The Allergy Connection

Dr. Samra is a medical graduate from Sydney University. His interest in nutrition developed after assessing and treating prisoners in jails and on parole, particularly recurrent offenders. In many cases nutrition was the key that ended the wasteful cycle of crime and reoffending.

Dr. Samra also holds a fellowship with ACNEM. He is well known to doctors in the field and has special interest in all aspects of allergies, hormonal medicine, nutrition, and environmental medicine. He is a president of the Australian Hypoglycemic Health Association and has in the past been a regular on Sydney talkback radio.

This book relies upon thousands of hours of research and studies, conducted by many researchers, including Dr. Samra in order to develop a successful treatment approach. It may well be tip of the iceberg in explaining the relationship of food, allergies and chronic illness suffering.

Elimination diets have been trialed by researchers on vast numbers of patients suffering different chronic illnesses, such as arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, eczema, colitis, migraine, psoriasis, and even more. Elimination diets are simple low allergy diets with usually just 20 low allergy foods. Improvement rates in medically controlled trials vary from 40 to 100%. In one trial in 1984, 100% of the 23 rheumatoid arthritis patients improved on an elimination diet. What this is really saying is that food is a major factor in chronic illness and is involved in somewhere between 40 to 100% of cases!

As part of the research by Dr. Samra, a computer program was developed in the 1980s called CWASQ and this program was able to identify and define common offending foods with each health condition. For example the vast majority of headache and migraine sufferers are sensitive in varying degrees to chocolate, oranges and peanuts.

Allergies are common. Allergies are common in chronic illness, and for the most part allergies have a predictable pattern. The Allergy Connection book explains the food and disease paradigm and in particular, the relationship with specific foods and specific chronic illness.

The notion that food and disease have an intimate relationship is nothing new to traditional Chinese medicine. The Chinese teach that food is medicine. This book offers a new way of thinking about chronic illness.

There are many advantages for considering a food change with chronic illness. There is the probability of less reliance on drugs, and so avoiding long-term tissue damage from drugs. One is taking responsibility for one’s own health, and furthermore, there is even the real potential for a possible cure.