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CM Maccioli's avatar

OMG, a lightbulb just got turned on. My 1st allergic attack happened in 10th grade at a friends house when I stayed overnight. I was so distressed my father came to get me. Eating at my parents home and other family homes, I never had a reaction to anything, but eating at a girlfriends home was the 1st time I ever came across Ritz crackers. So I was 16.

From 16 to 56 I had regular, albeit at times years of respite, severe allergic reactions to what? could never be nailed down. At 60 came explosions right, left and center. I started reading. An article would trigger an investigation, since no doctor could tell me why these violent anaphylactic episodes occurred. I sought out homeopathy.

I ditched everything that came in a box. No cookies, crackers, cereal, pasta (unless it came from Italy) Next came frozen foods, ditched it all. Then came chelation and oxidative therapy. Cured. BUT, I knew nothing of seed oils. Then I ate a sunflower seed. That was a horror show, the worst.

So now I'm thinking I know what caused a lifetime of anaphylaxis that no doctor could diagnose. You are tested for foods as possible triggers, never the ingredients in the foods. As Dr Cowan said, apples, fish, eggs, mold, natural things, they test for. Even that doesn't mean diddily. My son tested negative for fish and positive for eggs, so I never gave him an egg. First time he had shrimp, I almost lost him. Turns out his vaccine overload of mercury reared it's ugly head when he was 10 and ate the shrimp. He's not allergic to fish. He's allergic to mercury. I'm not allergic to food. I'm allergic to the additives IN the food. For my money you can add allergists to dermatologists to pediatricians as the most useless, moneymaking, scam artists out there.

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Natural Flavor is another additive that is in EVERYTHING. It is NOT natural, it is man-made MSG - monosodium glutamate. It fries the tips of nerve endings in the brain (excitotoxin) , so neurotransmitters no longer transmit clear signals. It causes all the same poisoning symptoms as tartrazine. It gives me restless legs. Argh! It causes autism symptoms in young brains and Alzheimer symptoms in aged brains. If you eat something that comes in a package, read the ingredient label! Tell your grocer to stop promoting products with synthetic color, flavor, preservatives. I'm returning a box of Organic Tea to my local Trader Joe's this morning, because it contains organic natural flavor! Gimme a break! It is MSG!

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