Food/Chemical Allergies: An Original Discovery

Food/Chemical Allergies: An Original Discoveryby Alan Hunter, PhD, MBRCP

The mechanism hehind the worldwidephenomenon of food/chemical allergy (orintolerance, or MCS - multiple chemicalsensitivity) has remained a mystery sincethe condition was"pDpularized" in the1960s. Certainly no cure has ever beenfound. I propose to provide within thispaper compelling evidence to show notonly the cure for the condition, but anexplanation of the mechanism involvedin this strangest of disorders.

Whilst the current accepted methodof treatment for the "food allergy"condition is merely to test for culprit foodsand remove them (the identify and avoidtechnique), we can go much further andactually remove the condition entirely, sothat the patient no longer respondsadversely to food and/or chemicals.

Since finding out, in Rome over 30years ago, that virtually everj^hing I atehrought about my symptoms of illness, Ihave been searching for a solution. Thestandard treatment then - and still today- was to merely identify the culprit foodsand avoid them. To my mind, that did notgo nearly far enough. No one seemed tobe interested in trying to find the actualcause of the condition; why some peoplewere "allergic" in the first place. Noteveryone has the food allergy problem,so what is different about the person whodoes succumb to this frustrating illness?

My quest meant exploring a hugenumber of therapies as well as personallytaking over 50 fasts (no food, just water)in America, Italy and Britain; somelasting hetween 21 and 30 days each.Therapeutic fasting has long been used,often with great success, in manyillnesses - mental and physical. TheMoscow Institute of Psychiatry forexample, routinely carries out 21-ciayfasts, recording many successes withpsychiatrically ill patients.

I have also undertaken mono-diets ofgrapes-only for four weeks and scores ofother mono-diets of upwards of five days,and many Nature Cure diets, all in anattempt to beat the condition.

Seven months on a version of thenatural-food Gerson therapy was themost promising. But as I was reactingeven to the organic foods on that diet, Iwould question the wisdom of eatingfoods which I knew would bring on areaction, so I would cut the experimentshort of the desired period of 18 monthsto 2 or 3 years recommended for recoveryfrom chronic health conditions.

A fascinating observationAfter a year or two of illness, I made

an intriguing observation. If I had a fever,my "food allergy" symptoms entirelydisappeared. I still had the malaise thataccompanies fever, but my most hatedsymptoms had absolutely vanished!When the temperature dropped, thesymptoms returned. This happened overthe next 20 or so years, when, during thattime I had three more fevers. And on eachoccasion I was completely free fromsymptoms, only to witness their returnwhen the fever subsided.

The actual solution to my illness hadto lie in the fever process. What was thefever doing that would remove mysymptoms? The clue to my illness mustsurely lie in the fever mechanism. Butwhat was that mechanism? The searchwas on. Despite many visits to my localmedical library, and reading many bookson pyrexia, it was clear that even thehighly qualified authors devoted to thesubject did not know the true mechanism- or reason - behind fever. Whilst myknowledge of the fever process expanded,it was to take me a further 20-odd yearsto work out why my symptoms vanishedwhen a fever came on.

Since my original observation, I havespoken with many other food allergieswho also noticed the same freedom fromsymptoms during fever. Others could notrecall if they were symptom-free whenwith fever, but as many food allergieshave periods of remission anyway,noticing the connection could easily bemissed. As my symptoms were with meall the time, the connection was far easierfor me to make.

Certainly, I was clear on one thing.There had to be a fault within the body ofthe food allergic individual. Merelyavoiding the culprit food is hardlyaddressing the problem head on, it ismerely skirting round the issue. If oneperson can he allergic to a tomato, andhis friend not, then clearly the fault isnot within the tomato; it is within theactual person. There is a fault within thefood allergic's body. And as every foodallergic's symptoms repeat time and timeagain at the same site in tbe body,common sense would dictate that theproblem is not systemic, but at the site ofthe symptom.

A blood flow problem?Dwelling on what could be causing the

problem at the site of the symptom in thefood allergic, I pondered the possibilitythat the blood flow might hecompromised. After all, hlood serves theentire body and if there was a blockage,say, at any part, then dysfunction wouldresult at that site. I needed to investigatethe possibility. Deciding to find out oneway or the other if there wascompromised blood flow, I approachedprivately a vascular surgeon with mytheory. I could only test the theory if Ienlisted the help of orthodox medicine.

It was no surprise to receive thereaction that he didn't "believe" in thefood allergy condition at all, but helistened to what I had to say. I explainedhow I was convinced there was a bloodflow connection and that as I was onesuch food allergic individual, I wanted toprogress matters further, to testing hy themost uptodate means available. Headmitted he was very interested butdidn't think there was the slightestchance of what I was proposing likely tobe confirmed.

I suggested I wanted a blood flow testdone, twice: The first one to be carriedout before consuming an allergenicdietary substance and tbe second, anhour or so later, after consuming the food.He was intrigued by my request, and,much to his credit, arranged for this tobe carried out at the Royal Infirmary ofEdinburgh with a colleague of his whowas a "highly experienced radiologist."

Now, whilst I knew that the testingwould be by use of Doppler equipment -used in hospitals throughout tbe world -I was fearful that any hypoperfusion, ifit existed, might be in the smallerarterioles and not able to be picked upby Doppler equipment. Only by tbeSPECT (single photon emissiontomographic) method could anyinterference in hlood flow in themicrocirculation be picked up and I didn'tparticularly want to go down that roadas it was invasive whereas the Dopplerwas not.

When the day came to be tested at theRoyal Infirmary, I was thankfully prettysymptom-free. The entire exercise wouldhave been futile if I had been feelingunwell to begin with, as any reducedblood flow would exist from the veryoutset if my theory was correct. I went,however, fully prepared for the test not

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to show up anything of real value as Iwas aware that the Doppler method beingdeployed would not pick up anymicrocirculatory changes in blood flow,and I really felt it would be in that areawhere any changes would occur, if at all.I took with me to the hospital a flaskcontaining organic carrot and cabbagejuice, both of which produced reactionsin me.

Tbe doctor who was conducting thetesting and I had an animatedconversation relating to what the likelyoutcome would he. He knew, as did hisvascular surgeon friend, of "foodallergies" and the claim that they wereresponsible for a bost of unconnectedsymptoms. This wide range of seeminglyunconnected symptoms played no smallpart in the whole phenomenon of foodallergies being disregarded by orthodoxmedicine. The radiologist admitted thathe was skeptical of the food allergyphenomenon and their supposedmimicking of so many claimed symptoms.He expressed his view that diet had nopart to play in vascular integrity. When Itold him I knew of patients who hadshown a "clearing up" of a degree ofatherosclerosis after being on a naturaldiet for some time, he reluctantlyadmitted that he too knew of similarcases and he only said that be didn'tbelieve in it to "promote conversation"!He admitted that he had seen a differencein patients who had atherosclerosis who,after adhering to a low-cholesterol diet,showed an improved reading on theDoppler when re-teated at a later date.

I lay on the examination table whilsthe greased my carotid artery prior to thetest. We freely talked as he was using theultrasound equipment whilst watchingthe results on tbe monitor in front of him.All looked well and be pronounced thatthe carotids were showing good elasticityand that 1 had nothing to worry about.

I bad told him what I was going to do- drink my allergenic drink - and thathe was to test me again in about an hour.I am also sure tbat he thought he wassimply humoring me at such a seeminglybizarre request, but he agreed to do it.

Now, at this stage, I wish to point outthat I am not the sort of person who cansimply, by mere mental suggestion,influence my hlood flow! I am not thesusceptible person who, expectingsomething to happen, will "suggest" it tohappen. If anything, I am so stubborn inmy nature that I would probably inducethe opposite result! Besides, I truly did

not think that the Doppler would beprecise enough to give me tbe result Iconsidered likely: It would almostcertainly take the fine tuning of tbeSPECT to identify any likely changes.

I put on my shirt whilst be went off toattend to other duties. He said he wouldbe back in about "half an hour" after Ihad taken my juices.

After about half an hour, the doctorreturned. I told him that I wasn't fullyreacting, but that I did feel "something";hopefully enough to register somethingon his equipment. It was clear that hehad used the Doppler equipment many,many, times before and was thoroughlyfamiliar with the readings produced. Tbecombination of my not getting the fullhour that I wanted and the manner inwhich he showed total confidence thatthere would be no change in the readings,both served to somewhat demoralize me.

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I was now convinced that, afterseveral years of harboring this theory,now, when I finally had the equipmentat my disposal, it was going to give nomeaningful result at all. My theory,however plausible it might have been,was now going to die an ignominiousdeath. However, if I was feeling even amere "something" of a reaction, perhapsthat in itself was sufficient to alter thereading? Only the test would tell.

The conversation picked up once moreand animated chit-chat took over as heconfidently applied the probe to mycarotids again whilst watching thepulsating images on the screen in frontof him. All of a sudden he stopped theconversation in its tracks, and, quicklyputting his finger to his lips, said"Shhhh." He was anxiously studying thescreen and obviously trying to makesense of what he was seeing. Much to hishorror, the Doppler ultrasound wasregistering a significant change in bloodflow perfusion!

He was moving the probe over andover the carotids again to see if thereading would alter. But it wouldn't.There was no disputing that this secondreading showed a significant change inblood flow over the earlier test. Accordingto John Buckley, Director of the Arterial


Disease Clinic in Leigh, Manchester,Doppler ultrasound equipment isaccurate to plus or minus 5%. My readingat the Royal Infirmary of Edinburghshowed a 30% change on the secondreading which was indicative of aconsiderably reduced blood flow!

Somewhat irritated that someone notin his "field" of expertise could forecastsuch an unlikely result right in front ofhim, he spun round on bis chair andangrily exclaimed "but it's not scientific!"

Yes, I agreed with him. It wasn'tscientific. But it was half way there. Allit needed was more tests on more people.Just because this test does not have theluxury of other tests to compare it with,does not mean to say it won't be the samein every future case. The first discoveryof a kind must always he withoutprevious evidence - it can only ever bethat way if it is a new discovery!

But the fact that I had predicted sucha result in advance, surely suggested thatthe "scientific" approach should havebeen to further investigate thisphenomenon rather that just dismiss it,because it meant that someone not in his

field of expertise had discoveredsomething that he had never considered.

Analyzing the "allergic" conditionNow that I knew blood flow integrity

was involved at the site of the symptomin the food allergic, I then had to considerwhat likely factor could be involved insuch hypoperfusion.

The options, I considered, could onlybe;1. That there was damage at the site of

the symptom - in other wordssomething damaged. Or;

2. That there was something that shouldbe there that wasn't there - in otherwords something missing. Or;

3. That there was something there thatshouldn't be there, in other words -something added.Something damaged seemed a good

candidate. But when I recalled my owndietary experiments, I had to discount it.My month-long fasts, which are noted fortheir acceleration of healing due to theconsiderable physiological rest permittedthe system, would surely have repairedany such damage. Besides, many food

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allergies can experience a severe reactionfor an hour or so. then feel well after that.If there truly was damage, it wouldn't lastsimply an hour. Also, my 7 months on aNature Cure diet, such diets having along history of successful healthrestorations, would surely have achievedrepair. But it didn't. No, I had to dismisssomething damaged for the moment.

I considered something mhsing. Butas I had persevered with the fruit andvegetable diet for seven months, anynutrient deficiencies would surely havebeen satisfied in that time. Besides, whyshould something be "missing" for theduration of the allergic reaction yet notbe, an hour or so later? So somethingmissing was shelved for the moment.

Something added looked the likeliestculprit. Space does not permit all theconsiderations I dwelt on, but I initiallyfavored old drug or chemical residues inthe system. But my fasting and natural-food attempts, both famous for theelimination of toxins, had failed toremove same. And, if an old drug residuewas responsible, why should the problemonly occur for an hour or so then vanish?How could it change shape or form tocreate a blood How blockage in that hourand then settle down? Furthermore, asold drugs and chemicals become adipose-bound, how could they create aninterference with the blood flow?

Why also should my symptomsdisappear only when I had a fever, if olddrugs or chemicals were the reason? Butthe best reason for dismissing old drugsand chemicals was when I realised thatarthritis, a well-established food allergysymptom, has been around for centuries.Our modern drugs have not.... So,something added it surely must be. Butwhat?

After dispelling drugs and othertoxins, I gradually arrived at theastonishing consideration that thesomething added might be living! Inother words, a parasite. A commonhabitat of parasites in the body is thelumen of blood vessels. If that were thecase, it could account for the interferencein blood flow during the allergic"reaction."

I propose here to suggest that thepopular "leaky gut" theory of food/chemical allergy is highly unlikely as ananswer. A permeable gut wall cannot bethe cause of food allergy symptoms whenthe same symptoms can be brought onby an aeroallergen which doesn't eveninvolve the gut wall. The fact that onemerely has to inhale a chemical in order

to achieve a full-blown reaction hasalways puzzled investigators. However ifparasites are involved in the food allergyproblem, perhaps the picture becomessomewhat clearer.

There is much that science doesn'tknow about the highly advanced methodsof food detection displayed by animals.Such "super senses" prevail throughoutthe animal kingdom. The amazingeyesight of the hawk; the extraordinarysense of smell of "sniffer" dogs, are justtwo of the fascinating abilities beyond ourcomprehension. Others undoubtedlyawait our discovery.

If micro-organisms were involved inthe food/chemical allergic reaction, themechanism involved could be a form ofpositive cbemotaxis whereby the parasiterecognises by mere chemical "taint" of thebloodstream, a substance and respondsaccordingly. Such responses by parasitesto chemical stimuli are known in parasitephysiology and can play an essential partin their method of locating an appropriatehost and/or food.

For example, a monogenean parasiteof European marine flatfish, Entobdellasoleae, is able to locate its preferred host(sole) by chemical recognition of the fishskin. [Cox, Prof. F.E.G.: ModernParasitology: Blackwell Science, Oxford,England, 1993] Perhaps this uniquesensory skill plays a large part in theaeroallergen reaction when a chemicalinhalant hits the bloodstream and themicro-organisms burst into a feedingfrenzy.

We know that micro-organisms in theocean depths feed off gases from theearth's centre that emanate throughminiature volcanic-like structures on theocean floor. Perhaps therein lies the keyto how micro-organisms feed within thebody of tbe food allergic: the food thatthey eat will create gases within theblood. Perhaps they feed off thesechemical gases. That certainly wouldexplain why the food/chemical allergicpatient can become ill on inhalingperfumes. These "gases" go directly intothe blood. Such parasites would then feedon our hlood, which would result in theirincreasing in size (bloating). I have seenpictures of parasites bloated to twice theirsize after a blood-meal. Perhaps simplebloating by hordes of these animals in thelumen of a blood vessel is all it takes forthe blood flow to be impeded. Such"simple blockage" of the blood flow wouldbe all that would be required to producesymptoms beyond that area.

And in case the reader thinks that"simple blockage" by parasites may be toolowly an explanation for the host ofconditions linked to food allergy, let mequote from the 1999 edition of ModernParasitology [p209: Blackwell Science,OxfordJ: "Both lymphatic and ocularfilariasis are accompanied hy grosspathological changes, elephantiasis andblindness, but it is not clear if these haveany immunological basis and currentopinion favours simple obstruction." Heretherefore is a fine example of howparasitologists - specialists in parasitesI should remind you - have only veryrecently connected the possibility of-"simple blockage" as playing a part inillnesses they have been investigating forover a century.

If parasitologists can be so remiss intheir consideration of cause of an illnessthey have been studying for decades,what chance would an ordinary doctorhave in even considering parasites asbeing behind food allergies - which manydon't even accept exist?

I travel to CaliforniaI found someone else who was homing

in on the parasite connection to illness,but not specifically food allergies. Dr.Hulda Clark of California had leftgovernment-funded research to goindependent. She considered parasiteswere implicated in a huge number ofillnesses, including cancers.

Knowledge of parasitology is in itsinfancy. And the fact that parasites haveno skeletal structure, therefore don'tshow up in X-rays, makes connectingthem to many illnesses extremelydifficult. I flew over to Dr. Clark's clinicand was taught the rudiments of herelectronic method of testing for parasites.I took the opportunity to have my sputumtested for their presence. It was positivefor several parasite species!

Since then I have learned how tomicroscopically examine my own blood,sputum, urine and faeces for parasitepresence.

I can assure you, being told you haveparasites is one thing, actually seeingthem for yourself coming out of your bodyis quite another! I took photographs usinga photomicrographic camera, at lOOxmagnification, Lugol stained, showingparasite eggs I had unwittingly been hostto (these are available separately uponrequest).

How best to eliminate parasites?Parasites are all around us. A

newspaper of November 29,1998' statedthat one baby cereal tested containedover 20,000 mites per kilo!

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In separate research, a sample of 6types of vegetables in an American study,carried out between 1979-1981 showedthat parasite eggs are virtuallyeverywhere. It showed that over 50' ^ ofall vegetables tested had some parasites.Carrots had the highest percentage at91.7%. The other parasites and eggsfound were 3 Ascaris eggs, 1,767 larvalnematodes (the majority beingrhabditiform), 175 unidentified eggs and44 amoebic cysts!

Nematodes are human parasites thatare extremely abundant in nature. Asingle spadeful of garden soil may containa million or more and a bucket of waterfrom a pond usually contains a similarnumber!^

Dr. Clark was attempting to eliminateparasites by using herbs and instructingher patients to avoid all contact withparasite eggs, by scrupulously removingall dirt from fruits and vegetables. Sherecommends boiling milk in order to killall bacteria. She suggests you shouldwash vegetables in an iodine solution inorder to kill Ascaris eggs. Sbe furtbersuggests sterilising your toothbrusb withgrain alcohol each time you use it, andyou should avoid licking your fingerswhen turning over pages in a book.Despite these, and many more measures,many patients would still harbourparasites. I concluded however that shewas overlooking something veryelementary.

Watch any Nature program and youwill see tigers and other wild animalstearing open their prey and invariablyconsuming dirt. It seems to be perfectlynatural. Yet animals in the wild are notbeset with food allergies or cancers.

And besides, what about those peoplewho do not wash their fruits andvegetahles before eating? Not all of thembecome ill. What about those people whodo not boil their milk before drinking?Not all of them become ill either. Andwhat ahout those people who do notsterilise their toothbrush? Not all of themsuffer as a consequence. And those peoplewho do lick their fingers turning overpages? Not all of those people become illeither.

No, simply trying to avoid every singleparasite and every single egg for the restof your life cannot be the entire answer;they are so prevalent in Nature it wouldbe impossible to do so. There had to beanother way.

Your "internal environment"It seemed logical to consider that the

person's health, his "internalenvironment" if you will, had to play apart in the equation. After all, is it not


well known that plant parasites do notattack healthy plants? If that be the case,the only way to improve the health of apatient is to raise his nutritional status;to improve his diet dramatically. Asanyone in nutritional medicine knows,drugs may give temporary relief from asymptom but they cannot restore healthto someone chronically ill.

The DiscoveryUnbeknownst, thankfully, to most

visitors to my house, I had, sitting in myfridge, unashamedly beside the food, apack of 50 million insect parasiticnematodes Steinernema feltiae, which Ihad obtained in order to study theirbehaviour. I noted that they wouldrespond whenever the microscope'ssubstage illuminator was switched on.

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But other than that, I was floundering tocapture any other significant aspect oftheir behaviour.

One day, whilst reading a book onhiological science, I came across theobservation that when amoebas arestudied on a slide, if one end is cooled andthe other end of the slide is warmed, theseparasites will migrate to the warm end.''

Amoebas are parasites capable ofproducing much illness in humans.^Amoebic dysentery is an illness caused bythe organism Entamoeba histolytica andspread by contaminated food, water, orflies. If the organism enters the portalcirculation. Amoebic abscess can result.These abscesses can also invade the lung,brain or spleen." I read on for a while,then stopped dead in my tracks. It struckme like a thunderbolt! I had just readsomething that appeared insignificantinitially but suddenly hit me like asledgehammer. If the parasitic amoebason the microscope slide responded totemperature change, here, was anabsolutely vital clue to their behaviour:Parasites are temperature-sensitive!!

Therefore, if my personal food allergycondition was linked to parasites, and ifparasites are influenced by temperature,that then explains why my food allergysymptoms disappeared when I had afever! The low body temperature that Iknew I had, but paid no real attentionto, must have been ideal for the parasitesand they were only overcome when mybody temperature increased!

After 30 years of searching for anexplanation as to why my food allergysymptoms disappeared whenever I hada high temperature, here surely was theanswer: The high temperature haddefeated the parasites,

I was almost in a state of shock. Thissurely was the answer. It is already wellestablished in medicine that a subnormalbody temperature can produce manysymptoms. But I had never related myown low body temperature to my foodallergy condition.

It was clear I could not go through lifeconstantly in a state of fever in order toget well. But the high temperature meantI had reached, and passed, 98.6 degrees,which is normal. If my temperature wereto merely reach that figure, and sustainit through life, that would surely have thesame effect as a quick burst of a muchhigher temperature (fever)!

Low body temperatureBut what can we do to raise our core

body temperature? The solution came tome quickly. It was only a relatively recentdiscovery that I had a chronic low bodytemperature, generally in the high 96'sor low 97's, when a perfect temperaturewould be 98.6, which equates with health.

I recalled how, in Cures That Work'by Janet Pleshette, a founding memberof Tyringham Health Clinic wasdiagnosed hypothyroid and, rather thantake the drug Thyroxine for the rest ofher life, went on a fruit and vegetable dietand recovered her health fully.Hypothyroidism would certainly haveinvolved low body temperature. Bydietary means she had managed to raiseher body temperature, although she hadnever recorded it. I also recalled thatwhen I was on my 7-month diet of fruitsand vegetables, my body temperaturewas erratically, but inexorably,improving.

I decided to check back in my diaryand record my temperatures on a graph.The overall climb in temperature wasthere for all to see, despite stopping thediet prematurely and not sustaining it forthe full 18 months to 2 years. The numberof days on the higher level of 97.8° andabove, was increasing as the dietprogressed, and the number of days onthe far lower level of 97.5 and below, hadall but disappeared. (The graph isavailable separately upon request.)

But is one degree enough?Even a single degree below normal

body temperature, can produce a host ofwell-documented symptoms, bothphysical and mental. ResearchersEmanuel Donchin and Noel Marshall,from the University of Chicago,discovered that very slight daily changesin body temperature - one or two degreesbelow normal - were enough to reducecertain brain responses in test subjects."

Dr. Stephen Langer in his bookSolved: The Riddle of Illness^ states thateven a single degree below the desired98.6 deg. F. can display all manner ofhealth problems such as dry, coarse skin,lethargy, depression, mental symptoms,hair loss, weight problems, nervousness,irritability, headaches, palpitations,painful menstruation, difficult breathing,poor memory and a host of others. Heestimates that over 40% of the Americanpopulation has a subnormal temperature- a massive number of well over 100million people.

Remember that a mere "one" degreemight not seem much to us. But it is onlywe humans who have decided that thatmeasurement of heat equates to a single"one" degree. To an organism one-thousand times smaller than us, a "mere"one degree of our measuring might be athousand degrees by their measurement!And remember, when we have a bacterialor viral infection, what does Nature do?She develops fever in the body in orderto combat them. She had long, long ago,worked out that parasites aretemperature-sensitive. Furthermore,fever starts at 100 degrees. If our"normal" temperature is 98.6, then 100degrees is only just one degree abovenormal. So Nature herself recognises itonly takes a mere one degree to do thebusiness.

Here finally, was an explanation whyrecoveries occur on diets like the Gersontherapy: If many illnesses, includingcancers, have a micro-organismimplication, the diet would lift the bodytemperature sufficiently to defeat suchorganisms, resulting in removal ofsymptoms.

Conflrmation from the world ofscience

I came across confirmation of mytheory, from an orthodox scientific source,in Pyretics and Antipyretics^^: "It has beenrecognised that syphillis (caused by theparasite Treponema pallidum) andgonorrhea (caused by the parasiteNeisseria gonorrhoea) are heat sensitiveand are killed directly by increasing thetemperature of the victim. Indeed, beforethe advent of antibiotics, treatment usedto consist of using injections in order tobring about artificial fevers!"

Symptoms linked to parasitesDuring my search of the microbiology

literature, I came across many symptomscaused by parasites which are also to befound in the conditions linked to foodallergies and low body temperature:including, amongst a host of others,arthritis, depression, epilepsy, asthma,mental confusion, Alzheimer's, eczemaand other skin infections. One notableobservation was that laboratory workers,whilst studying the Ascaris micro-organism, developed asthma."

Recently, a Californian teacher had aparasitic worm removed from her brainat the Mayo Clinic at Scottsdale, Arizona,by an epilepsy specialist, Joseph Sirven.After the parasite was removed, herepilepsy disappeared. Further evidencethat ill-considered factors such asparasites, may play a greater part inchronic illness than we ever previouslyconsidered.

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Parasites - the hidden epidemic?Could unsuspected parasitism be

responsihie for more common illnessesthan we have thus far considered?

it was only in 1983 that an Australianscientist implicated the parasite -Helicobacter Pylorus - in duodena! ulcers.His findings were disregarded for over adecade but his work is now validated.Only recently, the human papilloma virushas been linked to virtually all cases ofcervical cancer. And micro-organismshave even been found in the brains ofAlzheimer's patients.'^

Parasites are classified as eithercommensal, symbiotic or pathogenic.

A commensal parasite is thought tolive off the host's own diet and givenothing in return, and is harmless. Asymbiotic parasite is thought to live in"partnership" with the host, receivingnourishment hut returning a service.Examples of symbionts are thecellulolytic bacteria that digest plant foodin the intestine of herbivores, and thevitamin-synthesizing bacteria of thehuman intestine.

A pathogen causes harm to its host.However, there is considerableconfusion ' as to what are actual harmfulpathogens and what are harmless


commensal parasites. Parasitespreviously considered commensal arenow viewed as heing pathogenic - andvice versa.

It is my view that it is not thepathogenicity of the micro-organism thatshould be focussed on, but the state ofhealth of the host. After all, someone canhe HIV positive and be entirelyasymptomatic whilst his friend can be atdeath's door with the full-blowncondition. Perhaps mere bodytemperature is all the difference betweena carrier and a full-blown sufferer.

Hereditary illnessIf we accept the parasite/food allergy

theory, then the well-known tendency forallergies to "run in the family" is nowcapable of being explained. As micro-organisms can be passed from the fatherto the mother, and then to the foetus, herewe have a fine explanation for so-called"allergic" conditions being passed downthrough the family line.

The Answer to AIDS?In light of this research, could the

explanation as to why some people whoare infected with HIV and present nosymptoms whilst others develop full-hlown AIDS now be explained? Could itbe that those who are asymptomatic havea body temperature just that critical bithigher than those who succumb? It iseminently possible and makes perfectsense, but only fuller investigation willprovide the answer. However if I amcorrect - and the answer is simply eatingas Nature insisted we should - then thewill to research this further will not exist.There is no profit to the drug companiesin eating fruits and vegetables. So the"answer" to AIDS may forever remain amystery.

I came across this little gem, which isas fine an example as you can get, of acondition that has all the hallmarks offood allergy, and which was resolvedwhen a parasite was eliminated: HumanParasitology'* states: Toxocara spp.: Acase was reported by Rodan and Buckley(1969) of a child, aged 4, who suffered

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from frequent epigastric pains, lastinghalf to one hour, often connected withmeals, prior to vomiting a T. cati worm.

Natural diet can raise your bodytemperature!

Now, with the ammunition to raise myhody temperature - natural diet - 1 wenton a 14 month diet of (mostly) organicfruits and vegetables, with some 100%wholewheat hread, organic soups, organicoatmeal and organic fruit and vegetablejuices several times a day. The progressof my body temperature is shown. Theinevitable rise is remarkable and mustsurely be the way all human bodiesrespond to proper nutrition. If correct,that natural diet can raise a low bodytemperature, then it stands to reasonthat it must have been the previous(unnatural, processed) diet that wasresponsible for the low body temperaturein the first place. This speaks volumesfor the fight against GM technology, asclearly Nature knows far better than anyscientist of the effects on the human bodyof poor diet. The inevitable rise in bodytemperature - albeit erratic - is clearlyshown from the tables. As thetemperatures rose, the symptomssubsided.

Author's UpdateI recently went to London to buy a car.

Whilst there I treated myself to a day offmy diet. It was my first break from thediet in six months - although I had beenon it 14 months. I knew a day or so off itwould not be critical, so long as it didn'textend far beyond that.

I went to a favorite restaurant that Ihad visited many, many times before. Thesame owners were there and I chose thesame meal that I always seemed to choose

when I visited this place. Nothing exotic,just plain shepherd's pie, roast potatoesand vegetables.

I loved this particular meal but alwayspaid for it with a real flattener of areaction. As sure as night would followday I would, within half an hour ofstarting the meal, feel the familiarfatigue-like reaction wasb over me. Icould set my watch by it and the massivereaction never varied.

This time I noticed that, half an houror so later, no reaction had taken place. Iwas still feeling a bit of a ligbt reactionfrom the small hotel breakfast I bad acouple of hours before, but it was onlymild. I presumed tbe big reaction wasrunning late, so to speak, perhaps as aconsequence of my body chemistry beingchanged due to the length of time I hadbeen on the natural diet. That surely wasit, I considered.

After three quarters of an hour, withno reaction, I began to ponder theimpossible. Might it be the case that Icould get away witb eating this meal witbno reaction at a//? That would be a dreamcome true but it surely couldn't possiblyhappen. I wanted to phone my daughterto tell her, but thought I had better holdon just in case the reaction was "runninglate."

I was browsing around an antiqueshop, more excited about the prospect ofhaving eaten such a meal and possiblygetting away witb it for tbe first time,than what was on offer in tbe shop. I wasclock-watching every minute. As everyfew minutes passed I wondered if I shouldphone my daughter. But I had to be sure.

After an hour and a half, when allpossibility of a reaction would have beenwell under way, if not even wearing off,no reaction had occurred as a

Here are the first twelve months' temperature readings, broken down into four3-monthly periods. The increases are all the more remarkable when broken

down thus:

Days98.3 and above98.0 and above97.8 and above97.5 and below

The full 14-month period broken down month by month:

Months 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14Days SS.S or higher 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 2 6 5 4 6 5Days 98.0''or higher 5 6 7 8 5 5 14 10 12 19 12 17 18 18Days 97.8°or higher 10 12 12 16 16 16 25 21 25 26 28 28 29 28Days 97.5° or lower 5 9 1 1 1 4 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0

First3 Months

018U28

Second3 Months

I

487

Third3 Months

536713

Fourth3 Months

1548820

consequence of eating that meal. In factthe only thing that was happening wasthat the mild reaction from the breakfastwas now no longer evident. Thisastonishing event was very, very specialto me. It was a massive discovery andsurely, at last, reward for following to theletter, such a rigid dietary regimen.

When I did phone my daughter, Ididn't stop there. I phoned many people,absolutely thrilled to have had such anunexpected - and it truly was unexpected- response to eating a well-establishedallergenic meal tbat was always capableof provoking a massive response in me.All the more surprising that two mealswithin a few hours should go virtually"unnoticed" by my system when it shouldbe remembered that I was someone whoreacted to every meal I had ever eatenover tbe last 30 years!

I am still continuing my diet, as mytemperature is still showing signs ofclimbing and I have to continue until ithas reached, and more importantly,stabilised at 98.6 degrees. It should beexpected then that the mild reactions Inow sometimes experience will become athing of the past.

Below are my up-to-date temperaturereadings. As you will see, thetemperature pattern is climbing all tbetime, albeit erratically. This erraticnature of dietary recovery is to beexpected, but the reward for complyingwith Nature's laws is that recovery, whenit comes, will be lasting.

Correspondence:Alan Hunter PhD (AM), MBRCP83 Momingside DriveEdinburgh EHIO 5NJTel: 0131-447-4442Fax: 0131-447-4454Mobile: 07973-171474

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