This is almost a philosophical question. You can read and hear of many allergy triggers such as dust mites, pollen or peanuts but these are triggers and not causes. You will also hear of many doctors describing allergies in terms of the immune system going wrong.

You may read that the word, “Allergy” means “altered reaction” and instead of a routine process of digesting and absorbing a normal food such as cheese somebody has a cheese allergy and suffers digestive and more general allergy symptoms and proof of all this found in the blood stream of the allergic person in the form of antibodies to the molecules making up the cheese.

And this is not a specific example to pick on cheese – any food will do. All the basic human biology books will tell us that food is digested in the stomach and small intestine into it’s building blocks of proteins, fats and carbs.

If that is so then why are antibodies being formed in the blood to our foods? Why are undigested food molecules being found in the bloodstream? And why is nobody asking these questions – let alone answering them?

The point is that asking these questions strikes at the heart of the nonsense about allergy that it is a malfunction of the immune system. After all the immune function is “sexy” and all the doctors want to be there. If we were to look at the digestive system that would be less interesting and not at all sexy. The Gastrointestinal system is one of the Cinderella systems of the body and the doctors don’t want to study it.

Of course the welfare of the patients does not come into this!

Let’s finish off for today by saying that most so called “Food allergies” are really cases of “Leaky gut” misdiagnosed by doctors too keen to dole out standard prescription drugs. Leaky gut is well known, well understood and easily cured too.

More on this, much more, to come!