If you go to the doctor he or she will examine your nose and throat. It is quite possible that during this examination your sinusitis will be identified, as your doctor may spot pus seeping from one or more of the openings of your sinuses into the nasal passageways.
A sinus X-ray may be needed. If you have sinusitis, this usually shows either swelling in the lining of your sinuses or pooling of pus in one or more sinuses.
Occasionally, a very sophisticated type of study called a CAT-scan will be needed. This is a much more detailed X-ray of your sinuses and better defines the extent of your sinusitis. CAT-scans are not done on everyone with sinusitis because they are not usually necessary to diagnose and treat the problem, and because they are expensive. However, occasionally the physical examination and regular sinus X-ray results leave either the diagnosis or the full extent of the problem in doubt. Under these circumstances a CAT-scan can be most helpful.
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For millions of people, depression is a living hell. Traditionally associated with middle or old age, it also afflicts young people as well. Depression can ruin childhood, blight marriage, destroy careers, and wreck plans for a happy retirement. Indirectly, depression can kill, since it is responsible for many of the suicides in our country. Depression is marked by lethargy, disorientation, melancholy, and/or unresponsiveness. The depressed person is usually rational, but can lapse into paranoid or deluded thinking.

Few medical problems are as difficult to treat as depression. A number of procedures have been developed, such as electroshock therapy, psychotherapy, and drug therapy. There is no need here to dissect the successes and failures of these established methods. Each of them has had its vogue, and new drug therapies (such as lithium chloride for manic-depressive disease) come along periodically. What many of them have in common, however, is a symptomatic approach. They attempt to relieve the results of the disease, rather than discovering and eliminating the underlying environmental factors which are responsible.

The treatment of depression by the methods of clinical ecology has been successful, on the other hand, because it concentrates on discovering causative factors. As with other manifestations of allergy, the responsible exposures lie in the physical and chemical environment of the patient. This would seem to be the most obvious place to look for the source of an illness, yet most doctors never consider the actual, material surroundings at all. It is easier and more lucrative to treat symptoms.

Depression can be either a minus-three or a minus-four symptom, depending on the degree of severity. It is the end of the line for many individuals who are maladapted to their environment. Depression rarely strikes out of the blue. It is preceded, in most cases, by a prolonged period of illness, including both stimulatory reactions and lesser withdrawal reactions.

In fact, the alternation of extreme stimulatory symptoms (mania) and extreme withdrawal symptoms (depression) is well recognized in the medical literature as “manic-depressive disease.” In this illness, the patient’s mood changes from “highs” to “lows” quite rapidly. There is an ever-increasing tendency, however, for the “down” periods to crowd out the “up” periods. Depression becomes more and more the rule, while the overexcited manic phase becomes less frequent and less prolonged. While this disease is recognized in its most extreme form, doctors generally fail to see the alternation of stimulatory and withdrawal symptoms in less advanced cases.

Both depression and manic-depressive disease can be the result of environmental factors such as commonly eaten foods and chemicals. The two illnesses can occur alone but more commonly are found in conjunction with a long list of other symptoms in susceptible persons.

It has long been suspected that some persons are depressed because of reactions to nonpersonal environmental exposures. My first demonstration of this was a motion picture filmed in 19501 and reported preliminarily.2 Hydrocarbon exposures were demonstrated as causes of depression in 1956.3 Confirmation and extension of these observations of the effects of given foods in highly susceptible persons led to a scientific exhibit at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in 1956 and the founding of the Section on Allergy of the Nervous System of the American College of Allergists in 1957. This was called ecologic mental illness in 1959.4 Numerous subsequent reports are listed in a bibliography, which will be provided upon request, as mentioned earlier.

Others, especially Donan and associates,5,6 Speer,7 Mackamess,8,10 Mandell and Scanlon,9 and Philpott and Kalita,11 have published in this area.

It so happened that these observations of the causative demonstrable roles of foods and environmental chemicals in depression and related mental illnesses were first noted in 1950, the same year that psychotropic drugs became available to physicians. Since these mass-applicable approaches were promoted vigorously by their manufacturers, the highly individualized approaches of clinical ecology did not receive serious trials for several years until the hazards associated with psychotrophic drugs became more apparent.

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Take all necessary measures to eliminate damp from the house. Ventilate all rooms, cupboards etc. Electric space-heaters are cheap to run and can help to keep a troublesome damp spot dry – do not use fan heaters as these churn up the spores.

Cover pans when cooking to reduce the amount of steam generated. Fitting an extractor fan in the kitchen can also reduce the amount of moisture in the air which in turn reduces condensation.

Avoid having vinyl wallpapers, metal window-frames and other household fittings that favour condensation. Have baths rather than showers as these create less steam.

Check for signs of dampness and mould growth behind furniture and in cupboards, refrigerators and deep-freezes regularly. The rubber door-seals often harbour black moulds.

Throw away any furniture, curtains, carpets or cushions that have been damp and smell of mildew – even if they are now dry they will still contain mould spores.

Do not leave vegetables and fruit lying around for too long before eating them.

Do not have too many plants in the house. Remove dead leaves and flowers, and do not over water them. Take off the top layer of soil and replace it from time to time.

Avoid using humidifiers that have standing water in them.    

Heat the whole house well – do not leave some rooms permanently cold and unventilated.

Make sure clothes and shoes are thoroughly dry before putting them away in drawers or cupboards.

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E-types are so called because they want to be everything to everybody and burn themselves out trying to achieve this—you can’t please all of the people all of the time. E-types are the archetypal approval seekers. They crave praise and fear detractors.

E-type women

E-types want to be the best mother, lover, wife, hostess, daughter, friend, tennis player, committee member. They burn up a lot of energy worrying about whether or not they are measuring up to their own and others’ expectations. And they burn up a lot of anxiety energy over their perceived failure to do so. E-types burn out from running around doing things for others. They spend more time in the car and other people’s homes than at home.

E-types tell themselves it’s ‘horrible’, ‘terrible’, ‘awful’, if they fail to measure up or don’t achieve at a given task. These gross over-exaggerations, in time, produce significant emotional disturbances—stress. What E-types have to recognise and accept is that we humans are all fallible, we all make mistakes and we all fail to achieve at given tasks from time to time. That is the way we humans are and it’s OK. E-type career women strive in the belief that being the best will secure the approval of all others. Unfortunately, more often than not, others are jealous of E-type’s ability and success and withhold the acknowledgement she craves.

For those women who have committed themselves to full-time careers the comments about the E-type man will be appropriate.

E-type men

He is driven by the same guilts and insecurities as his female counterpart. E-type man tends to exercise his approval-seeking proclivities at work. The extrovert E-type male draws attention to himself by working hard and letting everybody know it. He moves quickly, acts dynamically and often boasts and whinges that no one works as hard as he. The introvert E-type gets stuck in and hopes he’s noticed.

Typically all E-type males seek to gain approval by doing more and better than their fellows through ‘application’ and ‘hard work’, and to gain security by holding to a stable environment and a given system of excellent performance, even at a high cost of energy. This work and lifestyle pattern brings the E-type male some admiration but little of the love he craves. Instead, it brings him increasing responsibility, and greater and greater resentment for the pace he feels obliged to maintain.

This sustained resentment associated with repeated frustration, in time, gives rise to prostrating fatigue, providing fertile ground for the severe headaches so many E-types suffer from. The work and lifestyle pattern of the E-type male gives rise to the easily recognised personality traits of inflexibility, conscientiousness, meticulousness, perfectionism and resentment.

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Now that you have mastered the preliminary exercise it’s time to commence the breathing exercises proper. There are many derivations of the standing, deep breathing exercises and all of them are good. If you have learnt Karate, Tai Chi or any of the martial arts, you may have one that feels good to you. By all means use it. If you have a favourite deep breathing yoga technique, practised from the sitting posture, then by all means use that.

If you are totally unacquainted with deep breathing techniques you may want to try my favourite. Taught to me by a Chinese Kung Fu master, it has the lyrical name of ‘Scoop the Stream’. It is excellent for stretching the rib cage and expanding the lungs. Practised first thing in the morning, it is a good wake-up tonic. It raises the metabolic rate, giving you an immediate lift that makes you mentally alert and emotionally buoyant, yet calm.

1. Close your eyes or fix your gaze on a given object or point. Stand with your feet either together or 10-20 cm apart (whichever is most comfortable for you), and arms hanging loosely at your sides. Relax your muscles.

2. Breathe out until the lungs are empty then slowly and deeply inhale while at the same time raising the hands (palms down) until the fingertips touch above your head. Now, turn the palms so that they are facing upwards. Time it so that the fingers touch at the point of complete inhalation—when you are unable to take in any more air. Stretch upward and count to three silently. Now exhale slowly and steadily while slowly dropping your arms in the reverse motion to the previous action. Have them reach the side of your legs at the point of complete exhalation. To achieve complete exhalation contract your stomach muscles tightly so that the abdomen is concave at the point of total exhalation. Hold this position for the silent count of three. Count slowly.

3. Interlace the fingers with the palms up, forming a scoop. As you slowly and deeply inhale, raise the scoop to the level of your lips with your bent arm in line with your shoulders and your elbows raised as high as possible. Hold this position to the count of three.

4. Now turn the palms over and exhale slowly and steadily by tightening the abdomen muscles until the lungs are completely empty. Slowly drop the overturned palms during exhalation.

5. At the point of ultimate exhalation your arms will be at complete extension. Press down as if pressing a spring and hold for a silent count of three. Return your hands to the side of your legs and start again. (Breathe and count slowly.)

Do these movements twelve times each. Take it easy, don’t stand in a draught and make sure you are warm, yet loosely dressed (a tracksuit is good). Don’t force yourself, you’ll pull muscles otherwise. If you are out of condition and stiff it would pay to start off with six exercises only, building up to eight, to ten and then twelve when you feel you are ready. Concentrate on pressing the diaphragm down and letting the abdomen bulge out. Don’t worry, this won’t give you a pot. On the contrary, the tightening of the abdomen muscles on exhalation is excellent for removing a pot and slimming the figure.

To help you concentrate on your breathing you can count the breath ‘in’ and count it out again. To start with, breathe in to the count of six or eight, whatever is most comfortable. As you progress and your diaphragm descends further, and your rib cage expands further, you will need to expand the count to ten or twelve and even beyond. The further you extend the count, the more slowly you will be raising and lowering the arms. This is good, for the slower the exercise is, the more it will relax you.

Counting also gives you a yardstick to measure your progress. An increased count means your diaphragm is distending further and your rib cage is expanding further. Both actions increase the tone of the muscles needed to straighten your posture and improve your body shape. Breathe and count slowly.

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Don’t underestimate the power of a change of attitude to lower your stress levels—even if you are locked into one of the aforementioned stressful situations. The human mind is all powerful and the thoughts we choose to think, for the main part, determine our levels of well-being. All the great thinkers in history have recognised this fact.

As the Greek philosopher Epicetus said 2000 years ago: ‘It’s never the things that happen to us that upset us. It’s our view of these things.’

Shakespeare also captured this viewpoint in Hamlet: ‘There’s nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.’ The Bible makes reference to the same idea: ‘For as a man thinketh so it is.’ And: ‘As he thinketh in his heart so is he.’

By taking a more philosophical and tolerant view of the things people say and do to us, it’s amazing how well we begin to cope. Any change of view takes time to manifest in lowered stress levels and requires regular, diligent practice. Those who keep at it surprise themselves with the levels of well-being they have been able to achieve. The deep breathing and mental relaxation exercises help this process significantly. Although you may not be able to completely eradicate all feelings of distress you will be able to reduce them enough to get started on the Anti-Candida/Anti-Allergy Program.

Just because you are locked into any of the aforementioned stressful situations don’t give up hope that you will ever be able to start the Anti-Candida/Anti-Allergy Program.

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It’s quite frightening just how many broken marriages have their roots in undiagnosed or inappropriately treated allergies. Low energy levels leads to lack of interest in life and inability to cope with the responsibility of raising kids—putting up with their demands, high spirits and noise, and organising them and supervising their school work and social development. Coupled with the erratic mood swings that so many brain allergic people suffer from and often a job which is a stress because the brain allergic person lacks the concentration, memory and organisational capacity to do it easily and you’ve got someone who’s anything but easy to live with.

If both partners and the kids are allergic the situation at home can become intolerable to everyone before too long. The whacky, erratic behaviour of the immune system which causes the allergies is so often mirrored in the whacky, erratic behaviour of the person suffering from the allergies. Being irrational and unreasonable is par for the course for brain allergic people and most people with allergies have some degree of brain allergy. Irrational and unreasonable behaviour puts tremendous strain on any relationship be it familial, conjugal, companion or work related.

Twenty-two years’ experience in taking care of allergy sufferers and witnessing the mess allergies have made of so many lives has convinced me that allergies are undermining the very fabric of society. Those who seek relief from their allergies in marijuana become more tired and vaguer than before, making them less able to contribute optimally to society. Those who seek the mood elevation, confidence and optimism boost that heroin provides contribute to the rising crime rate in their efforts to pay for it. They are a burden on both family and society when they are without it and often waste their precious youth in prison because of it.

Some would argue that to blame allergies alone for drug taking and marital breakdown is too simplistic and I agree there is more than one reason a person would turn to drugs or a marriage breaks up. However the major underlying cause in both cases is an inability to cope and if such a person has allergies and has them treated by the dietary method then they will experience a dramatic increase in their ability to cope. This makes it less likely that either condition will arise.

Those with jobs that don’t require a lot of in-depth thinking, don’t require one to hold many facts and figures in one’s head or to be forever thinking of new concepts, are usually unaware of the effects alcohol, marijuana and allergies are having on them.

Some below par performers don’t focus their allergies in the brain but are suffering the side effects of the medication they’re taking for their sneezing, stuffy nose, asthma or eczema. Antihistamines have a tranquillising effect on the brain and potentiate the action of alcohol. Combined with alcohol, marijuana, speed or any other drug they can turn the taker into a zombie. Many people struggle through their whole working life functioning well below their ability because they were never told that a change of diet could rid them of the need for those stupefying drugs.

Not everyone fails to measure up the moment they take on the new job or promotion. Some seem to cope quite well until a major stress such as a bad ‘flu or glandular fever or surgical operation grounds them. They emerge from this illness with exacerbated or newly acquired allergies that see them functioning well below par for the rest of their working lives if dietary treatment is not sought.

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Peter’s case is particularly interesting as it illustrates what a sudden and dramatic effect allergy can have on brain and mind function.

Peter’s before and after psychological assessments revealed him to be of above average intelligence. He was assessed with the

Webster Adult Intelligence Scale—Revised—Short Form, the ACER Higher Test (WQ) (Mathematical Reasoning) and the APU Arithmetic Test.

Peter’s problem was that his performance at school and his test results waxed and waned erratically. Because of this he was labelled as ‘having ability but lazy and erratic’ by his teachers. This wasn’t a surprising assessment as he could get 90 per cent in a maths test one day and 20 per cent the next. He could write a lucid and imaginative essay one day and nonsense the next. His maths tutor eventually told his mother (Jan) that she didn’t believe he’d ever learn and that it was a waste of money having him coached as she just couldn’t get through to him.

Jan was unconvinced, for her own observations had revealed a direct correlation between Peter’s performance and food. Each night after the evening meal Peter’s father would sit down to help him with his physics and maths and sure enough one night Peter could do the problems and another he couldn’t. What was most exasperating for his father was that on an ‘off night he couldn’t do the problems he was able to solve earlier on an ‘on’ night. Jan noticed that his ‘off nights coincided with the eating of spaghetti bolognese for the evening meal. She applied to enter Peter in the program and was accepted.

Peter’s history revealed a lifetime of allergies. Asthma since age two. Glue ear, ear, nose and throat and adenoid infections, which required antibiotics, every six months. He’d been on antihistamine for his almost continuous stuffy nose.

As Peter had been on multi-vitamins for quite a while prior to seeing me, and as the case was so pressing, I sent him for allergy tests immediately. Sure enough he showed up allergic to beef, tomatoes, malt, milk, cocoa, mould, house dust, dust mites, mosquitoes and mixed grasses. Beef and tomatoes are the major ingredients of spaghetti bolognese and malt and milk were to be found in the particular pasta Jan used.

On the Anti-Candida/Anti-Allergy Program and Formula Six results came quickly. His energy levels rose, the acne on his skin began to clear, he felt he had greater clarity of thought and he was more relaxed before tests. After one month Nystatin powder was added and he made a further leap forward from that point going from 23 per cent for physics in his HSC trials to 54 per cent in the final exams. Such an improvement on Nystatin indicated a Candida infection had resulted from his childhood and that this infection aggravated his allergies.

After ninety days Peter was allowed to break the program. This coincided with the Christmas holidays. In the new year Peter sat an entrance exam to engineering school and scored 94 per cent in technical drawing, which included mathematics and 82 per cent for physics, which also included maths.

The fact that Peter was able to score such a hitherto unobtainable result after three months’ holiday, during which time he did not study, is exciting. It shows that ninety days on the program enabled him to completely desensitise himself to the foods he was previously allergic to and that his Candida infection had remained under control.

Although Peter’s allergies didn’t affect (inflame) that part of his brain that alters mood he was still labelled unco-operative by his schoolteachers and tutors who interpreted his inability to maintain a consistent work performance as rebelliousness. Peter’s nature, even during the height of his allergies, was easygoing and congenial, though at times he exhibited frustration at his inability to maintain an even work standard. Had he not received treatment he would have struggled through life as an intelligent yet frustrated under-achiever. A lack of self-confidence and poor self-esteem would have dogged him for the duration of an unfulfilling life.

Time and space does not permit a detailing of all the young people on the program. The testing procedures, treatment regimes and step-by-step progress reports of the students will be detailed in another publication some time in the future.

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Balancing the metabolism with the Metabolism-Balancing Program, combined with deep breathing and mental relaxation exercises, is the best way to begin any treatment regime for heart attack. There are a number of reasons for this:

1. People with the typical Type A personality, who are ambitious, aggressive, bustling, impatient and short-tempered, have high cholesterol levels.

2. Those with late onset diabetes or the beginnings of it have higher cholesterol.

The Type A personality can produce metabolic imbalances by the power of thought (attitudes). Diabetes is the result of a significantly unbalanced metabolism. Attempting to lower cholesterol with a drastically strict diet in either of those situations only adds to the stress levels and metabolic imbalance of the one in question. Results are mediocre to say the least.

If the levels of oxygen in the muscles and blood drop too low, the muscles go into spasm. This includes the muscles of the artery walls and the heart. Muscle spasm occurs because a deficiency in oxygen significantly slows muscle cell metabolism. Shallow (clavicular) breathing is the main reason for oxygen deficiency/carbon dioxide build-up and is often caused by allergies that restrict breathing (asthma, hayfever, sinusitis). Like allergies, excess carbon dioxide irritates muscles, predisposing them to spasm.

Deep breathing helps relax all the muscles of the body including the heart and blood vessel muscles and is an integral part of any blood-pressure-lowering regime.

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Believe it or not, nail polish can be the reason your skin is breaking out randomly despite sticking to the programs, drinking sufficiently and doing the breathing and mental relaxation exercises. Nail polish contains many toxic chemicals, formaldehyde being the principal one. When we are busy concentrating we tend to hold our chin or put our fingers somewhere else near our mouth. The heat from our breath causes a liquefying and vaporising of the chemicals in the nail polish and when we touch the other areas of our face, as we frequently do while concentrating at work or studies, these liquefied chemicals cause a localised inflammation of the skin. Because face touching is such a subconscious thing, I recommend no nail polish until the skin is completely healed.

It goes without, saying that you must be very careful with make-up, foundations and skin care ranges; also mascara and eyeshadow. Some people are so sensitive they have to stop using them completely during the period of treatment. Touching the eyes, as so many people do when concentrating, can cause mascara to run or to adhere to the finger. Touching the face with the mascara can cause the skin to flare up at the point of contact. Touching the eyes with vaporised nail polish can cause conjunctivitis in the eye touched (bloodshot, itching and weeping). All these symptoms occur at a time when all the other symptoms of allergy are disappearing in response to the program.

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