It has been three years since I was diagnosed with having food sensitivities. I went to the doctor complaining of fatigue, muscle weakness, swelling of the hands, tightness in the fingers, and skin breakouts. After a normal routine blood analysis, my naturopath suggested a blood test for about 120 foods.
The results were shocking! I came back with over 30 foods that I was producing an immune response to. Basically, everything I had been eating regularly was making me sick: eggs, wheat, oats, cinnamon, tomatoes, milk, basil, peppers, garlic, sesame, yeast, cane sugar to name a few. I went on a completely “clean” diet. Friends were shocked I could find food to eat with such restrictions. Eating out became challenging. I would go to a restaurant and eat meat or fish with veggies and rice. No butter, no spices, plain, boring.
Eventually, I was introduced to the Paleo diet. After eliminating all grains, I noticed a remarkable improvement in not only the way I felt, but also how I was performing in the gym. My digestion has improved- as grains, legumes, and dairy often can irritate the delicate lining of our intestines- and I don’t exhibit the signs of food sensitivities that I once experienced.
I am sharing my story with you, so you can see it is possible to make a change in what you choose to eat. The foods I avoid are toxic to me and I was poisoning myself with them. It may look like food to you and it may even taste good going down the hatch, but if you cannot digest it properly you will be sick. You wouldn’t eat poison knowingly, would you? (the correct answer here is: “Of course NOT”)
If you are experiencing signs of food sensitivity or are dissatisfied with the way you feel, please talk to me or email me
for suggestions about how you can get started making changes to your diet, even if you think this sounds drastic. You too can make changes to help improve the way you look, feel and perform.
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I am not an expert in this subject, but I believe that there’s something weird about food poising a person, simply because we are made out of food. It seems to me (from my own experience) that the problem is not with the food, but with the immune system of the individual. I believe that the general and current way of life (eating food that have way too many things inside that are NOT food — additives, hormones, etc — not balancing exercise and rest, stress, etc, etc) eventually takes a toll on people’s immune system, and once weakened, it reacts to anything, even stuff that’s supposed to be good for you, almost as if screaming for help. “Pain” is always a sign for attention.
I used to have respiratory allergies and became much better also through a Naturopath (“Very Berry for about 1 year or 2 did the trick). But also, I started meditating.
Avoiding the foods seem to me as attacking the symptoms only, besides being hard to maintain. A better way is to dig down to the cause, even if not very easy in the beginning, but more sustainable in the long run. Specially when I see someone who is allergic to 30 types of food! It seems like the problem is with the body. Let’s not rule out the impact that emotional problems have in our life, and MOST people’s problems ARE of emotional order, although, as I noticed, nobody wants to hear about it or work on it.
Eating the wrong foods triggers the immune system. When these processes really get going in the body, they can affect one’s emotional state too. Since as you say we are made of food, removing the wrong food can often remove the cause of the problems, as you recommend. Meditation and other means of self-care such as adequate sleep and free time are important too.