ALLERGY ADDICTION: WHY IS THIS SO?
The answer lies in the very nature of the addictive process. If we make repeated contact with a substance that disagrees with us we can, in time, get used to it and learn to live with it. So used to it can we get that if we no longer make contact with if we start, to experience withdrawal symptoms. These withdrawal or hangover symptoms are usually the same symptoms we experienced on first contact with the substance and can be stopped immediately we make contact with it again.
Former smokers (and drug addicts) are familiar with this pattern. As beginner smokers, many of them found their first cigarette unpleasant and even disagreeable. Peer pressure forced them to continue smoking and in time cigarettes started to agree with them, indeed they found they needed them to cope with life’s daily stresses and to relax. When they finally decided to give them up they went through withdrawal symptoms that often left them tired, cranky, irritable and depressed.
Over-exposure to any substance, even those that don’t give us an initial bad reaction, can give rise to an eventual addiction to that substance. This happens as readily to foods and common environmental and food chemicals as to cigarettes and other drugs.
Certain people come into the world with a genetic predisposition to allergy. Lowered resistance due to stress and insufficient nutrients in the diet triggers the tendency to react allergically to things we are over-exposed to. (It’s important to note that those who don’t carry this genetic predisposition can expose themselves to foods and chemicals with impunity for many years—even a lifetime.)
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