Do you have any food cravings?  Are you allergic to some foods, but can’t seem to stay away from them?  Would you like to change the way that you react to foods without having to eliminate them from your diet?

As we descend into the coming feasts of the season, your body and mind will be subject to many kinds of stress.  Family stress, financial stress, travel stress, overbooking stress, and more may take their toll.  But no stress is quite as personal as the stress that surrounds what to eat, how to eat, how much to eat, and when.

Feeding ourselves is an intimate and basic task.  It requires knowledge, self-love, and money to do it well.  But even when you mean well and make the effort to not just eat, but nourish yourself, it is easy to get tripped up.  And many times it is your own body that is doing the tripping.

This is true in cases of food allergies and intolerances.

Both food allergies and intolerances are an immune system reaction against what you are eating.  More specifically, allergies and intolerances are an inappropriate reaction by your immune system against the food that you are eating.  Your immune system is supposed to protect you against things that are potentially dangerous, and while some doctors will try and convince you of the inherent evil in milk and gluten, it is hard to argue that foods are dangerous.  In fact, your immune system is squandering resources on an enemy that doesn’t exist.

Now, the reasons for your immune system’s inappropriateness are hard to predict.  The proper coordination of your body’s defenses requires a herculean effort of communication and timing that could conceivably go wrong in a number of places.  We know that genetics, beliefs about foods, the integrity of your digestive system, and your history of past illnesses all play a part.

The hard part about allergies and intolerances, though, is that they are interrupting your body’s ability to nutrify itself.  Your body needs to be able to properly break down food, absorb it into the bloodstream, and then absorb the food from your blood into your cells.  If you are reacting to something you are eating, that process may not be happening.

In fact, you could be missing out on key nutrients, vitamins, and minerals that you require to function in a healthy way. Your food cravings sometimes can provide a clue that this problem is true for you.

For example, do you have a sugar craving? Sugar is a critical molecule that your cells use to produce energy for living.  If, for some reason, some of your cells are not able to absorb sugar, your body may crave it.  The craving stimulates you to eat more sugar, but since your cells can’t absorb it, it builds up and creates inflammation.  This inflammation makes it even harder for your body to get what it needs and so the sugar craving intensifies.

Your body may be stuck in a loop of craving –> intolerance –> inflammation –> craving that is very hard to get out of.  This loop might be better described as a downward spiral towards poor health, with “food-stress” as its cause.  This spiral could be at the root of almost any chronic disease- and I mean any.  I could list them, but it would take up too much hard drive space on your computer…

So, what to do? The “easy” answer is to figure out what foods you are reacting to and avoid them.  Simple in concept, but of course this can be maddeningly difficult.  There are entire industries built around different tests for food allergies and intolerances, and many doctors and labs would be happy to spend your money on them.  But even after you somehow figure out the “problem” foods, it can be very hard, if not impossible, to avoid them.

Fortunately there is another way.  The above solutions assume that your body is fixed in its disease, and that the only way to heal is to change the stuff you are putting into it.  However, I have seen that the body is extremely adaptable. Given the right healing environment, it is possible to dramatically change the way that your body reacts to incoming foods, while they are still coming in!

This powerful process involves changing the energetic and electric blueprint of your body.  Your immune cells are being re-born and reprogrammed every day, all we need to do is use the language of that reprogramming to make the changes.

BodyTalk is well-suited to this task.  In a series of sessions, I can help balance the parts of your body that are reacting to foods (or other toxins, microbes, or environmental allergens like pollen or cats). Many times, this process is driven by the use of one or more vials that contains the physical frequency of a substance that you are reacting to.  The energy in the vial stimulates an integration process by your body.  Click here to read more about this fascinating procedure.

Vials from the Body Chemistry Test Kit