Many health professionals believe allergies are psychologically triggered. I partially agreed because I think there are three major causes for an allergic reaction but all of them are related to one single problem: decrease cell permeability which I am going to call "open borders" in order to make it fun and easy to remember and learned. The three major causes are: low calcium intake, stress and low blood sugar. How these three problems causes allergies will be discussed next.

Stress sends a signal that there is danger and the body will need extra power to deal with it. It is the fight or flight response. As we should know there is power in sugar. The cells need that sugar in order to prepare units of energy, called ATP, in the mitochondria of the cells. In order for more sugar to enter the cells, the cell doors have to be wide open to allow more trucks of sugars to enter the production line. Calcium will drop in order to decrease cell permeability. Cortisol has increased in order to have the liver remove the glycogen from the storage and turn it into glucose. Adrenaline has started the process of turning protein and fats into sugar. You are going to experience craving for sugar in order to stimulate your will to consume more sugar. As i said earlier, calcium need to drop in order to that amount of sugar to enter the cells quickly. To explain it better, the cells border have to be wide open to allow the sugar in. Once the border are open, illegal immigrants or strange substances in our food, environmental pollutants and other irritants are going to go inside causing an allergic reaction.

The other major cause of allergy is low blood sugar. As sugar drops usually because of, ironically, consuming too much sugar our bodies open up the border to allow more sugar inside the cells which trigger an allergic reaction because other strange substances enter or try to enter the cells.

And last but not least is a deficiency of calcium in our diet which will decrease cell permeability. In each three of the causes of allergy, calcium deficiency plays the major role. So if you are suffering from allergies and want to control it naturally take enough calcium. Calcium needs vitamin D to be absorbed and magnesium to prevent calcium to harden and form kidney stones. You will also need to take some extra vitamin C.

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