It is common to talk about ‘western diseases’ without thinking of the total number of diseases having their origin in atopy.  There are symptoms of atopic illness for every age group.  Early symptoms arrive in infancy and may be expressed as mild or severe colic, constant agitation, expressionless staring, projectile vomiting, or patches of eczema…

It is common to observe that any siblings of a type I diabetic child are likely to have dairy intolerance problems and their mother is also likely to be suffering from at least one atopic disease symptom.  This would indicate that a common cause, if not the only cause of early onset diabetes, is dairy…

So much of the truth of atopic disease has already been written, but what prevents this from becoming mainstream, so that we can all give due consideration to choices that, literally, will control our quality of life and, to an extent, our longevity? America is a country that has more than its share of atopic…

There is undoubtedly a link between atopic illnesses and cancer.  When comparisons are made between traditional Chinese village cultures and more westernised Chinese cultures, there is a clear indication that certain cancers increase dramatically among those with access to dairy products and the means to bottle-feed these to infants. In many ways this appears to…

We are getting closer to the realisation that our chosen daily foods, our nurture in infancy, and our immune and genetic inheritance can all play a role in our mental health. Autistic children are generally born to a mother who already has one or more symptoms of atopic disease.  Depressive illness has become so widespread…

For the sake of simplifying discussion of atopic disease we need an idealised starting point.  A time, during human evolution, when natural selection and the rigours of survival on an uncompromising planet required us to be at peak fitness, to survive and to produce healthy offspring.  Natural selection would keep our, then smaller, population in…