Linda Lazarides' Diet for Asthma
What is asthma? Asthma attacks occur when the bronchial tubes of your lungs go into spasm due to 
histamine. Histamine is produced by your immune system when you come into contact with something to which you are hyper-sensitive. Asthma sufferers are often hyper-sensitive to:
  1. House-dust mite droppings (microscopic - found in house dust and bedding)
  2. Pets
  3. Fumes and smoke
  4. Sprays
  5. Cold air
These are the conventional asthma triggers. More controversial triggers are:
  1. Food intolerances (often wheat, dairy, eggs or yeast, but can be any food)
  2. Toxins from intestinal dysbiosis (excess harmful intestinal bacteria or fungi)
  3. Sprays, perfumes and chemicals or mould spores found in the home or at work
  4. Deficiencies of magnesium and B vitamins, due to a poor ability to assimilate them. Such deficiencies are well known to promote spasms.
Dysbiosis damages your intestines, which then fail to prevent gut toxins and debris from getting into your blood. Here these set off inflammatory processes which stimulate histamine production and cause much stress to your liver and adrenal glands. Your adrenals can become exhausted from over-producing cortisol as they try to damp down these inflammatory processes. Dark shadows under your eyes often indicate adrenal stress.
Conventional treatments Most doctors are concerned only with the conventional triggers, and treat asthma with 
drugs to:
  1. Relax the spasms
  2. Suppress your immune system's response to the triggers
  3. Regular courses of antibiotics to prevent lung infections, which can be life-threatening in severe asthma.
This approach does not cure asthma, and allows the disease to progress, resulting in more disability and more drug side effects if steroids are prescribed.
How
nutritional
therapy can
help asthma		 Some cases of asthma are incorrectly diagnosed, and are not asthma but simple food 
intolerances. Discovering which food is responsible, and removing it from your diet can stop the symptoms in a matter of days. In these cases, nutritional therapy is very effective.
But in most cases, asthma is more complex. By using nutritional therapy to remove some of the stressors which contribute to your attacks, you can become more tolerant to pets, fumes and other conventional triggers. A strict diet is required, but if adhered to, attacks will usually lessen gradually. Depending on your constitution, a return to near-normal health is achievable within one year.
Cautions Asthma attacks do require symptomatic treatment, so please remain under a doctor's 
care.If you have been prescribed daily steroidal medication, you should ask your doctor to keep your need for this medication constantly under review in accordance with your progress.
Diet for
asthma

The diet for
asthma is in
three phases

 Phase I: (4 weeks) 
  1. A diagnostic (base-line) diet to exclude any foods to which you may be intolerant.
    A reduction in asthma attacks during this diet is a strong indicator that digestive problems and harmful intestinal bacteria (which cause food intolerance) are contributing to your asthma.
  2. An antimicrobial program to reduce harmful intestinal bacteria and fungi
Phase II: (4 weeks)
  1. Testing four of the most common foods which can trigger asthma.
  2. Repopulating your intestines with beneficial bacteria
  3. Liver and adrenal gland rejuvenation measures.
Phase III: (permanent)
  1. Continued avoidance of any problem foods
  2. Maintaining a healthy intestinal environment
Click NEXT to get the basic diet. More information in Linda Lazarides' Treat Yourself with Nutritional Therapy.
 
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