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FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED PAPERBACK EDITION.
ELIMINATE YOUR FOOD SENSITIVITIES—ONCE AND FOR ALL.

If you are one of the nearly 90 million people (about one-third of the American population) who are forced to avoid certain foods, then you may have experienced one or several of the myriad of symptoms associated with food allergies, including sinusitis, chronic heartburn, asthma, chronic fatigue, and gastrointestinal distress. Relief from these conditions can now be found in Dr. Ellen Cutler’s revolutionary program, known as BioSET™. The Food Allergy Cure outlines this technique and will help you to combat your food allergies at their root. Combining muscle testing, detoxification techniques, and enzyme and diet therapies, The Food Allergy Cure will help sufferers to:

• Identify and alleviate specific food sensitivities immediately, with quick and easy methods
• Discover how to detoxify your body
• Find the most effective means of eliminating food sensitivities, safely and quickly
• Use a self-diagnostic questionnaire to determine which enzymes will contribute to your optimum health

Using a combination of Eastern and Western medicines, The Food Allergy Cure offers a program that is easy to implement, does not depend on drugs or expensive procedures, and is an invaluable resource for longtime food-allergy sufferers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #50803 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-22
• Released on: 2003-04-22
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

From Amazon.com
Since she was a young child, Ellen Cutler suffered from constipation, bloating, irritability, cravings, and fatigue from food allergies. She later studied chiropractic with an emphasis on nutrition. Through studying a number of alternative therapies, she developed BioSET--a protocol to treat food allergies and conditions that may be caused by food allergies, such as asthma, headaches, ADHD, and many other disorders.

Cutler's theories, conclusions, and treatments may elicit raised eyebrows from M.D. allergy specialists, although they are commonly used by naturopaths. She diagnoses allergies by means of muscle testing: the patient holds a glass vial of the allergen in one hand while the health professional presses down on the other arm, with weakness indicating allergy. Part of her process uses acupressure to stimulate points on the spine to activate energy blocks and reprogram the brain to stop identifying the substance as an allergen. Her treatment includes enzyme therapy.

Much of The Food Allergy Cure is a discussion of allergies, their symptoms (which can be just about any ailment, complaint, or condition), causes, and food triggers, with plentiful case studies of Cutler's success with patients. There is very little actual self-help information here. Usually Cutler discusses a condition and its roots in food allergies, and then describes how successful she is in treating patients with this condition using her BioSET system. The only at-home treatments described in the book are muscle testing, acupressure technique, an introduction to detoxifying activities, and a number of dietary suggestions and recipes. Other than that, she advises you to consult a BioSET practitioner (you're directed to the author's Web site for a referral list) and/or order the products she promotes. --Joan Price

From Publishers Weekly
Having personally treated allergy sufferers and counseled on appearances on QVC, Extra! and Lifetime, Dr. Ellen Cutler argues that although one-third of all Americans suffer from food allergies now a chronic, even epidemic, condition there is a cure. Cutler's answer: the BioSET system of identifying and eliminating food allergies by combining affordable, easy and efficient practices, including chiropractic, nutrition and detoxification, all of which she explains clearly and thoroughly in The Food Allergy Cure: A New Solution to Food Cravings, Obesity, Depression, Headaches, Arthritis, and Fatigue. Agent, Bonnie Solow.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
BioSET (Bioenergetic Sensitivity and Enzyme Therapy) is a combined approach to diagnosing and treating food allergies. Cutler, a chiropractor currently pursuing an M.D. and author of two books on alternative medicine (e.g., Winning the War Against Asthma and Allergies), developed this technique from principles based on acupuncture/ acupressure, chiropractics, homeopathy, kinesiology, and enzyme therapy. She introduces the reader to the mechanisms of food allergies and to her BioSET technique, which emphasizes the removal of blockages in electromagnetic pathways brought about by the allergic reaction. Although her reported treatment results are impressive, she presents very little substantial data or scientific background. Statements of fact are not backed up with references, and the brief bibliography includes no research articles. Cutler refers only in passing to NAET (Nambudripad Allergy Elimination Technique), upon which BioSET is heavily based. NAET, a more documented technique, was developed by Devi Nambudripad and explained in her book Say Goodbye to Illness (Delta, 1999). Not recommended. Andy Wickens, King Cty. Syst. Lib., Seattle
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Customer Reviews

Ready, set,...huh?
The Food Allergy Cure convinced me that allergies may indeed be behind my ailments, but it did not provide me with enough information on how to treat myself without buying more expensive products. After reading the entire book and attempting to start my own treatment, I concluded that The Food Allergy Cure is effectively an extended advertisement for Dr. Cutler's BioSET techniques, where you are expected to buy her home testing products or visit a clinic, and for the enzyme vendor she recommends. Below I will describe how I came to this conclusion.

I slogged through the first half of the book, which is devoted to selling Dr. Cutler's BioSET treatment techniques without discussing in depth what they are and how they work. I was happy when finally on page 153, Cutler gets to actual diagnosis and treatment techniques. I tried the muscle testing on myself with milk, a known allergen, but my muscles did not weaken when I held a vial of milk. Determined to heal myself, I continued to Chapter 8, where you are told that before you actually test for foods, it's best to first test Level 1, where you "balance the body," testing for "blood, organs, glands, immune system, and enzymes" and then Level 2, where you "clear foods," listing "amino acids, phenolics and biochemicals, minerals, Vitamin C, [etc.]" (p. 170). On p. 171, Cutler instructs the reader to begin by testing the blood vial. Fair enough, anyone can prepare a blood vial at home. But how on earth do you get a vial for the rest of Level 1, your "organs, glands, immune system, and enzymes"? I suppose a resourceful person could figure out how to find Level 2 substances "amino acids, phenolics and biochemicals, minerals, Vitamin C, [etc.]" at home. I strongly suspect that Cutler expects the reader to order the Food Allergy Kit of vials, described in Appendix 1. Appendix 1 states that the kit contains Level 1 and 2 allergy vials (p. 287). How can a universal kit contain a substance representing the organs, glands, etc. for all human beings, when so many marrow or organ transplants fail due to patients' immune responses? People are all the same under the skin, but in terms of medicine there are limits.

If you forgo buying Dr. Cutler's vials and test for foods only, Cutler's anecdotes on patients who went through the full treatment leave you with question of whether or not your treatment would be more successful if you bought the vials, or better yet, actually visited a certified BioSET clinic. Chapter 9 suggests credible detoxification techniques that do not necessarily require further purchases, but Chapter 10 describes enzyme therapy, which involves--guess what--another purchase. Cutler's recommendations dovetail conveniently with the offerings of Wellzyme, which interestingly also sells this book prominently on the website. And a visit to the website shows that a modest regimen of enzymes would quickly add up to the same amount as a modest regimen of prescription drugs on an HMO plan. In this sense, the book's back-cover promises that you can treat yourself with the information in this book without drugs or expensive procedures, are not entirely true. I imagine visits to BioSET clinics are not cheap (I tried to inquire, but no person answers the 800 number on the BioSET website, nor do they return calls), and while enzymes are not technically drugs, they do cost as much as drugs.

Chapter 11 outlines diet plans that look remarkably similar to one another (three of four prescribe liberal quantities of vegetables, for example). They also look difficult to follow. It's very well to restrict yourself to two of some fruits per day, but there are other fruits and vegetables that you can eat only 3-4 times per week. If you're a dieter, you can take weekly meal planning in stride, but most of us can't be bothered figuring out which fruits to have daily and which to have only a few times a week.

I do believe that these theories have some validity, but the procedures described require a certain suspension of belief. I recommend you borrow this book from the library, read it carefully, and proceed sensibly.

Don't let the skeptics turn you away
I also was cured of life threatening allergies by using this method. Did I think it was too good to be true? Yes. But after being told by 3 specialists that there was nothing they could do for me I was willing to grasp at straws. It worked for me and I have not taken a pill or made a trip to the emergency room for anaphylactic shock for several years.
Please don't let the skeptics keep you from trying such a wonderful chance to change your life. It is pain free and risk free so I would definitely recommend it to anyone. It can't hurt to try!

This treatment works! It is a God-Send!!!!
This treatment changed my life. It set me free of every allergy I treated, and I am still self treating more. It is very simple and uses stimulation of the spinal cord to stop allergic reations and reprogram the nervous system to no longer react to certain substances. Seems to good to be true, but it is!!! It is very real and very permanent. A moron could use this procedure.

Peace,
Levi