, unspun, raw, organic honey for up to 6 months you will most likely work with your innate immune pathways of which 70% is in your gut. Don’t have it with anything else just straight down. You will slowly but surely begin to stabilise yourself to those foreign particles and possibly resolve hay fever. Remember it has to be local, unspun, raw, organic honey from your area. If there is a variety of brands, then that is good too, so you are getting a wide assortment of honey. Unspun is best because spun honey tends to cleanse releasing the heavy bits and homogenise the honey. If you cannot get unspun then at the very least get raw, local and organic. We have done this with a few practice members over the years and they have noticed the difference. Don’t put the honey in your tea or coffee as this can partially sterilise. People may be thinking isn’t that an overload of sugar per day? But honey is a complete food in and of itself. To give this honey option a go you will want to reduce the inflammatory foods in your diet first.
Nose.
I bet you didn’t know this. The nose, just like the bees, captures everything within your environment too. Picking your nose is an innate behaviour whereas blowing your nose is a learnt behaviour. Little Johnny then, from a very young age, picks his nose and eats it. The nose works just like a bee collecting pollen and other atmospheric particles. When Little Johnny eats his snot, he is eating a local ‘recipe’ of atmospheric particles and upon consumption adds another bow to his immune building quiver. So next time you see Little Johnny picking his nose and eating it don’t shame him or say ‘yuck!’ just give thanks for the extraordinary innate knowing that he has and let him do it!
Peanuts.
Peanut allergies didn’t exist until 1960’s – 70’s when vaccines came out with peanut oil in them referred to as Adjuvant65 – an adjuvant is a chemical that increases the body’s immune response to an ‘inoculation’. Adjuvant65 was put into the Flu shot in the 1960’s and HPV vaccines in 1985. When you inject peanut oil directly into a muscle you bypass the normal immune pathway which flows from the mouth, through the gut to the anus. That triggers an allergic response because the body sees the peanut oil molecules as foreign. When Little Mary gets old enough to eat a peanut it can trigger an allergic response because her body again sees the peanut molecule as foreign.
One of the current methods refers to desensitising the body. In other words, giving the allergen to the person or allowing the person to be around said allergen in low quantities. Our middle child at 2 years old created an allergic response to a plant growing in our front yard and would create a head-to-toe rash. Instead of us going and removing the plant which would weaken his system what we noticed was that the more he was around the plant the less response he would have and the stronger his immune system became noting that you don’t build immunity to anything by avoiding it or ‘getting’ it artificially.
Your body truly is amazing. Learning to trust it and listen to the whispers it gives you is crucial for your health. Your body doesn’t create anything by accident or to annoy you it does it to communicate with you, to share information about what is going on side. Your job is to listen, understand and take action.
Note: All information above is provided for education purposes only. If you act on anything that is provided above you do so at your own discernment.
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