Is This ONE Food Item The Cause Of All Health Problems?
Case Study: Carl Stephen
I used to be unwell.
Very unwell!
I was overweight, with blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol all out of control.
I felt irritated, tired, and out of energy all the time.
And most shameful of all, my libido and sex drive were a distant memory.
In short…a normal Western man in his sixties.
My doctor told me if I didn’t do something drastic about my health, I wouldn’t live much longer.
Heart attack, stroke, full-blown type 2 diabetes, and a row of other possible causes of death were just an arm’s length away.
He was right, and he was wrong.
Because I’m now healthier than I ever was before.
My blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugars are all at normal levels.
I wake up early every morning with joy and energy I hadn’t experienced for years.
And the anxiety and I would say even the brink of depression are gone.
But I didn’t make drastic changes…
I just cut ONE food item from my diet, and that made all the difference.
My wife’s health wasn’t much better than mine.
She used to describe her joints as rusty hinges and had these unexplainable pains all over her body.
Plus, her thyroid had been out of order for many years.
She often told me she didn’t know what was wrong with her.
She just didn’t feel good.
There wasn’t any obvious reason.
It was just the way it was.
When she saw the results that I had from cutting out this food item, she followed my lead.
Last week, we ran a marathon together for the first time in our lives.
And when I asked her about the unexpected pains, she had almost forgotten they ever existed.
As for her thyroid, within a few weeks of cutting out this food item, her doctor took her off all medications.
It’s amazing!
Maybe best of all, our romance is blooming. It’s like the baby-making years all over again, without the 18-year commitment waiting…ha, ha, ha!
So how did we do it?
I have witnessed many people experience even more radical results than my wife and I.
As I said, it was all about cutting out one food item.
But it all starts with a mystery that the medical system has been battling for decades.
You have probably been diagnosed with some type of inflammatory disease.
Almost everyone has nowadays.
Doctors know that almost all chronic conditions are caused by inflammation.
Things like cardiovascular diseases, high blood sugar, high blood pressure, kidney and liver problems, heartburn and digestive problems, and pretty much all types of chronic pain (back, neck, and shoulder pains included) are caused by inflammation.
And for those who experience fatigue, tiredness, insomnia, irritation, and even those senior moments and memory losses, yes, that’s all rooted in inflammation.
All doctors know that chronic inflammation is caused by our own immune systems attacking our own cells.
What has been a mystery is…
Why in the world are we attacking ourselves?
That’s what the medical system hasn’t been able to answer.
That is, until recently.
Because it doesn’t make any sense that our own immune systems would attack our joints, heart arteries, muscles, brain cells, skin, or any other parts of our bodies.
It even attacks the immune system, making us more vulnerable to influenza and other viruses.
But it does.
So doctors just tell us we have inflammatory disease and then try to lower our inflammation markers with medications.
Or they try to tackle symptoms like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high blood sugar, pain, and whatever else with medications.
And these medications cause side effects that need to be treated with more medications. Which creates this everlasting downward health spiral.
But until recently, doctors had no answer to the burning question:
What’s causing our inflammation in the first place?
Well, now they do.
Now they know that all chronic inflammation is caused by a food item.
And by cutting out this food item, my wife and I and thousands of other men and women have managed to boost their health and rid themselves of various conditions previously considered unmanageable.
But here is the thing…
I have heard of people using this method to tackle pretty much every illness under the sun.
Some were facing kidney or liver failure; others, all kinds of pains and discomfort.
Some were experiencing those senior moments of confusion. Others suffered anxiety or depression.
These people are all feeling great now.
What they all had in common was cutting out ONE ingredient from their diets.
But it wasn’t always the same food item that I cut out or the one that my wife cut out.
Let me explain…
Turns out, most people who get sick do so because they’re sensitive to some of the food they eat.
But which food makes them sick differs from one person to another.
It’s a little bit like an allergy.
One person has an allergic reaction if he eats nuts, another if he eats fish. Same condition, but a different thing triggers it.
But what my wife and I had and what I have since learned that almost every person in the Western world has is not an allergy.
It’s called food sensitivity!
Unlike an allergy, which instantly makes you sick, food sensitivity is sneakier.
It’s like the food you’re sensitive to wears you down little by little.
It takes up to 48 hours from consuming the food we’re sensitive to for any negative symptoms to start.
And it doesn’t make us severely sick.
Not at the beginning, that is.
And because we eat a lot of things in 48 hours, it’s very difficult to know which food actually made us sick.
Little by little, over the years, over the decades, this food sensitivity begins to fuel the inflammation in our bodies.
Depending on where our weak spot is, that inflammation starts attacking one or more of our organs, causing what later materializes as a chronic disease.
- If we get inflammation in the joints, it becomes arthritis.
- Inflammation in the pancreas leads to high blood sugar.
- Inflammation in the heart leads to plaque build-up, high blood pressure, stroke, and heart attack.
The same is true for the brain, thyroid, kidney, liver, skin, and pretty much any other organ in our bodies.
Every organ can be attacked by inflammation, which develops into a different type of disease.
Even the immune system itself can be affected, making us more vulnerable to various viruses and bacteria.
The long process it takes for food sensitivity to materialize is the reason why these developing diseases only begin to materialize in people’s 40s, 50s, 60s, 70, or even 80s.
And because unlike with an allergy, you usually don’t really feel anything negative right after you eat the food you’re sensitive to.
So it can be tricky to figure out what exactly you’re sensitive to.
It’s not difficult to figure this out, just tricky, as I’ll explain in a second.
Because you could be sensitive to almost anything.
For me, it was apples of all things.
My wife was sensitive to gluten, found in things like bread and pasta.
In a second, I’ll explain a little better how you can find out what food you’re sensitive to.
But first, why do we become sensitive to certain types of food?
How food sensitivity happens:
There are several possible underlying causes of food sensitivity.
It can simply be genetic.
In hindsight, my wife could see how bread had probably always gone rather bad in her. And her father is the same. So for her, it’s probably genetic.
It can also be that at some point in our lives, we lacked specific enzymes or microbes that break down that specific type of food.
I suspect that spending my college years living on pizza and burgers robbed me of essential enzymes and gut bacteria to break down apples in my intestines.
Or it can be a simple habit of not chewing food well enough.
But whatever the reason is, it always leads to this type of food not being broken down enough in the small intestine.
And when our stomach acid and gut enzymes and microbes fail to break down the food we eat, our bodies bring in the big bomb to finish the job.
What’s the big bomb that breaks down leftover food?
Inflammation!
Inflammation is like a nuclear bomb that can level almost anything.
It’s our body’s strongest immune defense against any kind of foreign invaders, such as viruses and bacteria.
And when food is left undigested in our guts, our immune systems look at it as a foreign invader and start bombing it with inflammation to tear it apart.
But just like real bombs leave destruction and devastation, inflammation destroys the tissues surrounding the area they attack.
And in the gut, the surrounding tissue being attacked is the gut lining.
So, over a period of years, constant inflammation in your gut begins to wear down the gut lining.
This creates something close to a hole in the gut lining.
And through that hole, small particles of undigested food can leak directly into the bloodstream.
Which is very, very dangerous.
Because unwanted particles in the bloodstream are so dangerous, your immune system goes on even higher alert.
It tracks down these particles wherever it can find them and destroys them.
And what does it use to destroy these particles?
INFLAMMATION!
So now you have the potential for widespread inflammation all over your body. In your…
- Joints
- Heart
- Brain
- Kidneys
- Liver
- Pancreas
- Skin
…and all throughout the bloodstream (which is probably the main reason that blood sugar levels have spiked in the last decade).
This may also lead to all kinds of unexplainable body aches and pains.
And here comes the bad news…
As chronic inflammation spreads all over your body, destroying unwanted food particles but also the body tissue around it, your immune system’s alarm level goes from orange to red.
Just like in wartime, when our bodies sense they’re under attack, they don’t take any chances.
Like a soldier moving through the battlefield fears snipers everywhere, the immune system spots danger in things that normally would pass as safe.
And like the soldier under such distress could mistakenly shoot at the wrong thing, the immune system sometimes starts firing at our own cell tissues that remotely remind it of something it deems dangerous.
And what does it use as ammunition?
Yes, again, inflammation!
But now it has created completely out of control, chronic inflammation that’s attacking one specific organ with everything it’s got.
The specific organ your immune system attacks depends on your weak spot.
Attack on the heart arteries leads to plaque buildup, high blood pressure, heart attack, and stroke.
Attack on the pancreas and various other cells leads to high blood sugar and eventually full-blown type 2 diabetes with all its complications.
Attack on the joints leads to arthritis.
Attack on the skin leads to all types of eczema.
And an attack on the brain will, of course, lead to many health issues, some of those we all dread the most.
In the same way, inflammation causes almost any type of chronic condition: kidney failure, liver failure, hypothyroidism, and gout, just to name a few.
Depending on where it hits, it will also rob you of energy, joy, libido, and sexual stamina.
And it all begins with this one food item your gut doesn’t digest properly.
But enough of the problem.
What’s the solution?
The good news is that the gut lining is durable and renews itself in just three days.
That is, if it gets the rest it needs.
So if we manage to stop the inflammation in the gut that attacks the gut lining that leads to gut leaking that leads to inflammation all over the body and chronic inflammation in specific organs that causes chronic diseases…
Then the gut lining repairs itself, and the domino effect is broken.
To do that, we need to cut out the ingredient that pushes the first domino.
The ingredient that we’re sensitive to.
And to do that, we need to figure out what that ingredient is.
The problem is, there are over 176 ingredients we can be sensitive to.
And although most of us are only sensitive to one, some are sensitive to two or three or even more.
So how do we figure out what food we are sensitive to?
We must figure this out if we want to break the domino effect that leads to chronic conditions.
I learned the exact steps to figure this out from a man named Scott Davis.
Scott is somewhat of a legend in the health field.
He has written numerous books on approaching various health issues without medications.
His masterpiece, however, is the Ultimate Healing Protocol.
In this protocol, he explains exactly what food sensitivity is, how it makes us sick, and, most importantly, how exactly to figure out what food we are sensitive to.
So we can stop the first domino from falling, which stops the last domino from falling.
I followed Scott’s simple step-by-step procedure to search for and replace the food that was making me sick.
It only took me a few days to figure out which food was making me sick.
And it wasn’t difficult when I knew how.
Then, when I had taken out those horrendous apples that were making my food sensitivity, I followed Scott’s steps to rebuild and strengthen my gut linings.
People can approach this in many ways.
I like to know exactly how things work. So I read through the Ultimate Healing Protocol page by page (several times).
Then I used most of the things Scott recommended but adjusted it a little to how I wanted to work it.
My wife, on the other hand, is more practical. She skipped the reading and went straight for Scott’s step-by-step plan in part four.
She followed it to the T, figured out quickly that it was gluten that was bothering her, and then, like me, she rebuilt her gut and health.
But she did it exactly as Scott outlined.
So different people can approach Scott’s “Ultimate Healing Protocol” in different ways and still reap the same results.
I think that’s one of the cool things about how Scott set this protocol up.
Now there is one thing I have to admit…
I wish I had done this sooner.
I had been hearing great things about Scott’s protocol for some time.
I first witnessed the remarkable transformation of a woman at work.
I knew she had suffered from several health issues, such as high blood pressure and blood sugar levels. She was also overweight and often seemed to be simply out of energy.
She also complained about eczema. I think she had shingles (I’m not sure).
Then after three weeks of summer vacation, this 63-year-old woman showed up at work looking like a stunning 40-year-old.
She had lost several pounds, had clear shiny skin, and was bursting with energy.
I first thought she had undergone a beauty procedure, but she told me it was all due to her sensitivity to dairy.
She had followed Scott’s program and was transformed.
“Great for her. But not for me,” I thought.
A few weeks later, my uncle told me how he had gotten rid of his acid reflux using Scott’s protocol.
He had been suffering for years, not able to sleep some nights, and often on the edge of throwing up when he woke up. But after cutting out beans, he never suffered from heartburn again.
Even better, he told me that his “senior moments” were gone—you know, when you forget where you put the car keys or get confused about other little things.
Most of us brush these senior moments away until they become too many to ignore.
Like my uncle, I had experienced these moments of confusion myself but never told anyone about them.
I have never had these moments since I implemented Scott’s protocol.
And my anxiety and sometimes low mood are also gone.
Being the drag I am, I still didn’t connect the dots and didn’t take action.
I think I was a bit afraid of what food I would have to cut out.
What if it was a food I really, really loved.
But honestly, now that I have regained my health and strength and feel better than I did in my thirties, I would be ready to give up any type of food for this feeling.
Plus, addressing the foods we are sensitive to doesn’t mean we can never enjoy them again.
My wife, for example, loves pizza. Being sensitive to gluten, that’s not the best thing.
But by applying some extra steps in Scott’s protocol, she can enjoy pizza and other gluten-filled food some of the time without problems.
It was like something was pushing me in the right direction.
For the next few months, I kept on hearing more and more miracle stories from people who had used Scott’s protocol to treat all kinds of illnesses.
People talked about kidney and liver issues, cardiovascular conditions, digestive issues, all kinds of pains and discomforts, and so on and so on.
Maybe most impressive were people who just didn’t feel well. Their doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with them. Their blood tests came out okay.
But they knew something was wrong.
This is very common.
Then, after using Scott’s protocol, they gain newfound strength and wellbeing.
Finally, after hearing about this from so many people, I got off my fat ass and ordered Scott’s protocol online.
I was immediately redirected to a members’ area where I could download and read it.
I’m not computer savvy. I can browse the internet but not much more.
Yet ordering and reaching the protocol was simple enough for me. (In the members’ area, I added the physical printed version of the protocol just to be able to hold it in my hand.)
I have never read anything with such interest and awe.
Within three hours, I had read through the whole program and began to take the first steps.
The next day, I read through it again, taking more notes and nailing down the exact plan I was going to follow.
I took three steps to tackle my food sensitivity:
Step #1 – Identify exactly what food you’re sensitive to and cut it out. This is by far the most important step.
This food item is the first domino that causes all the chronic inflammation and disease down the road.
Once I removed this first domino, it reversed all the other dominos.
It’s like watching a movie rewind. Except it was my bad health that was rewinding.
Step #2 – Rebuild the gut walls and gut flora.
This is optional but beneficial, especially if you are already suffering from some kind of chronic condition. It helps repair the damage food sensitivity has already caused.
Step #3 – Move forward and possibly reintroduce the sensitive food.
Again, this is optional.
But I would say this is the cream of the crop of working the protocol.
I’ll probably never eat apples again, except I love to eat apple pie once in a while. And I want to be free to do that.
We don’t often eat pizza, but my wife wanted to have the freedom to eat it if she wants to. Especially if the grandkids come over.
We don’t want to feel sick and restricted.
And that’s really the whole purpose of the Ultimate Healing Protocol:
To give us our lives back without disease, pain, or old age tiredness and confusion.
My wife and I are both feeling like new people.
We are enjoying things we hadn’t done for years.
We have both lost weight and feel so much younger and more energized than before we discovered the Ultimate Healing Protocol.
When the kids were small, we often talked about growing old together and how wonderful that would be.
We dreamt about traveling, having adventures, doing stuff with our grandchildren, and really enjoying our golden years together.
We worked hard to materialize that dream.
As the years packed on, we finally had the time and resources to do these things. But we didn’t have the health, energy, or drive anymore.
Now we do!
It isn’t just about what we do but how we feel.
Waking up every morning rested and full of positive energy is something I hadn’t dreamt of for years.
I’m sure most people don’t have the level of romance and attractiveness in their relationships after over 30 years together that we do now.
And being able to say goodbye to medications with all their side effects and fear of the most dreadful conditions is a luxury that most aging people are robbed of.
I highly recommend Scott Devis’s “Ultimate Healing Protocol” for anyone who is suffering from any type of illness or just not feeling well.
If you’re interested in following our lead, you can order Ultimate Healing Protocol here…