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The Load Phenomenon
While the Load Phenomenon described here is mostly environmental and food toxins, the same principal applies to electromagnetic radiation. It's not just one issue, it can also be intertwined with other sensitivities and exposures.
The Load Phenomenon and Environmental Illness
from Breakspear Medical Group, Ltd
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Think of the body as having to reach a threshold above which symptoms occur. This threshold is not fixed and can be lowered by stress, infection and general factors such as lack of sleep. To reach the threshold, the effects are cumulative as the body interacts with environmental agents. Once the threshold is reached, symptoms will be produced and this is what we call The Load Phenomenon.
“Loads” include things like indoor and outdoor air pollution, impure water and food. If a person is sensitive to certain foods and chemicals in the environment, the threshold is swiftly reached and symptoms produced. However, if a person has few stresses, plenty of exercises, ample sleep and no infection, despite encountering items to which he is sensitive, his threshold may not be reached.
Foods eaten daily are sources of nutrients for survival but they are also a major environmental stress on the body. If a food is rarely eaten and one is sensitive to it, then it is possible to discern that there is a problem when an acute symptom ensues. Shrimps and strawberries are well-known offenders in this respect. However, if a food is eaten frequently then it may only be possible to identify a problem by avoiding it for a while and then reintroducing it.
Continuously being overburdened by some foods, particularly common ones such as wheat, milk, sugar, eggs and potato, will mask the symptoms. Chronic symptoms may fluctuate on and off depending upon the body's total load.
Food addiction is very common. If the body is continually forced to accept a food, it adapts to the presence of that substance, but this maladapted state leads to a state of physical addiction, as the body requires the presence of the substance (as in alcohol or cigarette addiction). If a feeding delayed, the body will have withdrawal symptoms. Taking the food will temporarily relieve the symptoms; therefore a food addict may crave the food that is responsible for the chronic symptoms. Eventually, eating the offending food may not relieve symptoms and more serious symptoms may be experienced.
A simple but slow method of identifying problem foods is by avoidance followed by challenge. Avoid a food for five days then eat the food on its own. If the food is capable of causing symptoms, an adverse reaction will occur as an isolated flare up of symptoms. Avoidance unmasks or converts a chronic maladaptive reaction to an acute symptom on challenge.
Three to six months’ avoidance often lowers the load so the body will not reach the threshold; hence long term avoidance of particularly common foods can be therapeutic.
A rotation diet involves avoiding repeating foods more than once in four days. This lowers the load so that the threshold may not be reached. Once this treatment diet is established, it may be easier to identify foods that cause problems.
Controlling environmental illness can be a challenge requiring patience and persistence. The goal is to buy the body time to heal by avoiding chronic and acute reaction. Accept the fact that environmental illness is present and may make it difficult for you to do certain things, but do not let the illness stop you living.
Treatment is rebuilding and healing, not just holding ground against a progressing chronic illness of unknown origin. With proper knowledge to help oneself, with the guidance and support of the doctor, it is possible to regain true health.
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