Food Allergy Elimination and Identification

Have you always wondered whether you are gluten sensitive? Lactose intolerant? Sugar addicted? Have you thought that your symptoms/health complaints may be related to an underlying food allergy? Sometimes food is the obstacle and the cure. In this detox diet, the obstacles (all potential food allergens within reason) are removed. The cure is what remains: a clean, food-allergy free eating plan that will decrease inflammation and allow your body to rest and heal.

Wait, I’m not allergic to anything!

The food allergies that I’m talking about aren’t true food allergies. These food allergies are really food sensitivities or intolerances. They are not true allergies and are not handled by the immune system in the same way. If you know you are allergic to peanuts or have celiac disease, then you know you have a true allergy to peanuts or to gluten. The “allergies” that I want to help you uncover are the ones that are more insidious. They are slowly damaging and inflaming your gut lining and causing it to become permeable to particles too big for your immune system to recognize. These particles form immune complexes with circulating antibodies that can deposit in tissues leading to pain, joint inflammation, and skin disease. This leaky gut syndrome is one effect from a food sensitivity. The tests for these types of sensitivities for food are not accurate. The gold standard test for this type of food allergy is a food allergy elimination diet. The 21 Day Detox incorporates a food allergy elimination diet into the plan. Because the food allergy elimination diet eliminates the most common food triggers, and the most commonly eaten foods, avoiding certain foods gives our digestive system a break from the onslaught of the same foods again and again – some of which may be damaging our bodies and leading to our health complaints.