Anti-Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood,
Health, Behaviour and Learning
By Brenda Sampson
MANAGING ALLERGIC CONDITIONS
e.g. Asthma, eczema, hayfever, ear/nose/throat infections, migraine, disturbed emotions and behaviour, etc. (there are many others)
All allergy comes from stress (perhaps all disease comes from stress). The adrenal glands are intended for coping with stress in acute emergencies, but people wear out their adrenals with constant daily stresses such as drinking toxic tea and coffee, and eating foods that contain a host of minute doses of toxic chemicals.
When the total stress load is more than the body and the adrenal glands can cope with, that is when allergic symptoms appear. If the stress load can be lightened, they will tend to disappear. In allergic jargon, if the total body load of stress is high, the threshold at which allergic symptoms appear will be low, and vice versa. So basically the treatment for all allergic disease is the same; lower the total stress load.
Stress occurs in two ways, physical and mental or emotional. Most people are aware of mental stress because it occurs in the conscious mind; but most people are not aware of physical stress because it occurs in the interior of the body which is governed by the unconscious mind without our being aware of it. The adrenal glands cope with both kinds of stress in the same way, i.e., chemically. The body is an electro-chemical machine. Everything that happens inside our skin is programmed like a computer, but chemically, not electronically. All the hormones are chemical messengers, travelling round the body in the blood stream delivering their messages.
For repair and maintenance the body needs the chemicals it is made of. It does not need or want any others; if any foreign chemicals enter the body, it has the stress of getting rid of them; if it has no means of getting rid of them the stress is even greater. Trillions of correctly programmed chemical changes are going on in the body every micro-second; foreign chemicals must interfere with these, and cause loss of efficiency. There has been a chemical revolution in the last sixty years, and foreign chemicals have entered our food, air and water. The first and easiest way to reduce stress is to lower this toxic load.
