Food Allergies + Sensitivities - Part 1

When most people think of food allergies, they usually get an image of someone eating a peanut and ending up in the emergency room with swollen tongue, hives, or the inability to breathe. That’s what is called an immediate allergy (also known as an IgE hypersensitivity reaction) which turns on an aggressive histamine reaction.

BUT there is a different type of food reaction that is much less dramatic and deadly. It is called a delayed allergy (or IgG delayed hypersensitivity). This reaction is much MORE common and creates much MORE suffering for millions of people.

It’s mostly ignored by conventional medicine!

Nonetheless, IgG reactions play a HUGE role in many chronic illnesses and weight problems.

Delayed allergic reactions can cause symptoms anywhere from a few hours to a few days after ingestion. They also cause a wide range of problems:
- weight gain and retention
- acid reflux
- fluid retention
- fatigue
- brain fog
- irritable bowel syndrome
- heart palpitations
- mood problems
- sleeping problems
- headaches
- sinus and nasal congestion
- joint pain
- acne
- arthritis
- eczema
These are ALL sources of inflammation. The body becomes inflamed because the immune system recognizes protein in an otherwise healthy food as a foreign invader.

Your next question should be, why does this happen? It has to do with your guts. We’ll get into that with my next post.

Stay tuned!