ISABELLA PERRY

Allergies should be viewed as symptoms of the whole body picture. Why are you disposed to getting allergies in the first place, rather than what are you allergic to? This is a very important question, because if you are suffering from chronic symptoms, whether caused by allergies or some other reason, then your body systems are not functioning as they should.

When food allergies are present, then the liver is not succeeding in filtering out partly digested food materials before they meet the immune system, which is therefore constantly over-triggered. Exhaustion may result, and low blood sugar attacks may cause attacks of the symptoms.

Nutritional therapy aims to determine and correct why this is happening.

Asthma is associated with skin problems, notably eczema and psoriasis, and has the same causes, with tendencies running in families. It results from bowel misfunction and toxicity as well as some nutritional deficiencies and irritation by pollutants. It is worsened by stress. It can be helped considerably and even eliminated by nutritional therapy.

Joint and muscle pains commonly improve when the mineral balance of the tissues is addressed. Very often people are too low in magnesium and potassium, and this can cause pain and muscle tension, or the uneven pull of muscles on the skeletal structure. There are many other nutritional factors that can help pain and condition of the joints and muscles to improve, even when it is caused by conditions such as arthritis of various sorts, or inflammation in parts of the body.

There are nutritional components that have an anti-inflammatory effect which do away with the necessity for anti-inflammatory drugs, and conversely there are foods which encourage inflammation, which can be avoided.

Infertility can result from the wrong level of acidity in the vagina, making it hostile to sperm. It can also be caused by excess mucus in the body blocking the fallopian tubes.