HOW TO CURE YOUR ALLERGIES: DESENSITISATION

If you want to be rid of an allergy, once and for all, you must stick religiously to your Anti-Allergy Program for at least three months. If you break the program in that time, even a tiny little bit, you’ll resensitise yourself and have to start a new three month period from that point on. There are no shades of grey with the Anti-Allergy Program, it’s very much a black and white situation. You’re either on it or you’re not.

Some patients find this three month mandatory time span hard to accept, especially if after a month or so all of their symptoms have disappeared. Some of them start to break the program a little bit at a time and if the symptoms don’t return, feel sure they are well. Most often when the program is broken there is an immediate reaction, though sometimes there is sufficient desensitisation for a delayed reaction to occur. If after a few weeks there is still no sign of the symptoms, people who have broken a program arc convinced they are fully desensitised and begin eating whatever they like. Without fail, a short time later, the symptoms begin to reappear and the dieter is back to square one.

A minority of my patients are actually happy to see-saw about like this. Choosing to stay on the program until their symptoms disappear then breaking it till they return again. At which point they go back on the program. Since this method will never cure your allergies I wouldn’t recommend it. The choice is yours.

It is most important to remember that just because the symptoms have disappeared, it does not mean you’re cured of the problem. Most people need at least three months to consolidate their desensitisation, even if their symptoms have disappeared in the first month. Some people, a minority, require six months and an even smaller percentage need twelve months to desensitise. People in this category need their treatment supervised and closely monitored by a doctor or naturopath to prevent vitamin and mineral deficiency developing.

Only 5 per cent of people don’t desensitise and have to stay away from the allergenic food for the rest of their lives. The advantage of desensitisation is that you can, after the period of total abstinence, go back on the foods you were once sensitive to. You win on two counts here:

1. You lose the symptoms that have been troubling you.

2. You are able to eat anything you like.

And all of this achieved with three short months of total abstinence from the offending food or foods. Some of these 5 per cent of people who don’t fully desensitise after ninety days on the program, and who aren’t prepared to continue strictly on the program for twelve months or more, find they can lead a very comfortable life if they stay strictly on the Ant i-Candida/ Anti-Allergy Program through the week and break it on the weekends only. Two days of breaking it in moderation is usually not enough to cause a flaring up of symptoms. In those who do experience a reaction the moment they eat a forbidden substance the symptoms are usually mild. The up side of being on the Anti Candida/Anti-Allergy Program is that after ninety days most people are so used to it that sticking to it five days per week and breaking it on weekends only is no problem to them. The discipline and routine of having to get up each day for work is conducive to staying on the program. Breaking it on the weekend when relaxed gives the body that feeling of joie de vivre that comes from a rest and a change. The balance thus struck between discipline and rest contributes to a balanced lifestyle and a balanced metabolism. Balanced metabolisms are less prone to reacting allergically to contact with foreign substances/allergens.

The combined effects of diet and rest are so successful because they raise the body’s resistance to allergies. A raised resistance is the greatest desensitiser of all.

Holidays often see a disappearance of allergies even though allergens are still present. Holidays are potent healers because they mean a temporary release from commitment and a rest from everyday routine. Under these conditions the body’s resistance soars. I’ve noticed that the further away from one’s place of work one holidays the greater effect the holiday has. It never ceases to amaze me how well allergic people feel when they travel to the other side of the world. Even though the climate may be unfriendly and the environment polluted their allergies invariably disappear for the time they are away, proving the healing potency of rest. It’s a pity that in our fast moving, achievement-orientated world rest is no longer taken seriously as a healing modality. Rest always has been and always will be the most potent healer of all. No matter how positive your attitude may be its limited if not backed up with rest.

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