Causes, symptoms and tests for food intolerances
Introduction
Hippocrates used to say that food is the first true medicine. To eat well and live long, our grandparents used to follow a few simple rules, including respecting the natural seasonality of foods. We tend to ignore our great past and distort our small future.
This is why food intolerances are now a growing problem that is increasing considerably. Our food is shaped by industry, enriched with the colorings and additives of consumerism, while the healthy rules of the past have become faded and outdated memories.
Summary
- Food intolerances as a social phenomenon
- Intolerance as an imbalance and a signal from the body
- Dissociative behaviours and nutrition
- Food intolerance symptoms
- Food intolerance tests
Food intolerances as a social phenomenon
Food intolerance is becoming a mass phenomenon in highly industrialised areas. Food has become part of a corrupted global market system, a by-product of an unconscious society that is too hurried to stop and reflect on that intimate and profoundly cultural component that food represents; once ingested, it touches the deepest and most unconscious part of our true nature. This is why food intolerances, rather than being merely the consequence of chemical and industrial alterations in food, are the result of environmental changes in food and of man’s emotional detachment from his true nature.
Food intolerance seems to be the starting point of every pathology, the first imbalance of the body’s foundation, and upon this framework the human body is built over the years. If the foundations are solid, our health will be strong. Food intolerance is a warning sign, an indicator of a society gone astray, one that has moved away from the true principles of our primordial health and from our real psycho-physical well-being.
For many people, intolerances seem to be the effect of a clinical phenomenon caused by an adverse reaction to a food. For me, however, (having studied them for more than twenty years), they are only an indicator of strong social criticality. Our eating habits are not correct; for example, we watch the news while sitting at the table: with our senses we savour a tasty dish, while our brain absorbs the news of a bomb that has killed 12 children. In this way, our system of compensation creates a first intolerance to food, due to an adaptation to our continuous split between rationalisation and emotions or sensations; it is the alternation between the idea of healthy food and the desire for tasty but harmful foods.
Intolerance as an imbalance and a signal from the body
Within us there is a system of compensation thanks to which we have overcome the greatest phases of the evolution of the species, a system that allows our self not to go mad and not to split in two. Even though we know that something is bad for us, we keep doing it, generating within ourselves a split that should lead us to pure madness. This system allows us to survive and rebalance ourselves while living a normal life, but with a small price to pay: one more intolerance.
Every intolerance we have toward a food is in fact a scar that has torn our innocent emotional sphere, a mark left over time by a trauma, layered within us through dissociative attitudes that we carry out every day, often without even realising it. With the mind we think one thing, and with the body we do another.
Dissociative behaviours and nutrition
A typical case is that of obese people who, even though they know that a plate of fried potatoes is harmful, cannot help but serve themselves a large portion, just like those who know they should eat more fruit and vegetables but have no time and bring the usual quick sandwich to the office. The examples of dissociated and disturbed behaviour at the table border on the absurd, such as those who know that eating less helps one live twice as long, yet still feel compelled to stuff their child with every possible good thing so that he or she will grow up stronger and healthier.
The same can be said of those populations in the south, on the borders of the so-called “land of fires”, who know from reliable studies that the produce from many of those lands is contaminated by dioxin and other cursed radioactive residues, yet continue to believe that food from a friend’s land must be genuine. Dissociative behaviours occur both at the table and in the supermarket, due to our intimate relationship with food and our tendency toward consumerism. Because of these behaviours, our internal adaptation system, every time it restores balance, creates a scar in the form of a new food intolerance.
Food intolerance is the first true original sin, the desire to do something while being fully aware that it is wrong. Perhaps it is a genetic residue deriving from Adam and Eve, but it certainly is not a pathology that can be fought with just any medicine or with a conventional therapy. It is necessary to identify a series of bio-food intolerances through a specific test and resolve them through a detailed programme created ad hoc by a specialised consultant. Therefore, a bio-food intolerance can be healed. The healing process from food intolerances is not a simple pill to swallow blindly, but a path of Knowledge that will allow us to look within ourselves and know ourselves better.
Food intolerance symptoms
The symptoms that may appear in the presence of an intolerance to a certain type of food are many and differ according to the type of allergy that is triggered. The symptoms of food intolerances listed below are typically observed, but they are not symptoms that occur only in the presence of food intolerance, and they include: heartburn, poor digestion, abdominal colic and cramps, diarrhoea, flatulence, dysentery, abdominal bloating and gurgling. In addition, other symptoms that may suggest an ongoing food intolerance are: meteorism, headache, nausea, itching, acid regurgitation, dry skin, water retention, obesity and cellulite.
Food intolerance tests
After following an elimination diet in order to understand which types of intolerance may affect the patient, it is possible to move on to the use of actual tests and analyses for food intolerance. A distinction between types of tests is necessary, namely the one between conventional and non-conventional tests.
Conventional tests
The first category includes allergological tests such as: prick test, RAST test, IgA and IgE tests, Patch test and the challenge test.
Non-conventional tests
Non-conventional tests, on the other hand, include all those non-allergological examinations that are not part of the diagnostic plan provided by the National Health Service, such as the Vega Test, bioenergetic tests, tests with Voll devices, etc.
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