What Causes Food Allergies?
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What Causes Food Allergies? The H pylori bacteria can be one cause of food sensitivities and food reactions, but don't expect to hear that from your doctor...

Food sensitivities have become quite a problem in recent decades with the incidence of SEVERE food allergies like those to peanuts and shellfish rising to an epidemic scale. Recently, even airplanes and elementary schools have declared themselves 'Peanut Free Zones' in order to protect those with these serious allergies.

While these obvious food allergies get a lot of attention because of their severity, the less obvious 'delayed sensitivity reactions'- such as the extremely common Gluten Sensitivity- are a serious problem for the hundreds of thousands who become exhausted, get joint pains, have 'brain fog' and other debilitating symptoms after a meal that contains an offending food.

In fact, these types of food sensitivities are even more of a problem because they go unrecognized in the vast majority of people who suffer from them, so most simply get diagnosed with vague illnesses like 'Chronic Fatigue' or 'Fibromyalgia' when part of their problems may simply be food sensitivities!

Even when the medical community admits to the existence of these food sensitivities, what causes food allergies is generally somewhat baffling to most of the medical community. And while they DO understand that avoidance is important, they really don't seem to understand the underlying mechanism of what causes food allergies.

Bacteria in the Gut

The Helicobacter Pylori bacteria, most commonly known as H pylori, are ancient bacteria that have been infecting humans for as long as we have been on the earth. They are present in up to half of the world's population, according to some studies, and have been found in nearly every bodily fluid and every organ in the body- including dental plaque, brain plaque and the plaque caused from heart disease! They are have been found everywhere in us, but they are still a bit of a medical mystery to science because it is unclear whether or not they cause disease.

While they have become famous in recent years with the discovery that most ulcers are caused by an H pylori infection, most doctors pretty much ignore this bacteria UNLESS a person has active ulcers or has persistent unrelenting heartburn.

But doctors are missing an important connection with the recent rise in food sensitivities. Interestingly, research is showing that these two seemingly unrelated phenomena of the H Pylori Bacteria and food sensitivies are actually a cause and effect process of what causes food allergies. Doctors only consider H pylori to be 'symptomatic' when the infected person has heartburn, ulcers or persistent stomach pains. But whether H pylori causes these problems or not, it is an INFECTION, and infections always cause an immune reaction and inflammation!

And our bodies simply do not like inflammation and do not like having a continual immune response.

Inflammation is What Causes Food Allergies

Inflammation from the H pylori bacteria causes the stomach cells, which are usually tightly fitted like puzzle pieces, to become damaged and pulled apart leaving gaps and spaces in between- a condition called Increased Intestinal Permeability , also called 'Leaky Gut Syndrome'. In this case, it would more accurately be called increased gastric permeability, but it is nearly the same phenomenon.

While some tolerate this inflammation well and have no symptoms, some people will get food particles passing right through these leaky cells and into the bloodstream, which causes a whole body immune reaction TO the protein molecules that pass through. And this systemic reaction is what causes food allergies in most people most of the time!

Unfortunately, these H pylori carriers often don't have the 'classic' symptoms of heartburn or stomach pains that doctors are taught to recognize as H pylori infection, and even when they do they are often simply given an 'acid blocker' to relieve their heartburn, leaving the H pylori infection to continue causing inflammatory damage that could lead to ulcers and even stomach cancer down the road. In addition, many doctors don't recognize delayed food allergies in their patients AT ALL, and they Certainly don't recognize that H pylori infection could be the culprit in these food allergies. Sadly, this leaves many to suffer with vague debilitating symptoms of chronic illness, sometimes for decades, that are really just inflammatory and Immune System responses set off by H pylori along with the debilitating effects of unrecognized food allergies!

If you have food allergies and suspect that your symptoms may be due to H pylori, both blood testing and In-Home H Pylori Stool Testing are accurate and inexpensive ways to be tested for this common bacterium. In addition to standard medical treatments of antibiotics for 'eradication'of this infection, there are also effective natural remedies that can control and even eliminate this bacteria altogether, thus eliminating the underlying CAUSE of the food allergies- along with the inflammation and immune reaction that can masquerade as so many other chronic health problems like chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and just plain fatigue and all over body pain.

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