Certain bacteria missing in the gut can cause food allergy (IgE immune response). This points to restoring gut health as a way to address food allergies.
Food allergies are those that can cause life threatening anaphylaxis.
Babies and children with food allergies are missing certain strains of gut bacteria. The research shows that in fact, adding those bacteria strains to mice, protected the mice against food allergies.
This means that figuring out what’s happening in the gut may help resolve food allergies without making changes to or modulating the immune system, and may resolve all food allergies at one time rather than one at a time as is the case with immune therapy.
Food allergies affect mostly younger children and are more prevalent in Western countries. They are on the rise too in developing countries.
The theory is that Western lifestyle is adversely affecting opportunities for babies to acquire a healthy gut microbiome.
This is more confirmation that health begins in the gut. It’s where 80% of your immune system is, so it makes sense that problems in your gut can cause a range of immune problems.
This also means that your symptoms and health problems (including skin rashes like eczema) are rooted in gut problems.
This also means that elimination diets, fad diets, and any diet that restricts whole real foods, food groups and categories of foods will not solve the problem, and in fact can make it worse. That’s because your body runs off nutrients from foods you eat. When they are missing imbalances develop and symptoms and health problems follow (this can be even worse in little ones).
I have yet to find a client who has truly resolved their symptoms and health problems with diet. It may work for a little while, but the problems come back and worsen over time.
This is because now the body is missing fuel it needs to grow, develop, repair, function and thrive!
Food is not the root cause. Restoring your health means restoring your gut health.