Video: Why reacting to foods and chemicals is a big deal

Today, food and chemical sensitivities have exploded in the general population, and can adversely affect your physical and emotional health. And they always start when the immune system becomes hyperactive.

That’s why tolerance depends on how aggressively your immune system reacts or doesn’t react against foods. If you suffer from multiple food sensitives, your integrative practitioner or online community may have concluded the culprit is leaky gut.

Have you tried various approaches for leaky gut, such as glutamine and other supplements, and followed a restricted diet with little or no success? Here’s what you need to understand…

You see, leaky gut is only one part of the picture of an over-exaggerated immune response. Many people notice that over time in following a restricted diet, they start reacting to an increasing number of foods.

All of a sudden, they react to broccoli. Next, they can’t eat chicken anymore. And then it’s something else. They start strictly limiting the foods they’re eating to get through the day. Some people are reduced to only a small handful of foods they can tolerate.

As time passes, they also begin to react to chemicals in their environment, and can no longer tolerate cleaning products, soaps, detergents, plastics, formaldehyde, fire retardants in furniture and mattresses, perfumes and scents, and more. Then EMFs, molds, pollens, and other things in the environment.

A patient who has become intolerant of a growing list of foods, chemicals, and other things in their environment is at high risk of developing an autoimmune disease — or developing second, third, or even more autoimmune diseases.

The most commonly seen one is Hashimoto’s autoimmune thyroid disease. Patients also suffer from autoimmunity attacks against their joints or they develop rheumatoid arthritis. Even more disturbing but little understood are autoimmune attacks in the brain. If you are becoming increasingly sensitive to foods, you’re already losing the really critical immune pathway in your body called tolerance.

If this tolerance mechanism continues to degrade, then you go from reacting to foods and chemicals and eventually your immune system starts to actually attack your own tissue. And that’s called loss of self-tolerance — the stage when autoimmune disease develops.

That’s why you need to manage the expression of your immune system before it’s too late, and the 3D Immune Tolerance Program will show you exactly how.

So, why does the immune system become overactive?

Are you eating like a bird to try and control your food sensitivities?

Big mistake!

If you’ve developed food intolerances, overly limiting your diet is the worst thing you can do for your immune system and overall health.

If you start to eliminate vast numbers of foods, and eat the same breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day, you create less diversity in the gut microbiome. As a result, many people end up with more food intolerances, more chemical intolerances, and worsened autoimmunity.

Many patients don’t get better because they only try one piece of the puzzle, when improving tolerance is much more complex than a leaky gut diet and protocol.

The key to improving immune tolerance isn’t simply taking one magic supplement or eating the same restricted diet every single day.

For the best result, you need to understand the many parts and pathways of the immune system that are involved, and why you develop health problems in the first place.

Datis Kharrazian, PhD, DHSc, DC, MS, MMSc, FACN, is a Harvard Medical School trained researcher, clinical research scientist, academic professor, and a functional medicine health care provider. Dr. Kharrazian also holds a Master of Medical Science degree (MMSc) in Clinical Investigation from Harvard Medical School. He is a member of the Harvard Medical Alumni Association and the American Association of Immunologists.

Today, Dr. Kharrazian’s clinical models of functional medicine are used by several academic institutions, and thousands of healthcare clinics and practices throughout the world.

He maintains a private practice in San Diego, California, and consults with patients from all over the world who are seeking non-pharmaceutical alternatives. His practice is focused on developing a personalized medical approach using diet, nutrition, and lifestyle approaches.

After decades of analyzing thousands of studies and working with patients from the United States and around the globe, Dr. Kharrazian has developed never-taught-before clinical strategies to successfully restore oral tolerance.