HOW TO CURE YOUR ALLERGIES: RECOMMENDED TREATMENT PROGRAM- STEP 3
If after four weeks on the Anti-Candida Program you’re not seeing a steady improvement, keep off the amines and salicylates and check yourself out for allergies, both food and inhalant. There are two ways of doing this.
1. The preferred way is to ask your doctor or naturopath to refer you to an allergy specialist for the skin sensitivity test, cytotoxic food test and the RAST test. You can then ask for a suitable anti-allergy program, or you can go on the Anti-Candida Program in this book, minus the foods you’re allergic to, if they’re known. Having these tests will necessitate breaking the program by going off all the vitamins, antihistamines and cortisone. Stay on the Ventolin inhaler and any other non-cortisone/non-antihistamine drug your doctor has prescribed for you. Eat as wide a variety of foods as possible before the tests but not those you suspect are detrimental to your health. List them instead and delete them from the program along with those foods that you show up allergic to. Use cortisone pullers again after the tests. The cytotoxic food lest is a very important one. Because it is a relatively new test not all allergists use if. If your allergist doesn’t perform this test you’ll have to go with the next option. The skin and RAST tests are not accurate for foods but must, still be taken to determine the inhalant allergies (grasses, dust, pollens, moulds, animal dander, dust mites). During this time the elimination food allergy testing technique may be used in lieu of the cytotoxic food test. Get your doctor’s or naturopath’s advice on this and have them supervise the testing procedure.
2. To do the food elimination test, stay on the Anti-Candida Program and eliminate one food every four to five days. Eliminate first any food you suspect may be causing your symptoms. If removing them does not help then work your way through the foods listed below. Keep eliminating the foods one at a time every four to five days until your symptoms disappear (or, in the case of skin complaints, significantly improve). When you are satisfied that your symptoms have sufficiently abated, work your way back t h rough I he list, adding one each of the eliminated foods every four to five days to see if any symptoms return. This back check is very important. You may eliminate the foods in whatever order you feel is appropriate for you, though you must keep a record of those you have eliminated.
The Anti-Candida Program by its very nature includes a restrictive diet. Any diet that restricts the spectrum of foods eaten naturally restricts the number of nutrients available for absorption. For this reason a sound tissue reserve of vitamins and minerals is to be built up on the Metabolism-Balancing Program before commencing the Anti-Candida/Anti-Allergy Program. Without this reserve you could become run down.
The popular misconception is that the Anti-Candida Program and Nystatin kills the yeasts. They don’t—they only weaken the Candida so that the white blood cells can easily kill them.
If you’re tired and run down on the Anti-Candida Program it is because: (a) you didn’t build up on the Metabolism-Balancing Program; or (b) you have overdone it workwise, exercisewise, socially or you have an infection, cold, or sore throat. Your white cells will be too tired to kill the weakened Candida. It gets worse. If you’re on the Anti-Candida Program while tired and overdoing it you’ll become even more run down (the Anti-Candida is not a high energy program) and your white cells even less efficient at killing the yeast. You will end up feeling worse than when you started the diet and often with a larger yeast colony as well, especially if in your run-down state you caught an infection and took antibiotics. This can also happen if you stay on the Anti-Candida Program for more than three months. Detractors of the Anti-Candida Program are invariably those who have fallen into one or all of the above traps.
Some of those who break the build-up and rest rule manage to remain symptom-free for a while on this regime only to see their symptoms return soon after going off it. This is not supposed to happen and shouldn’t if you’re properly built up before, and sufficiently rested during, the ninety days of the Candida-killing regime.
Do not confuse this with the elimination diet/challenge test regime used in some hospitals. This diagnostic procedure is potentially dangerous, for it places the patient on a very restrictive diet for four to six weeks. This lowers the immune vitality. Naturally, when the body, in this run down state, is challenged with concentrated food substances it reacts to practically all of them. The resultant diet is so restrictive that the body and immune system don’t pick up and although patients will be symptom-free for a while, eventually they become so run clown they begin reacting to the foods they are allowed to have. More foods are eliminated from the diet, malnutrition sets in, infections follow, as do the inevitable allergic reactions to the drug medications used to treat them. I’ve treated many refugees from this process. They’re not a pretty sight and so allergic by the time they seek my help it’s very hard to build/feed them back up to good health. Malnutrition is far more serious than allergy and is to be avoided all all costs.
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