The Role of Basic Food Allergies in Allergic Diseases
We use the definition of "essential foods" for the foods that occupy the most part in our daily diet and that we eat at almost every meal. What are these foods? Bread, meat, milk, eggs, sugar. Actually, we should not forget the yeasts; From bread to cheese, from yoghurt to vinegar; Although this nutritional contribution, which is inevitably found in many foods, is not a food, it is among the basic nutrients that cause allergies.
Are Allergic Diseases Really an Important Health Problem?
Based on the latest scientific developments. In addition to making daily life difficult, allergies are also responsible for many life-threatening diseases, especially auto-immune diseases, which are increasingly common today. But the ordinary food items we eat every day are responsible for most of the allergies!
How Common Are Basic Food Allergies?
Let me name a few of the auto-immune diseases caused by basic food allergies, how common are they? You decide whether it is common:
- Type-I diabetes
- Hashimoto's Thyroiditis
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Ankylosing Spondylitis
- Celiac disease
Again, some of the diseases caused by basic food allergies are;
Skin diseases such as sinusitis, gastritis, colitis, reflux, acne, psoriasis, Type-II diabetes, obesity, vascular diseases such as atherosclerosis - vascular calcification, allergic reactions to hundreds of substances such as pollen, animal dander, house dust...
Basic food allergies also lead to various behavioral disorders:
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Hyperactivity, attention deficit, social maladjustment, carbohydrate addiction…
These are just a few examples. Basic food allergies cause many other disorders in the body, such as aggravating the side effect profiles of various drugs.
So, how does this process work? How come almost sacred foods such as bread and milk make us "allergic"?
1- Some people are genetically vulnerable to the proteins of some foods.
2- Food proteins in genetically vulnerable people It causes damage to the intestine.
3- Just as foreign proteins leak into the body from this damaged tissue, many other substances in the intestine at the same time mix with the blood from the same place. .
4- Foreign proteins that enter the blood are distributed throughout the body with circulation.
5- Foreign proteins begin to damage all tissues that have cells with the same structure as intestinal cells.
6- Our immune system reacts immediately where damage occurs, but cannot destroy foreign proteins. Because these proteins mix with the blood while they are not fully digested in the intestine, they are very large.
7- Since the cause of damage to the intestine is a substance that is constantly consumed every day, our immune system is under great stress due to this 'attack' that continues every day. , its healthy functioning is disrupted.
8- Our immune system begins to give extreme responses when under stress. The damage caused by the immune system is added to the damage caused by the foreign protein.
9- Tissue damage progresses and the structure of the tissue deteriorates. For example, if this tissue is leather, even perfume or metal jewelry can cause disease on the skin. Result: allergic skin
10- As the structure of the tissue deteriorates, its functions also deteriorate. For example, if this tissue is thyroid tissue, it no longer produces enough hormones. Result: Hypothyroidism
11- Disease conditions that can no longer be ignored develop in the form of organ symptoms. For example, in case of pancreatic damage, insulin production stops. Result: Type-I diabetes.
By the way; It may be useful to briefly explain the concepts of allergy and intolerance; Because these two definitions describe very different concepts:
Intolerance: As a result of the carbohydrate content of foods not being digested in the small intestine, this sugary intestinal content advances to the large intestine and the bacteria and especially fungi that make up the flora there overfeed on this rich content and create gas, which causes bloating. Describes the process of giving rise. The reason for the intolerance process is the inability to produce some digestive enzymes in some people.
Food allergy means a series of reactions in the body against proteins in foods. The main reason that causes the allergy process is that proteins in some foods disrupt intestinal permeability and enter the body. The entry of a foreign protein into the body means the mixing of a poison into the blood and the invasion of a foreign substance into the body. Our defense system (immune system = immune system) does it exactly this way. also perceives. The entry of a foreign protein into the body sooner or later creates a chain of life-threatening reactions.
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