or four times a month, and each lasted for three or four days. While having a headache, she was unable to sleep or rest yet could take no medication, for medicine seemed to make her depressed.

Miss Casey had been diagnosed as having hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) several months before she came to the unit. She had been on a hypoglycemia diet which consisted of six small, high-protein meals a day. At first she felt much better on this diet, but eventually she became depressed and suicidal. (Doctors see many such cases of alleged hypoglycemia. The symptoms, including marked swings in blood-sugar levels after consumption of corn sugar, may frequently be the result of food allergies, not of true hypoglycemia, a point first noted by Dr. William A. Philpott of Oklahoma City.)

Another problem which Mrs. Casey had was what she called “attacks.” The first attack came after she took some hashish at the age of fifteen. She became very cold, and her limbs felt as if they were frozen all day. She thought she were going to die or go insane, yet a physician who examined her declared that there were no permanent effects from the drug.

Since that time, however, she had had frequent sensations of numbness, which would start in her back and radiate over her head. This feeling was quite difficult for her to explain; she said it was similar to having a bucket of cold water poured over one’s head. After the attack she became disoriented, depressed, and suicidal.

As stated, this patient’s symptoms ranged from localized physical reactions (minus-one) to more profound systemic changes. She complained of sore throat, phlegm in the back of her throat, chest pain, lightheadedness, and dizziness. Her abdominal bloating became so troublesome that she looked as if she were pregnant.

Because of her depression and suicidal tendencies, Sandra had been under the care of a psychiatrist and had been institutionalized for nineteen days. Antidepressive drugs made her even more suicidal. In fact, her suicidal thoughts were becoming obsessive, especially since her husband was a gun collector who kept arms within easy reach around the house.

She reported a craving for sugar and sweet foods in general and said she loved to go through a box of cookies at a single sitting. Not surprisingly, her strongest reactions in testing were to wheat, corn, peas, blueberries, beets and beet sugar, and other commonly eaten foods, taken singly according to the methods of the Ecology Unit. Commercial foods gave her a headache, cumulatively, after five meals.

She left the hospital headache-free and in a normal frame of mind. Her problem was diagnosed as multiple food and chemical susceptibility, and her chances of recovery were excellent, provided she followed the recommended procedures. Suffice it to say, in summary, that headaches demonstrated to be on an allergic basis may be of any descriptive type—that is, any location, any degree of severity, with or without usual symptoms, nausea, vomiting, or other features. Although allergic headaches are far more commonly demonstrated to be on the basis of reactions to given foods and/or environmental chemical exposures, they may also be related to such allergens as house dust, pollens, and sometimes drugs. Indeed, I have seen patients whose treatment with such pain-relieving drugs as codeine accentuates their headaches.

As mentioned earlier, allergic headaches were described over a half century ago. Under these circumstances, there is no excuse for patients to be told to “live” with their headaches. When headache patients are investigated by means of proper techniques to demonstrate their environmental causes, to which susceptibility exists, most cases may be readily diagnosed and treated in the absence of drug therapy.

Finally, although headaches are sometimes said to be on a psychogenic basis, I have not been able to demonstrate such a relationship. If this exists, it must be exceedingly rare.

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I later found out the reason for the strange soreness: the sister had a habit of falling asleep every morning at Mass. As she began to snore, her fellow nuns on either side would crack her in the ribs with their elbows to wake her up again. This went on repeatedly during Mass, giving rise to her medical complaint.

Upon inquiry, I found that the chapel of her convent was directly over the garage which held the community’s five automobiles. I therefore arranged with the priests who drove these cars to leave all of them outside for a week and leave the doors of the garage wide open. They were sworn to secrecy, however, and Sister Francesca was never told anything about this arrangement.

That week, Sister Francesca attended Mass as usual, but was alert and awake all week, with no snoring and no sore ribs. Then, again without telling her, the priests were instructed to resume parking the cars in the garage with the door closed. On the next morning, Sister Francesca entered the chapel, took her seat, and promptly fell asleep. The other nuns awakened her as she began to snore.

It was a very convincing experiment, and from that point on the automobiles were kept outside the incriminated garage.

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One possibility you should consider is that you are reacting to an additive rather than a food. If you consistently react to commercial ice-cream, for example, but not to milk, cream or home-made ice-cream, then you may be allergic to polysorbates which are used as stabilizers in ice-cream manufacture. Careful reading of labels and some cautious experimentation with suspect additives should help you to identify the source of the problem. Appendix VI gives more details on food additives, and identifies ‘families’ of additives which are chemically similar to each other – if you are allergic to one, you may also react to others with a related chemical structure.

Another rather remote possibility is that you are allergic to a digestion product of the food rather than the food itself (see p46). Vomiting and diarrhoea begin some hours after eating, and anaphylactic shock is a possibility. This sort of allergy is thought to be very rare.

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Some people assume they have developed an addiction to their multi-vitamin, mineral formula because they feel so much better while taking it and tired, run down, cranky and irritable when they are not. Feeling this way when stopping your supplements is not a symptom of withdrawal, it is a symptom of insufficient nutrients reaching your cells. The feeling of well-being experienced while on supplements is proof positive of how deficient in nutrients our modern day foods are. A vitamin and mineral supplement is simply a concentrated food and for the body to react positively to it indicates that the body needs that quantity of vitamins and minerals to function optimally. To deprive it of that food will see it fall back to its former level of function.

Taking vitamin and mineral supplements does not create dependency the way taking drugs, cigarettes, stimulants and alcohol does. In the case of vitamins/minerals/food the dependency, or need for x amount, has existed since birth and feeling better with supplements indicates that the need is finally being met. There is no comparison between the innate biological need for vitamins and minerals and the artificially contrived need for drugs, cigarettes, alcohol and chemical stimulants.

The confusion arises from the fact that some people arc so used to functioning below par, they think it’s normal—that the average, healthy person should and does feel that way. They misinterpret the vitality-enhancing effect of vitamin and mineral supplements as being an artificial stimulatory effect that is not normal. This belief is confirmed when they go off the supplement and slip back to feeling how they did before. As a result they struggle through the rest of their lives never knowing what good health is.

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Hypoglycaemia is not, as many think, a disease in itself. It is a ’symptom’ of many different disease conditions. For instance, hypoglycaemia can be caused by:

• stress;

• too much white flour and sugar in the diet;

• skipping meals;

• allergies;

• a malfunctioning liver;

• vitamin and mineral deficiency;

• an under-active thyroid.

Just as allergies can cause the blood glucose levels to drop, a drop in blood glucose levels caused by other factors can trigger allergies. Low-grade, non-symptom-producing allergies can be exacerbated into full-blown, symptom-producing allergies when hypoglycaemia is caused by any of the above factors.

By providing three balanced meals a day and supplementary vitamins and minerals, the Metabolism-Balancing Program removes all the other causes of hypoglycaemia. Chromium helps insulin to get the glucose into the cells. Vitamins B3, B1, B6, B12 and C help the thyroid hormone speed up its conversion to energy.

Mineral iodine, vitamins B12, folic acid, B6, B5, E, A and B1 help the thyroid gland to make thyroid hormone and iron facilitates the carriage of oxygen that makes all the other processes possible. This balanced inflow of glucose into the cells, and its subsequent conversion to energy keeps all the cells (especially the white blood cells), tissues and organs of the body functioning in a balanced way.

The brain manifests this state of balance by remaining calm, yet mentally alive and on the ball. The white blood cells manifest it by not over-reacting and causing allergic reactions when non-life-threatening substances, such as dust, pollen, grasses, moulds or foods enter the body. The liver manifests it by not allowing too much glucose to be released into the blood during times of stress and the pancreas manifests it by not over-reacting to glucose’s presence in the blood. (It’s the secretion of insulin by the pancreas that causes the blood glucose levels to drop precipitously.)

In this way the Metabolism-Balancing Program removes the causes of functional hypoglycaemia and in so doing removes one of the major triggers of allergic reactions.

This leaves allergy as the only other cause of hypoglycaemia and glucose imbalance. An allergic reaction can take place in any tissue or organ of the body. If allergies inflame the thyroid gland they can disrupt glucose metabolism by making the gland over- or under-function—the latter causing hypoglycaemia and over-weight. If allergies attack the liver, pancreas or adrenal glands their metabolisms can become so distorted that hypoglycaemia develops immediately. Allergic hypoglycaemia is a whacky, unpredictable thing that can be here today and gone tomorrow, whether treated by drug medication or not. This is because allergies are migratory by nature and can move randomly from one tissue to another.

For this reason many people erroneously believe that they’ve ‘outgrown’ their allergies, not realising that the new set of seemingly unrelated symptoms that have sprung up elsewhere in their body is caused by the same allergy.

The random, unpredictable nature of allergies means that ‘allergic hypoglycaemia’ can be turned on and off to no set pattern, leaving the sufferer as confused as the physician. This is particularly so if the thyroid gland is the target organ, as the drugs taken for the affected thyroid can cause adverse reactions when the gland suddenly rights itself.

It is only with sound nutrition, sensible eating habits, appropriate exercise, adequate oxygen, water and rest, and by containing allergies, yeast, bacterial and viral infections, that the metabolism can ever be fully balanced.

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A. So they make contact with the digestive juices that are waiting in the stomach for the food to arrive. This ensures maximum absorption of the vitamins and minerals in Formula Six. Have them just before your first mouthful of food.

Q. I don’t like taking tablets—why can’t I spread them out through the day?

A. For vitamins and minerals to work optimally they must be taken all together, at the same time, with food. You will not get the potentially good results from the programs if you space the tablets over the day. Try and get them down with half a glass of water or juice using the other half to get the oil capsules down after the meal.

Q. Is Formula Six free from sugar, yeast, amines, salicylates, andartificial colourings?

A. Yes. The yellow color of the urine is the natural residue of vitamin B1. It’s normal for your urine to turn yellow at this time. There’s no need to go off the tablets because this happens.

Q. Don’t we excrete most of the vitamin/mineral supplements in our urine?

A. No.

Q. Why is Formula Six divided into three tablets?

A. To put the quantity of vitamins and minerals in Formula Six into one tablet would make it too big to swallow.

Q. The kids won’t swallow tablets.

A. Pulverise the tablets by dropping them into a blender with the blades going. When reduced to a line powder, stop the blades and pour in a warm drink of 50 per cent home-made juice and 50 per cent hot water with 1/2-1 teaspoon of honey or glucose powder. Blend drink and powder together for twenty seconds. Keep stirring it between sips to keep the heavy minerals from settling to the bottom of the glass. Orange and lemon juices are best for disguising the taste of the vitamins.

This is no problem for those on the Metabolism-Balancing Program. If they still won’t take tablets by the time they start the Anti-Candida Program, the vitamins will have to be continued in the drink with honey or glucose powder. However, they will have to remain on the Anti-Candida Program for four months instead of the usual three as the juice and honey/glucose will slow down the rate at which the Candida yeast can be contained.

Q. Is it safe to take Formula Six while pregnant?

A. Most certainly. In fact, it’s advantageous. A recent report from one of the American universities stated that taking vitamin/ mineral supplements during pregnancy significantly reduced the chance of physical and mental birth defects in babies and improved the baby’s IQ. Facial shape abnormalities are common in babies born to vitamin/mineral deficient mothers.

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Start the meal by sipping on a 230 mL (8 oz) glass of freshly juiced vegetable juice (from the low and negligible amine and salicylate lists for first four weeks), or mineral, spring or filtered tap water with 1 teaspoon of vitamin C powder (calcium or sodium ascorbate—any brand) in it and, twice a week, 1 drop only of Lugol’s iodine solution (from the chemist); use an eyedropper for accuracy. Use as little as possible of the fluid to get the before and after meal supplements down. Finish the remainder off later in the evening.

Just before eating, swallow 3 x Formula Six multi-vitamin and mineral tablets, that is, 1 tablet from each jar. Because hydrochloric acid is needed to facilitate absorption of minerals, Formula Six must be taken when there is maximum hydrochloric acid in the stomach, that is, just before a meal. Keep high and moderate amine and salicylate foods out for the first four weeks.

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Fluid tablets are often prescribed to sufferers of allergies, Candida yeast infections and malnutrition to remove the puffiness from their fingers, ankles, eyes, face, legs and wrists or counteract the general weight gain that often accompanies these conditions.

Fluid tablets work by interfering with normal kidney function. They create metabolic imbalances in the tubule cells of the kidney. This inhibits the tubule cells’ capacity to absorb water and nutrients as they pass through the tubules en route to the collecting ducts. As a result, water plus vitamins and minerals pass out of the body en masse, giving rise to insidious malnutrition.

After a while on fluid tablets, vitamin and mineral deficiencies begin to manifest as metabolic imbalances elsewhere in the body. Symptoms of these metabolic imbalances are many and varied. They can include: weakness, fatigue, light-headedness, dizziness, muscle cramps, thirst, flushing, prickly tingling of the skin (paraesthesia), blurred vision, rashes, low blood pressure on standing (postural hypotension), hypoglycaemia, aggravation of existing diabetes, increased blood uric acid levels, anaphylactic shock (usually in the severely malnourished), peripheral circulatory failure (especially in the elderly), thrombocytopenia (low levels of blood platelets) and leucopenia (low levels of white blood cells).

Vitamin and mineral deficiencies are a significant stress to the body. When the body is under stress the adrenal glands work overtime and more adrenal hormones than normal are produced. Aldosterone is one such hormone. Its job is to regulate the body’s fluid levels by stimulating the kidneys to retain sodium and water when the levels of these two are getting low. An excess of aldosterone means greater than normal quantities of sodium and water are retained. This is why people under stress have trouble losing weight while on a weightloss diet or put on weight without any change in their diet or eating habits.

Fluid tablets create a vicious cycle. By causing vitamin and mineral deficiencies they raise the body’s stress and aldosterone levels which causes greater fluid retention and the need for more fluid tablets. The metabolic imbalances that this cycle of ever-increasing stress and quantity of fluid tablets cause are such that in time you become hooked on fluid tablets.

If you reach the stage of fluid tablet dependency you’ll experience a significant weight gain the moment you stop taking them. Because it takes the aldosterone levels about fourteen to twenty-one clays to come down the weight could last for that long. The Metabolism-Balancing Program plus the supplementary vitamins and minerals and rest reduce the stress and aldosterone levels within a week. Be patient, the weight will come down as the metabolism balances. Don’t freak out and go back on the fluid tablets if your weight shoots up. Just wait it out and everything will be OK.

If you are already on fluid tablets for heart, lung or blood pressure problems, consult your doctor before doing anything. If you are not on fluid tablets and your doctor wants to treat your allergy, Candida, malnutrition or stress-based fluid retention problem with fluid tablets, refuse his or her offer and follow the treatment program outlined in this book with his or her supervision. Herbal, so called natural, diuretics create the same metabolic imbalances as the drug-based ones. Don’t use them as they too treat only the symptoms of fluid retention and not the cause.

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To check your weight, weigh yourself morning and evening on the day that you test. If you put on more than 0.5 kg (1 lb) during the day, that is a sign of a reaction.

A further indicator of a reaction is to take a sample of handwriting an hour after eating. Many people find that the quality of their script degrades significantly, beyond their control, after a food reaction. It is a useful check on children testing and can be done without them knowing it is part of the test.

How Often to Test?

If you are testing foods on a single-food exclusion diet, or on a special low-allergen diet, under medical supervision, you will be advised as to how often you can test new foods. It is best not to test too often, and most people are recommended to test one food a week, or not more than one every four days. If you are on a total exclusion diet, you will be given specific advice as to what and how often you can test.

If you are on a permanent diet, such as a rotation diet, it is a good idea to use this testing protocol if ever you want to introduce a new food into the diet. If you want to test water, or anything else you swallow or ingest, such as toothpaste or medicines, use the same test procedure as above.

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In atopic contact dermatitis, the symptoms are very similar to those of atopic eczema, but they occur on the skin in the places where it has come into contact with the allergen. This is a different type of allergic reaction from the principal IgE reaction; it is often a delayed reaction, and can be reliably detected by patch testing.

In irritant eczema, the symptoms are again similar to atopic eczema and are caused by contact with substances such as washing powder, detergents, or occupational chemicals. In people with atopic eczema, such irritants can exacerbate their basic disease and need to be avoided even though they do not cause allergy. Like atopic eczema, irritant eczema will respond to treatment with moisturising creams and topical medication, whereas contact dermatitis invariably will not.

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