The ReEvolution Food Allergy Elimination Program

For Two Weeks Completely Eliminate:

• Eggs
• Dairy
• Wheat
• Soy
• Sugar
• All Processed Food

Processed foods are any foods that have been altered from their natural state by manufacturing technology. Pasta, snack chips, pizza, frozen dinners, baked goods, cold breakfast cereals, and candy are all processed foods. Whole foods, conversely, are foods that are in their natural form. Whole foods include meats, wild caught fish, raw nuts, truly whole grains like oats, bulger wheat, quinoa, and sprouted grain breads) (most "whole grain" breads are low quality, overprocessed foods) beans, vegetables and fruits. Your hypoallergenic diet should be composed exclusively of whole foods. All of the foods we recommend in Choosing Healthy Food are fine, except for those specifically forbidden above. See our Tasty Healthy Food Menu for recipes.

After 14 days on our hypoallergenic diet, have two or three soft boiled or poached free range organic eggs for breakfast. For lunch and dinner that day, return to the hypoallergenic diet. See if you have any of the reactions (stuffy nose, fatigue, indigestion, gas) listed at the begining of this tutorial. If not, have eggs again for breakfast the next morning, and, again, watch for symptoms. After two mornings in a row breakfasting on eggs, return to the strict hypoallergenic diet for three more days. Usually if you are allergic to a given food you'll react within a few hours of eating it, but it may take as long as 2 days. If you are feeling good on the hypoallergenic diet, and on day 17, two days after eating eggs, you find that you're constipated, congested, fatigued, or generally feeling worse, there's a good chance that you're allergic to eggs.

If you don't have any negative reactions for three days after eating eggs, it's time to move on to the next possible alergy trigger (dairy). But even if you didn't react to eggs, it's still best not to start eating eggs regularly until you’ve finished with the whole of the allergy elimination program just to avoid complicating things. You might have a very mild egg allergy which will only show up after a week or so, and you might confuse it then for a wheat allergy) After your allergy elimination diet is over (a total of about 4 weeks) It’s ok, then, to start eating eggs in moderation - assuming you're not allergic, of course. But don’t eat them every day. You may still have a mild allergy, and overeating any food is a great way to make yourself more allergic to it.

If you do have an allergic reaction to eggs, you will have to avoid them entirely for 4-6 months. At this point, try eating a few soft boiled eggs again. The odds are your allergy will have cleared up. If after 4-6 months you can eat a few eggs without any reaction, you should be able to resume eating eggs regularly in moderation.

3-5 days after you reintroduce eggs (if you have a reaction, wait until 3 days after your symptoms die down), reintroduce dairy by having a glass of grass fed organic milk for breakfast. Follow the same guidelines as specified above with eggs. After milk, reintroduce wheat, then soy, all following the same pattern you followed for eggs. At the every end reintroduce sugar if you want to have a bit of sugar in your diet. Of course, you're probably better off avoiding refined sugar entirely, and relying on fruit, raw honey, Agave nectar and the herbal sweetener Stevia to satisfy sweet cravings (Avoid all of these except Stevia during your allergy elimination diet). If you have a violent reaction to sugar (especially if you react to honey, or agave) after a long time off of it, there is a good chance you have a problem with Candida Yeast overgrowth in your intestine, and you should read our Dealing with Candida  tutorial to learn more.

Once you figure out which foods you are allergic to, eliminate all of them for 4-6 months, and then, after giving your gut a chance to heal and your immune system a chance to calm down, try eating a small serving of each food in isolation. Again, space out servings of possible allergy trigger foods by 3-5 days. If you resume eating eggs again on a Monday, wait untill the weekend to try milk again. In general, 4-6 months off of an allergenic food cures the allergy.  If you do continue to experience allergies to a given food after 4-6 months off of that food, the odds are that you have another problem going on in your gut, and you should seek out a good nutritionist, osteopath, naturopath, or holistic MD who has experience dealing with food allergies.