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Medical data is for informational purposes only. You should always consult your family physician, or one of our referral physicians prior to treatment.
Supplement to
The Art of Getting Well
Allergies and Biodetoxification
for the Arthritic
Sources are given in references.
Authors of contributions\quotations are alphabetically arranged;
major author, if any, is underlined.
Isaac Asimov, Ph.D., Max Ben, John W. Campbell, Jr., Arthur
C. Clarke, Eleanor W. Chin, D.C., Zane Gard, M.D., George
Goodheart, D.C., L. Ron Hubbard, Warren Levin, M.D., Ralph
Moss, Ph.D., Devi S. Nambudripad, D.C., L.Ac., R.N., Ph.D.,
Michael Del Puppo, Theron Randolph, M.D, Paul Reilly, N.D., Don
Rogers, Dr. David E. Root, David Schnare, Megan Shields, M.D.,
Joseph Winter, M.D./Responsible editor/writer Anthony di Fabio.
Copyright 1994
All rights reserved by the The Roger Wyburn-Mason and
Jack M.Blount Foundation for Eradication of Rheumatoid Disease
AKA The Arthritis Trust of America ®
7376 Walker Road, Fairview, Tn 37062
Published originally in Let's Live Magazine, 444 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los
Angeles, CA 90004. Permission granted by Warren Levin, M.D.
for reproduction
Food allergies contribute to Rheumatoid Disease, and, if they do
not mimic the symptoms of Rheumatoid Disease, they may also help
to cause the symptoms.
Food allergies are now classified in alternative medicine under
the heading of Clinical Ecology, where the environmental causes of
allergic symptoms are unraveled.
Certain allergy symptoms have sources that are well known, and
easily found, such as those causing "hay fever" which springs from
pollen or ragweed, pigweed, grass pollen, tree pollen and so on. This
is an "external" allergy, as opposed to an "internal" allergy that springs
from reactions to substances inside the body. External allergies do not
usually cause symptoms of Rheumatoid Arthritis, but they can
aggravate the condition.
External allergies can be discovered by the detective work of
mixing together suspected allergens -- pollen grains, house dust,
protein particles, et. al. -- and after preparing the solution properly,
inserting the extract just beneath the skin, where the size and severity
of welts determines whether or not an individual is allergic to a
particular protein.
Other external allergen sources can be almost anything: gases,
fluids, various proteins. Strictly speaking, these are not allergies, but
chemical sensitivities. Some people develop an “allergy” to something
as common as the cooking gas from the cook stove, and they cannot
live near or by such sources without being sick.
People range from very, very sensitive to not sensitive at all, in
a gradient scale. People vary considerably as to what they are allergic
to.
The interesting -- and distressing -- part about allergies is that
foods which were perfectly safe for much of our lives suddenly
become intolerable -- for no obvious reasons.
Early on in the medical history of treating allergies, professional
allergists had great success in testing for and finding common
allergens, such as from the pollens of various plants. However, when
similar tests were developed for foods, or the increasing number of
environmental chemicals, there was, at best, inconsistent results. Even
today people will falsely take the skin-patch test which has shown itself
to be negative, as proof that they are not allergic to the food the patch
was supposed to test against. Food patch tests are extremely unreliable
when making the determination for a food allergic reaction.
Since Theron Randolph, M.D. and four others organized the
Society for Clinical Ecology in 1965 there has been a quiet revolution
on how we view and test for food and other chemical sensitivities. By
1980 this society attracted 250 members. Dr. Randolph inherited some
of his knowledge, and a great deal was his own major contribution to
modern medicine.
There are claims, of course, that solving the food allergy problem
will also solve the Rheumatoid Arthritis -- or other Rheumatoid
Disease -- problem. Some of these claims may be correct, and some
may be, and most likely are, based on a mixture of three problems:
Candidiasis, food allergies, and Rheumatoid Disease. More than
likely, as we've suggested in other articles, Rheumatoid Disease and
Candidiasis go hand in hand, and then an increasing number of food
allergies begin to also take over our health condition.
According to Paul Reilly, N.D. of Tacoma, WA, "Diet affects
bowel flora and Gastro-Intestinal tract permeability. Both of these
factors can, in turn, affect the amount of endotoxins (bacterial toxins
released from dying bacteria) absorbed. In addition to their . . . role in
stimulating B cell mitogenesis, endotoxins are potent activators of the
alternate complement pathway, which promotes inflammatory pro-
cesses. The Kupfer cells of the liver are integral in elimination of
circulating immune complexes as well as antigens absorbed intact
from the gut. If the liver is not functioning optimally, due to endotoxin
damage, these undegraded antigens may be released into the systemic
circulation where they can activate further complement release and
inflammation
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Allergy reactions also contribute to free-radical pathology, and
that extra burden on the body can contribute to arthritic symptoms as
well. After all, free-radical pathology, and subsequent damage, is what
arthritis is all about. Cleaning up or preventing the development of
extra free-radicals, even temporarily, should give some relief, as seems
to happen when using EDTA Chelation Therapy, DMSO Intravenous
Therapy, or other similar means.
A most important publication to read and understand if you
suspect that you're a candidate for multiple allergens from foods and
other sources is An Alternative Approach to Allergies, by Theron
Randolph, M.D. and Ralph Moss, Ph.D.
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Allergies, surprisingly enough, are also addictions, or at least
there is sufficient commonality between the phenomena of food and
some other allergies and addictions so as to suspect an actual biological
link. Warren Levin, M.D. has contributed the following:
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