Food Allergy 101
Food Allergy 101: Understanding Food Reactions
Constant fatigue. Waking up exhausted even after a full night's sleep. Brain fog that won't lift. Digestive issues that come and go without any obvious pattern. Skin problems that don't respond to treatment. Anxiety or depression that seems to appear from nowhere.
These symptoms don't seem related to food. But they often are.
Food allergies and sensitivities are one of the most underdiagnosed contributors to chronic health problems. Not because they're rare. Quite the opposite. Because they're so common and so varied in their symptoms that most people and most doctors miss them entirely.
Understanding how food reactions work is essential for understanding why you feel the way you do and what you can do about it.
Two Types of Food Reactions
Food reactions fall into two fundamentally different categories, and understanding this distinction is critical.
Type 1: Immediate Reactions (True Allergies)
These are what most people think of w...
What Causes a Food Allergy
What Causes Food Allergies? It All Starts in Your Gut
Food allergies (or more accurately, food sensitivities) are everywhere these days. One person can't handle dairy, another gets brain fog from wheat, someone else's skin breaks out from eggs. Reactions range from mildly annoying to life-threatening anaphylaxis.
Here's what most people don't understand: food allergies aren't caused by the food itself.
Your body isn't supposed to react to salmon or almonds or tomatoes. These are perfectly good foods that humans have eaten for millennia. The real problem is what's happening in your digestive system when these foods arrive.
About 80% of your immune system lives in your gut. When that system starts treating food like an invader, something has gone wrong with the barrier between your intestinal contents and your bloodstream.
That "something" is called leaky gut. And understanding how it works is the key to understanding why you suddenly can't eat foods you've been eating your whole li...
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