What do food allergies, or food sensitivities, have to do with asthma?
I have never seen an asthma sufferer that did not have hidden food allergies. Food allergies (or food sensitivities) do two things. One, they inflame or swell up the body and two, they force the body to use up vital nutrients to fight off the allergic reaction (i.e., an immunologic response). In short, food allergies strip your body of vitamins, minerals and enzymes it needs to maintain and repair itself while causing it to swell up. Most food allergies (or food sensitivities) are not obvious because there is no immediate strong reaction that you can tie to a specific food. They are quite different from the severe allergic reactions people can have such as to peanuts, strawberries or even shellfish, where they instantaneously break out in hives, swell up and in some cases even die. But, while hidden food allergies are much more subtle, they are ultimately equally devastating to your health. Underlying such hidden food allergies is a condition known as ‘Leaky Gut Syndrome’. And precedin
