The Unified Theory of the Nervous System
and Behavior
Cognitive Philosophy /Brain Theory by Steven Michael Harris
Allergies must be understood in the terms of cellular communication before a cure can be found. And allergies must be taken into account and dealt with to successfully reverse many cases of neurological disorder (using a medication treatment that will be described later).
An allergy can be a very subtle form of stress, barely noticeable in Western medical terms and although it is not a cause of the problems being addressed, the allergy can be a contributing factor in keeping the status quo of a disorder once the disorder has established itself.
Let me explain.
I can easily give you an allergy if I want to by using Pavlovian experiments. If I give you a shock or a toxic substance every time you eat a certain food or are exposed to a certain event, you will eventually develop a physical reaction of stress to that food or event even without the exposure to the shock or toxic substance. The brain learns by association.
The most common allergens are foods that are very common in our diets: milk, wheat, peanuts... and substances that are constantly in our environments such as dust (dust mites and their excrement). If you go through a considerable period of stress in your life your nervous system will make associations between that stress (an extended sickness, trauma, depression, whatever) and anything else that is constantly in your environment or diet during that stressful time. This can be the seed of an allergy developing and can be very subtle or very pronounced (such as a concentration camp survivor getting ill when offered a particular food served every day at that camp).
A disorder in and of itself is a stressful event and the brain can make associations between the state of the disorder and a particular daily factor in the diet or environment of the person with that disorder. This is a reason that in rare cases a person can even become allergic to water.
I’ll be explaining later more about how a withdrawal event (a period of extreme decline in functioning and additional symptoms like a drug withdrawal) is necessary to be cured of a disorder and this mechanism of the nervous system is what makes many of these allergens attractive to the people who have these problems. You can be addicted to a food or other factor that adds stress to the system because removal of that factor will cause discomfort as some part of the nervous system must go through some kind of withdrawal. The worse the disorder the worse the withdrawal and the greater the tendency to stick with certain foods of small variety and stick with certain routines and environments. (Look at the restricted obsessional interests, tastes and habits of people with autistic disorder or schizophrenia as an example and look at how agitated they often become when these daily factors are ever missing.)
Changes in diet and atmosphere are a necessary part of the puzzle of creating a treatment that can cure people of neurological disorders.
Every once in awhile there is a coma patient that has remained in a coma for a long enough time that the doctors give up hope of any recovery. In some cases the trauma (brain swelling, etc) or toxin that caused the coma in the first place has abated and there is little physical damage remaining, but the brain is just too inhibited to wake up and the coma has gone on long enough (six or more months) that the doctors and family give up hope and decide to remove life support. Sometimes the tubes are removed and the patient is expected to decline quickly by starving to death, but a few days later the patient just wakes up - comes out of the coma. These are considered to be miracle cases.
I suggest that it was the hospital treatment that was keeping these particular patients in a coma.
As I stated above, a period of stress/trauma will be associated with daily factors in the nervous system (even if the nervous system is "unconscious"). A brain trauma/coma is a major stress. When the insult that created the coma is removed (swelling abates, toxins cleaned out of the system) the brain has a chance to recover but in spite of the appearance of being insensitive during a coma, the coma patient is actually more sensitive. The brain is so stressed that a small amount of additional stress might be enough to cause death or keep the person in a coma. A long coma will associate stress of the coma state with the daily environment or diet of that patient, especially if there is no variety in that environment (body position, odors, foods, sounds...).
A long hospital stay can make just about anyone allergic to the hospital in a sense. Improvement is much more rapid after leaving a hospital than before. Hospitals are just not places of much comfort with the interruptions and the cold manner of many on the staff and the number of times a person is stuck with a needle.
That coma patient that wakes up after being removed from life support has probably developed an allergy to the food supply and the small amount of stress from that allergy was just enough to keep that person from waking. This theory would not be as easy to propose if there were any variety in the diet provided those in a coma, but there is no variety in intravenous feedings. They get the same kind of food in their veins every day and it is always made out of milk products or peanut oil (and no change is usually made in food prescriptions once started) which many are reactive to even without the coma/hospital experience.
The patient wakes up after a few days because it takes several days to go through a "withdrawal" from that particular stress factor.
I bet that if the medical establishment came up with a variety of other kinds of foods to provide intravenous feedings, and occasionally changed the kind of diet these people received, there would be an increased number of these "miracle" recoveries.
What would it hurt to try?
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