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described on my website, the “Elimination Challenge Protocol.”28 This involves completely avoiding the first allergy food you suspect for a full two weeks and then eating it one day. A return of your symptoms dur- ing that day or the three following days represents a positive test and indicates that you should avoid this food for a few months or even longer. This will give the body a break from the inflammatory cycle that food allergies continually generate, and allow your gut and immune system to heal more fully.
When you are ready to try one of these allergy foods again after a pe- riod of avoidance and healing, first challenge the healthiest foods in your primary allergy group.
For example, if you are
dairy-allergic, first eat
organic raw cheese or
milk or grass-fed but-
ter. If you are gluten-
allergic, try introduc-
ing properly prepared
(soaked, dehydrated and
then freshly ground)
spelt, kamut or einkorn
bread or muffins.
Due to an inadequate diet as infants and children, many of us do not develop the appro- priate jaw and cranial size to hold all thirty-two teeth. As a result, impacted wisdom teeth (third molar teeth) are quite common. Wisdom teeth are defined as “impacted” when they cannot break through the gums, or only partially break through, because there is not enough room in the mouth. These impacted and abnormally positioned teeth generate inflammation and
attract bacteria when they begin to develop between ages twelve and fourteen and then attempt to erupt during the “age of wisdom” between ages seven- teen and twenty-five.20 Nine out of ten people nowadays have at least one impacted wisdom tooth.29
Impacted wisdom teeth are often the site of chronic focal infec- tions. The problem is that while unerupted teeth may rarely cause symptoms, the patho- genic bacteria gener- ated in these sites— typically streptococ- cal—can travel to dis-
turbed fields. These bacteria-laden "disturbed fields" may include the heart (rheumatic fever and mitral valve prolapse), joints (rheumatoid arthritis), kidneys (glomerulonephritis and chronic kidney and bladder dysfunction) and brain (memory loss and obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms).20
Doctors who do not perform a thorough physical exam (which should include the teeth) and who are unfamiliar with focal infections typically only treat the symptoms. Thus, they may prescribe nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for arthritis or medications for cardiac arrhythmias while missing the true cause of the patient’s condition or disease. Weston A. Price was a leader in the field of dental focal infections. Leading a team of sixty notable
I also recommend
eating primary aller-
genic foods intermit-
tently, in what I refer to
as a “Variety and Rota-
tion” (V&R) fashion.
The V&R method means
that you vary your al-
lergenic foods as much
as possible (for exam-
ple, alternating spelt and
kamut grains) and rotate
after day. (For example, you might eat cottage cheese on Mondays and Thursdays, and yogurt on Tuesdays and Saturdays.)
REMOVE TOXIC MICROBES
An important way to reduce pathogenic bugs in the body is to adopt
a Wise Traditions diet and avoid your primary food allergy or allergies, as just discussed. Another less well-known way to reduce the toxic pathogenic load is to treat your chronic or dominant focal infections. “Dominant focal infection” is not a well-known term, even to many holistically oriented individuals in this country. In my book Radical Medicine, I define a dominant focus as “a relatively silent and locally asymptomatic area of chronic irritation, inflammation, and infection, which typically causes intermittent pain and dysfunction in distal and seemingly unrelated areas in the body referred to as disturbed fields.”20 The figure below illustrates a common dental focus, showing the serious but often insidiously silent state of a chronic focal infection.
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them so that you do not eat the same food day
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SUMMER 2017