Allergy?

[Injun]

HEY!!!
IS THIS THING ON!!??

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1 lb kale
1 lb spinach
1 lemon
1 (or 2) jalapeno
1 hunk of ginger root about the size of your thumb
1 or 2 cloves of garlic
we add apples to make it more palatable and to bring the volume up to about a quart
About a quart lasts a week.
3 or 4 ounces a day is all it takes.


This the juice recipe that has kept my wife going for nearly a year now...
IT WORKS DAMMIT!!!!!


When I was a little kid my mom had a friend with a really thick German accent.
She'd get frustrated easily when people couldn't understand her and she'd say,
IF I HAD A HAMMER I WOULD POUND IT INTO YOUR HEAD!!!

That sounds very healthy. But I hope you're not assuming I haven't tried hollistic approaches yet. If the shots don't work, or if it turns out I'm allergic to too many things to ever feel well, my last option will be:

 

[Blood]

That sounds very healthy. But I hope you're not assuming I haven't tried hollistic approaches yet.

I'm sure you have.
So had we.
I can't tell you how many doctors she went to the first 20 years we were married,
but very few over the last 15+ years because it was always the same old story.

Dozens of creams n ointments for the worst of the symptoms over the years.
Every once in a while she would score a big win only to be disappointed at the next flair-up because the miraculous treatment was useless. It got to the point where she would save all the medications and try them one after another when her symptoms were bad enough. Usually to no avail.

The only thing that consistently brought some limited improvement for the symptoms that couldn't be treated otherwise was steroids. And obviously, you can't maintain a steady diet of those.

Last year, a couple of months before she started juicing I was buying horse wraps n topical antibiotics at TSC...
Wrapping her feet and sometimes her hands like a leper which is what the near absence of flesh brought to mind.

The worst days she's had in the last year would have been a Godsend compared to what we had been resigned to considering typical over the last dozen or more years. I can't even remember how many years it's been since she's had a run like this, but it's a LOT!!

What have you got to lose?
Maybe $150 for a juicer plus about a dollar a day for the ingredients and less than 30 minutes per week of your time.
Why in the world would you NOT try it?

 

[Injun]

Why in the world would you NOT try it?

I'm allergic to most fresh fruits and vegetables. How much sense does it make to risk anaphylaxis by ingesting the very things that cause anaphylaxis? That would be like telling someone to treat a peanut allergy by eating peanut butter.

 

[Duck]

I'm allergic to most fresh fruits and vegetables. How much sense does it make to risk anaphylaxis by ingesting the very things that cause anaphylaxis? That would be like telling someone to treat a peanut allergy by eating peanut butter.

My mom is immune to poison ivy.

When she was a toddler she wandered off & they found her eating poison ivy leaves. She's in her 60's & has never gotten a rash from poison ivy. Turns out, the indians used to eat poison ivy to build up immunities to it.

 

[Blood]

I'm allergic to most fresh fruits and vegetables. How much sense does it make to risk anaphylaxis by ingesting the very things that cause anaphylaxis? That would be like telling someone to treat a peanut allergy by eating peanut butter.

So, what makes you think you won't have a severe reaction to the introduction of foreign fecal matter into your gut?

Living with this for forty-plus years, I am desperate to try anything to stop the allergies.

Which of the ingredients known to cause a reaction in your system?
Which are known not to cause a reaction?
Start from there and try tiny bits of each ingredient to see.
That's basically what they do with allergen tests isn't it?
They map out an area on your back and dose you starting with the most common things and progressively expose you until they find your kryptonite.
If your system can't tolerate it that's a shame.
If it can, this stuff might turn you into super girl.

If the balance, or maybe imbalance, in your system is that severe...
well that would just suck.
Eating food prepared by others almost daily seems like a big risk in it's own right due to incidental 'contamination' and unspecified fillers, ingredients, etc.

If this were a pill I'd pay any price for it,
work a second job,
sell anything I own,
beg, steal or borrow if it came to that.

It's almost too easy.
We still get giddy when we stop to think about it.
It's worth the effort to see if you can make it work for you.
Just imagine how it would change your life if it does work.

 

[Injun]

Something to consider is cleanliness has made us sick. The cleaner we get, the higher the incidence of asthma, auto-immune disorders and allergies. Kids who are out in the yard eating dirt clods are healthier than kids whose mothers flip out when they have potting soil under their fingernails and make everybody wash with germicidal soap.

There are certain probiotics the human organism needs to survive. Kill off too much of the normal flora (we like to fool ourselves into thinking the little critters are plants so we don't have to consider animals living inside us...which is why we don't call them fauna) and the human suffers various maladies.

Thousands of years of evolution have programmed the human body to support what modern medicine considers to be parasites. I submit to you that it is a symbiotic relationship and by eliminating them completely, we have orchestrated our own illness. Do a little research on it. It doesn't take long to see they actually work with the immune system in a complicated way that makes them...as well as harmless agents the allergic body over-reacts to...invisible to the immune response system, thereby eliminating the allergic response. There have been huge successes in the treatment of Crohn's disease and hay fever allergies in the double-blind placebo/live larvae studies in Great Brittain.

I believe these are not disgusting parasites so much as beneficial probiotics that medicine has mistakenly eliminated because they "look gross" and not because they are actually dangerous. In large numbers, yes. They can cause trouble. That would be treated with a dose or two of anti-helminth drugs to even the balance out again, not unlike the treatment of a yeast infection in women. The idea of the treatment isn't to eliminate the garderella. It's to bring it back into balance with the other flora living inside there.

These helminths cannot reproduce solely in the gut. They need soil to complete their life cycle. Therefore, the number of live organisms cannot increase just because they are there and they cannot overrun the body unless more and more and more are introduced.

Juicing is not the be-all and end-all answer to the world's woes. It works for you because plant material does not cause your throat to clamp shut, your lungs to fill with fluid and your blood pressure to plummet. I am allergic to plants, not animals. Truth be told, I have absolutely no idea how the shots work or why they are tolerated by the allergy patient, but the allergen is not, when introduced the ol' fashioned way. I understand more about how hookworms work than an invention of modern medicine.

Go figure.

 

[Blood]

Fair enough.
I have known people who take supplements containing the very substance that they're supposedly allergic too.
So like you said, Go figure.

All I know about juicing is that it works for us.

I dunno shit about the other thing you're talking about.

 

[Blood]

As someone who started having allergy problems at the age of 30, I found it hard to tell whether I had a cold or just allergies. Sometimes I think I have both, which really sucks.

Hey, Mike...
ever heard of juicing??

 

[Rigjockey]

I have had allergies since I was a kid. I am one of the lucky ones, I am allergic to dust. Being in the truck all day there is a lot of dust. Flatbedding was tough on my allergies. Unwinding a length of strap top throw after the mud and all of that had dried on the strap would throw dust right in my face. Most lots are dirt.
Even just going down the road I have to blow my nose many times. Same thing before bed and when I wake up. Some times I go into sneezing fits.

Advil cold and sinus works and you can breath, If you want to trash your kidneys in a hurry!

 

[Mike]

Hey, Mike...
ever heard of juicing??

Are chocolate milkshakes from Sonic considered Juice? If so, then YES!