Why I No Longer Believe in Food Intolerance

With the explosion of food allergies & autoimmune responses skyrocketing since the past 20+ years, it occurred to me that I no longer buy into the idea that we are flawed somehow as humans to be increasingly developing food allergies & intolerances.

As someone who has suffered multiple food intolerances, seemingly out of nowhere, since my 20s, I’ve often felt a little ashamed & isolated by my predicament. Feeling like an outsider at events & functions, not being able to chow down on my meal with reckless abandon because there may be a few simple ingredients within the meal which I know (from experience) will set me on a downward spiral of neurological hell for a good part of a week.

But what if I am not weird (we are not weird)? What if we are just not meant to eat those foods?

Or not those 'foods’, as such, but what if we are not supposed to eat foods that have been genetically modified & chemically treated with pesticides to within an inch of their natural, chemical & genetic framework?

Or maybe we are not meant to eat foods that can sit in plastic packaging for years without spoiling? I mean, how would your body react if you ate the plastic packaging the food came in? Not well,I imagine.
Might it reject the item & react with a weird immune response?

Yeah, probably.

So how far removed from actual plastic is that processed & pre-packaged meal that has been sitting on the supermarket shelf since pre-COVID, waiting for you to take it home & consume.
Because it is certainly not of natural origin if it has survived unspoiled on the shelf for that length of time, am I right?

If I cooked a meal at home, I wouldn't give it longer than 5 days before I tossed it out of the fridge & into the trash. How about you? Does your home cooked food survive eons in the fridge or on the shelf?

What if my intolerance reaction may be immediate (eyes swelling, gums itching, stomach hurting, fatigue & migraine etc), but your reaction is a slower reaction such as an autoimmune condition, diabetes & cancer?

What if my alert system is louder & immediate, alerting me to avoid that food asap, whereas your alert system is so vague & muffled that you don’t know that you shouldn’t eat those foods until it’s too late & you are in serious stages of disease?

I think I’ve come to the realisation that I don’t have food allergies nor food intolerance (we, as a society, don’t), what I (we) have is an inability to consume chemical & pesticide ridden 'foods' with a genetically modified structure & we have an inability to digest processed & artificially coloured, flavoured & preserved ‘foods’ that have been treated with chemicals to make them look like real food.

Basically, I can’t eat plastics & poisons. Much like a sea turtle, I’m not supposed to eat those things.

Can you, perhaps it’s your superpower?

Or perhaps you can’t eat those things either & that’s why you have diabetes, autoimmune conditions, depression & anxiety.

I don't know, but I gotta a feeling…

Dee

xx