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You May Have Hidden
Allergies
By Jimmy Scott, Ph.D.
As published in
Health Freedom News, December 1984
Many people suffer from distressing physical or mental
symptoms for which they have not been able to obtain relief. When they go to
a doctor, they may be told that their problems are all in their imagination.
Or, they may be diagnosed as having a certain disease, but the prescribed
treatment does nothing to help them.
For many of these people, the real problem is allergy. In
my nutritional and health counseling practice, I have seen time and time
again that when an underlying allergic problem is identified and eliminated,
such illnesses simply go away. Unfortunately, many health care professionals
do not look for allergy in such cases, and even if they do, they may not use
the proper tools to analyze the situation. Thus, for a number of reasons,
many of us suffer from unrecognized, “hidden” allergies.
Originally, the concept of allergy was limited to a small
group of obvious symptoms, such as runny nose, red eyes, sneezing, or skin
rash. Today, many physicians and alternative practitioners recognize that a
much wider range of problems may sometimes be due to allergy — including
digestive difficulties, headaches, muscular aches and pains, arthritis,
inadequate blood sugar control, addictions, and psychological problems, among
many others.
If allergy is suspected in such cases, a variety of tests
may be used to try to identify the substances to which the individual is
allergic. In my experience, most forms of allergy testing are not
sufficiently accurate to identify most allergies, especially hidden
allergies.
There are three main reasons why allergies may be hidden:
(I) the symptoms may be masked by mucus in the system, (2) they may not be
directly observable, and (3) they may not be recognized as allergic symptoms.
Let's look at each of these reasons in more detail.
Mucus Masks Allergic Symptoms
In recent years, we have been discovering that many
physical and psychological problems may be due to food allergies. Besides the
people with obvious symptoms, many others have food allergies without
realizing it, because their symptoms are masked by mucus and other substances
secreted by the body.
To understand how this mucus gets into the system, we need
to understand how food allergies develop. A primary cause of food allery is
the over consumption of a food. Any food which is eaten every day, all
year-round (especially if one feels one cannot live without it), is a strong
candidate for causing an allergy.
This is especially true of foods which are nutritionally deficient.
Unfortunately, many ofthe foods we eat today, such as white flour, white
sugar, and processed fruits and vegetables, do not contain the nutrients our
bodies require. Even fresh foods often are nutritionally deficient due to
soil depletion, lengthy delay before eating, and improper preparation. When a
person habitually eats nutritionally depleted foods, the body begins to
deteriorate. The digestive system begins to malfunction, and because it
cannot digest food properly, the undigested food particles get into areas of
the digestive system where they should not be. In an attempt to protect
itself from these irritating substances, the body secretes mucus. This
intestinal coating of mucus reduces the absorption of allergic substances,
protecting the person with hidden allergies from experiencing obvious
allergic reactions.
As an analogy, think about what happens when you work in a
garden. The tool handles irritate the skin of your hands, and so you get
calluses to protect you from the irritation. Once you have the callus you do
not notice the irritation anymore, but the skin is still being irritated or
the callus would go away. In the same way, when you irritate the digestive
system by eating allergy-causing food, the intestine secretes mucus to protect
itself from absorbing the offending substance.
In the gardening analogy, the callus protects your
skin, but you pay a price for this protection —your skin gets dry, cracked,
rough, and less sensitive in the callused area. When you get an “intestinal
callus,” or mucus, you pay an even bigger price. The “callus” may be
preventing you from absorbing much of the substance to which you are
allergic, but you are also prevented from absorbing the nutrients from foods
to which you are not sensitive — and so you are getting less of the vitamins,
minerals, and other nutrients that you need. As a result, you become more
nutritionally deficient, more allergic, and develop a bigger intestinal
“callus.” You are therefore absorbing even less of what you should be absorbing,
and so on, in a vicious cycle.
An important part of my program for eliminating allergy is
to clean out the system — to remove this coating of mucus, so that nutrients
will be absorbed properly once again. But when the intestine is cleaned out,
you many seem to become more allergic than previously, because you no longer
have the "intestinal callus" to protect you. Your hidden allergies
are now revealing themselves. It is important to totally eliminate all
allergic foods while the body is repairing the allergy.
One way to clean out the system is through fasting. You
have probably noticed that many fasting regimens include elaborate
instructions on how to break the fast. One reason for this is that, with the
protective mucus eliminated from the system, allergic reactions are liable to
result when food is reintroduced. I have found that if your digestive system
is up to par, and if you do not eat anything to which you are allergic, it is
all right simply to eat a regular meal after a fast. Unfortunately, hardly
anyone's digestive function fits this description, and many people do not
know which foods they must avoid.
Symptoms Not Readily Observable
A second reason why allergies may be hidden is that the symptoms
they produce are not directly observable. They may not be the kinds of
symptoms which would be evident on allergy testing, or they may be going on
in parts of the body which cannot be observed directly. For example, the
synovial membrane in an arthritic joint may be undergoing changes, due to
allergy, without any reaction being felt. The arthritis may progress to
crippling severity without the individual suspecting that it is due to
allergy. I have seen clients transformed from prematurely aged, stooped,
arthritis victims to healthy, active, happy humans through the elimination of
underlying allergies and the proper nutritional program.
Uterine fibroids and fibrocystic breast disease are other
worrisome problems which may be produced by allergy. Again, early fibroids or
fibrocystic disease are symptoms which may not be readily observable and
would not be recognized as a response to an allergic substance on
conventional allergy testing. In my practice, I have found that a very large
part of the basis for these problems and many others is allergic in nature
and that a key element in overcoming them is to determine and eliminate the
allergic reactions.
Of course, not every case of arthritis or fibrocystic
disease may be allergic in nature. It is always important to identify allergy
positively, rather than run the risk of missing the real source of the
problems and the proper treatment.
Symptoms Not Recognized as Allergy
Other symptoms are more noticeable but may not be
recognized as having been produced by allergy. For example, it may surprise
you that high blood pressure frequently has an allergic basis. Blood pressure
often drops dramatically immediately after eliminating certain foods from the
diet. Other things besides food — such as inhaling pollens or chemicals — may
also produce allergic high blood pressure reactions.
Muscle tension can also be an allergic problem. One of my
clients had had muscle tension in her shoulders for years, so that she
carried her shoulders unnaturally high, attributing the problem to “stress.”
I ascertained that the tension in one shoulder was due to a legume allergy,
and when the allergy was eliminated, the shoulder on that side dropped a
noticeable inch-and-a-half. The other shoulder turned out to be related to a
chemical sensitivity, and when that was corrected, that shoulder, too,
dropped!
Today, many physicians and alternative practitioners
recognize that a much wider range of problems may sometimes be due to allergy
— including digestive difficulties, headaches, muscular aches and pains,
arthritis, inadequate blood sugar control, addictions, and psychological
problems, among many others.
One of the most important discoveries in the field of
allergy has been the connection between food allergies and a wide range of
mental and behavioral problems. It is quite common, for example, that when
people go on a fast, their psychological symptoms clear up, along with other
allergic symptoms. Over the past 25 years, the Russians have been doing very
successful research with therapeutic fasts for mentally ill patients. As
might be expected, the main problem is how to maintain these recoveries once
the fast is over, since people are likely to consume foods to which they are
allergic, once they start eating again. I have observed spectacular changes
in some people with severe mental problems when the foods to which they are
allergic have been eliminated.
Emotional and behavioral problems caused by food allergies
may manifest in many areas of our lives. It is now well recognized that
hypreactivity, delinquency, and other behavioral problems in children are
often due to allergies to foods and food additives. Everyday emotional
conflicts may also have an allergic basis. A number of marriage counselors
are now paying attention to the diet of their clients as an important key to
resolving their relationship problems.
What You Can do
Do you have a problem for which no one has been able to
help you? Perhaps your symptoms have been dismissed as “genetic” or
“something you will have to learn to live with.” If you suspect that
unidentified allergies may underline your problems, you will need to find a
health professional who understands allergy, and who uses techniques which
permit the identification of hidden allergies.
In a subsequent article, I will describe sensitive, new,
energy techniques, using muscle testing, which are now being used to identify
allergies. These new techniques allow us not only to identify allergies but
to determine precise ways to eliminate them. Incidently, these techniques
have led to the discovery of at least 14 different ways people can react to
foods, which are not allergic reactions.
Once the substances to which a person is allergic have
been identified, I set up a complete, multi-faceted program to take care of
the allergies. This program includes complete elimination of all allergic
substances from the diet; systemic cleansers to remove the mucus, eliminate
toxins, and promote absorption of nutrients; supplements to provide the body
with the materials it needs to repair itself; and an adequate diet. On such a
program, the body becomes healthier, and the allergies are eliminated.
Simply because you have been told there is nothing wrong
with you, it does not mean there really is nothing wrong! Also, if the
treatment you are getting does not help, it does not mean there is no
possible treatment. There is a solution for many supposedly “untreatable” or
“nonexistent” problems. The answer often lies in the identification and
correction of hidden allergies.
Other Articles:
Clinical
Research Abstracts on Muscle Testing
Don't Fight the Healing Process
Protecting Our Lives and Affairs
How You Can Do So Many Bad Things to Yourself
and Still Function
Identifying and Locating a Qualified Alternative
Practitioner
Health Kinesiology: What is the HK
Difference?
Muscle Testing for Allergies, Part 1
Muscle Testing for Allergies, Part 2
You May Have Hidden Allergies
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