An allergy is an abnormal, excessive biochemical response by the body to the introduction of a foreign substance (allergen).  It is a bodily defense mechanism which has gotten out of hand.  This uncontrolled allergic response manifests itself in many different ways, but they are all basically the same.  With allergies, if the allergen enters through the skin, it may cause rashes or other skin disorders,the so-called contact allergies.  If the allergen is a drug or a certain food it may cause digestive upsets and other systemic symptoms of drug or food allergies.  Bronchial allergies are termed “asthma.”  The allergens can also be physical agents, such as heat, cold, or sunlight, which cause unusual, strong reactions in hypersensitive individuals. When the allergen is a skin graft or a transplanted organ, the phenomenon is known as “rejection.”

Allergies effect most people.  I suffered from allergies terribly nearly all of my life, especially sinus allergies, or allergies of the upper respiratory system.  But there are all kinds of allergies, and all kinds of symptoms.  Just five or so years ago I realized that MSG is toxic to me after I went through an “episode”, and realized that it had to be something that I ate.  So I did my research and sure enough, MSG had been the silent killer ruining my life for many years.  My son, Luke, is also powerfully allergic to MSG, as well as peanuts.  The MSG just breaks him down emotionally, but the peanuts are potentially lethal.  We carry Epi-pens (adrenalin) to inject him in a peanut crisis.

I am also allergic to caffeinated coffee.  It does something evil to me mentally.  After a week or so of drinking caffeinated coffee, my thoughts turn very negative, sour, dark.  My attitude goes bad, and my relationships with people suffer.  Decaffeinated coffee doesn’t seem to have that same bad effect, and caffeinated coke only gives me a mild headache, which I attribute to the high fructose corn syrup more than to the caffeine.

You should seek to discover your own allergies.  Inevitably you will find that you are allergic to something that you like.  I love coffee, coke, Church’s Fried Chicken and Wolf Brand Chili.  But coffee, Church’s Fried Chicken and Wolf Brand Chili all contain MSG.  MSG is used in packing coffee to “keep it from sticking”, but we know that they include it as a flavor enhancer.  The food manufacturers (excluding the organic browers) will poison their own grannies to make the money they are making.  They only have money in mind, and if they can buy enough politicians and government workers to make a toxic product “legal” they will spend the millions of dollars necessary to get that product into the food supply, allergies be damned.

How do you discover your allergies?  Its easy, actually.  Just start eating a clean, fresh food diet.  Buy and cook fresh meat, preferrably organic.  Buy fresh, organic vegetables and fruits.  Avoid bread for a while.  Two weeks should be sufficient.  You will feel better, and then you can try some of your favorite foods.  Canned chili is a good example.  On an empty stomach, eat a big bowl of any canned chili that you like and see how you feel 30 minutes later.  Or try just about anything that you formeraly ate and then pay close attention to how you feel.

If you get a headache, you are allergic to something in that food.  If you feel nauseous or light-headed or dizzy or irritated or any way other than good, you are allergic to something in that food.  Then make the decision to either live with that unnecessary suffering or to stop eating that food which is poison to you.  Listen, healthy food will make you feel healthy.  Toxic food will make you feel bad.  its that simple.

So we end up with cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, heart disease, Alzheimer and a hundred other fatal conditions that we could avoid by eating only natural foods.  And by “natural”, I mean clean, pure, nutritious food.  MSG is “natural flavor” and “spice” and forty other names, legally.  Those greedy food manufacturers buy the best law on the books, let me tell you. Read the aticle here on MSG and it will definately open your eyes.

Something you can do right now that will help is to start taking 10 grams of vitamin C per day.  That isn’t much, as you can take as much C as you want.  Its great for you, and is a powerful anti-histamine, which means that vitamin c ameliorates allergies.  It dampens allergic reactions.  Vitamin C will not cure you or make you non-allergic to things, but it will make you feel better.  after I started taking 10 grams of ascorbic acid powder in water each day, my sense of smell returned.  After decades of not smelling things very well, I can now walk down the produce aisle at the grocery store and smell the potatoes in the potatoe bin.  That is a very nice experience, and vitamin C (ascorbic acid) made that possible for me.